@rh-digi is your account linked to Google Universal Analytics as that is when it was roughly turned off, for data to continue to flow you may been to reconnect to the new GA4.

Hi there, I would certainly think about using Yoast & Yoast Premium, it has some great features and will interogate each page of your WP installtion allowing you to make the most of your content.

I would then also consider using tools such as Googles Site Kit, JetPack and W3 Total Cache to give your side the best speed boosts possible as these will also help you with your SEO gains.

Hey Lee,

I work in the insurance sector and pretty much all serp listing lost their aggregate rating stars here in the UK in the Sept update you mentioned (many other niches also affected).

I have managed to keep our Stars going a little longer by switching from aggregate reviews to individual product review ratings within the product scope. You will lose the total review counter, but atleast you get a genuine review and still some stars to aid click through.

I cannot be certain you Shopify plugin will still perform with aggregate reviews, you may need to hard coded until it is updated - do they have a support section for the plugin?

I don't think Aggregate review ratings will be returning in the near future.

Cheers

Tim

OK so the review sites are certainly great for improving your click through rate and influencing your customers etc, but do not assume they will benefit you totally.

Review sites (see list of google approved partners here) only automatically benefit Google adverts (CPC) by default and you will need a minimum number to qualify for the star rating. You may get a boost from a high traffic and quality review site organically but like Garrett says - opt for a review site that meets your needs and is also frequented and trusted by your users.

Should you wish to benefit from star ratings in the organic results you will still need some technical knowledge to apply aggregate ratings schema to your site and even then it is not guaranteed they will show.

Hey there,

I am not entirely surely this is 100% the case, but quickly looking over a couple of articles it sounds like CloudFlare may share  IP's with some questionable sites that may be on a watch list. Getting static IP's and CDN SSL's may help.

Using a CDN for the reasons above is a good move, could you try switching to another provider to see if any impact is seen.

Cheers

Tim

I am certainly interested to see how the new DA correlates with rankings and competitors. exciting time

Hi there - any chance you can share the url?

Have you taken a look here - it provides you with quite a few quality nuggets of information on international SEO.

I would certainly consider hreflang and alternate meta to help distinguish each location channel to help reduce duplicate content.

There are some other great resources on this too.

Without your URL it is pretty hard to diagnose the issue, it could be multiple problems.

I use the following redirect in my .htaccess file....

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.co.uk [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^(.) https://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [L,R,NE]

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I also enable HSTS on my server to perform the same thing and force to run via https://

I would also suggest checking that your SSL certificate parts are installed correctly on your server.

Hope that helps a bit.

Hi Matt, could you send over your URL so we can look into the code, I may be able to spot the location of the offending issue.

Cheers

Tim

This will likely be due to the new index that was released, your domain authority is relative to the index and sites contained in the index. The new index was smaller, but is now fixed and will likely give you more accurate figures.

https://moz.com/community/q/new-mozscape-index-released-learn-just-what-s-been-going-on

https://moz.com/blog/mozscape-index-2015

Personally I am not massively familiar with Alibaba, however, if it is anything like Google in the organic SERPS, then just because you have your star rating in place does not mean it will be displayed. Keep the ratings scheme on the chance things change and it gets displayed in the future.

I am certainly interested to see how the new DA correlates with rankings and competitors. exciting time

I did a few things like this from my time at VOW, Caboodle and the Post Office Shop. It is really more of a user preference thing than either selecting one over another.

What works best for your content - is it text or image intensive when it comes to your product listings, I often found if there was more image than text - a grid worked better, and vice versa if there was more text.

Also consider mobile - a list solution may be the best option on a smart phone and grid on a tablet.

The optimum solution in my opinion would be to allow the consumer/user to select their preferred layout. You could implement this as a checkbox/button that simply switches the css to display in either grid or list format.

Hmmmm, I think it could slightly affect the internal linking structure and possible mean the loss of important pages being linked together.

However my main concern would be to regular users from a UX perspective. You are clearly going to be making people work a lot harder to find regular content that is possbly the bread and butter traffic for the site. Rather than changing the menu, would it not be better to implement a "New Item" in the menu structure rather than changing it all. Or have a feature banner.

Hope this helps a little.

I would think the best way to resolve this issue would be to apply schema data to the relevant products or recipes. This will then allow google to determine the correct placement for the respective items.

For recipe schema click here and
For product schema click here

At the base of each section it demonstrates how to implement the schema correctly.

I hope these help

Edit - as per Amelia, recipies placed next to products and vice versa could lead to a better user experience due to the relevent content being easily accesible.

Along side your content for your blog, ensure you try to answer commonly asked questions, this can help to position you in P0 (knowledge area) if answered well.

A great tool to use is answerthepublic.com where you can see what common questions are asked around you main terms. Adding this great unique content either on a blog or selection of FAQs could be beneficial.

In your Htaccess file. set up a rule to redirect using 301.

Something along the lines of the below depending on how your file name and links are structured.

redirect 301 /old-url-link/pagename.html     /new-url-link/pagename.html

I was reading an article earlier from SEO RoundTable, where it details that Duplicate content is a side issue and not necessarily related to the Panda Update - read more here - https://www.seroundtable.com/google-duplicate-content-panda-issues-different-21039.html

John Mueller stated that sites with low quality content are hit by Panda and that duplicate content is a separate side issue.

Hello Rosemary,

I would suggest checking out the following post which links to schema markup for embedded youtube content, but there is also a great response from Tammy Wood on applying this via an iframe.

https://moz.com/community/q/schema-org-and-youtube-videos

Hope it helps

Tim