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Bit of an odd one here, anyone seen this before: https://i.gyazo.com/aa083d07c58623e101fc84b8b569a0cc.png

Funnily, Dr. Pete did a whiteboard friday on this today: https://moz.com/blog/arent-301s-302s-canonicals-all-basically-the-same-whiteboard-friday

I've honestly seen it done both ways, I don't believe there is actually any guidance out there for what the best practice is. For example the Guardian does not link to other /amp/ pages. https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/06/uk-tourists-face-mobile-phone-roaming-charges-post-brexit-paper-says

Guess you forgot to add Google Analytics too

It sounds like you're getting referral spam in Google analytics.

They aren't actually linking to you, so the good news is that it won't impact you within Google search, the worst thing they can do is skew your data. Their aim is to try and get you to their sites.

This is a guide that's great for blocking all referral spam: http://help.analyticsedge.com/spam-filter/definitive-guide-to-removing-google-analytics-spam/

Stop trying to sculpt your site to get a better DA, ultimately Moz's DA and PA are metrics, you shouldn't be changing your site around these purely. Instead what you need to be doing it trying to tweak your site to what's best for the user. Do these pages add value to the site and if not what can you do to improve them, if they can't be improved then remove them.

The key metric you should be looking at is the number of visitors that you are getting.

"or majestic is counting each redirected page on the old toptwincitiesrealtors.com site as a backlink"

That is what I would guess is happening, I believe the same happens in Google Search Console when you do the same thing.

Hi all,

I know historically tabbed content has been devalued, what's the situation currently? I've heard a lot about mobile first changing this.

This is a design that has been produced by our designers:

https://i.gyazo.com/35f655c7ba2bc89a87b9476e4a14534d.png

Each tab contains approx 1000 words and previously has been a unique article.

Would love to know your thoughts on this design and the benefits/losses of doing it like this.

Thanks,

Tom

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

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

They have the ability to, if it's actually being used with live data that i'm not sure. I posted a link to a few interesting articles on a forum i'm on: http://forums.seochat.com/seo-help-general-chat-16/google-understanding-images-482771.html

Screaming Frog is a great tool that has a free version. 500 url limit (suitable for most small sites).

If it's relevant to the main article then yes it would be fine. They're usually all nofollow links now. What it does do though is offer engagement in the comment section, may get you noticed and added to the main article if you bring up a good enough point.

Hi Ben,

Having both running I think is the worst outcome. If you do a site:https://domain.com query what pages show up? If you've got the https pages showing, then you're already indexed. I would personally look at moving fully over to https as long as all of the canonicals etc are all working properly.

Now is the best time to do the migration, due to http->https pages not losing pagerank (or apparently redirects not losing pagerank either)

Tom

Hi GoMentor,

Rand did a whiteboard friday on this topic: https://moz.com/blog/wrong-page-ranks-for-keywords-whiteboard-friday

Hope it helps,

Tom

Hi Joseph,

This is what you're looking for: https://support.google.com/mapmaker/answer/6296952?hl=en

Hope it helps, Tom

If you want a permanent redirect - 301, if it's temporary - 302.

Is there any reason why you want to redirect the 2016 version? You could also add a banner at the top of the blog post saying "View our 2017 Version Here"

Lets see if tweeting Roger awakens him/her/it! https://twitter.com/thomasharvey_me/status/783958116316643328

Yeah it's possible, for example this: http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/property/kirkdale/daisy-street/

(nowhere near me, just thought to search what may be a street name!)

They are still running too, I had an email last night about claiming my moz shirt for getting 500 moz points. No tweet from Roger though