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I'm wondering what other SEO's process for selecting citations is. A coworker and I were speaking about the trust level of certain citation sites, and I'd like to get a wider view as well. I haven't really seen this addressed in any other thread or even with a Google search.

How do you go about trusting particular citations? Do you have a process? Are there some you stay away from no matter what? I come across some that I feel are a bit sketchy, and try to stay away from those. Although, maybe they are more trustworthy than I give them credit for.

Thoughts?

We have a site on which both hreflang tags and canonicals are being used. There are multiple languages, but for this I'll explain our problem using two.

There are a ton of dupe page titles coming up in GSC, and we're not sure if we have an issue or not.

First, the hreflang tags are implement properly. UK page pointing there, US page pointing there. Further down the page, there are canonical tags - except the UK canonical tag points to the UK page, and the US version points to the US page.

I'm not sure if this will cause an issue in terms of SEO or indexing. Has anyone experienced this before or does anything have any insight into this?

Thanks much!

Matt

Yes, we're working at it! Thank you!

Hi Massimiliano,

You bring up a great point, thank you for that! This is exactly the type of big picture repercussions that I needed advice on.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I am wondering if there are any negative SEO effects of removing mass amounts of content specifically in the situation I am about to describe.

We have a website that is being converted into Wordpress, however, one particular section that contains a large portion of content (31 pages) have not been transferred over yet. We are very eager to launch the new Wordpress website for lead generation purposes and will gradually re-implement the content over time.

From Google Analytics, these pages have not generated a significant amount of organic entrances (~7 ) in the last year. Furthermore, these pages do not contain any backlinks.

I would like to know whether or not this would have an overal negative SEO impact on the website even if we 301/create a page for coming soon/310/404 these pages?

My gut feeling is no, but I would like to make sure I am not missing anything.

Thanks Moz community!

I was digging into one of my accounts and noticed that previous well-performing ads were not being shown this month. My settings are set to Optimize for conversions: Show ads expected to provide more conversions but whichever way I look at the data, ads that were doing well previously are now only being shown about 0.1% of the time.

Has anyone experienced this before or know of a possible Adwords algorithm change?

Thank you Gianluca! This was very helpful.

Hi Moosa,

Thank you for your input! Thank you for clarifying the repercussions of using canonicals in this situation.

Hi Dmitri,

Thank you for your suggestions. With regards to the exchange rates, we have looked extensively into all the possible options and the conclusion is that we cannot combine the two stores under one domain. There are more details to this problem such as matching prices with local vendors etc. But thanks for your suggestion.

I will consider using canonical links as I do agree that is the next best alternative.

Hello everyone! I have an SEO question that I cannot solve given the parameters of the project, and I was wondering if someone could provide me with the next best alternative to my situation. Thank you in advance.

The problem:

Two eCommerce stores are completely identical (structure, products, descriptions, content) but they are on separate domains for currency and targeting purposes. www.website-can.com is for Canada and www.website-usa.com is for US. Due to exchange rate issues, we are unable to combine the 2 domains into 1 store and optimize.

What's been done?

I have optimized the Canadian store with unique meta titles and descriptions for every page and every product. However I have left the US store untouched. I would like to gain more visibility for the US Store but it is very difficult to create unique content considering the products are identical.

I have evaluated using canonicals but that would ask Google to only look at either the Canadian or US store, , correct me if i'm wrong.

I am looking for the next best solution given the challenges and I was wondering if someone could provide me with some ideas.