Hi all,

I'm looking at how to handle backlinks on a site, and am seeking a tool into which I can manually paste backlinks - is there a good backlink audit tool that offers this functionality?

Please let me know! Thanks in advance, Luke

Hi - I am about to analyse and then re-plan the structure of a website and think it would be best to do it graphically - in the form of a chart.

Are there any tools you would recommend to visualise the structure of an existing website (perhaps something that can scan and then represent a websites) - or plan out a new/revised website?

Thanks in advance, Luke

Hi Andy - yes, just capitals and non-standard characters in the URLs (bad practice, basically, for URLs) - I don't think an example will help beyond what I've told you - hope that's OK, Luke

I see this strangely formatted image URLs on websites time and again - is this an issue - I imagine it isn't best practice but does it make any difference to SEO?

Thanks in advance, Luke

Hello all,

I am planning to change the title tags throughout a site and am vaguely aware (perhaps wrongly!) that changing title tags across a site is a risk factor - can be a spam flag if changes (to a specific title tag) are implemented too regularly, for example.

Would you change title tags across a site in one go, or implement changes gradually - to avoid any risk of upsetting Google. Do you have any insights/tips on the implementation of title tag changes?

I was wondering how old the 404 data from Google Search Console actually is? Does anyone know over what kind of timespan their site 404s data is compiled over?

How long do the 404s tend to take to disappear from the Google Search Console, once they are fixed?

Thanks Logan for your help with this - much appreciated. Really helpful!

Thanks again Logan.

What would Disallow: /?* do because that is what the site I am looking at has implemented. Perhaps it works both ways around?

I imagine it's easy to disallow the wrong thing or possibly not disallow the right thing. Ugh.

Thanks Logan - I was just reading: Disallow: /*? # block any URL that includes a ? (and thus a query string) - do you know why the ? comes before the * in this case?

Hello Mozzers - Just wondering what this robots.txt instruction means: Disallow: /french-wines/?*

Does it stop Googlebot crawling and indexing URLs in that "French Wines" folder - specifically the URLs that include a question mark?

Would it stop the crawling of deeper folders - e.g. /french-wines/rhone-region/ that include a question mark in their URL?

I think this has been done to block URLs containing query strings.

Thanks, Luke

Hello Mozzers

Would you use rel=canonical, robots.txt, or Google Webmaster Tools to stop the search engines indexing URLs that include query strings/parameters. Or perhaps a combination?

I guess it would be a good idea to stop the search engines crawling these URLs because the content they display will tend to be duplicate content  and of low value to users.

I would be tempted to use a combination of canonicalization and robots.txt for every page I do not want crawled or indexed, yet perhaps Google Webmaster Tools is the best way to go / just as effective??? And I suppose some use meta robots tags too.

Does Google take a position on being blocked from web pages.

Thanks in advance, Luke