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Best I could find was-
Unlike disallowed pages, noindexed pages don’t end up in the index and therefore won’t show in search results. Combine both in robots.txt to optimise your crawl efficiency: the noindex will stop the page showing in search results, and the disallow will stop it being crawled
From-https://www.deepcrawl.com/blog/best-practice/robots-txt-noindex-the-best-kept-secret-in-seo/
I am the same way. If you try to place a link in a comment I will delete it in almost every circumstance.
I have had fluctuations like this in the past. Have you seen a drop in organic traffic? Have you looked at your latest links in the Google Search Console to see if there is anything spammy?
I can't tell you which one to focus on, but I would say be careful about spam score. I have a link from a site that has a high spam score, but I know the site is legit. They do several hundred million dollars per year and have been around decades, but for whatever reason Moz thinks they are spam.
I would render the content on the original page if possible. Google can't rank what it can't see.
The best way to crawl a site is Screaming Frog. That should give you the information you are looking for.
It might work, but eventually Google will catch on. If the site gets penalized for it, trying to get the ranking back up is a pain.
1. I do not have experience with a Hubspot blog, but I don't think a subdomain will hurt your efforts. I have always read that the best way to do it is in a subdirectory, but the difference between that and a subdomain isn't that big. You can setup a Wordpress blog pretty easy.
2. Google does know how to associate a redirect's link juice and domain authority to the page it redirects to. Gary Illyes said- all redirects pass PageRank now https://www.seroundtable.com/google-redirects-not-seo-22777.html
I have previously switched sites to https but this one is behaving a little different. On September 19th I switched to https. I did 301 redirects at the .htaccess, added it to search console, and since we are using Magento I changed the base url.
In the past when I have done this the http site index just gradually drops while the https site gradually rises. In early October the http site started to slightly drop but since 10/23 there have been no changes. For the https site it started to increase up until 10/23 then stayed flat.
Why have they stayed stuck like that for a month?
This page is showing up as a 404 in Google Search console- https://www.wolfautomation.com/blog/autonics/ It shows it has been linked from these pages-
I never created this page, I don't want this page but it keeps showing up. The problem is the link isn't found on those pages anywhere so I can't delete it. What am I missing? How can I get rid of it?
I have a Magento website. I am going to add a Wordpress blog under /blog. If I setup each with its own webmaster tools to submit a sitemap does it hurt anything?
Which I am ok with, but why am I getting duplicate content?
I figured out what to do. The ID Path can not be the same as the request path. So if anyone else runs into this that is how I fixed it.
It has been used correctly. The site is a Magento site and they have it built in. There are a lot of filters for products so it uses rel=canonical to tell Google which to index.
So I made a mistake it isn't the robots.txt that is the issue. I am getting hit with a ton of duplicate content penalties so I figured that was it. The problem is that I have pages with rel=canonical tags that it is ignoring. Does Roger not read those?
It is crawling the entire site, and there is stuff we do not want it to. Please advise.
I need to do about 6000 redirects for a Magento site. The pages no longer exist. I have tried the URL rewrite module but it isn't working for me and I don't want to do 6000 redirects in the htaccess files. Any suggestions?
I couldn't recreate that what size did you get it down to?
I am getting the error in search console, I can't find any problems in any of my tests either.