@shayanaman All links on here are nofollow so have no SEO value. You are wasting your time, go and spam another forum!

Outbound links are very important, just be careful to use them in context, if you are you are only using logo/image make sure to use alt text on the image.

@citimarinemoz Properly the bigger question is what do you mean by re purposing the blog.
If you are keeping the context of the blog the same, providing it is the same domain, the content is the same or better and you do your 301s properly it should be fine.
On the other hand if you are changing what your blog focuses on and you are rewriting the content of the pages you could well run into a problem.
My advice would be

1. Keep the same domain
2. Keep the old blog posts if possible, maybe update them if necessary
3. Create new blog posts with your new content on the same domain
4. Utilise internal linking for any relevant topics and pages

It shouldn't have any effect on SEO but it may cause a usability issue, if people can't find what they want some search engines can detect that could have an indirect effect on SEO

Providing you've got a separator (like a hyphen) it shouldn't make any difference. I will be more concerned about the grammar and how it looks to the searcher.
If it was me and I was using it to separate two different phrases I would make sure it had spaces either side. However, if it's a hyphenated word it wouldn't make sense to use spaces.

There is a slight misconception here, DA is not a Google metric. It is a MOZ metric (and a very useful one) Google no longer publishes their authority score.

As things are currently secure webpages are not a make or break. Google says that if you are collecting people's information, payment information or other sensitive data you should use a secure page.  However, if you are just telling somebody how to reinstall Windows 10 it's probably not a big deal.

It will probably become more of an issue as time goes on, but currently there are still a number of online shops which are not secure and they rank reasonably well.

That said, where ever possible always use SSL (or to give it its official name TLS).

The easiest way is to do it is from WordPress itself, as in the CMS settings, changing the code itself can get tricky and problematic especially when you come to update.

You can change the default meta title from the Yoast SEO plug-in > search appearance > Taxonomies tab see here https://www.print4hospitality.co.uk/edit-category-titles/

or you can of course edit individual pages, which of course is not very practical for a site-wide change.

Be very careful with dynamic content.  It is okay up to a point but it does have a number of SEO implications, although I think it's unlikely you would get a penalty.

One complication is, when a search engine crawls asset parameter and it delivers the specified page that will then be cashed by the search engine and delivered through the search results.  The complication comes if a user comes to the side but has a different parameter set, they won't be able to see the content they came to get!  That is a big problem, your bounce rate will be high which eventually could knock you out the rankings entirely.

I would take the professional approach...

Create static pages for all of your important content, if you want you could still include a little bit of dynamic content providing it doesn't change the page too much.

I would completely avoid the no index option, you have nothing to gain as far as I can see and it could cause a lot of damage.

Just interested to know when putting links at the foot of the site some people use no-follow tags.  I'm thinking about internal pages and social networks.

Is this still necessary or is it an old-fashioned idea?

Interested to know if anybody still uses the strategy of pinging links to make sure they get indexed, there are a number of sites out there which offer it.  Is it considered dangerous/spamy?

I'm not too sure whether it's a ranking factor or not, there are varying opinions.  I would say it's risky.

Additionally, I don't see what there is to be gained by deleting and recreating a profile that could just get another bad review, Also the person that gave you that bad review can come and leave another one!

I would work with some good customers and ask them to do reviews. Far more productive than trying to hide hide mistakes and Google will love good reviews to.

Explain to your client that resources are better spend on creating some new reviews and if you get enough good ones you can outweigh the bad ones to a large degree.  Take a look around, you will see there is plenty of excellent brands that get bad reviews from time to time.

1. Avoid shared hosting (Often very limited resources)

2. I would definitely look at beefy VPS, they are very cost-effective.  (Make sure you get a managed solution)

3. Dedicated servers are good, but very expensive.

Aim to hosting the country you want to serve (Yes even though you using a CDN)

As a final note before moving everything over, migrate one of the biggest sites and test thoroughly for performance before moving the rest. When you are migrating and for a few weeks afterwards keep your old service up and running so you can quickly change back to the old location if you have any issues.

Also backup, backup, backup. Everything and at every stage (From bitter experience) 

Hope it helps, these suggestions from personal experience.

Regards

Richard

For best results DIM (Do It Manually!)

Joking apart I would stay away from automatic audits, they are often incorrect and can give you a pack of trouble.

I would start by setting yourself out a strategy something like the following:-

1. Fix coding and visual errors
2. Use Moz Open Site Explorer and find which sites have the best reputation on the web (you can compare several sites in one go).
3. Research all the domain names that you have, put them in a spreadsheet, rate them for brandability, reputation and if they have any current positions worth maintaining.

By the end of this you should have a good idea of the quality and how far reaching powerful brands are.

Also don't forget social media, although not directly related to SEO it will give you a good idea is to brand reputation.

Hope understood your question correctly, if not please elaborate and see what I can do to help.

As far as I know there is no way of uncovering the Google 'not provided' keywords, and I don't think there's any point in kicking against it either because there are several ways that you can get information.  Mostly I think Google tries to hide any terms it thinks may release confidential information or very specific low-volume terms, in which case these probably wouldn't be much use anyway.

With enough traffic you can still get an awful lot of information from Google Analytics, it still releases about 10% of the keywords.

Secondly, Look at Google Search Console > Search Traffic > Search Analytics.

The strategy that I like best is to work the opposite way on, decide on the keywords that you want to go after and then optimise the site for those keywords.

Google tries to personalize the results as much as possible, they use cookies and other types of identification data to try and track users and provide the most relevant results.

After you close chrome technically there is no method for Google to identify who you are, hence you may see different results.

Getting accurate search position results for tracking marketing progress seems a bit of a buzz word at the moment.  It comes back to as Marketers/SEO's we need to track and monitor our efforts, on the flipside Google is trying to provide the most accurate result to the user often by means of personalisation.  That is where you have an immediate conflict, for maximum user engagement (which all of us want) you sometimes have to sacrifice tractability.

Assuming you did manage to track personalised results you would need a lot of data about that person and their browsing habits to understand how you back best matched their search query.  Most of us would quickly get ourselves lost in data.  Does that make sense?

There are plenty of Serps checker tools around, but I sometimes have my doubts how accurate they are - Google definitely doesn't like them.

There is a slight misconception here, DA is not a Google metric. It is a MOZ metric (and a very useful one) Google no longer publishes their authority score.

As things are currently secure webpages are not a make or break. Google says that if you are collecting people's information, payment information or other sensitive data you should use a secure page.  However, if you are just telling somebody how to reinstall Windows 10 it's probably not a big deal.

It will probably become more of an issue as time goes on, but currently there are still a number of online shops which are not secure and they rank reasonably well.

That said, where ever possible always use SSL (or to give it its official name TLS).

The way I would do it is to search for a super long tail keyword, copy a large bunch of text of the page and paste it in Google (you may need to pass it through a notepad to strip out formatting).

Afraid I don't have an answer answer to your question regarding info and site parameters.

I would trust the mega long tail keyword option more, You have to remember how dynamic Google searches are, even from one PC to another on the same premises.

Hope it helps.

I guess it probably depends on the website, I think they are counted as 'backlinks' but probably carry less authority.  I guess one benefit is it helps the visibility of your pages to search engines.

Fully agree with Peter, very easy to bypass IP blocking these days, there are some sophisticated systems that can still detect but mostly outside the range of us mere mortals!

If you block a particular country from crawling your website it is pretty certain you will not rank in that country (which I guess isn't a problem anyway) but I suspect this would only have a very limited (if any) impact on your rankings in other countries.

We have had a similar issue, here are a couple of ideas.

1. When someone places an order use a secondary method of validation.

2. With the new customer entries/registrations make sure you have a good captcha, most of this sort of thing tends to be from bots. A captcha Will often fix that problem.

Firstly, sounds like you do have a penalty of some sort.

Secondly, I would not have redirected the hacked pages back to the site anywhere, you could give yourself a penalty that way. You could be passing bad authority or worse from anywhere else on the web, completely out of your control.

Thirdly, don't discount the potential of a website problem. Broken script, user damage, another hack etc

1. Do a thorough link cleanup.

2. Consider taking down any pages that are not relevant or earning any value.

3. Check search console for any notifications or manual penalties.

4. Check the website for performance and functionality.