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Why not:

www.website.com/news/news-and advice-story-1 (with internal linking to relevant product page)
www.website.com/news/news-and advice-story-2 (with internal linking to relevant product page)

Or is there a need to have product-category in the path for some reason?
Can a product be in more than one category? How are you handling that?

Thanks for passing it along. Less concerned about the credits than I am the extra time it currently takes, which actually just has me using a competing tool more often. I'd love to be able to drop the other tool though, since it's just another expense.

Is there a way to view "all countries" in Keyword Explorer? I like being able to segment by country, when I need to, but I don't like having to pull multiple reports to get a combined view. It's more work and it eats up the number of queries I'm allowed to make per month.

As soon as the quality of your page is worth sharing, start reaching out to try and build links. You can of course continue to make iterative improvements to the page after you've started link building, especially if you're not seeing any movement in where your page is ranking. Keep in mind it can take some time for your page to settle where Google thinks it belongs.

Hi Armands,

Moz updates their index about once a month. Next update in June 21st.

Also, while the Moz index is rather large it's not all encompassing, which means there are backlinks that it just won't find.

Here's some more information that you might find helpful:

http://moz.com/community/q/open-site-explorer-not-detecting-linking-domain-on-my-site

It really depends on the website, the content, and the types of ads.

Most large content sites I've worked with we're in the range of $0.10 to $0.25 cpm in AdSense.

Some issues you might want to look into:

Not mobile friendly.

Not secure (https).

When I view page source, I'm not seeing any of the copy that I see when the page loads. Is Google seeing this? Have you tried fetching and rendering the page using Google Search Console?

URL Profiler might be worth checking out:

http://urlprofiler.com/

It does require that you use a proxy, since Google does not like you scraping their search results.

I'm aware of the fact Google will get to them sooner or later.

The recommendation from Gary Illyes (from Google), as mentioned in this post, was the reason for my asking the question. Not trying to outsmart Google, just trying to work within their guidelines in the most efficient way possible.

Thanks, Mike.

What are your thoughts on creating a page with links to all of the pages we've Noindexed, doing a Fetch As and submitting that URL and its linked pages? Do you think Google would dislike that?

There are too many pages to do that (unless we created a page with links to all of the Noindexed pages, then asked Google to crawl that and all linked pages, though that seems like it might be a bad approach). It's an ecommerce website and we Noindexed nearly 4,000 pages that had thin or duplicate content (manufacturer descriptions, no description on brand page, etc) and had no organic traffic in the past 90 days.

This site was hit by Panda in September 2014 and isn't ranking for things it should be – pages with better backlink profiles, higher DA/PA, better content, etc. than our competitors. Our thought is we're not ranking because of a penalty against thin/duplicate content. So we decided to Noindex these pages, improve the content on products that are selling and getting traffic, then work on improving pages that we've Noindex before switching them back to Index.

Basically following recommendations from this article: https://moz.com/blog/pruning-your-ecommerce-site

Thanks for your response!

I did some more digging. This seems to contradict your suggestion:

https://twitter.com/methode/status/653980524264878080

If the goal is to have these pages removed from the index, and having them in the sitemap means they'll be picked up sooner by Google's crawler, then it seems to make sense that they should be included until they're removed from the index.

Am I misinterpreting this?

We just added tags to our pages with thin content.

Should we include or exclude those urls from our sitemap.xml file? I've read conflicting recommendations.

Hi Dmytro,

That's precisely my concern. I got in touch with the owner of the website linking to us and asked him to nofollow our link. I'll monitor and see if there are any noticeable changes.

Cheers
J

Thanks for the input, Eric.

We already have some editorial followed links from this domain, outside of the sidebar, so if we discontinued the sponsored links we'd still have some backlinks from their website. Their DA is 45 and ours is 41. We're only getting about 1% of our traffic and 0.25% of our sales from the sponsored link, low enough that I would be OK with killing if it's hurting us at all.

With the links being followed and so many, do you think it's hurting us?

I was looking at 'Links to your site' in Google Search Console and noticed our website has around 60 thousand followed links to 8 pages from a single domain. This is happening because we run an ad on the referring domain (a blog) and the ad is in the sidebar along with other ecommerce stores in the same niche. As a result, our ad, and most of our competitor's ads, have links showing up across this blog's entire site.

Are this many links, and the type of links, a problem for SEO?

I'm wondering if it would be wise to discontinue this advertising. While we get a very modest amount of traffic as a result of the ad, it doesn't convert very well, and I'm wondering if there might be any SEO benefit to not having all of these inbound links from a single domain coming in.

Thanks!

J