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It has been a bit all over for a while now. Hoping your post gets them to look in to this a bit further. I take pride in knowing I am highly ranked, but ever since it went funny I have become unsure if that is actually the case - am I really position 1681 rather than 70-80 last week ???

Hey there JoaoCJ, personally I would recommend trying to keep the H1 on both sites, I would imagine it would be better for mobile users and the mobile indexation of the site to have it.

If you are worried it is too big I adapt the H1 css to make it not as big or prominent to ensure it fits the look and feel you want for mobile users.

I wouldn't say that they have created two pages, it is just that because you have two versions of the domain and not set a preferred version that you are getting it indexing twice. .HTaccess changes are under the hood of the website and could have simply been an oversight.

OK, so in this instance the only issue you have is that you need to choose your preferred start point - www or non www.

I would add a bit of code to your htaccess file to point to your preferred choice. I personally prefer a www. domain. Something like the below would work.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

As your site is already indexed I would also for the time being and as more of a safety measure add canonicals to the pages that point to the www. version of your site.

Also if you have  a Google Search Console account, you can select your prefered domain prefix in there. this will again help with your indexation.

Hopefully I have covered most things.

Cheers

Tim

Looking into the source code this is the only mention - in some schema code. They have used the attorney schema and this is the itemprop description. I assume this is what is being pulled.

itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Attorney">
-------- removed --------

St. Louis Personal Injury Lawyer

Hope this helps!

Cheers

Tim

First off, I would imagine you need your wordpress installation to be inside a /blog/ directory on your server, unless you can do some fancy redirect.

Secondly, in order to change the URL structure from post id / post name. You can do this in your wordpress settings.

Go to -> Settings -> Permalinks.

You will need to select a custom structure, something like
/%postname%/

or if you wish to keep hold of the ID 
/%postname%-%post_id%/

Then save your settings.

Hopefully that does the trick.

Cheers

Tim

Hey there ArisGrast,

Personally, I would probably canonicalise the category pages to the original base category to reduce the risk of duplicate content. But that is just me.

I would also suggest setting up your website in Google's Search Console. Once in here you can then set the crawl rate and other crawl elements such as URL Parameters.

First if not already done - add your website. Once your site is verified - either by a meta tag, google tag manager or maybe a hosted file, you can then edit what happens.

On the side menu of the profile in question select -> Crawl -> URL Parameters

Once in this section you can add the variables you do not want indexing.

While in here I would also suggest submitting an XML Sitemap and checking a few other things. If you also have Google Analytics set up you can link your profiles together for added benefits.

Hope this is off use and answers some parts of your question.

Hi Rik,

As per Tymens response and the excellent post from Dr Pete. I would also suggest re-crawling your site in Google's search console, this may help to get your new content indexed that little bit quicker.

Cheers

Tim

Try this for a complete site wide redirect to HTTPS://

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

I have also updated all my exiting 301 redirect to point to the new location. All older pages should be caught under this rule.

Also remember to update your Search Console profiles, sitemap, robots etc

I would also update all internal links to point to https:// rather than relying purely on the redirect.

I suppose it all depends on who set up the account in the first place, if they did all the ground work and set up the campaigns, and ad groups then they probably don't have to let you see it. I would rather have my account set up in house initially then grant access to third parties who then get tagged as an editor etc, that way you remain as the account holder.

I do not think it unreasonable that you have asked for evidence of what they are bidding on, negatived keywords, search terms, ad trials, optimisation etc. It is all basic data that can be shared. Like Egol said, look into your contract and see what they should be divulging via their reports etc.

Finally....
Are they proving their worth? If not consider outsourcing to someone/ some agency that can or is willing to share, build a relationship and improve.

Hmmmm, Google will likely deem your widget as an advertising tool and in their world this is potentially deemed negative, as such you have to make the call, do you want to stay on Google side and follow what they say or continue and then fall foul to some kind of penalty.

I personally would add rel="nofollow" to be on the safe side. Hopefully this won't dramatically affect your rankings.

Could you potentially trial the nofollow on a segment of the plugins to see how it impacts your rankings. Scary I know, but possibly the only way you can see how it could affect you.

This response from John Doherty might help you out... https://moz.com/community/q/correct-hreflang-canonical-implementation-for-multilingual-site

One other thing of note was your bing webmaster tools configuration looked broken.

name="msvalidate.01" content="???MI386_BING_ID???"/>

Like Donna, I too cannot find any mention of Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager on your website. because of this you will not be getting any data from a visitor perspective to your pages being shown in your reports.

I like Seo RoundTable from Barry Schwartz and also some of  those already list above especially for up to the minute search engine changes and trials that have been seen.

As per Egol's comment - I too have probably learnt more about SEO technique and current topics from the Moz Q&A than anywhere else. To the point where I am now vastly more confident in my knowledge of the area and can now try and help others.

It almost seems like they have paid a link farm to place your links anywhere with the aim of getting as many as they can, to make it look like they have done lots of work.

If all the links are like these, I would potentially look to reach out to these sites and request the links be taken down before they cause your link profile any harm. I would also check each link for relevancy to your site.

I would concentrate on letting your content earn links, create content that your user base wants to share with their friends, colleagues and businesses. This way you will generate a more natural and hopefully relevant series of links that get placed with more relevant content on other sites.

Like Chris has alluded to, they are very different tools, Hubspot from what I know and have played with is a CRM solution aimed more at the sales cycle and used to help you develop a single customer view and enable automated interactions, yes it include some metrics but mostly sales related from what I've seen.

Moz on the other hand Is more for your SEO development and provides metrics on how your site performs and develops.

if funds allow, I would also look to have both tools as part of my armoury... Hubspot for the wider marketing automations, journeys and sales and Moz for your sites development to help support your CRM marketing.

Unfortunately, this does sometimes happen when Google tries to establish what it feels is the best and more relevant description of the page thus overriding your meta description.. You may find it pulls from your opening paragraph or elsewhere.

I would suggest looking to st re-indexing your changes - maybe resubmit your site via webmastertools (Google Search Console) )for a recrawl.

Also and this may not be the case, but if you have a listinf on Yahoo or the OpenDirectory/DMoz, sometimes content can be pulled in from there to replace your descriptions.  Maybe look to add the following meta tag to remove this issue.

You are not the only one. I too have had the staff badge showing up for myself for a bit and also have seen the mixed rankings being displayed.

This is a strange one then.... very strange.

Just performed a site: search and like you said it is not showing up as indexed. There is normally something technical to explain an issue like this, but I cannot see anything after looking at your site robots and source code.

I think Krzysztof has nailed it.... think about the site you are commenting on for links. make sure it is relevant, high quality and moderated well.

If you are potentially touting your business I would also advise requesting the link is set to no-follow for safety and to ensure you do not get penalised for it.

I also think you should make sure the link is 100% useful to the users who will also see it.