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Hi there, The less 301's from external sources the better. The situation with 301's is like this: Page A links to page B but page B is redirected to page C (your page). If you reduce the second step (page B), you won't be losing as much link juice and you will make it easier for crawler as well. Reach out to the webmasters of websites which you have the back links from (pages A) try to convince them to link directly to the page C instead of page B. Hope it helps. If you have any other questions, let me know. Cheers, Martin

Hi Martin, There is no such issues like cache or crawler access. Don't even think keyword cannibalization. Might be internal linking which I'm not sure about finding the exact mistake and working on linking pages.

Hi Vtmoz - You've received some great responses to your question. Did one or more of them help answer your question? If so, please mark them as a "Good Response." If your question is still unanswered, please provide us with an update so we can help. Thanks! Christy

Hey there, there's nothing wrong with having more sitemaps than one. In some cases it's even better because it's easier for Google to crawl them. You can divide the sitemaps by categories, months, types of content etc. However, as mentioned in the following thread, HTML sitemaps are supposed to help primarily people in navigating in the website, whereas XML sitemaps serves for helping the crawler. Therefore, I'd give priority to the XML sitemap in this case. For more information, read this thread: https://moz.com/community/q/sitemaps-html-and-or-xml Cheers, Martin

The Moz Q&A right above yours titled "Wrong Title Tag" expressed the same concern, since yours had been consistently the same until recently, it makes me think that this is maybe something Google is manually or algorithmically updating recently.

To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what your question is. The subdomain will still be under your domain. It will be the same website but a part of it will be on a different server. The traffic will count for the domain. Even if Google would see this subdomain as a different site (which I don't will be) you still don't have what to worry about because you would have used 301 redirects and all the links will point to the new subdomain. So all you really have to do is change all the links that you can (which lead to the login page) and then do a 301 redirect from the old one to the new one. This is safe in terms of SEO and you don't have to worry about losing your position in the SERPs. Hope this helps!

I generally agree with George and Nicholas. I also think that the strength of your site vs the strength of the competition is important - along with the difficulty of the keywords. If you are going after long tail keywords against weaker competition, then six shorter content pages targeting six different keywords would be best.  However, if the competition is strong and the keywords difficult then one big kickass page will have the best chance. Finally, presenting one comprehensive article with all of your text and photos on one page is better for link-earning than breaking it up into six short pages. This is a complex question asked simply.  We could also consider the ad impression opportunity of getting the visitor to click through six pages.

Hi, Our login page is for users, nit employees. Most of the people browsing from our website will browse through login page. So I'm afraid what signals we are sending to Google by noindex or nofollow such important page. Again, I don't think login page has been making on results just because it's highly browsed.

If there is something involved with link reclamation, then this is a very involved potential issue. Meaning, I am not sure someone can figure this out on a forum. If you need help, I recommend contacting Alan Bleiweiss, he is an awesome forensic SEO. http://alanbleiweiss.com/ I will leave you with one recommendation. Don't look so much to your competitors as to what is best for your market. I recommend doing your own audience research. While your major competitors might be the same in the US and India, the relevance and needs of your audience are different. This comes out subtly in many instances of SERPs as the results are a blend of over 200 factors and those factors are different in each country version of Google. They do their own testing based on that market not the world wide market. Stick to your site and what might be causing the ranking changes on a per page/per topic basis in each country. Separate them and work at this problem from a technical and user perspective.

Hi There Doing a little research, I understand s.w.org is for emojis. This can be disabled if you don't want to use emjois: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-dns-prefetch-of-sworg/ It seems like the Google Fonts one is nothing to worry about: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/dns-prefetch-fonts-googleapis-com/

Yes, that's exactly what I'm referring to here. Rather than having Page A > Page B > Page C, you should break those out into 2 different ones: Page A > Page C, and Page B > Page C.

Hi, Chances are, a brand video won't do anything for your SEO as such, but it could help with brand visibility and explaining more about what you do. It is highly unlikely that in adding this, you will entice any new visitors, but if it does help explain a service or product, then it can help with those already on the page. Don't have it auto start though and be careful that however you embed it so it doesn't slow the page loading down. -Andy

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When creating landing pages it's good practice to keep the end in mind. I love the idea of the content hub, which allows you to map out your content and keywords you're going to be targeting. This approach will allow you to rank for various long-tail keyword terms, all-the-time focusing on your main (broader) keyword(s). Next, work on gathering backlinks to your pages. I know it can be time-consuming and draining, but earning backlinks is what will really help your domain to rank better. For reference, I grabbed that content hub infographic from: https://moz.com/blog/how-to-rank Best of Luck!

Hi, I think I have already answered your query in old thread. I'm saying again you don't need to maintain suffix as you mentioned in your query. https://moz.com/community/q/does-google-ignores-page-title-suffix Thanks

Hi Dana, We didn't change the domain name. Same domain name for last 10 years. Recently we migrated to same CMS (Wordpress to wordpress). Just redesigned the website and launched back

I'm not sure how many redirects you're doing, but generally, they're not a problem if you're trying to redirect broken pages to new ones so that users get a better experience. A few things to bear in mind though which can cause problems: Avoid multiple redirect "hops" e.g. going from page A to page B to page C. Wherever you can, write the redirects so that they go directly to the new page which is the final destination for the user. Keep the redirects "one to one" - basically avoid redirecting lots and lots of pages to a single destination if you can. Redirect to the most relevant page that you can in terms of the topic of the pages e.g. redirect a page about blue widgets to a blue widgets page, not a red widgets page - if that's possible. Do a crawl of the redirects using a tool such as Screaming Frog in list mode to check them all and make sure you turn on "follow redirects" and check the "redirect chains" report it provides. I hope that helps!

This depends as some forums have all of their outbound links set to "nofollow", which mean they pass little to no SEO value. Quite a few are "dofollow" which means relevant forum participation that leads to a backlink to your website will help in terms of SEO value. Forum participation in general is a good practice if you can find quality forums for your industry and niche, I would just not overdue it with pointing links back to your site, unless it is 100% relevant and beneficial to the forum. For example if there is a discussion that is going on about a topic you happened to write a blog post on last year, you can reference the blog post and provide a link back to it in a comment in most cases. Be sure to read the guidelines for each and every forum you want to participate in, as they can sometimes have strict rules, also a good practice is to do 10 or some comments w/o links before trying to provide any kind of backlink to your website.

So, we all "nofollow" most of the external links or all external links to hold back the page rank. Nofollowing links does not mean you retain link juice or page rank. That page rank gets dropped rather than being transferred to another location. Is it all same about external links and nofollow now? I don't understand your question but if you mean should all external links be nofollow, the answer is no. As Google has suggested, you should still tag trustworthy destination links with the follow attribute.