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Hi Silviu, My apologies for the delayed response, google is considering your mobile version as the primary version of the website, since it doesn't project the two version of the website. I would suggest getting your website URL structure reviewed from a SEO professional, along with a detailed SEO audit as there can be other aspects which might  be impacting SEO of your website. Feel free to respond and ask further questions. Regards, Vijay

Hi Florin, It's a bit difficult to say, because this is a big topic, and there are many things you have to do in order to get the links working. You're doing the right thing on the website – your links are correctly formatted – so you need to focus your attention on the app. There are no independent guides I can recommend you, because the specification changes quite often, so you really need to work through this page and ensure that your app has followed all of the guidelines. Secondly, if you haven't already got Android Studio you should install it, and then test the links in there. You'll get more detailed error messages on specifically why a link might not be working. Android Studio's link testing tool is described here. Even if you still aren't entirely clear what the problem is, you'll at least have a specific error message from Android Studio. You can then post the error message to a programming Q&A site like Stack Overflow, where you're more likely to get specific advice that'll help you solve that error.

I've made a disavow, and I keep an eye for bad link every month. We had a manual penalty and solve it in July. I see rankings downs for "phone cards" "calling cards", "international phone card", "international calling card" and other variations, and it happen from 10-13 January, when the new core algo was released.

Nope, unfortunately not. Donford's answer is the only way you can remove those sitelinks without hurting your SEO. Google wants to provide users with the best possible experience and sometimes this means providing them with links to the strongest/most used parts of your site directly from the SERPs. You can at least take it as a positive that they're showing up!

Yes - iso-8859-15 is very outdated encoding. Validator suggest that you should use UTF-8.I believe that this is also SEMRush issue too. Fix just wrote this: and bug will be fixed.

There's a good, detailed article on this very issue from PMG. Does this answer your question? If you don't think it does, can you provide more detail about your app, as this will help you get better answers. When was your app last updated? Are you referring to having 4 stars overall (i.e. over all versions of your app)? Or is that the star rating for the most recent version? How many reviews does your app have, for the latest version and over all versions?

Hi there. Of course it can! The crawl rate is in pages per day, so if you remove pages (especially 1.5 million), there won't be as much to crawl Also it can happen, if you have the same static pages and the crawl bot has crawled them all. Google doesn't crawl all pages all the time, they have limited resources. So, if you have launched or updated website recently and now not really updating it, you can see the change in crawl rate. However, you can change crawl rate for 90 days, if you need them to crawl your website constantly (usually good for websites in process of reconstruction). Here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/48620?hl=en

Hello, my friend. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6216428#content_mismatch Read the "To Fix" part

That clearly changes my ideas about this ;-). As we're talking about a couple of million pages I wouldn't include them in the sitemaps then and to make sure they're absolutely made sure that it's noindexed.

I can't see this causing you problems.  I've commonly noindexed huge numbers of pages, mostly for sites with Panda issues, and in several cases we've seen great increases in traffic with a future Panda refresh.

Hi there Whichever site is being redirected, make sure that you prepare a disavow file for that specific site. Reason being, you're redirecting all of the links to a new site, so you want to make sure the links are stopped where they started that you want to disavow. I would also make sure that you do a proper backlink audit and properly assess any potential harmful backlinks. From there, make sure you do the same for the new website, but it shouldn't be the same if links from the old site aren't appearing in the new site's backlink profile. Also, read Google's Move a site with URL changes guide and assess the pages with the most backlinks and optimized anchor text for risk assessment. From this update, I would update any potential good backlinks you find: Listings & citations Partnerships Sponsorships Relevant or authoritative mentions All of the links above from Ikkie are a great place to start with your disavow: Guide to Google's Disavow Tool (Moz) Disavow: Secrets of Google's Most Mysterious Tool (Moz) Disavow backlinks (Google) But then, I would also take a look at Matt Cutts on Common Disavow Link Tool Mistakes & 7 Things You May Not Know About Google's Disavow Tool and make sure you have your bases covered. Hope this all helps - good luck!

The answers above remain valid - check this video of Matt Cutts: http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-one-page-two-links-page-counted-first-link-192718 - interesting part is at 0:15 - summarising - having multiple links to the same page should be the least of your worries - probably you have more important SEO issues to tackle. rgds, Dirk

Hi there I would consider this duplicate content. What I would do is take the content on the page and make it unique to the location you're trying to service. Every location and user from that location is unique. How can you benefit these users? Why are your offers better? There are a lot of opportunities to create unique content here, I suggest you start! Hope this helps! Good luck!

As I said before, a 301 redirect will pass pagerank. Even if it goes to a blocked folder, that's still domain-level benefit coming into your site from "paid" links. The best solution, in my opinion, is for sites to run their affiliate program through another domain first, and 302 (temporary) redirect the user to the main site. Affiliate links to www.YourAffiliateDomain.com/?afflink-id=123, which has a domain-wide robots.txt disallow.  The ?afflink-id=123 part tells the system where to redirect the user to on the primary domain. The user goes from that URL through a 302 redirect to the appropriate URL on your primary domain. No pagerank is passed and you can kill off the domain if you ever need to and those redirects will stop coming into the site. If you are unable to do all of this you can submit a disavow file for all non-compliant affiliate domains after asking them to nofollow their links. I think the limit is supposed to be 2,000 domains, but I've heard of people doing as much as 4,000 with no problem. Just give it a try and see what happens.

Hi Lynn and thanks for your input, 1. No content, only url changes. Our main focus was to get better results for queries like 'xxx phone cards' and also for spanish queries like 'Mexico tarjetas telefonicas' (before the update the spanish urls contained english words..) 2. We started the link profile cleaning and we're still working on it (removed a big amount of 'bad links', disavowed others)

Thanks Ari!

Thx for the advice. Will do!