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According to Google search console between 18th of May and 21st of May. We had a temporary big position drop, with apparently no change in traffic volume but CTR seems to have dropped a bit and not recovered.  Ever since then the graph is quite choppy compared to before but avg position & CTR seem to remain fairly constant. Crosschecking to traffic in GA this month's traffic compared to last has dropped by about 5% but that could be related to seasonal changes. With regards to positions I normally monitor weekly to cut out some of the noise that happens with Google these days.  What do you use the daily tracking?

As Martin has said (and others in the helpful link he provided), it's perfectly normal for fluctuations to occur. Before you decide that it's a problem with your site or page, you should check to if your competition is experiencing similar fluctuations. Check out Mozcast too. There has been a lot of fluctuation in the SERPs lately.

Have you tries ahrefs tool? It will give the new back links with dates. May be this helps

I use multiple H2 tags on the websites I create for my clients. I use these as main headings within a piece of content. I have found with proper use of keywords in the H2 tags and clear and concise content that is helpful to the searcher, That pages can rank for multiple related keywords when used in this fashion. I would not recommend over doing it. But if the information in the heading is important it will help you rank especially if your are using long tail keywords.

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Hi there. It wouldn't be plugin, really. What you are talking about is your need to use progressive JPEGs. That can be achieved by simple saving the images in progressive format before you upload them onto your site, or change magento images processing. Read this article - http://pushentertainment.com/test/ It's pretty simple and straight forward. Also you can do it on server/hosting side. Here is the article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28335114/how-to-use-progressive-jpegs-magento Hope this helps

Yes, interesting I did wonder as much. We identified that the menu bar may be at fault, so we A/B tested and noticed a substantial increase in conversions.  Unfortunately, we have now put live and conversions of dropped again!   There is a slight change in the URL structure, but everything is redirected as far as I can tell. Wondering if it's just Google getting its head around it again.

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.

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.

When researching TTFB slowness for WORDPRESS I always start here: https://varvy.com/pagespeed/ttfb.html It's a great illustration on things you can control (beyond server) and I use it as a checklist ... I always seem to forget something simple.... like an edit in .htaccess.

New WAF/CDN's Only one offers a free plan also I must be upfront and TAGFEE I am a partner of Imperva the company that owns Incapula. Incapula now has a free offer on their content delivery network, of course, there are two catches. If your site Is encrypted a.k.a. Using SSL or https:// you must choose a paid plan. You do not get access to their phenomenal rewrite rules which can speed up your site quite a bit. Still, if you have no or no intention to use https this is better than CloudFlare when it comes to speed plus much better when it comes to security, but you must pay for the safety on both networks https://www.incapsula.com/ The second content delivery network is not free. But worth mentioning. StackPath is a new CDN/WAF built on MaxCDN's network. However, it offers you so much more for the base price of $20 month compared to what that would cost on MaxCDN hundreds of dollars a month. https://www.stackpath.com/ This CDN is unique because you get so much for the money. I bring it up only because people browsing this will hopefully find this useful. Hopefully, this is of use people checking out this question. All the best, Tom KJGioL8.png 6svpMgX.png

Hi While I have never used the service - it seems pretty expensive to me. For one link on a site with DA30+ its going to cost £80. Especially as from the looks of it you can't decide which sector the link is on - seems very grey / black hat to me, where its all about having a link. So you could sell car parts and get a link on a site that's about kitchens, might be DA30+ but not very relevant. Google knows where users click and will be putting more weight behind those metrics rather than website scoring metrics. We usually look to get links for our clients where potential customers are that can drive traffic and sales as well as a ranking benefits. While its probably more hard work than buying a link, its more natural, will give you greater benefits and you don't risk the chance of a Google penalty. Thanks Andy

Yes, it is relatively easy to do there are specialized tools that will make it extremely clear what content has changed or added. Moz Content is outstanding for doing this. https://moz.com/content/ You can run deepcrawl, and it will keep track of all URLs and how much content has was added or changed. https://www.deepcrawl.com/ You can also keep track of added URLs using https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ Kapost Is a good way of grabbing all the content and seeing the differences. https://app.kapost.com/auditor You can also keep tabs on how many pages or posts are in Google's index which is not necessarily the best way of showing content was created but will say if it's in Google's index by typing in site:http://www.example.com into Google's search. I hope this helps, Tom

You'd be doing this with the big site's permission, right? Then yes, as Chris said use a canonical pointing to the original source. That content on your site won't be indexed, but it will be there for visitors to your site to read without leaving your site, which is why I am assuming you'd do this in the first place. And to make a quick point about the dreaded "duplicate content penalty"--it's not a penalty as such--Google just makes a call on which version to index and which one to drop. In this case, the original would probably indexed with or without the canonical (though you should use it anyway). That being said, if you have a lot of scraped content, Google may not consider yours to be a quality site and that creates problems.

I haven't heard of this service, but if you can figure out where any of the indexes grab links, then they're doing that. For Google specifically, they're likely going to post your links on G+. Links posted via G+ see a quicker rate of indexation, and that's something a 3rd party could do without having access to your backend, changing code, or fixing your website.

Hi, What are some alternatives to addthis that we could use in our blog that doesn't mess with SEO?

I know there are hundreds out there but I need a bulk look up

I don't think you would find a better company than Sonassi: https://www.sonassi.com/

Heard through some of their customers that the links they built got sites hit with manual penalties last year. I wouldn't personally use them for this ... just depends on the business & goals, I suppose. Keep all your reports if you do use them. Check the links, verify you aren't getting setup with sites that can harm you.

I would agree with Dirk. There is not much to rank for on your website, all of your content comes from amazon. Still, another questions is why is it not indexed yet. The website is built on Wordpress and if you haven't touched your robots.txt then it should not block crawlers. As I can see you are not ranking for your exact match domain name (i.e. site: yourdomain.com) which can be sign of a manual penalty. What I would suggest is to add some content, do some internal optimisation (download seo Yoast plugin), add Titles, H1, optimise images and so forth. Then, create a separate search console account and submit your sitemap and see if it works.