@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

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.

Great answer from Roman about how no-follow links work, also of note is what the purpose of the link is. On numerous occasions I have opted for a no-follow link on a great blog or page, if I feel it will help add relevant information and thus help users who may be reading the content.

If you feel the no-follow link does not provide value to the article and will not drive additional traffic then it is probably not worth it.

Cheers Tim

Don't buy links, earn links! Great quality content and outreach in a manor befitting your site and status will bring rewards, where as buying links may earn short term gain, they will ultimately have a negative end result.