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I would be shocked if it were an issue based on what you have here. I think you are fine.

Robert

Sitelinks are totally at the behest of Google. So, they may or may not come to you. Typically, it takes a bit of time but not always by any means. Are you seeing them when you search on your domain: your domain is HotTamaleFactory.com. If you search on Hot Tamale Factory .com and it comes up are you seeing sitelinks?

Yes and No,

You said to the same website so are the urls redirecting to pages that are similar to the ones that they are directed to? Multiple must be defined, but let's say it is 30 and they are going to similar pages on the site; there is no problem.

If you simply got a bunch of sites that had lost their domain and they all have disparate content, then you could be setting yourself up for a problem. Could be is the operative term though. We took over a client who had roughly 100 "micro-sites." They were all for the same service and were not strong sites. For most we redirected only the home pages and let the other pages 404. For a few sites we let them die and for a couple the client refused to let us take them down (even though they had no traffic!).

I hope that helps a bit.

Rosemary,

People have a hard time with these questions because there can be more than one answer.

--The answer is rough but I hope it makes sense.--

I'd say it should be removed, although the best way to use that markup might be to mark up the actual html that is displayed rather than duplicating all of the "main content" inside of a JSON schema tag.

Does it make sense for the JSON to look like below when you have the content already present on the page and could mark it up in the traditional tag format?

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<scripttype="application ld+json"=""></scripttype="application>

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{

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"@context": "http://schema.org",

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"@type": "WebSite",

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"url": "https://www.example.com/",

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"name" : "Example Group",

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"alternateName" : "Example Enviro Group",

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"potentialAction": {

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"@type": "SearchAction",

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"target": "https://www.example.com/?s={search_term_string}",

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"query-input": "required name=search_term_string"

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}

"mainContentOfPage":"

Lorem ipsum metus ullamcorper viverra. Aliquam

Curabitur at lacus et quam scelerisque consequat. Vestibulum semper et ex quis commodo. Vestibulum lacinia ultricies neque et facilisis. Pellentesque feugiat luctus diam, et mollis elit posuere posuere. Nulla mattis libero lectus, at consequat sapien semper non. Duis lacinia mollis eros, in pulvinar enim interdum ac."

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}

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Let me know if that helps... or not! Sorry for the layout issues, I think you will still get it.

Robert

Donna,

Miriam is truly an expert in Local SEO. Listen and learn from her and you will be given the best advice. She really helps a ton of people through Moz and one or two other forums.

Best

Don't know what the "digital marketing" person was thinking, but no you won't get penalized.

If you are hoping to get an aggregate review snippet, make sure the schema is correct. You are showing a rating scale of 10 and Trust Pilot uses 5 stars (as do most). Here is the markup from a markup generator where product is 'example product' scale is 5 and schema is markup. I arbitrarily used 4.8 as the aggregated rating (as if you had 10 reviews, eight of which are 5 and two are 4 totaling 48).

example product
Rated 4.8/5 based on 10 reviews

Again, be careful of copyrights when moving the actual review content.

Best

Example:
Cleaning business in Delaware and employees in PA as well. One of employees operates out of home and has business phone there and keeps the supplies there.

From this I don't see a problem, but to diagnose the "quality" issue we need more info. If you do not make contact with customers during stated hours, if you are an ecommerce operation in the minds of Google, etc. would all be issues and there are more. If you are using just the phone number but trying to use a PO box or the main address it is problematic. Are you a service area business and you are trying to set things up where address shows when you should not be, etc.

Local is not as simple as it could be so more info would help.

Hopefully, this gives you at least a starting place.

Robert

It would help if you gave us a bit more data, but here goes:

Use the 301 from the main site to the subfolder. Understand you do not want to have the subfolder then redirect back to the main site. If you do you are going to create a loop. So the assumption is that everyone is served the initial home page from the host country and in milliseconds, the IP is read and they are redirected. So, you are hosted in Denver, I am coming to you from Fr, and it auto redirects me to the Fr subfolder. (Question, this is occurring whether homepage or subpage correct? You are not just redirecting from homepage, correct?)

I am assuming you have utilized hreflang notations correctly. Make sure to read the common mistakes at bottom of page.

Hope this helps,

Robert

BearPaw,

There is nothing in the guidelines about showing reviews on your site that you have brought in from other sites. What I would caution against is that if you are going to do this, you need to be fully disclosed on the site. If you are only bringing in the best reviews, I would certainly create some sort of disclaimer to say some reviews are left off. Also, on your schema you are showing a rating value of 1 -10 and Trust Pilot uses a 1-5 system.

I do not know if TrustPilot has a copyright on their reviews but if they do you will be violating that and probably their user agreement. Remember, they make money handling the reviews for you and being the purveyor of review rankings. I am not sure I would use the person schema on the reviews, but I can't think of a reason not to either. Another issue around that is even if they left the review for your product, be careful with posting something and attributing it without permission.

So, those are more cautionary items than rules.

Best

This is the second question you have posted around a site and Panda issues. From "reset project of a site caught in Panda" I have to assume what you did was got a new site and tried to get it to rank. You state that you tried not to use any redirects, but the bigger issue is did you reuse content? was the site "spammy" to start with and is it still "spammy?" Are you in an area like payday loans that Google is really more careful with today? Etc.

From looking at both questions, I have to think there was something wrong initially and that you have in someway brought that with you to the new site. I do not believe you are suffering from any type of sandbox effect for 6 months.

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CalicoKitty2000

A ton has changed re Local with Google in the last 6 to 8 months. Frankly, you would have to give more info in order to assist you. On top of the Local changing, adwords and paid advertising have changed. The changes were not really at the level of how you characterize your business, etc. but we have seen many clients affected in terms of local ranking.

Best,

Robert

Ian, Make sure you added your HTTPS version into WMT (search console) and also choose www as preferred domain. Rewrite is fine.

Spanish,

I think you really need to consider what you are doing and why you are doing it. First, a manual penalty means you are on Googles radar and you are outside their terms of service in some way. If your decision is to get a new domain then what you should do is put the old one in the trash and forget it ever happened. You are starting from square one if you are smart IMO. Why? because if it is a penalty around linking and you redirect to a new domain, you are going to carry that wait to the next site. That doesn't mean that the penalty will show up on your new domain at point just because of the old, but there is no real value in the links so why risk it? There are just too many reasons not to try and save the old and move it to the new with redirects. BUT, is there a reason you would not simply address the penalty? Maybe it is cost as cleanup is expensive; if so, you weigh cost of cleanup versus cost of rebuild to all new site with new domain.

Second, an "algorithmic penalty" is something we say from time to time, but if you are using that as a line of thinking - "the algorithm has in some way penalized us" - you are then setting yourself up for further pain down the road IMO. With a site failing to rank because you have bad links, poor content, ads everywhere, I suggest you not look at it as a penalty. Look at is as: "What must we do in order to grow our site in value to our customer and in ranking against our competitors?" If you believe you have a "penalty" of sorts you are really saying things are not as good as they could be. Why not change things? If it is linking, disavow bad domains and links and move on. If it is Panda in your thinking, what can you do to change the content, etc.?

Often, when this type of question arises there have been a series of missteps by a site owner trying to shortcut really building a web property. If there were true short cuts without risk, I can tell you I would have found them or learned of them from people on various forums like Moz. I simply do not know of any.

Clean things up and move on or start over and move on. I think that is the only choice you face. I wish it were easier for all of us. 
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Neil,

One difference likely present in the older page is that it is more likely to have links to it than the new page. If you have social at any reasonable level that could also have an effect on the pages differently (one has been shared more often, etc.). Obviously, the other item is how competitive is the vertical and the keyword for that vertical you are trying to move up in. The list of factors goes on and on.

Good luck.

Ian,

First with the change to .com read what Ryan wrote and follow the change of address steps.

How long ago did you make the change?

Take a look at these common problems on HTTPS switch by Cyrus Shepard a year or so ago and see if you have more work to do. (Mistakes are roughly a third of the way down.)

I will follow the question and am checking our Apache expert re the perfect rewrite rule for this. If he is not on a 100 mile bike ride I should hear from him shortly. Otherwise, maybe tomorrow. I will PM you worst case.

Best

By "... loss of referencing," what precisely do you mean? From your question it appeared you were mostly worried about the timestamp issue in web or all search on Google? 
Are you worried you change the article so much that given info would no longer be in it?

From a news perspective, the timestamp is informative and, I believe, important. Is there the ability to add an update to that which would show near the timestamp? So the story is three blind mice arrested for jaywalking today. Then in two days breaking news:  Mouse B freed due to technicality in arrest! Is there a way to have **"Update  2016.04.01" **show in bold at beginning of article so that timestamp seen by searcher is likely ignored?

Best

Eric, in your last line did you mean to say just update the story? It sounds as if you are saying don't change the URL, update it. Just trying to give Yves clarity.

Best

Cian

We work with a firm like yours here in the US so I won't be able to go into much detail, but your site loads quite slowly here even when cached. Also, you said you rebuilt your site recently so it begs the question did you handle the redirects correctly?

On the content front, if you are dropping already make sure you create a sane strategy and that the content is new and not redone. Make sure you are answering queries, etc. BTW With new site did you change any meta descriptions? (For anyone who is going to tell me that is not a ranking factor, it is not about that.)

Have you gone in and looked at traffic change (users flow) since the change?

Hope that helps a bit. 
Robert

Yves,

Great question and I do think you already know the answer. IMO I would not update the URLs because you could end up chasing your tail. If you change the URL are you going to 301 every time you change it? If not, anyone who linked to the article or bookmarked pre change is lost.

Anecdotally, a year or more ago I started noticing on a major sports mag online that starts with S and ends in I they were changing titles regularly. Frankly, I don't have much time for reading sports so I need to get the info and go. As a fan of the Mavericks for instance, I would read an article that was Dirk Sets Record and think great cause I like the big German. Then a day later I would see an article that was Another Record! and when I clicked on it... was the one I had already read the day before. My guess now is that they change their titles like I change my socks. When I saw your question I did a quick test and they are not changing the URLs on the two I found.

I hope this helps you a bit.

Robert

James,

We produce quite a bit and we do not believe now is the time to be concerned about AMP. I echo EGOL on this, especially it seems to be truly around very heavy content sites. If someone like EGOL is not worrying over it given he knows quite a bit about deep and heavy content, I would hold off for now. If you are in the news publishing world it is a bit more of an issue.

Best