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Hi,

I had the same issue with my website. As Dirk said, there is an issue with Moz crawling websites that use SNI.

But, double check that with Moz Support team to see whether it is a problem with Moz and not your site.

I agree with Dirk. Most of your content is copied from elsewhere. Also, your links do not look right and mainly from commenting on other articles. You have plenty of links, so it would be quite challenging to clean them up.

But if you want to be considered for re-indexation, you need to rethink the way you do SEO. Clean up your links, use disavow tool for links that you can't remove yourself. Also, your content needs to be original. When you feel like you've done everything you could, file Google reconsideration.

Hi,

I would suggest using the first option (/christmas/decor). Google and other search engines would understand that "decor" page is about Christmas Decor, as you are using "christmas" subfolder as a parent of "decor" page.

Hope this helps!

Dima,

Hi Guys,

Recently got into the issue when testing load speed of my website (https://solvid.co.uk). Occasionally, Google Speed Insights gives me a server connection error which states _"PageSpeed was unable to connect to the server. Ensure that you are using the correct protocol (_http vs https), the page loads in a browser, and is accessible on the public internet."

Also, GTMetrix gives me an error as well, which states the following: "An error occurred fetching the page: HTTPS error: SSl connect attempt failed"

All of my redirects seem to be set-up correctly as well as the SSL certificate. I've contacted my hosting provider (godaddy), they are saying that everything is fine with the server and the installation. Also, tried in different browsers in incognito mode, still gives me the same error.

Until yesterday I haven't had such a problem. I've also attached the error screenshot links.

I would really appreciate your help!

Dmytro

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Okay, I can see that you are disallowing: /locations/montreal/. This what might be causing the issue. I think you should ask your developer to review the technical side of your website.

Hi Karim,

I can see that you are disallowing a lot of things in your robots.txt file. Have you checked your robots.txt and meta robots? When you say it's not being picked up, do you mean it's not indexed by Google or it just doesn't rank well?

Thanks,

Hi,

It seems like Google might be treating http and https as 2 different websites. Have you specified the preffered website version in your Search Console?

Hi,

It's quite challenging to give any heads up as we don't know what your business is about and what do you sell/provide.

Google Keyword Planner can give you a solid understanding of the search volume and competitiveness of specific keywords. You can also use MOZs keyword difficulty tool which also specifiles the competitiveness of a specific keyword.

I think you should target keywords that are most relevant to your business as oppose to "most searched" keywords. As your website is new, it will be super challenging to rank for high volume keywords, therefore, you should focus more on long tail keywords that are highly relevant to your business.

Hope this help!

I agree with Patrick.

I personally think that search engines simply prioritise your homepage over the subpages, as a result of higher PA, Links and so forth.

Also, you said that this is a new page, was your homepage ranking for that keyword before you've added the new page? What I think, is that the new page contributes to the ranking of the homepage, as it hasn't got enough ranking signals (e.g. backlinks) on its own.

I might be wrong.

It will be helpful if you can maybe post the link to the website.

Have you resubmitted your sitemap after changing the structure?

Hi there,

For manual penalty, please check your search console under manual actions tab.

For algorithm penalty, you may notice huge drop in traffic and rankings, and may not rank for your brand name

I've just checked your website, and it does look fine to me. You have a clear navigation and all of that. I wouldn't worry about changing URLs (Google would still index them) But just double check with search console if Google has indexed all of your pages.

In regards to the seagrass.html vs seagrass-furniture.html, I wouldn't  worry about changing it, because Google understands that your website is about selling furniture, therefore it realises that seagrass.html has to do with furniture. When you change your pages and put 301 redirects you loose a bit of link juice, so if I were you I wouldn't worry too much about your URL situation (it's a minor ranking factor)  and would focus on link building and on-site optimisation.

Hioe that helps

Can you possibly post the link of your website so we can have a look at your link profile and spam score.

In regards to the links, there are many factors to consider. I'll tell you a few (what I think is a good practise for link building). First of all, don't purchase links (although Google doesn't really know if you've paid money or not). Try to get links from relevant websites to your own business, high authority websites with high Domain Authority, relevant publications and so forth. Avoid spammy websites (you can use Moz Bar to identify those) and keep the good balance between Dofollow and Nofollow links.

Check out the Moz Blog and Rand's whiteboard Friday for more detailed response, you can learn a lot from those guys.

Hi,

Are you launching completely new website or just changing the design of the current website? If you are just changing the design, then you can post the new content and then re-design the website (as long as your re-design would not interfere with the content). Are you planing to keep the website live while re-designing?

Hi,

I would say that it is beneficial to have a clear architecture/structure for users and search engine spiders to navigate across your website. If you'd decide to change the structure, I would suggest using something like this: www.yourwebsite.com/chairs/seagrass-chair/.

When you say that you have a "chair" page, does that mean that all of your products are listed on that single page or do you have separate products pages?

As I understand, you get referral traffic from websites like; traffic-cash and those with .xyz extension.

There is a great article on how to filter those: https://www.ohow.co/what-is-referrer-spam-how-stop-it-guide/

Hi Edgar,

Open Site Explorer is not always 100% accurate, as well as other platforms (e.g. SEM Rush, Majestic, SimilarWeb and so forth). Furthermore, it does take time for links to appear on Open Site Explorer. I personally see Open Site Explorer as a great comparison/link opportunity tool, which allows you to see rough figures.

You can always use Google Search Console to see links that point to your site.

Thanks,

Hi Mike,

I would suggest you add both versions of your website to the search console (i.e. www and non-www) and then set your preference to whichever you like, so that Google knows which one your prefer to be the main domain.

I would also suggest shortening the URL, because it does look too long. Maybe you'd want to put the author of the quote instead of the actual quote or shorten the quote somehow. I'm pretty sure that you guys may publish some quotes with even more characters in the future which is going to be even longer than the existing one. Hence, I would rethink the URL structure.

In regards to the rankings, don't worry just now as it really takes several weeks to get updated.

Many Thanks,

Dima

Hi,

That a is pretty long-tail keywords there.

How long ago did you guys optimise your pages/website? If it is just few day, don't panic. Google may take several weeks to identify the change on your website and rank it appropriately. Do you guys have a search console account set up? If not, set one up and submit your sitemap with all the new pages (it may help Google to identify those pages quicker).

Also, I can see that your home page title is: "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." Are you trying to rank for this specific quote or for keywords like "inspirational quotes" etc.? Page title is one of the important factors for Google to identify the relevance of the website.

I think your Meta Description is too short, you might want to extend it a little bit. Also, I couldn't see any H1 and your image aren't optimised (Google doesn't read images so it is important that your alt text to describe the image). Maybe add some more content to our website as well.

I would suggest going through your pages again, and then submit a sitemap to search console.

Hope that helps.

Dima