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Hello there,

Of course, you can, there are many businesses that add their branches into GMB.

First I would try to figure out what is causing the loss of traffic, try to spend some time at your Google analytics and compare period before and after the change and see if you are able to identify where is the source of the lost traffic.

Since you said organic traffic drop it should be some ranking drop or CTR drop, I would start by checking with my Analytics and Search Console to see if my impressions and CTR have big changes before and after changes.

You should start tracking your keyword ranking, especially keyword that gives you conversion, hopefully, you've been tracking your conversion as well, then optimize it time by time.

Hello Ross,

I have a similar experience with Google+ but I believe the reason is that there are simply too few people from our specific industry and country using Google+, to be honest, you don't need to be active on all social media platform, just on the platform where your audience is there.

For me, I just simply share written blog post on my Google+ without creating any unique content for our Google+, we spend more of our time on LinkedIn and Facebook instead.

So again, you don't need to be everywhere, just where your audience at.

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello Rajnish,

There are so many reasons that might be causing the organic traffic lost, here are some thoughts that come to my mind:

• Since you say organic traffic lost I suppose this has something to do with your ranking on Google and CTR
• Do you currently tracking some keywords and do you see a considerable ranking drop?
• Since you rebrand the product do you also made a lot of content changes?
• Did you make a lot of changes on your Meta tags that could hurt the CTR?
• It takes time for 301 Redirect to fully pass the link value.
• You migrate to a different CMS, it has different structure although the surface looks the same, so maybe you need to take a look into onpage/technical SEO as well. Maybe remove the video background, which is known to hurt onpage SEO.

Hope this helps
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

To answer your questions,

1. Google will still crawl your pages even if it's not from the sitemap unless you specify disallow from your robots.txt

2. If they are similar content with the main difference at "quantities" couldn't you consolidate them into one single page that lists all the quantities your company sell in and then 301 redirect the other pages to the consolidated one?

3. It doesn't seem like going to be causing any problem nor hurting your SEO performance, but you could always change these link to the canonical link.

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

It's usual to rankings fluctuation if you made a huge change to your site content, Google needs some time to understand your content, learn how your visitors interact with your content (bounce rate, dwell time, etc.) and then decide if you're better than your competitor's page.

So to answer your question, you might be able to get back to the top spot if Google believes your content is much more valuable to the users.

I just take a look at your website and I had, to be honest, it looks like a page designed for Google bot more than the user, the large chunks of texts, over text styling and colors, section alignments make it uneasy to read and it reminds people spammy website/blogs.

It is recommended to design your website for the users, then optimize for SEO. After all, you want to increase your ranking but also your conversion rate as well.

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 there,

What do you mean your backlinks are not indexing? If you mean you wanted to see your backlinks I would suggest using Moz link explorer and Ahref site explorer.

If you mean some of your backlinks that isn't being indexed by Google, that's nothing much you can do than wait for it to be indexed. Unless you're able to contact the webmaster which he can request for an index in his search console.

Of course if your backlinks have other backlinks it will increase the chance of being indexed as well, finally, I do not recommend using any link indexing tools because they're simply not useful at all, such as linklicious.

And no your ranking will not drop because of the backlinks not being index, unless you mean you lost the backlinks, or the backlinks being de-index, which they have to be indexed at the first place.

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Unfortunately, I don't think there's any other way to have the review extensions.

Hello there,

You can use .htaccess URL rewrite to remove all the .html from your URL, here's the rewrite rules.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

Once you added this rules you should also fix all your internal links make sure they link to the URL without .html

Hope this helps,

Joseph Yap

Hello there,

A domain that has been used before and dropped doesn't necessarily provide any advantage on ranking. There are even people saying that domain that is dropped for more than a few months will be "reset" by Google.

Furthermore, the links profile from an expired domain, the relevancy of those backlinked websites to your business should be highly related to providing real value.

Upon checking the domain has been on 301 for a whole year to rayflexgroup.co.uk from 2016. The backlinks profile of the domain is not strong either, most of the links are directories and looks like it's from the same provider (centralindex.com?).

Suggestions: Try to acquire more quality backlinks from relevant authority sites, learn where your competitors acquire backlinks and try to snatch quality ones, give more time to see improvements in ranking (2 months is still very new, Moz took 9 months to get out of "sandbox").

Hello there,

Actually, I think this article could really help you! https://www.danielmorell.com/guides/htaccess-seo/https-www-and-trailing-slash

Alternatively, if you want to get the rules right away, just copy below, change the "example.com" to your domain then it should be working.

Force HTTPS

Force WWW

Remove trailing / from file

Turn on rewrite engine

RewriteEngine on

Check if not directory and ends in /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$

If not a directory skip next RewriteRule

RewriteRule ^ - [S=2]

Check if HTTPS and WWW

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.(.*)$ [OR,NC]
RewriteCond %{https} off

This RewriteRule skipped if URI was a directory

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This RewriteRule used if URI was a directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [S=1]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Do note, this 301 redirect your URL to the version with trailing slash, and because Google sees the trailing slash and non-trailing slash version of your pages as a different page, you should be doing a 301 to the right one. Read more about it here: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-trailing-slashes-url-24943.html

Of course, you can choose to remove the trailing slash 301 redirecting, Moz doesn't redirect to either version, and they rank well. But sites like Neilpatel (they have unnecessary redirects) and Backlinko does redirect, and they rank well too. So it's up to you if you want Google to help you identify which version you prefer or you tell Google yourself.

Finally, you can use this tool to check if your redirects are working as you expected: https://httpstatus.io/ (When you test, use a blog page or a specific page to test all the 8 variations because trailing slash doesn't matter at the homepage, take a look at screenshots below)

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Hello Howard,

Just make sure your 301 redirects setup properly then you'll have no issue with SEO.

All variations http/https + www/non-www + trailing-slash/no-slash (homepage doesn't matter) of url make sure they redirect to a final version of your site.

You can use Screamingfrog and https://httpstatus.io to make sure everything is setup right.

I just have a site upgrade to HTTPS and it doesn't have any problems.

Hope this helps,

Joseph Yap

Hello Yael,

That sounds like the viewport and breakpoint settings with your website, when you design a responsive website with your own screen you might want to use the chrome dev tools to check if the viewport cut off at the right size.

This guidelines from Google might help: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ux/responsive/

This post might give you some idea what is the best screen size to use: https://www.hobo-web.co.uk/best-screen-size/

If it wasn't above mentioned issue maybe you can share your website address so we can better tell what's happening.

Hope this helps,

Joseph Yap

Glad it helped, maybe you can mark this as answered?

The search visibility you saw in your Moz Pro means the CTR of the keywords you're tracking, that means you can have more organic visit from more impression but have a constant CTR.

Hope this helps.

So Jon have you found the solution to the problem? If yes maybe you can mark this as answered? Thnks

Glad it help

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

Oh, I guess you probably chose the "Get search volume and forecasts" which doesn't show you the search volume, I suggest you choose the "Open previous Keyword Planner" at the bottom of new keyword planner which still shows you the range data.

Alternatively, you can use this free tools that give you the exact monthly average:

https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/

Or go for a paid tools, which I personally recommend KWfinder from Mangools, there are some free searches you can try too.)