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No, is not necessary until you made your homework

If you add the HTTPS version to your property and select which version show as a main, you dont have to worry about it, *( But is mandatory to add it in search console and then set the right version)

Hi James Wolff  I sent you an inbox

What do you want to track in specific?

the search queries?
the site where they are coming?
how to improve your conversion rate?

For search queries, you will need to set up some advanced features on GA.
For your source of traffic, start to implement UTM links will help you.
For CRO Optimizely is the best in my opinion of Google Analytics Premium
Tag manager is a good option too.

My Links Explorer is not working, Does anybody has the same issue?

Note

• Also, why do I have to open an account imgur.com  to upload a screenshot to fix a problem of MOZ tool
• Help with Moz Products & Tools on the question categories does not show the option for Link Explorer

Ok, I made a quick test of your robot.txt file and looks fine,
https://www.beencrypted.com/robots.txt

Then I made a test https://httpstatus.io/ to check the status code
of your robot.txt file and show me 200 status code (So it's fine)

Also, you need to make sure that your robot.txt file is accessible for the Rogerbot (Moz crawler)
This day the hosting providers have become very strict with third-party crawlers
This includes Moz, Majestic SEO, Semrush and Ahrefs.

There have many other members of this community with similar issues recently

Here you can find all the possible sources of the problem and recommended solutions
https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-pro-overview/site-crawl/unable-to-crawl

If you're still having trouble I will suggest you write to Moz support team help@moz.com. Hope this info helps you

Regards

For me redirect will be the right way.

Why? Because in another way you will have a duplicate content issue. Remember yoursite.com and www.yoursite.com will be indexed as differents pages.

Have the same Issue in the past. And I resolved the problem

1- redirections
2- setting the right URL on Search Console
(Search Console > Site Settings > Preferred domain)
3- Submit a sitemap for every language
(Search Console > Sitemaps)
4- And Finally config the language on search console

Google is rolling out a new mobile-first index. This means Google will create and rank its search listings based on the mobile version of content, even for listings that are shown to desktop users. Google has started to use the mobile version of the web as their primary search engine index.

If you have a mobile site, then you need to make sure the content and links on the mobile site are similar enough to the desktop version so that Google can consume the proper content and rank your site as well as it did by crawling your desktop site.

Taxonomies: Categories and Tags

Implementing categories and tags on your website is an important way to add structure to it. These taxonomies group content on a certain topic. When used properly, Google will understand the structure of your site better.

Categories have a hierarchical structure. There can be subcategories within categories. Tags do not have a hierarchical structure. Think of it like this: categories are the table of contents of your website, and tags are the index.

Duplicate content

Duplicate content means that the same content is shown in multiple locations on your site. As a reader, you don’t mind: you’ll get the content you came for. But it confuses a search engine: it has to pick which one to show in the search results, as it doesn’t want to show the same content twice.

Above that, when other websites link to your product, chances are some of them link to the first URL, and others link to the second URL. If these duplicates were all linking to the same URL, your chance of ranking in the top 10 for the relevant keyword would be much higher.

The solution for duplicate content is a so-called canonical link. A canonical link tells the search engines: yes, this content is duplicate, and this one is the original content.

Structure of your website...why? The importance of site structure for SEO
The structure of a website or a blog is of great importance for its chances to rank in search engines. In my opinion, there are two main reasons for this:

1 - A decent structure makes sure Google ‘understands’ your site.

The way your website is structured will give Google important clues about where to find the most important content. Your site’s structure determines whether a search engine can understand what your site is about, and how easily it will find and index the content relevant to your site’s purpose and intent. A good structure could, therefore, lead to a higher ranking in Google.

2 - A decent structure makes sure you do not compete with your own content.

On your site, you will probably write multiple pages about similar topics. Let's take an example you have a recipes website and you want to create a structure for your website. So you several recipes on your website and you have several categories such as Italian recipes, French recipes, Mexican recipes and so on. On the other hand, your tags can be used in another approach such as breakfast, dinner, lunch, low cab ect on this way you do not compete with your own content resulting in higher rankings.

So how to fix your errors?

1 - Add title, meta-description and canonical tags to your tag pages.
if you are using WordPress is pretty easy to do it. You just need to install Yoast SEO plugin and check one by one all your tag pages

If the answer were useful do not forget to mark it as a Good Answer CHEERS and Good Luck

Hi Kingalan1 I think this post if for you

A Step-by-Step Guide to Updating Your Website Without Destroying Your SEO

Hi

I made some test comparing the new Link-Explorer vs other tools, I made a quick test and the results are impressive if you compared with the old Open-Site Explorer.

For the test, I had evaluated a site and linking domains

• Semrush > 12
• Moz > 223
• Ahrefs > 233
• Majestic SEO > 159

The results of the new Link-Explorer is equivalent to Ahrefs. It beat it to Semrush and Majestic with a big Margin.

Base on my experience can increase the trust and confidence of any some clients increasing your Conversion Rate, The BBB can help you with the backlink pointing to your site coming from your public profile on BBB. Can reduce your bounce rate

But from the SEO perspective, there are no big changes. I mean those badges will not create traffic to your site.

To help Google understand your website, separate mobile URLs, it is recommend using the following annotations:

1. On the desktop page, add a special link rel=”alternate” tag pointing to the corresponding mobile URL. This helps Googlebot discover the location of your site’s mobile pages.
2. On the mobile page, add a link rel=”canonical” tag pointing to the corresponding desktop URL.

Google support two methods to have this annotation: in the HTML of the pages themselves and in sitemaps.

So answering your question  "YES YOU NEED TO DO IT"

I'm Agree with EGOL

Taxonomies: Categories and Tags

Implementing categories and tags on your website is an important way to add structure to it. These taxonomies group content on a certain topic. When used properly, Google will understand the structure of your site better.

Categories have a hierarchical structure. There can be subcategories within categories. Tags do not have a hierarchical structure. Think of it like this: categories are the table of contents of your website, and tags are the index.

Duplicate content

Duplicate content means that the same content is shown in multiple locations on your site. As a reader, you don’t mind: you’ll get the content you came for. But it confuses a search engine: it has to pick which one to show in the search results, as it doesn’t want to show the same content twice.

Above that, when other websites link to your product, chances are some of them link to the first URL, and others link to the second URL. If these duplicates were all linking to the same URL, your chance of ranking in the top 10 for the relevant keyword would be much higher.

The solution for duplicate content is a so-called canonical link. A canonical link tells the search engines: yes, this content is duplicate, and this one is the original content.

Structure of your website...why? The importance of site structure for SEO
The structure of a website or a blog is of great importance for its chances to rank in search engines. In my opinion, there are two main reasons for this:

1 - A decent structure makes sure Google ‘understands’ your site.

The way your website is structured will give Google important clues about where to find the most important content. Your site’s structure determines whether a search engine can understand what your site is about, and how easily it will find and index the content relevant to your site’s purpose and intent. A good structure could, therefore, lead to a higher ranking in Google.

2 - A decent structure makes sure you do not compete with your own content.

On your site, you will probably write multiple pages about similar topics. Let's take an example you have a recipes website and you want to create a structure for your website. So you several recipes on your website and you have several categories such as Italian recipes, French recipes, Mexican recipes and so on. On the other hand, your tags can be used in another approach such as breakfast, dinner, lunch, low cab ect on this way you do not compete with your own content resulting in higher rankings.

First of all these the checkpoints that you need track

• You need to carefully check all your link-profile looking for spam links pointing to your site
• Disavow all those links with a high toxic score/spam score. Disavow Tool
• Check all the anchor text and queries on your Search Console, GA, Moz, Ahrefs, Semrush or any other tool.
• Also, start to think of creating some geo-IP segmentation on your server
• Try to find a pattern on the IP address of your visitor and block all the suspicious IP or even regions

Hope this info helps you to answer to your question

Regards and Good Luck

Let's be clear, one thing is to get your page indexed by Google and other is get your page ranked

I assume that you made your homework declaring those locations to Google

• You updated your sitemap in Search Consoles
• You update location’s name, address, and phone number (NAP)
• Location-specific content (staff information, testimonials, news, etc.)
• An embedded Google Map for each location
• You update your schemas making your life easier and Crawler too.

You should also optimize your content, title tags, meta descriptions, etc. with location-specific keywords. Apply a local business schema markup to each page so your business hours and other important information can appear in search results.

Lastly, make sure these pages are discoverable by Google. Google’s crawlers aren’t always able to find a page that’s only available through a search or branch finder on your site.

If you made all of that.... well base in my experience in 2 or 3 months you will see everything running smooth. But depends on the niche and competitions. In the past, I made the migration from one domain to another and it was easy (one month or less )because there were small hotels in small towns with no competitions but in other case took me months

dependent of what you want
Disqus is a good option 
if you want to create a community and dont want to handle all technical aspect, in the other hands facebook comments for wordpress, will help you with your social media , both will help you to avoid the spam comments, because both require to login to a profile and an active accounts....

https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-comments-plugin/

https://disqus.com/admin/wordpress/

Well, there are many factors which can influence the performance of your site SEO.

• Which keywords are you using, are they long tail keyword or generic keywords?
• What about your link-profile?
• What about of the link-profile of your competition
• Your site structure and your internal links

Well I will say that Wordfence is just a minimal requirement on the other hands Sucuri offers a good level of security. So I think Wordpress+Sucuri  will give you a good mix.

Hi Becky

I think this post can help you
https://moz.com/blog/seo-guide-how-to-properly-move-domains

Regards
Roman Delcarmen

The search engines will recognize it, only if you tell it to recognize it. So if you're dealing with a small site I think the second option is better but if we are talking about a big ecommerce more than 100,000 product maybe 3 options is better