Welcome to the Q&A Forum

I'm seeing a slight rise in results for some of my clients and no change for others.

Hi there,

I think you might be referring to "noindex" as opposed to "nofollow"? "Nofollow" is used to tell search engines not to follow the links on that page.If you don't see any use of these pages in search results and have duplicate content, consider adding "noindex" tags to these pages.

Hi there,

It's a delusion that 30x redirects can lead to PageRank loss. This has now been confirmed multiple times by Gary Illyes and John Mueller. As long as you properly implement a 301 redirect, there shouldn't be any issues.

Hi Radi,

It's hard to say, but with the new penguin update, there is a chance that certain parts or pages of your site might have been affected by the new penguin as a result of spam signals, but there is still a lot of uncertainty.

Here is what Google said: "Penguin now devalues spam by adjusting ranking based on spam signals, rather than affecting ranking of the whole site."

They said "adjusting ranking" as opposed to penalisation, which looks like your situation.

More about it here: https://moz.com/blog/penguin-4-was-it-worth-the-wait

I hope this helps!

Thanks,

Hi,

Not sure if you've already tried this, but got to chrome settings (the 3 vertical dots icon in the top right corner) > More Tools > Extensions > Find MozBar and hit reload button

Thanks,

That's an interesting question. To get it out of the way, there is no duplicate content penalty. But, there is a chance that partner website will rank better for a specific piece of content than your own site, but there is no duplicate content penalty.

I would agree with Chris. If you can get your partner website to put a rel=canonical, that would be the best option.

I agree with Mike. You shouldn't really allow bots to try and access wp-admin / captcha pages.

I would suggest adding the following line in your Robots.txt file: Disallow: /wp-admin/

You can also do the same to the captcha page or noindex the page.

Hi,

I don't necessarily agree that too many outbound links can harm your own SEO. In fact, Matt Cutts has tons of outbound links on his blog, so as long as links are relevant from a user perspective there shouldn't be any issues.

Back to the follow/nofollow, if you are linking out to trusted and relevant sources, I don't see any reason to nofollow the links. On the other hand, if you have user generated content, I would nofollow external links, because you won't always know where are they linking out.

Hope this helps!

Dmytro

Hi,

Instead of using "site:domain.com" search to check indexation, I would use Search Console for more accurate information.

Did you verify your new site and submitted the change of address in Search Console?

Thanks,

Hi,

Althought OSE is a great tool, it's not 100% accurate. Sometimes there will be a delay and sometimes it won't show some of your links. The main purpose of OSE (in my opinion) - is competitive analysis to find link opportunities.

Thanks,

Dmytro

I wouldn't say that Wix is that bad when it comes to SEO. Yes, there are limitations like no access to source code, robots.txt, little control over sitemap, canonical tags, funny "#!" characters in URLs (due to Ajax technology) etc. The blog part is pretty limited, you can't change meta titles, urls, descriptions, can't put rel=canonicals.

That said, I think Wix got a lot better in the last year or so, in terms of SEO. You can optimise every page of your site, they got better with the website load time, they use schema markup for product pages, etc.

Furthermore, I had few clients with Wix websites, and can say that we've achieved some good SEO results. Of course, if you have a large website that requires some advanced technical operations, I wouldn't recommend Wix. But, for small websites, I think Wix does a decent job.

Felt like something is going on

Noticed page indexation drop in Search Console for most of my sites. Guys from Search Engine Land seem to know about that: http://selnd.com/1YqiOoQ

Did anyone else noticed something weird?

Hi,

Did you actually implement canonical tags on duplicate pages, and do the point to the original piece?

It should be 300 queries/month if you are on $99/month Pro Plan. When did you join?

It's amazing! What I like about Moz - is ethics. You guys create awesome tools/upgrades without asking to pay extra. I doubt that many companies do that. For that reason, I'm going to upgrade

Hi,

Canonical tags are used when there is the same content in different locations of your website. For example, If you have a blog post that is also available in a printable version, you would want to put rel=canonical tag that points to the original piece of content (to tell search engines that you want them to show that original piece and forget about the printable version).

Please read this guide from Moz. It will explain everything you need to about canonicalization.

I hope this helps!

Hi,

I think keyword density is quite outdated. I've seen many people asking on Quora about optimal keyword density. I think this no longer applies. In fact, Matt Cutts has targeted this question like 5-6 years ago (here is a video), but, I still see a lot of folks trying to stuff their keywords everywhere. Hence, I think this point was missing on the latest WB Friday. However, I totally agree with other points mentioned.

Hi,

This is strange that sponsored ads have follow links, they should be nofollow, as ads should not directly affect you organic search. In your case they actually might, therefore, I would suggest to review the ad website and maybe consider moving somewhere else (as you said, it doesn't convert well).

Also, if we think about it, Google actually may consider your ads as buying links or as unnatural link building.

Hi,

I would try to avoid duplicate content as much as I can but, there is no such a thing as "duplicate content" penalty unless all of your content is simply copied from elsewhere. I would try and use rel=canonical tags to tell Google that this piece of content is the original one.

Please watch this WB Friday: https://moz.com/blog/guest-blogging-content-licensing-without-duplicate-content-issues-whiteboard-friday

Thanks,