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Hi Luke,

"Avg. Page Load Time (sec) [Google recommends 200ms]:" That's actually for the server response time.

Personally, the only thing that matters is that the overall page load time is quick. I aim if possible for sub 2 seconds for any page.

Tom

Content below the fold is still read, however less value is placed on it. So it is still worth having content that is produced for below the fold as it will still help that page rank.

Show the user what they want to see when they land on the page, majority of the time in doing this you will actually show Google what they need to rank you.

I've seemed to have a load of issues as of late. Just small graphical things but still enough to make me concerned.

1. https://moz.com/community/users/4207879 being noindex (however it seems to other users an external tools work) (image proof: https://i.gyazo.com/2e77c94ffd068718e9e149e8afef1e44.png )

2. No mozpoints: https://gyazo.com/9e0777af3ebbdb6ad58a395bafe28a52

3. I'm a staff member? https://i.gyazo.com/5d7b156c13fa1d0bb6c2e0af3467423f.png

4. Trying to respond when logged out: https://i.gyazo.com/9f5fe8efd372920391a9a54178561e0b.png (not really a bug, however could be a better experience)

These have all been sent via support, just wondered if it was just me having issues?

Seems i'm staff on this one too: https://i.gyazo.com/6f1bc6372180f4f9f1cb1c7d6f6d941c.png

Yes that looks correct, I would add an x-default for the rest of the world. this is a good article: https://hreflang.org/use-hreflang-canonical-together/

http://www.myseosolution.de/downloads/mobile-hreflang-canonical-fixed.png Is a great image to explain things.

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

The biggest benefit would be redirecting old pages to new. If not just redirecting all of the old pages to the new homepage would be ok.

Just make sure that these are the kind of links that you want to have on your domain.

Honestly I wouldn't be able to tell you. As the article brought up cloaking I'm going to guess yes, however I haven't got any source or test for it.

If they do really want to know, they could just copy the text into a standard content box. It'll tell you for that content if it's good/bad etc.

This may be of help to you: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2011/11/get-post-and-safely-surfacing-more-of.html

If you've made the suggested changes on Bing and you're having the page break, then I would unfortunately sacrifice Bing. Alternatively I'm sure there are developers out there who could fix this and bypass your issues. You'll just have to weigh up if the "mobile friendly" on bing is worth it.

Hi Ikkie,

The original post says that Markele is already logged in:

"it takes me to the Moz home page which I'm already logged in to "

I just posted this for a user on a forum I am a moderator on so unfortunately I can't answer that question.

This was his reply to your post:

"Hi, Thomas I think the lady who replied last to your thread in Moz had hit the spot. backlink from Washington post must have bump up the DA ( Even though the change is too high ). I wonder why this link didn't show up in web master tools. Google mustn't have indexed this link thus far. and Moz not showing the link is also a question. "

Have you tried doing a crawl of your site to see if there may have been an error now causing these types of pages?

Just to add to this, I have downloaded the plugin to see if I could replicate/help on this. It logged me in straight away. However I logged out through the toolbar and it kept me logged in. So I seem to have the complete opposite of your issue.

Sitemaps can go up to 50,000 urls, so 4500 isn't an issue for Google to handle.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en

Just to add on to Bernadette's post, this section "If your website's CMS can't do that, then I would recommend crawling the website yourself and updating the sitemap file. However, keep in mind that if you do it manually then you'll need to update it whenever you add or remove a page on the website." You can use something like Screaming Frog for this if you were wondering what software to use. It's a very common tool for an SEO to use, so hopefully you'll have it to save purchasing a license to something else.

This is where hreflang tags come in.

Here's a great diagram I found: https://hreflang.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mobile-hreflang-canonical.png on this site: https://hreflang.org/use-hreflang-canonical-together/

I'm afraid I don't have an insight into how Google crawls with lazy loading.

Which works better for your user, pagination or lazy loading? I wouldn't worry about lazy loading and Google. If you're worried about getting pages indexed then I would make sure you've got a sitemap that works correctly.

I would try and message them on every way that is listed here: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/support/

This is just a guess, but are you using a page builder (drag and drop) by any chance?

With lazy loading, the code can actually still be seen in the source code. That's what Google uses, so you should be fine with using this as it's becoming a common practice now.

Remove those "sample" pages and add more quality content.