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Hi Darko,
Sorry, my above comment was more a solution than an explanation.
Due to for Google and Moz the www and the non www are different websites, you might have different spam score results. The same applies for the http and the https versions of a website.
As Meghan sayd, depending on the inbound links each version of your website has, the spam score result might differ each other.
Therefore, the solution is to chose one version, only one and force to that option ie no matter how is written the chosen option will be displayed. Which one? the one that already has better inbound links. If more than one version of your website has already inbound links, a good option is to set a permanent redirect - 301 - from one to the other, so to carry the "link juice". Hope this clarifies a bit.

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I updated a few home pages and some landing pages, so far so good!

Although, I wish to know about other experiences, before continue updating. Thanks for your comments!

Hi,

Sorry, no good news. I checked from here (South America). It is not working for download. Although if you have an old installation, it is working smoothly. I think, due to the holiday, you will have to wait till tomorrow.

If you need to verify something urgently I can do it for you.   

Mª Verónica

Hi IcarusSEO,

As Alick has said, you do not need to write it into the meta description. Although, if you have a local business you might consider include it into your NAP (name, address, phone) if it is necesary as part of your business name.

On regard the meta descriptions, Google now allows up to 320 characteres, although best SEOs recommend about 290 characters. Therefore plenty of room for write compelling meta descriptions. Good luck.

Mª Verónica

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Hi Leana,

Sorry William, I think it truly matters, not to the point that you will be penalized, of course.
But:
UX is the uttermost goal for Google and the other search engines, specially nowadays. In that sense, visitors who have to read the same text twice, might no trust your brand for buying your products or simply very displeased would closed the window.

As days pass your bounce rate could rise. If so, the algorithms will decide to show other websites with similar content before yours, answering the same query, due to the bounce rate tells to the algorithms that you do not offer a good UX.

In sum, would the duplicated content serve the UX? Of course not. Therefore you might try other options like rewrite the introductory lines above.

On regard the duplicated content between the product pages and the brand category pages, it is the same as explained above. Although if there is no other way to improve those duplicated you have to use canonical tags pointing to the originals more valuable pages, ie the brand category pages. Good luck.

Mª Verónica

Hi Darko,

It is important that you chose only one option for your website. If the www and non www versions of your website are working at the same time, you will have duplicated content issues. Chose the version that you are using into the host provider options for show your website (the one that has good inbound links). Also for Google those are completely different websites:

How to do it?:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332964?

Where?
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

What properties?:
http://example.com/
https://example.com/
http://www.example.com/
https://www.example.com/

After all those were done:
Into this property only: https://www.example.com/ (Assuming that you prefer the https www version)
verify the robot texts
upload a sitemap
fetch as google

Good luck!

Mª Verónica

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Hi Charles,

I strongly recommend to follow Miriam Ellis' article. Written for SEO practitioners, she enlights the most common mistakes that prevent the success.

Also, I suggest to include your properties (all the variations of your domain) into the Google Search Console, if you did not do already.
Bullet points for local SEO business:

• NAP (name, address, phone) copy and paste for avoid mistakes.
• Google Search Console
• Google Analytics
• Google My Business
• Google Maps

Persistance is the key for SEO success, do not desmay. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

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Hi Tom,

Great question!
Maybe if you see the Hs as what they are. I mean, like newspapers titles (heads). The purpose of the Hs is to give a clear clue about the content that follows. If you set a head with no further content, it is not a good UX. Also the algorithms of the search engines might qualify the page as "thin content", which will not help for getting a good PA at all.

H1: Christmas 2017
Content: Santa is travelling all over the world...

H2: Santa visited Australia
Content: One of his first visits this year...

H3: Kids were atonished
Content: Santa brought amazing presents...

Good luck and Merry Christmas!

Mª Verónica

It seems it will take some time. Quote: "Disavow Files: Again, because Spam Score won't perfectly catch everything, you will likely need to do some additional work here (especially if the site you're working on has done some link buying on more generally trustworthy domains), but it can save you a heap of time evaluating and listing the worst and most obvious junk."

On regard your question, yes it is possible to improve the spam score, though it might take some time. Also, if you check and improve the other factors, the website might improve the spam score faster.

Mª Verónica

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Hi Saksham,

Moz considers 17 main factors for the spam score. Therefore it might take more efforts for down the spam score. Attached a link to the blog that explain each one in detail. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

✓Low MozTrust or MozRank Score
The site link profile is not trustworthy.

✓Large Site with Few Links
We found very few sites linking to this site, considering its size.

✓Site Link Diversity is Low
The diversity of link sources to this subdomain is low.

✓Ratio of Followed to Nofollowed Subdomains
The ratio of followed to nofollowed subdomains linking to this subdomain is outside the normal range of others in our index.

✓Ratio of Followed to Nofollowed Domains
The ratio of followed to nofollowed domains linking to this subdomain is outside the normal range of others in our index.

✓Small Proportion of Branded Links
Links to this subdomain have low amounts of branded anchor text.

✓Thin Content
A subset of pages within this subdomain have little content.

✓Site Mark-up is Abnormally Small
There's a high ratio of visible text compared to HTML, JavaScript, etc.

✓Large Number of External Links
A subset of pages within this subdomain has a large number of external links.

✓Low Number of Internal Links
Pages crawled on the subdomain have a small number of internal links.

✓Anchor Text Heavy Page
There's a high ratio of anchor text compared to content text.

✓External Links in Navigation
There's a large number of external links within sidebars and footers.

✓No Contact Info
None of the pages crawled contain an email address or links to a social profile.

✓Low Number of Pages Found
Crawl only gets a valid response to a small number of pages.

✓TLD Correlated with Spam Domains
This subdomain is on a top level domain (TLD) extension often found to be the source of spam links.

✓Domain Name Length
This domain name's character count is higher than average.

✓Domain Name Contains Numerals
Domain names including numbers are often found to be the source of spam links.

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Hi Vtmoz,

Google will not respond at all. I mean Google has no way to know that it was a mistake, unless many websites hosted by the same host provider had the same behaviour.

Said that, I assume that you fixed the issue and into the Google Search Console you checked the robot texts, updated the sitemap (s) and "fetched as Google" too. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Kamishah,

On regard your question, is domain redirection a good method for SEO?
No, it is not.

Said that, if the mistake was already done: you should study the DA and the spam score of the xyz site before thinking on setting a 301 domain redirect.

Considering that the xyz site has a low spam score and a good DA, at least equal to the solutionfall.com you might go ahead.

Perhaps you consider, from now on, to get true organic backlinks by having unique high quality content instead of "comment backlink". Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Nickington,

Good question!

The FAQs are for better UX.
Also, thinking on mobile UX it is great to have a list and quickly find out the option that I really need.
Browseo's amazing tool might help you to kow out what are the signasl that the algorithms can read about a page of your website.

Said that, I think that your FAQs page is doing great.
Although you might consider to check the Moz SEO Guide on regard the Meta Keywords. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

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Hi Paul,

If I understood correctly, we are talking about two different websites, not a website with subdomains.
Hreflang can be used for other languages and countries although not for masking 100% duplicated content as I stated above.

site A: https://www.fortresssecuritystore.com

site B: https://www.fortresssecuritystore.co.uk

The recommendations that Google gives are for the purpose of having the pages crawled and indexed not for having success with 100% duplicate content which do not serve a good UX, therefore gain a high bounce rate, then the overall SEO fall down.

Mª Verónica

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Hi Jim,

Forgot to mention the bad news on regard a migration to https, due to Google considers the https a new website, it will crawl all as "a new website".
That is great at first, though any failure from old times will appear with "red flags" because the 2017 algorithms will work. I mean broken links, 404s and so, that you didn´t know those were there, will be shown up.

That is why it is highly advisable to perform an SEO audit and fix up all, before the migration.
Although, in many years of SEO practice, only one client came before the migration.

Hope you recover your website's great DA soon

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Hi CommercePundit,

Sadly, there is not "a non painful way to say it".
You cannot gain business from Adwords and Organic SEO marketing having 100% duplicated content.

The options; canonical and hreflang would not work in this case.

The only option is language "localization", mean rewrite the whole content by a local writer.

Canonical can be used for up to 10% not for the whole 100%. Hreflang can be used for other languages and countries although not for masking 100% duplicated content.

Sorry to tell the bad news. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Roger,

Assuming that link goes to a page in your website that shows your services and/or portfolio, it is perfect! Another option if it goes to the "about us" page...

Said that, you should have the permission of the owner.

Secondly, if it is a new domain, ie DA 1 and PA 1 you might consider a nofollow link. But, it is a guessing, I mean if in a matter of months that client climbs the sky in terms of DA and PA, you will not be happy by having that nofollow link.

On regard the foot links, I understand that is a rule mostly for websites having an structure of affiliates. In your case, it is part of your ecosystem, meaning almost all do the same in the industry of Website Developers Companies. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Note: I had to edit, due to I misunderstood the question - thanks to Paul I got it.

Hi Jim,

Did you upload a "disavow all" file?
No
Great

Did you add the new property - https - to the Google Search Console?
how to add https to Google Search Console? Should we do it or not?

Yes you ought to!
You have to add all versions of the website (if you did not add the http versions in the past to Google Search Console, formerly known as Google Webmasters).

Where?:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

How to do it?:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332964?

What properties?:
http://infohub.com/
https:/infohub.com/
http://www.infohub.com/
https://www.infohub.com/

After all those were done:
Into this property only: https://www.infohub.com/
veryfy the robot texts
upload a site map
fetch as google
You will see data starts to be shown and index within a few days.

Did you inadverted deleted the Google Analytics code?
Don't think so. We still see site traffic stats in our GA account. That means the GA code is in place, right?
Yes.

Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Ajaz,

Sorry, all the time I was assuming that you set your Google+ profile as public.

If it is public, it will be indexed by Google. In that case, if you have content that answers a query done in the search box, your Google+ might appear in the organic search results. If you have a local business, open to the public, you might appear with your Google My Business' page too. As well as a page of your website that might be answering the query.

Basically three options for answer a query and be in the organic results simultaneously, into one page of organic results.

Therefore not limited to only one: if Google My Business and Google+ are coherents with your website's NAP and content.

Attached image shows a triple pack.

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Hi Kingalan,

This tutorial might help you.
It worked smoothly for me. Hope it works for you too. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Ps: In case you are using the Yoast plugin, there is an option into the set up for display or not the dates.

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