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I have noticed a fair bit of fluctuation over the past few months, but especially weeks.

At a guess, I would say is connected to Penguin 4.0 (Real-time), You could have been one of Google's guinea pigs.

A few experts think they could have been an update to Possum late June or early September, But I wouldn't imagine that would cause a major difference.

I would also do a back link audit to make sure everything is in order.

I appreciate your comprehensive article, However, may I kindly point out my question was to do with Disavow in Google Search Console, Not the implementation of secure.

I'm considering the move to TLS/SSL obviously will be setting up the version in Search Console, do I need to re-upload the disavowal file previously generated before the move?

Look forward to your response.

Blogging is still important, just don't lose sight of the fact that he is not the only thing.

I think the answer to most of your questions is:  Google looks at how often the site is updated, but it also looks at the quality, relevance and uniqueness of that content.

Sounds like you could be in danger of keyword surfing, which won't help, and in worst case could hinder.  Remember that Google uses semantic search which relates and cross connects keywords and topics.  For instance, it's probably a waste of time to do two separate blog posts with one optimising for "pictures" and the other optimising for "images" depending on the scenario, Google will most likely see the two keywords is the same.

Regarding authors I don't think it matters, just avoid having every single one different.

Yes, that's interesting.  I had wondered if it was something like that.
The biggest change I made was only two or three days ago, it's only a small lower authority site so therefore likely wouldn't have been re-crawled yet.

It shows an outstanding result!  But no specific detail, It just says the server responded quickly!  Typical.

I have odd scenario I don't know if anyone can help?

I've done some serious speed optimisation on a website, amongst other things CDN and caching.  However when I do a Search Console Fetch As Google It is still showing 1.7 seconds download time even though the cached content seems to be delivered in less than 200 ms.

The site is using SSL which obviously creams off a bit of speed, but I still don't understand the huge discrepancy.

Could it be that Google somehow is forcing the server to deliver fresh content despite settings to deliver cache?

Thanks in advance

I'd have to say, not too familiar with the method you are using, but I take it the idea is elements of the page load as you scroll like BBC?

If it decreases the load time of the site that is good for both direct and indirect SEO, But the key thing is can Google see the contents of the page or not? - Use Google Search Console and fetch the page to see if it contains the content.

Also, Google will not hang around on your site, if it doesn't serve the content within a reasonable amount of time it will  bounce off to the next page, or the next site to crawl.  It's harsh, but it's a fact.

As far as I know there is no way of uncovering the Google 'not provided' keywords, and I don't think there's any point in kicking against it either because there are several ways that you can get information.  Mostly I think Google tries to hide any terms it thinks may release confidential information or very specific low-volume terms, in which case these probably wouldn't be much use anyway.

With enough traffic you can still get an awful lot of information from Google Analytics, it still releases about 10% of the keywords.

Secondly, Look at Google Search Console > Search Traffic > Search Analytics.

The strategy that I like best is to work the opposite way on, decide on the keywords that you want to go after and then optimise the site for those keywords.

As a last resort, yes.  But I would sooner fix the problem from the ground up.

Thanks

From a Google perspective if you noindex a page sooner or later it will be removed from the index and hence you will lose your search term.

If you have no particular need to remove the pages, create new pages with the new content (Google will like that anyway), almost certainly you will find that some of those pages will outrank the thin content pages by definition in time.
In due course you could then 301 the old link which in theory will pass on most of the authority to the new page.

I'm clocking up nearly 1 second on time to first byte on a Joomla 2.5 site.

It is on shared hosting so don't think there's much option for improvement from the hardware or core configuration angle.

There isn't much in the way of plug-ins and it is using SSD, the problem seems to be with the CMS itself.

Any ideas how I could produce the TTFB?

Thanks

Dose anyone know of a good CDN?  Free if poss!!

It is for use on a joomla v2.5 site

Thanks

Richard

Possibly an exploit of some kind?

Keep a backup and remove them.

Search engines are only going to look at the file which is exactly called robots.txt variations of file name will be ignored.

Do make sure the entries are correct in the main one though, you don't want Google crawling admin pages or other confidential areas of the site.

Apologies I'd slightly misunderstood your question, I see exactly what you mean now.  I think this is purely down to the way Google associates the search intent and tries to deliver the most appropriate result.

The site parameter is obviously intended to help users find a specific item on the specified site, therefore if the blog has more content than the other pages there is more chance that it will have what the user is looking for hence Google will deliver that page out of preference.
Don't know for sure but just an assumption.

As you said branded searches are fine, there certainly doesn't look to be any issues as far as I can see although I haven't done a full audit.

Would be interested to see what anyone else says but my gut feeling is there is nothing to be worried about, the main thing is you come up for your company name and search terms that you want.

Sorry hope that helps somewhat.

All the best

Anyway you could let me have the two links and I can give them a quick look over?

Also bear in mind that DA isn't everything.

Few quick thoughts come to mind (in order of priority)

1. Blog page may have more authority than the homepage
2. Could be a technical issue with the homepage (Maybe Google can't see anything there)
3. Check your robots.txt to make sure it's not blocked (Sounds crazy but can happen)

I would strongly advise against noindexing unless it is absolutely necessary.

Personally I wouldn't be too worried about the homepage not showing although, I agree it's a good idea to know why.  After all no customers are going to be using Google search parameters like site or info.  They are going to be searching for what they want and expecting an answer on the page that Google provides them with.

Not sure if that helps or not but just a few thoughts.

Yes agree with Alick300, As far as I know, Google doesn't take any notice of case in search terms.  Maybe the odd situation i.e. readability as far as the end user is concerned on content quality.  Google does take notice of bad grammar and punctuation.

Just a note of caution, be careful with acronyms.  You may find that the acronym is also used by different industry something entirely different.  Make sure it is very clear what you are talking about in your page content, ideally explain the acronym.

All the best.

This is down to the way Google search works, but there seems to have been an increase recently on this sort of thing.  It is mostly about Google trying to identify the best results for the best user, results are getting increasingly dynamic.

I don't believe it's anything to worry about, if you clear the cache on the different PCs the chances are you will find the results will even out and be reading about the same each time, there will normally vary slightly anyway.

The alternative is to use an online checker.

P.S. Make sure you are logged out of Google also prior to clearing the cache.

Trust that helps.

All the best.