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It does sound like you're adopting a good approach to canonicals. There are a lot of sites out there that do the same approach with non-uniform URL structures such as the one you're using.

Don't suppose you could supply the URL so I can have a look?

I'm having no trouble accessing the site via the link you provided. Might be a caching issue on your browser.

Try removing all browsing data and trying again.

Give Moz OSE a try. Run a link export on the domain and match back the DA and PA stats from the Moz export to the existing domains that have been disavowed. You can also map the spam scores back to them too. 5 minute job at most

To be honest, not a lot. Some people see slight increases, some people see slight decreases.

It's something Google has been quite savvy with since it encouraged everyone to make the upgrade so I wouldn't worry at all.

Hey there,

My advice would be to minimize those redirect chains as soon as you can, not just for potential SEO benefit but more to lessen server stress and speed up page load.

Interestingly, chained 301s don't lose equity in the eyes of a search engine now (see updates below) so it's interesting that you're seeing such a fluctuation.

https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo

For the .html to trailing slash pages, did you say that he did a page-to-page remap for all of them instead of putting a redirect rule in place to catch them all? That seems like a crazy thing to put in place! Your redirect file (htaccess or similar) must be enormous!

Hope that helps,

Sean

Awesome. Good luck!

This is exactly my point, the view=quick version of the page needs a canonical pointing back to the proper version of the page. Yes, it's not a normal webpage but that is now search engines are viewing it because it's missing the tag.

This will signify to search engines that the 'view=quick' version of the page is a duplicate of the normal page and that it should not be ranked within search results.

I've clicked on the link you mentioned above and there is no canonical on the page?

Hey there,

This is a funny issue that has been plagueing SEO for years - I find that the best fix is to ensure that canonicals are automatically added to query parameter versions of pages.

In this instance, I would ensure a canonical tag is added in the below format:

This would ensure that search engines understand the main page you want to rank and it encourages them not to rank these query parameter pages.

All the best,
Sean

This might also have nothing to do with the HTTPS switchover - Moz's algorithm is designed to mimic that of Google and if they've made updates to it, it might just be a natural drop in DA.

Have a look at your competitors that are being tracked - have they also fallen in DA?

Hi Becky,

Authority-wise, they were product pages that were deep down in the IA of the site so they had very little PA anyway. And rankings-wise, they were very niche, branded products so we didn't have a great deal of competition anyway - rankings were always pretty good.

Even if you're selling something unbranded and generic, I would say that you should create the pages ASAP to start the ball rolling. You're not going to get penalized in the first instance of loading them on and when you come back later to optimise them, you should gain rankings.

Cheers,

Sean

Hey,

I used to work for a company that had me loading on around 10,000 product SKUs into the system at one time. Rather than lifting the supplier descriptions of each item, we used excel to template up the descriptions of the products based on the stock information we had - ranges, sizes, materials etc. Page titles, however, we left auto generated by our CMS until we had a chance to go back and review them.

I would get them loaded on the site in bulk to get them indexed/available for product PPC bidding with the intention of coming back to them later to optimise - meta descriptions, page titles, product descriptions etc.

In the end I think we used a crowdsourcing platform like Elance to hire several freelancers to write the product descriptions uniquely. It was a great investment from an SEO and written copy perspective. Might be something to think about?

Cheers,

Sean

I'm sure it would probably be valuable and pass on some SEO benefit but if it's likely that someone has purchased this domain purely for transferring the link equity of inbound links to your website, then there's always a chance that this is going to be picked up on.

A small chance, but a chance nonetheless.

Thanks!

Hey Gill,

You can use multiple cases of local business - it's no problem at all.

All the best,

Sean

Your site is constantly trying to load an image file which is killing the connection.

http://a1bail.naked.digital/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/dial.png

On chrome browser, press CTRL+SHIFT+J to see developer tools and click 'Console' - you can see a bunch of red error messages that recur hundreds of times.

Sort out that image and try again.

All the best,

Sean

Hey there,

Welcome to the world of SEO!

The best place for beginners to start would be here: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

Feel free to utilize the Moz Community for any questions you have and any help you need.

All the best,

Sean

Hey Becky,

Check out the Moz Algo update page for more detailed information about algo updates:

https://moz.com/google-algorithm-change

All the best,

Sean

Is the linking domain (not the link that links to that domain) relevant to your business?

i.e. is it an old domain that used to be active or is it just a dummy domain that was set up for the practice of link building?

Hi all,

I'm looking to implement sitelink search box mark-up in Google Tag Manager in JSON-LD format. This would be popped into the Custom HTML tag and would look a little something like:

The above option is great if you have one query string for your search term, but what if you had a URL that triggered two query strings - for example:

https://www.example.com/search?q=searchterm&category=all

Would you need to amend the code something like the below:

Any help would be much appreciated!

Cheers,

Sean