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Agreed with what Gaston explained and would also add that you should check all elements on your website when it comes to what GSC is reporting. For example, it could be that you have an image ranking for that keyword in position 15 on the Image SERPs and a page from your website is actually ranking on position 50.

The weighting of internal links is vastly inferior to the weighting of external links. I guess if you had no (or very few) external links hitting your site, the internal links might skew Google's view a little. But if some of your pages had even a few robust links coming from off-site (which are perceived as less biased links) then the internal linking wouldn't create any drastic movements. Footer links are often largely discounted, anyway - as they are not prominent and web-users don't often use them

My initial thought is Google does see your website as authoritative, which is why you are ranking for some of the "secondary keywords", but you are getting outranked on the "top keywords" due to the competition being more optimized. I would look into the links that the outranking competitor websites/articles have that you do not to see if you can duplicate any, and then revisit your page's on-site SEO. So In addition to the link profiles, check the higher ranking competitors pages total content length, H2s, H1, Meta Title and different types of content (videos, images, embeds, etc) to see if this gives any clues to why Google is ranking them higher for your top keywords.

I'd at least give it a try and see what happens, if it turns out that your hypothesis is wrong you can always un-disavow the links. When you upload a txt file to the disavow tool, it counts that as your total disavow efforts (so if you just upload a txt file containing these links you have spotted, you may lose previous disavow work). Be sure to download your existing disavow file so you can add to it, instead of just uploading the links you have found A side-effect of this though, is that later you could upload your disavow again excluding those links and un-disavow them. Before you do anything, you'd want to evaluate the technical features of those links. If they are all no-followed, they won't count towards Google's rankings anyway, so no action would be required (on your part) Usually speaking, I would suggest making your homepage more link-worthy so that it gains more backlinks over time. Since this case is so extreme, you might actually want to consider disavow (or getting those links no-followed). Followed site-wide links can negatively affect rankings, under certain circumstances

As stated by Google, subdomains can be considered as part of your site, so the redirects can negatively harm your site and raise red flags although not as much as directories/posts. As the redirects are done on subdomains, then you should check with your domain provider or hosting provider in order to disable the use of subdomains and revert the issue. Daniel Rika - Dalerio Consulting https://dalerioconsulting.com/ info@dalerioconsulting.com

If I'm understanding your question right, there are various sub-pages on the directory, and you want to redirect the directory and not the sub-pages. In that case, the only damage to SEO would be the ranking given from the directory page, so you would have one less internal link. It will be the same as redirecting any page/post that links back to the sub-pages, so in most cases, it won't be noticeable unless the directory page itself that links to the sub-pages is highly ranked. Daniel Rika - Dalerio Consulting https://dalerioconsulting.com/ info@dalerioconsulting.com

Hi, Thanks a TON for all the analysis and insights. Just mind blowing info. Unfortunately we switched to different versions of the site and the recent one will be stable for years and further changes will be handled very carefully without complete transformation. Our open source crm  page dropped from April this year; but the link from capterra was removed in 2018 only. They removed our product from the list and they no more link directly to the websites (you can see the page now). Not sure why we lost traffic for this page all of a sudden even though there is no much ranking difference for main keywords of high search volume. We are going to investigate this and bring back the page to the normal traffic. Yes, we are trying to rank for "crm" as primary keyword. Do you think that we are not doing well for "crm" as we dropped for "open source crm" page? Thanks

If they contain anchor text or are obviously trying to game the system by boosting rankings you definitely want to remove them, but you need to have a good eye for these things. just because spam score is high doesn't always mean its spammy. look into why moz thinks its spammy. Give it the smell and look test. if it looks fishy, then its fishy. If you only have your citation listed with a www link you don't have much to worry about.

Google "recognises" the original source & will rank it higher, this has been the case for some time

It's commonly thought that successive links from the same domain, yield less and less benefit each time (eventually diminishing). A few links from one domain isn't too bad, but once you get to tens or hundreds - the spend may eclipse the benefit which each successive link brings

In my opinion - no, as Ifa as I understand Gooogle doesn't look too favourably at the, maybe it assumes that a page with no links from inside its own website has little or no importance.

A page which sends another URL PageRank does lose some of its own PageRank in the process. If you have 8 pages under a homepage and they all recieve PageRank, and then you add more pages which are also linked to from the HomePage, then all of the URLs will get a relatively equal amount (but since more URLs are being linked to, each linked page gains slightly less PageRank than before!) If you don't want those pages to rank on Google or be passed PageRank (they are purely landing pages for referral or ad traffic) then you can orphan them if you want. Shouldn't be a huge deal and would keep things isolated. Those new pages, once orphaned - won't rank very well though (on Google's normal, organic results)

I would do a little trouble shooting to see what some causes are. Check Dev Tools on Google Chrome to ensure you don't have "Disable cache" checked. Check your Robots.txt file to ensure that you aren't blocking Google (look for something like "user-agent: googlebot Disallow Look at Search Console for manual actions.  Go to "Security & Manual Actions" > Manual actions Let us know what you find and we can go from there.

Google's John Mueller has stated that exit intent pop-ups do not attract a Google penalty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=746&v=gS4_JH-QqSg "What we’re looking for is really interstitials that show up on the interaction between the search click and going through the page and seeing the content. So that’s kind of the place we’re looking for those interstitials. What you do afterwards like if someone clicks on stuff within your website or closes the tab or something like that then that’s kind of between you and the user." Google won't be monitoring the user's full behaviour on your site beyond the initial bounce/non-bounce (at least as far as the search arm is considered, Analytics is, of course, different!), e.g. they won't see that x happened that caused (or appeared to cause) the user to leave.

Hey friend, I'm from NUSRAT BLOG ACADEMY a blog learning site want to suggest to post different sites to post your articles with the same link or author name. Because It will help you to get a unique backlink. on the other hand same link and post on in a site, google find less value. Thanks a lot. Md Alauddin Administrator and Author, Nusrat Blog Academy

Hi, What happens when using HTTP? Are you able to share the .htaccess code? The same .htaccess setup should work for for both protocols, but with .htaccess the devil can be in the details sometimes. A good tool for testing it is here: https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/ Do other redirects from HTTP to HTTPS work ok? I'm wondering whether your Apache setup perhaps has a different virtual host setup for HTTP and thus a different .htaccess file. Best, Tom

Few warnings to start with: 1. Automated translation is a horrible user experience. I highly recommend you wait on translation until you are in a financial place to get human translators. 2. Geo-targeting country=language is a false association. For languages like English, Spanish, French, and Portugese, there are multiple countries that use that language as their primary language. I recommend using HREFLANG markup to tell search engines that there are different language versions of your content. That is all that is necessary here. https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag

Hi there, Are you using the popular WPML plugin by any chance? If so, I wouldn't overthink it too much; the necessary hreflang implementation will be automatically added to each variation of the page providing you "link them together". If you are a smallish operation and don't have a staging side to play around with, then you can prep all of these posts ahead of time and simply save them as drafts My only recommendation would be to make sure nothing is published prematurely; it's better to wait and translate rather than adding placeholder /lanuage/ versions with little or zero content. I'd also look to set up different language version folders within Google Search Console to ensure everything is indexed properly, geotargetting is enabled and that your foreign language ones ARE receiving traffic and clicks from Google. Here's some further reading: Google Search Console setup for href lang - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en Official WPML guide with good visuals - https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/ Moz Href lang/international guide - https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag Good luck with the implementation, if you've made it this far with WordPress you should definitely be able to make the plugin work

I was wondering about site/ brand-names added to the title by google to, than I realized that Google is only doing this brandname at the end (and truncated titles to display the brandname completely) for searches that are also including the site or brand name. The same search without the site/brand name shows the usual title tag. Maybe you should check that.

Is code on .htaccess works? It should be on top because that file is executed from top to bottom. And if some rule must be executed then execution flow can stop so next rows can't be executed.