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Hi mozzers,

I  discovered that Amazon is crawling our site and exploring thousands of profile pages. In a single day it crawled 75k profile pages.

1. Is this related to AWS?
2. Is this something we should worry about or not?  If so what could be a solution to counter this?
3. Could this affect our Google Analytics organic traffic?

Hi mozzers,

We just learned that our standard GA hasn't been as reliable as we hoped so and we are trying to find other ways to track organic sessions. Which solution would you consider? Is Segment one of them? If so, is it more reliable than Google Analytics?

Thanks

Hi mozzers,

Prior to my arrival, in order to support and better serve the international locations and offering multiple language versions of the same content the company decided to restructure its URLs focused on locale urls. We went from
https://example.com/subfolder to

https://example.com/us/en-us/new-subfolder (US)
https://example.com/ca/en-us/new-subfolder (CAN)
https://example.com/ca/fr-ca/new-subfolder (CAN)
https://example.com/de/en-us/new-subfolder (Ger)
https://example.com/de/de-de/new-subfolder (Ger)

This had implications on redirecting old URLs to new ones. All important URLs such as https://example.com/subfolder were
302 redirected to https://example.com/us/en-us/subfolder and then 301 redirected to the final URL.

According to the devs:  If you change the translation to the page or locale, then a 302 needs to happen so you see the same version of the page in German or French, then a 301 redirect happens from the legacy URL to the new version. If the 302 redirect was skipped, then you would only be able to one version/language of that page. 
For instance: 
http://example.com/subfolder/state/city --> 301 redirect to  {LEGACY URL]
https://example.com/subfolder/state/city --> 302 redirect to 
https://example.com/en-us/subfolder/state/city  --> 301 redirect to 
https://example.com/us/en-us/new-subfolder/city-state       [NEW URL]

I am wondering if these 302s are hurting our link juice distribution or that is completely fine since they all end up as a 301 redirect?

Thanks.

Thanks Jose!

Hi mozzers,

We have decided to migrate the blog subdomain to the domain's subfolder (blog.example.com to example.com/blog).

To do this the most effective way and avoid impact SEO negatively I believe I have to follow this checklist:

1. Create a list of all 301 redirects from blog.example.com/post-1 to example.com/post-1
2. Make sure title tags remain the same on main domain
3. Make sure internal links remain the same

• Is there something else I am missing? Any other best practices?

• I also would like to have all blog post as AMPs. Any recommendations if this something we should do since we are not a media site? Any other tips on successfully implementing those types of pages?

Thanks

Hi mozzers,

We just redesigned our homepage and discovered that our main nav is using JS and when disabling JS, no main nav links was showing up. Is this still considered bad practice for SEO? https://cl.ly/14ccf2509478

thanks

Hi mozzers,

When checking the coverage report on GSC I am seeing over 649,000 valid pages https://cl.ly/ae46ec25f494 but when performing site:domain.com I am only seeing 130,000 pages.

Which one is more the source of truth especially I have checked some of these "valid" pages and noticed they're not even indexed?

Hey everyone,

I am curious to know if anyone has tried to implement faceted navigation on the footer's website. I am asking because top navigation is a sensitive topic and can't be touched. Please share if this is something that works or not?

Thanks

To me, this idea sounded weird and you have confirmed what I was thinking.

Thank you.

Hi mozzers,

Because our blog is located on blog.example.com on powered by Wordpress and currently can't migrate it to the main domain, unfortunately. Since we would like to grow our main's domain organic traffic and would like to test an option that could help us leverage the traffic of the top blog posts content. There is a Wordpress API that would allow us to get 100-200 words(snippet of the blog post) from the blog posts into the main domain that would provide a "Read more link" linking back to the blog.
Is this even a good idea assuming we would make sure content is not identical?

Hi mozzers,

We just redesigned our homepage and discovered that our main nav is using JS and when disabling JS, no main nav links was showing up. Is this still considered bad practice for SEO? https://cl.ly/14ccf2509478

thanks

Hi mozzers,

Prior to my arrival, in order to support and better serve the international locations and offering multiple language versions of the same content the company decided to restructure its URLs focused on locale urls. We went from
https://example.com/subfolder to

https://example.com/us/en-us/new-subfolder (US)
https://example.com/ca/en-us/new-subfolder (CAN)
https://example.com/ca/fr-ca/new-subfolder (CAN)
https://example.com/de/en-us/new-subfolder (Ger)
https://example.com/de/de-de/new-subfolder (Ger)

This had implications on redirecting old URLs to new ones. All important URLs such as https://example.com/subfolder were
302 redirected to https://example.com/us/en-us/subfolder and then 301 redirected to the final URL.

According to the devs:  If you change the translation to the page or locale, then a 302 needs to happen so you see the same version of the page in German or French, then a 301 redirect happens from the legacy URL to the new version. If the 302 redirect was skipped, then you would only be able to one version/language of that page. 
For instance: 
http://example.com/subfolder/state/city --> 301 redirect to  {LEGACY URL]
https://example.com/subfolder/state/city --> 302 redirect to 
https://example.com/en-us/subfolder/state/city  --> 301 redirect to 
https://example.com/us/en-us/new-subfolder/city-state       [NEW URL]

I am wondering if these 302s are hurting our link juice distribution or that is completely fine since they all end up as a 301 redirect?

Thanks.

Hi mozzers,

We just learned that our standard GA hasn't been as reliable as we hoped so and we are trying to find other ways to track organic sessions. Which solution would you consider? Is Segment one of them? If so, is it more reliable than Google Analytics?

Thanks

Hi mozzers,

We have decided to migrate the blog subdomain to the domain's subfolder (blog.example.com to example.com/blog).

To do this the most effective way and avoid impact SEO negatively I believe I have to follow this checklist:

1. Create a list of all 301 redirects from blog.example.com/post-1 to example.com/post-1
2. Make sure title tags remain the same on main domain
3. Make sure internal links remain the same

• Is there something else I am missing? Any other best practices?

• I also would like to have all blog post as AMPs. Any recommendations if this something we should do since we are not a media site? Any other tips on successfully implementing those types of pages?

Thanks