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Monthly reports, we double check ranking drops from semrush - been noticing a real limit to number of searches b4 403 forbidden error, rendering Google unusable

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Hi everyone,
I work at an agency, and to improve our local visibility, we've created several local pages. Each page includes different schemas, such as Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, etc. I understand that it's possible to combine multiple schemas into one, but does anyone have experience with this approach? Is it more effective, or does it not make any noticeable difference?

I know maintaining generally good site health and hygiene is important overall, but I have always been curious about ranking in a very specific context.

I look after a range of sites, some of which run AMP.

For the majority, their web (desktop and mobile sites are solid (responsive, fast, etc). However, a few aren't performing as well when it comes to speed tests of their web pages but are getting good AMP traffic.

How does Google look at those sites? Especially in (what I recall reading is) a mobile-first ranking world?

Does the mobile/desktop experience impact overall rank (even over AMP)? Or does the relatively instant load of AMP (Google's own product) supersede any web page performance metrics?

Again, very aware that a well-performing everything is ideal, but keen to ascertain the weight/priority of it all in relation to ranking.

Thanks in advance!

I’m working for an e-commerce brand in which product team wants to showcase the recently viewed products to the mobile site visitors. My doubts are the following: a) What will search engine see in that case? b) Is it okay to show such widget to only mobile users? c) what could be consequences if I keep that widget hidden for search engines and render it only on the browser?

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Anyone else see this? We owned top stories for sports events which was where majority of traffic came from.

To clarify, Im still in G news if I exact match or site:site.com I'm just not being served to users for their query or maybe Im on page 25 or some bs

I wanted to ask marketing agency owners how you guys are doing client reporting and how much time it takes you in a month? Are you able to show the true ROI to your clients?

I have a client whose analytics shows a ton of Direct or (none) traffic that I am more than confident is actually Organic - but I can not prove it. Any tips? My gut says it’s a JavaScript issue counting the initial page view as Organic, then the rest of the session views as Direct - making our numbers way out of whack.

I have 15 years experience in technical SEO. I am not green at this. I have compared GSC and Webmaster Tools data, and see higher numbers - but that is not the same as Session data, which is what I am after. I have looked for JS errors, erroneous payloads, broken UTMs (to try to find places where attributable source breaks), and everything else under the sun. Ideas welcome.

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Hi all,

My website ranks quite high for specific content on Google, but on Bing a lot lower. Never really focused on it, but with chatGPT becoming bigger and bigger (and even turning up as a source for orders), I think it's time to invest more in BING Indexing.

I was going through Bing websmaster tools and they adviced the InstaIndex app for Shopify. Anyone with experience, thoughts?

Thanks!

So recently I've been working with clients and some of their website are just so clean,

For the ones that at least have some traffic it's easy to estimate, but in the case there's just nothing I just set the bar kinda low for the very first month and increase by 10%-20% each month.

I know that there's nothing guarantee that it will work as predicted but how do you estimate that and have the number or you just don't predict at all?

Thank you!

I’m developing a revenue opportunity sizing where I link initiatives I have for a sitewide redesign project to the amount of revenue we’d gain if implemented. So I’m searching for rankings/sessions improvements that come with adding features like breadcrumbs and related posts at the end of articles. I’m also looking into implementing a sitewide search system and, potentially, updating a lot of page’s URL structure

Additionally, though not my initiative, the domain I’m working on will have other domains redirected to it entirely, and that will likely have some impacts into what we can expect to see after the redesign, but I’m struggling to even data on the benefits of passing link equity from one domain to another through redirects

I’m struggling to find studies. Any help?

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I find lot of keywords with the google autocomplete so it need to have some search volume but the tools say 0,so it is any tool that detect a minimum search volume??

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I have a B2B client who's got all their web images in a fileadmin folder and has the entire folder set to No Index per the robots.txt. Unfortunately there is a lot of other stuff mixed into the folder. How much harm do you think it is doing to have no images indexed on the site? literally the only images that come up in a google search are screenshots of videos hosted on youtube. It's not an e-commerce site but I'm trying to build EEAT and I wonder how much lack of images is holding it back.

Hi everyone, I need advice about indexing issues with our site rentmasseur.com Since last year 2023, we’ve had problems with Google indexing after the October update. We made a lot of changes to the site structure, internal links, and keyword distribution. At the same time, we were also working on a new mobile-responsive version of the site. Then, on September 5th this year, Google completely dropped our indexing for the keyword “gay massage” and we went from being between 1st and 3rd position with this page (https://rentmasseur.com/gay-massage/) to completely not in the index. About two weeks later, we launched the new website version with an improved structure, better keyword placement, and as much SEO optimization as we could manage, but we still are not seeing any improvements. For reference, here are two links from our site that are missing in the index: https://rentmasseur.com/gay-massage/

https://rentmasseur.com/gay-massage/losangeles/ We’ve made sure to follow Google’s guidelines carefully, so we’re not sure what we’re doing wrong. However, even after two more Google updates, there’s been no recovery for those keywords. The site is categorized as adult content, and it seems like Google is now hiding it in Safe Search. What’s confusing is that other sites in the same niche don’t seem to have this problem and we are the only ones that have experienced this.

Is anyone else experiencing similar issues with indexing after the latest updates? What could be the reason for this, and what are we missing? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Sorry but not allowed to attach screenshot from Search console.

Hey I am having frustrating issues with Schema Pro right now. I've generated the custom code field for the page, created the schema in chatgpt and pasted it into the field box. But then when I update the page to launch it, the code just disappears. Any ideas on why this is happening? I did the company's homepage a few days ago and had zero issue and now I've tried to add service schema to the service pages and this is happening. I'm also struggling with their basic schema tool (not custom), where I am putting in my own short description as fixed text, and it shows that way to me in the schema settings and on the page I'm adding it to, but when I check the page in the schema validator the description is the entire contents of the page. This app is driving me mental tonight :S

I have been managing a website and targeting for specific keywords according to the SEO rules. I have gained 26 keywords for the last 6 months for my domain. The problem started to happen when i used Python's rosetta using trans keywords to translate my tags and descriptions for multiple languages. First, it looked like I have made an unusual local traffic and then i started to lose my traffic for researches made in English. I wonder if anyone tried anything similar ? or if anyone backtracked from this and found something better to target for more audience ?

I keep seeing this strategy everywhere nowadays. And it seems worth a shot, seeing how many people share their success stories in getting great traffic to their website from Pinterest.

Honestly, I don't even think I get what the strategy is about. What I think it is is just dropping "pins" or images everyday consistently, and then link those pins to my own website pages.

My other question is that I don't use Pinterest that much, and I assume it's mostly suitable for physical products like furniture, fashion, etc.

I'm just wondering whether it works for digital products like SaaS. And if yes, then what kind of pins or images are used

Need some insight from you guys.

I have a highly successful niche activity site, it's grown to become the highest-ranking site for that niche. But this year I've been experimenting with off-topic broader articles and they've been ranking really well, for example, I've been able to outcompete most of the other sites within those topics after 2-5 months of publishing these articles.

Once I realised I could rank for the more general and more competitive keywords, I started writing more articles with the plan to transfer these articles to a new domain during the "off-season" for these keywords, which is now. Why a new domain? A few reasons, but mainly because I want to grow these new articles as a new website and my current domain includes the name of my niche, so when these new articles pop up on Google they look less relevant and kind of off-topic.

So now the time has come to create my new domain and website. But I'm so worried about losing all my rankings and traffic, and therefor, my affiliate revenue. I'm also worried about the time it will take to recover.

Are these fears unfounded? If my article is ranking in the top 10 for competitive keywords, how long will it take for the exact same article to rank the same on a new domain and website?

Any advice, tips, or experience would be much appreciated.

Hey everyone,

This is my first post here, and I’m just trying to get a better sense of how you all manage invoicing. I’ve been using some invoicing software, but honestly, it doesn’t feel like it fully fits the way I run things.

I’m curious—what do you all use for invoices? Is there something you like about it, or maybe features that you wish were better?

I’m hoping to learn more about what’s working (or not working) for businesses like ours, so feel free to share any tips or thoughts. Appreciate any feedback, and if you’re up for chatting more, feel free to DM me!

Thanks in advance!

Ok, a bit of a clickbaity title, but not really. Let me know what you think.

Background: Organic traffic has been slowly on the slide for a couple of years, and Core Updates always knock the site a bit (not much).

Situation: There's 10,000 pages on my client's site, and about 5,000 of them are thin and identical with just the place names changed, sort of a 2015 attempt at programmatic SEO I think. My theory is that with 50% of the site being poor quality, "removing" those pages via robots.txt will improve how the site is viewed by Google.

Why robots.txt? 410/404/noindex would take my client a long time to implement since it's manual (there's no URL pattern to grab on to). I'm hoping to see at least some results from robots.txt disallow, which will give me confidence to push for a more solid solution (probably 410).

My questions:

1. Will robots.txt disallow rule make Google "forget" the content on the page? Or will they simply not crawl the URL but still remember and judge quality by what used to be on there?
2. Does Google need to attempt to recrawl the page before they "realise" there's a Disallow on the URL or will the new rules instantly update Google's crawling schedule?

Google not indexing pages (news publishing site in India) after August Spam update. We did not get any manual action on the site and no page is indexed in last month. we are producing around 100 articles in a day. we deleted the content published before Nov 1st on Dec 5th..the status is still same. Any possible reasons? Even the manual indexing requests are not working..

Isn't it the same thing? What do you do differently for Bing?

How are you effectively measuring organic (SEO) conversions against performance? Sure, there are some easy ways, like if you use UTM tracking codes for campaigns, but aside from that, how are you guys measuring organic?

I have placed tracking CSS code on conversion buttons which I guess is one method, but I'm interested to hear of any tips or experience with this regard.

Thanks

A few months back, I stumbled upon a comment on reddit saying:

“If you want your site to show up in ChatGPT, optimize for Bing.”

At first, I thought it was just another hot take by some random person on Reddit, but then I dug deeper into it. And tbh, it started making more sense with time.

See chatgpt uses bing's search index to pull results, right? That means if you rank on bing, you're more likely to appear in GPT gen. responses.

And the only diff bw goole and bing is that bing clusters kws differently and rely a lot more on HITL (Humans in the Loop).

So, I started exprimenting and here's what I learned:

• bing loves specific and high intent queries (unlike Google where ranking for broad keywords can drive insane traffic). For e.g., for bing "best CRM for small teams" > "CRM software"
• on-page on bing has soooo much value - exactly how Google treated on-page back in 2015
• bing loves schema. I added faqs to 3 high intent pages and saw the impact in gpt responses within 2 days
• relevant links on bing are way more valuable than links from high da websites. For our website, we made comments on WP blogs using "site:wordpress.com 'kw'" and saw sort of a reward. In comparison to one of our clients, wherein we got links from 50+ DA sites

The reason why I'm sharing this is because I had a meeting with a prospect this morning who mentioned that he found us via GPT.

Insane, right? I mean, who thought that you'd be getting business from gpt as well.

All I'll say is that we've been too focused on Google. Bing isn't just the "second best search engine out there" now but way way way more than that. Optimize for it and take the first mover's advantage.

tl;dr: rank on bing → get into gpt's search index

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Hello,

On October 16, 2024, I redirected a domain with a maximum index of 2000.

In the first week of the redirection, all important URLs on the new domain were indexed and I got back about 30% of my old traffic.

However, after the 2nd week of the redirection, the old domain index number continues to increase instead of decreasing, and the new domain index number is approaching zero.

I have provided all the checks, there is no problem with 301 redirects. The old domain is completely redirected.

There was no scan that returned a 200 successful code on the old domain console.

Change of address was made via the console. All technical work was done. Sitemap, robots.txt redirection, etc. everything was done flawlessly.

However, Google continues to power the old domain. And unfortunately, I do not have time for this. I may lose my old domain within 1 month at the latest and my redirects may be broken.

What are your thoughts on this process, what do you recommend?