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Hello there,

Google will truncate your URL when it exceeds a pixel length. I usually keep it as short as possible, make sure it let people understand what they might expect from that page, but not too long to look annoying. Here are some tips:

• Keep it as short as possible
• Don't use stop words
• Avoid using special characters (dash is fine and can be used as spaces)

I couldn't list all of the tips but this few guides will help you whenever you creating a new page and URL.

https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls

https://moz.com/learn/seo/url

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-friendly-url-structure-2/202790/

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello vtmoz,

I believe there won't be any negative impacts, for example, a press release can get you links from news site but it won't necessarily relevant to your site. Google approach might just be "devalue" those link instead of punishing it. I believe that is a fair to do otherwise people can just use "negative seo" to derank others site.

Hope this answered your question.

Regards,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Actually if used correctly, content syndication can be an effective way to help your site ranking, I'm assuming you have a main blog that you want to syndicate the content on it's to other blogs with different groups of visitors, so ultimately they might visit your main blog from that syndicated blog post.

There are some things you can do on syndicated posts such as canonical, noindex, etc. You can read on this 2 post which explains each method in details:

https://searchengineland.com/syndicated-content-189097

https://neilpatel.com/blog/the-step-by-step-guide-to-syndicating-content-without-screwing-up-your-seo/

Hope this helps
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

1. I would avoid using AggregateRating on the homepage because Google simply doesn't show them and it can sometimes see it as spam, instead, it's recommended to use it on your specific page that sells the product or service.

2. There's some script that helps you to do that, which helps you to embed Google Review into your website, here's a guide with details to do that.

https://www.launch2success.com/guide/display-google-reviews-website-2017/

If you're using WordPress, there's some plugin can achieve that, such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-google-reviews/

Hope this helps,

Joseph Yap

Hello there,

I'm guessing you're talking about example.com/our-partners-in-uk vs. example.com/our-partner-in-united-kingdom

If that's the case I'd say there won't be too much difference for going with either one, Google is smart at understanding your page content, so if your URL is not too long (>75) for using united-kingdom, then go with it, otherwise go with the shorter UK.

If what you're talking about is the subdirectory for multinational targeting, I would suggest you to take a look at this: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello Brad,

I'm assuming the image used to be on the same domain you're now on, and it leads them to your website 404 page, in that case, I would upload another relevant image with the same filename to my site and do a 301 redirect.

If those backlinks point to an image from the other site which is different from your current site, you might want to make sure these backlinks are quality and relevant to your content before making a domain level 301 redirect.

Hope this answered your question.

Regards,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Some people believe that Google doesn't penalize you for being linked from some spammy site, it simply just devalue those link. Whether it's true or not only Google knows, but for your situation there's 2 option:

• Disavow those spammy links
• Prevent hotlinking, which disables people linking to your images directly
  https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/smarter-way-to-prevent-image-hotlinking-with-htaccess/

Hope this answered your question.

Hey there,

I think the best thing you could do now is to have a strategy to ask for a review from your existing clients

and to be honest anonymous review doesn't carry much credibility either.

Hello there,

Since you already got replies telling you that things can take some time, I would just provide you with something that you could do to expedite the process.

• Press release
• Setup relevant social profiles, GMB, and link to your own website make sure you have a consistent NAP
• Get citations from the local website
• Build some quality backlinks

Upon checking the keyword "residentie bosrand", I found that it wasn't a keyword with much competition either, and you have an exact match domain. So I believe the above tips can easily get you rank for your own brand name in a matter of days.

BTW, considering giving a more descriptive file name for your PDF, Google might think they're spammy. Or just simply hide them from search results. (https://moz.com/community/q/no-index-pdfs)

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello,

I believe that depends on your goal, Wistia injects a structured data that helps crawler better understanding and index your video, it also provides more marketing options such as email opt-in when playing the video.

If your goal is to grow your youtube channel, then youtube might be the right option for you, as it offers more channel for the user to reach you on youtube.

Hope this helps

Hey there,

Have you tried adding user-agent to the vary HTTP header? I believe that should address your problem.

https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/dynamic-serving

Hello Yosepgr,

If both are your potential clients, but you wanted to make an offer for wedding venue owners, you can specify that within the page content like many other sites do. For example, some site has "agency discount", "student discount" etc.

You can also do long-tail keyword research to find if there are any keywords might indicate they're wedding venue owners, so you can create content or articles to target these long tail keywords.

You can't tell who are the people searching for a term or phrase, not like Facebook Ads. You can only take an educated guess.

Hope this answered your question.

Regards,
Joseph Yap

I'm also using the same approach as Nicholas, and we definitely should not stuff keyword everywhere just because we can.

Hey Dan,

though keyword in URL can be helpful it wasn't that much of a factor in ranking. If your page has relevant content to the keywords Google will be able to tell. Alternatively, since you're using Wordpress, will "tag" be another solution?

Regards,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Both of this error can be caused by either a corrupted file, which you can download a new one from WordPress and see if this fix the problem.

If not I would suggest you start by turning off all your plugin one by one and see if there's some plugin that caused the conflict.

Hope this helps.

Joseph Yap

Hello there,

I think it depends on what kind of searchers you're looking for, is there anyone search for " <your brand="">careers" and if there are no people searching for terms like that there's no point to rank for it. Plus I think if your site is set up properly you should be easily ranking for your brand without much efforts, unless your brand are made up from some general keywords.</your>

Hope this helps,

Joseph Yap

Hey there,

I assume you're using WordPress default permalink structure. If your site is a large blog I would recommend to check out yoast premium plugin which allows you to set up the 301 redirect at once when you change the permalink structure. If it's a small blog you can do that with other free plugins that help set up 301 redirects as well.

I'm not quite sure if I'm correct since I'm not in the gaming industry, but I don't think there would be many benefits in terms of SEO for having provider name in URL. There are a few reasons that I wouldn't add provider name in URL:

• Your URL will be much longer, Moz suggests to keep it within 75 words, including https://www.
• I'm guessing the more important keyword here is the game name, by having publisher name you're moving your important keyword further from the root domain
• It cost more time and effort to manage and create content for each provider page/content
• Provider name is a branded keyword, and it would be hard for you to outrank them in their brand name
• doesn't give much SEO value

When I search for "Battlefield 1", almost all the top results have "Battlefield 1" close to their root domain.
https://www.windowscentral.com/battlefield-1-2018
https://www.gamespot.com/battlefield-1/
https://www.g2a.com/en/battlefield-1-origin-key-global-i10000016618004
https://www.origin.com/sgp/en-us/store/battlefield/battlefield-1#store-page-section-criticalacclaim

I think at the end it depends on what keyword you're trying to rank for and does having the publisher name helps.

Hello there,

There's a few tools I use to check my backlinks profile,

1. Google Search Console > Search Traffic > Links to your site

2. Moz Link Explorer

3. Ahref

I think these 3 are the best tools available, hope this helps.

Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Simply delete the page and redirect to your homepage shouldn't harm your site, but here is what I'll do:

If these pages are having quality backlinks pointing to it, I would recommend rewriting a relevant article in a better quality, especially if these pages are having traffic or ranking for some keyword that is relevant to your website.

Hope this answered your question.

• Joseph Yap