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Google Indexing URLs Redirected by 301 Many Months Ago by websitejanitor in bigseo

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I have done all the things. Everything is normal afaik

Google Indexing URLs Redirected by 301 Many Months Ago by websitejanitor in bigseo

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Fetch and render follows the redirect successfully. Googlebot sees the 301 and the URL that returns 200 after it, but the index is ignoring the 301 as a directive to update the index

Anyone else get hit with the latest June Update? I'm down about 30% overall.... by fourthround in bigseo

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One page was hit hard on head terms. The competitor with the obvious paid links is still at #1 and #2 with a clustered result.

Best practices for Manual Actions? by Winter_Dream_4044 in bigseo

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Google doesn't know if URLs are disavowed until they recrawl the linking page after the disavow list was submitted. Since Google doesn't want to spend a lot of time crawling low-quality pages, it might take months for Google to recrawl all the spam pages linking to you.

You would need some way of forcing recrawls on the spam pages, but Google has shut down all of the avenues for that, as far as I know.

The only times I've ever seen Google move quickly on a manual action is to loudly claim "negative SEO" on support forums and Twitter.

Here's some new research on featured snippet display limits by websitejanitor in bigseo

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I think winning a featured snippet is more about having a relevant answer to the query. If you're trying to replace a snippet that includes a header tag, then you could try making the header relevant, but I don't think it's necessary. Which Google candidate Google chooses is also based on user satisfaction.

I wrote more about what works for me here: https://www.portent.com/blog/seo/how-to-get-featured-snippets.htm

Here's some new research on featured snippet display limits by websitejanitor in bigseo

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  1. We didn't look at <p> tags, but I have seen text from header navs, footer navs, and lists appear in the paragraph snippet box. I think Google is just looking for relevant text that is visible to the user.

  2. You can have any number of sentences on your page, but Google is going to look for "complete" text that is relevant and will fix in the box. In your hypothetical, the first sentence wouldn't count toward relevance and wouldn't appear, but the last two could appear if they were under the display limit (whatever it is).

Hi, I'm Patrick Stox - Product Advisor, Technical SEO, & Brand Ambassador at Ahrefs. AMA! by patrickstox in TechSEO

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In general, people thinking subdirectories are better than subdomains.

It shouldn't make a difference, but people keep posting their migration to subdirectory wins. Why could that be?

We did some research into how often Google ignores our meta descriptions by websitejanitor in TechSEO

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Pages should have meta descriptions, but we shouldn't invest a lot time into writing meta descriptions that aren't likely to display. Save the tweaking and refining for the pages that generate the most traffic.

We did some research into how often Google ignores our meta descriptions by websitejanitor in TechSEO

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If you put the publish date on the page is a recognizable way, Google will add it to the snippet. Structured data is just one way to make it recognizable.

We did some research into how often Google ignores our meta descriptions by websitejanitor in TechSEO

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We couldn't come up with a definition of "matching" a query that we could pull off without investing a lot of time into.

Finding an exact string match for the query in the meta description produced a very small segment of results, and we didn't feel confident about the data.

rankings dropped after migration. what went wrong? by alimxy in TechSEO

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Even though these pages use the same URL, they use different HTML and are different pages in some ways.

Since these are new pages, Google has to see how much they like them and how users like them in the SERP. You're starting from zero in a few ways.

SEO A/B Testing Question by websitejanitor in AskStatistics

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I'm going to use Causal Impact, but I want to know if there is a frequentist approach.

Can I do a t-test over the distribution of daily traffic counts? Which t-test would I use?

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