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Hello, here is a good list -> https://www.similartech.com/categories/heatmaps-and-session-recording. I personally use Mouseflow and find it very useful. Let me know if you find a tool that you like more.

It depends on what you want to rank for. If it is English searches, use that language. If you want to rank for Hindi, use that version. As a rule of thumb, try to do what benefits your end users since this will eventually pay off in search engines. How do your users search for those pages or product? Use those keywords (after a keyword research process, of course). This will also be an advantage from a user experience point of view. Good luck!

Hello Thomas,

I did not code ASP.NET, but from my understanding, a 301 redirect does not need to be connected to the language you write code in. You could perform a 301 redirect from your web server for example (in Apache you could use the htaccess file).

Anyways, I think you should redirect from your asp.net file to php and everything will work ok. You can check the link below for some code examples I have found searching on Google.

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

http://www.beyondink.com/howtos/301-redirect.php

Hopefully this helps!

Cristian

I agree with Thomas. But if you are already using an image you can integrate it with an H1 tag and an "alt" markup. Something like

. Google will consider the alt title. Hope this helps!

I will be very honest with you. This question is too wide to be answered. More importantly, you need to create personalized strategies for you and/or your clients. Not every project will follow an exact blueprint. Of course there are general aspects you need to consider and the Moz blog and other very good sources are to be read, but do not make the mistake to think that all your clients businesses are the same. This is my advice and I wish you all the best.

With a very high probability, the website was developed in some JavaScript platform such as Angular JS. This is exactly what you would get as a result since the content is shown after the initial loading. Let me know if you have further questions.

Hello,

since most of the hosting providers use CPanel, I will just point you to a tutorial on redirects on CPanel.

http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/ReDirects

So what you would do is redirect your domain.us to domain.com.us following the steps provided in the above link. That's it! Since you are trying to shift your entire domain, make sure you will be adding a 301 (permanent) redirect.

Cristian

I guess you could probably do this by checking the https rule at last. So if it is old.php, the first thing you do is redirect to the new.php but already on the https. So all your static redirects will automatically go to https with one redirect while the other will always reach the last rule and go to the secure versions. Let me know if this helps.

Hello,

first of all, I am no expert here, I am just answering what I would do.

I would post on the company G+ page and then ask the authors to share the post from the company G+ profile. From my perspective, this would (or should) bring more authority to your webpage.

Related to the G+ Local page, I would not post the articles there. I am just thinking about the purpose of a Local page right now. I don't see why someone would like to see articles when they are trying to find a local business. It just does not match the purpose I guess.

Again, this is what seems right in my opinion and this is what I would do.

Cristian

Hi Renia! I am here just to confirm what David said Good luck!

Hello Susan. I think that from Google's point of view, having the same URL on a different domain does not matter that much. What is a bigger problem is duplicate content. If you really want to launch two separate ecommerce websites with the same products, I think this is the issue you have to think about since you will have the same information for your products. Find more information here: https://mza.bundledseo.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content. However, why do you want two different ecommerce websites? Is there a business reason for this?

Hello Thomas,

sorry for my late answer.

As Alan was saying, the web server intercepts a request before it serves a page. If it finds a rule that redirects that request, there is no need for the files to exist. So you would manage the rules for the request that you want to redirect on the same server where the old domain is located. If you are redirecting to the same domain, then yes, this means the rule will be on the same server that manages that domain. When somebody looks for your page, then the DNS would point to your server's IP. After that, the request is sent to that IP and the web server will try to serve whatever is needed for that request. But if you successfully add a rule for that specific request (let's say "www.mydomain.com/page1") to be sent to another URL (let's say "www.mydomain.com/newpage"), then the server will redirect that request.

Well, I would make the company page be the rel=publisher and the author page to be rel=author and would share in the way that I proposed. In this way, everyone gets some authorship I think.

Does anyone else have some insight on this?

Hello Michael,

what you are asking for is a difficult SEO audit comparing your old webpage with the new one. I will try to help out with some questions/advice, but it might be a little to late/expensive to conduct this audit if you didn't monitor the old version of the page.

1. I understand that Search Console or Moz were not used. Did you use any keyword tracking software to monitor your positions? Do you know what specific keywords you were ranking for? Do you know what specific keywords you are not ranking for anymore?

2. Did you conduct a keyword research process in which you identified the size of your market and on the basis of which you restructured your metadata on the new website? From what I see you changes the titles and descriptions and so on. Were the changes made because some data you gathered or just because you wanted to change them?

3. As you said, redirects are very important on deploying a new website. Did you have a list with all previous links (internal and external) and 301 them?

4. Loading time is also very important. Make sure you optimize your website for speed. Use Google Page Speed and you should be fine. Did you also change servers or the server location while deploying the new website?

I could write many other points. The idea is that your questions requires a lot of work to be answered. If you have more focused questions, I would be happy to help you out. However, I think you have a lot of work to do and I am not sure that analyzing through archive.org is your best solution. I would conduct a keyword research process and after that I would focus on all on-page relevant aspects of your website. After that, I would focus on the external ones (authority, links and other).

Regards, Cristian

Hi Jenna,

in terms of organic search, you should probably explain to them your current positions for all the tracked keywords and your long-term strategy for gaining advantage. From my experience, clients will never stop searching for what they want and I would argue that this is not a bad thing. However, you need to make them understand that you are in control of what you do and the timeframe in which you expect to have better results.

In terms of paid advertising, you can just give the official tools to check what they want. For example, for AdWords you can point them to https://support.google.com/adwords/troubleshooter/1711301?hl=en. They already trust Google's brand so they will accept their response much faster.

Best of luck!

Matt Cutts explains what it means if your site has a manual action labeled as "Unnatural links to your site—impacts links" and what you can do to fix it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y74Op_k6UY

The difference is that "Unnatural links to your site" is related to your entire site, whereas the message you received is only related to a part of the site.

Cristian

I agree with Erwan. There is of course another option which I think would get you the most results and that would be combining the brand with your keywords. I don't know if that is a possibility, but you could try to figure something out. If the company is focused on makeup let's say, then what if the brand was called "themakeupcompany", "perfect makeup".. you get the idea. Again, I do not know about your possibilities and my examples were written in about 2 seconds so I don't expect them to work, I just used them to make my point.

Hello. If one of the page is not redirected (301), then you either need to ensure the redirection or, if you really need both links, you should use rel=canonical on one of them. If you do not do this, Google will consider the pages as duplicate content. However, do you have two different pages/posts in the WordPress backend for the same link? If so, you should delete the one you don't want. Let me know if that helps.

Well, it can crawl anything found on a web page. If you are referring to a page whose links are dynamically generated in the sense that you build them before serving the page (php for example), then yes. If Google bot reaches that page in any way (it is not blocked etc) then your links will be crawled as well.

Yes. I usually go for having everything under control. Moreover, implementing schema.org is really not a hard thing to do. I tried a quick search and found this article: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/schema-wordpress-seo/. It might help. They talk about a plugin which does schema.org integration in Wordpress but also show you how to implement it yourself. I hope it helps.

I agree with Ramon in terms of changing the links. However, I'm not sure that the change you want to make will have the best impact. For example, http://mocomi.com/who-invented-zero/. This link is very easy to share, very easy to recognize and it is easy to index for the specific question. Moreover, "math for kids" is included in the title which is good. The place I think you need to work more is the specific category. In this case you have http://mocomi.com/learn/maths/. Why is "kids" not appearing anywhere here? What I want to suggest is that you need to conduct a keyword research first before making your changes. You need to pinpoint exactly WHAT you have to change and you need to know for sure WHY you want to do a specific change. Hope this helps.

I'm really sorry for what happened! I recently had an employee who made such a mistake but at domain level We are monitoring our websites rankings and it fell from a visibility percentage of 21 to 4! Chaotic. After one month from correcting the problem, we only have a 10 visibility percentage. So, I think you might have to wait a bit until full recovery. However, please bear in mind that my team didn't notice the problem for one month since we did not have an optimization subscription for the client. Also, the domain did not have many linking pages to it and not a high authority. As such, I hope your page will recover much faster than the scenario I am talking about. Good luck!

Hello! In terms of passing "link juice", if you do an analysis with Moz's OSE you will find that your domain has authority 11 and saneforums has authority 45. So, on one hand, it is good that they link to you in the menus and that the links are dofollow. However, as I understand it, the forums are the part of your website where people will interact and spend more time discussing different aspects. As such, on the long term, saneforums will benefit more because it serves people's interest more. From my point of view, it will be best if the forums are on your server and domain. However, if you cannot change this, I do not think that this structure is really bad. But this is only my opinion and I have no resources to recommend.

P.S. You need to work a bit on the page speed: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyournorthside.org.au%2F&tab=desktop

Hi Nicola! What are your reasons for splitting the migration? Is your site processing sensitive data? If yes, https is an ASAP problem for you since Chrome will already give your users some trouble when navigating your website. If not, I think you will be better of with a single migration. But again, could you give some details regarding your thoughts and reasoning about this? There could be multiple aspects that influence this decision.

Hello. You really need to have separate pages if you want to rank with all of them. Basically, think of the title for example. How do you want to index a specific region if you have only one page? How should googlebot understand that you have multiple content and which content/section to show if a person does a specific query? Escaped fragments could have been used in the past but it was not a great solution and it was discontinued (https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html). As such, I would try to provide separate pages with as much qualitative content as possible and with strong internal linking.

Hello. You would put it somewhere after # BEGIN WordPress, depending on when you would want the https redirect to happen. The first settings (WP Rocket) basically optimize your website's speed. You would also want to change the settings from the admin panel and also force the admin to SSL. You can read more here -> https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/ssl-https-wordpress/. Let me know if you have any other questions.