I would personally approach this from a financial point of view, bring up both pages of content and show your customer the two side by side, then ask them "Why would a customer want to buy from you rather than the other store?" This approach has personally worked for me when all technical avenues have failed, as after all this is the same sort of lines that search engines live by showing the customer the most relevant page.

Here's a great post for hreflang and canonicals:

https://hreflang.org/use-hreflang-canonical-together/

With this image explaning it well:

https://hreflang.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mobile-hreflang-canonical.png

I think the biggest and most important question you need to answer is:

Does it do what you want it to do?

You need to make sure it converts a user once it's on the site, that the user can navigate through the site well. That's the top priority that people seem to neglect, they focus so much on rankings that they forget a user actually needs to land on the site and fulfill the goal of that site.

Hi Tom,

I use Moz, Screaming Frog and this canonical checker: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/canonical/dcckfeohihhlbeobohobibjbdobjbhbo?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog I'm sure that these canonicals are set up correctly.

I will send you an email to the email you have included on your profile.

Thanks,

Tom

"If someone was going to do a redesign for me, they should be able to tell me how their new design was going to be a huge kick up for my SEO, visitor engagement, sales, and more.    Design changes should be done well enough that the website owner gets multiple bangs for the buck."

I completely disagree, I know some people who can design a phenomenal website, yet they don't know a thing about SEO. That's not their job, their job is to offer a highly converting and inviting website NOT help it rank. If I went to a designer who does everything then I should be very wary of their work as after all a jack of all trades is a master of none.

Personally, I believe that making a site https is something that majority of the sites in the world should do. Google gives a slight ranking boost and slowly customers are trusting https sites more, with Google transitioning to "not secure" then it makes it even more of a reason to do so.

In majority of cases, https is quite a simple process if you're using a common cms. Just check that all of the scripts are functional and redirects are in place, once you've done that submit the sitemap and wait for Google to recrawl your site.

Just spent a few minutes, stumbled across this page too, not sure if this is related to affiliate or not, found via here: http://dannybrown.me/2015/04/01/sorry-affiliate-bloggers-but-your-about-page-disclosure-doesnt-cut-it/

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/03/ftc-staff-revises-online-advertising-disclosure-guidelines

https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-staff-revises-online-advertising-disclosure-guidelines/130312dotcomdisclosures.pdf

The key part I can see is this

"In addition, it is important for advertisers to draw attention to the disclosure. Consumers may not be looking for — or expecting to find — disclosures. Advertisers are responsible for ensuring that their messages are truthful and not deceptive. Accordingly, disclosures must be communicated effectively so that consumers are likely to notice and understand them in connection with the representations that the disclosures modify. Simply making the disclosure available somewhere in the ad, where some consumers might find it, does not meet the clear and conspicuous standard."

I don' think Martijn's statement is quite correct as I have made different experiences in an accidental experiment. Crawling is not the same as indexing. Google will put pages it cannot crawl into the index ... and they will stay there unless removed somehow. They will probably only show up for specific searches, though

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Completely agree, I have done the same for a website I am doing work with, ideally we would noindex with meta robots however that isn't possible. So instead we added to the robots.txt, the number of indexed pages have dropped, yet when you search exactly it just says the description can't be reached.

So I was happy with the results as they're now not ranking for the terms they were.

A tool that I use for some reporting is: https://agencyanalytics.com/ however I only use this with some automated reports for customers who don't want to use GA or search console so I'm not sure what their social analytics is like.

They do have a free trial so perhaps worth giving it a go?

It depends on the module, as a whole yes it does though.

It looks like they're using a custom wordpress theme.

You may be able to find a similar one here: https://themeforest.net/category/wordpress/corporate/directory-listings

Going by: "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. "

It looks like you're doing it fine, however just use the chart on the site Nikhilesh linked:https://hreflang.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mobile-hreflang-canonical.png

My concern with having the H1 in the logo, is actually that it may devalue the other h1 tags on the site. As they would then be duplicates. I haven't really done any research into this, would be interesting to see what would happen.

I honestly think it's not required anymore. There may be a benefit to a small site but I think it would be negligble.

Absolutely

I would personally link your logo to the canonical version of your homepage (which would commonly be abc.com) As you want to pass as much "juice" directly to the canonical version of the homepage.

PA and DA are a third party metric. Meaning that it has no impact whatsoever on Google rankings.

Just going through Laura's list as a checklist for ones that are applicable:

• Have you checked your robots.txt file or page-level meta robots tag to see if you are blocking or noindexing anything?

Nothing that I can see, that's causing a major issue.

• Is it a large site? If so, check for issues that may affect crawl budget.

The main thing I can see is that the product urls and canonicals are different, is there anyway of listing the product urls as their canonical versions in the category?

Hi Rachel,

Glad the resources were helpful, re-reading my response, I did forget to add that you can also specify your target here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en

Best of luck with the multilingual site, anymore questions please do ask.

Tom

Am I correct in saying that the allow/disallow is only applied to msnbot_mobile?

mobile robots file

User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile

User-agent: YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2

User-agent: MSNBOT_Mobile

Allow: /

Disallow: /1

Disallow: /2/

Disallow: /3

Disallow: /4/