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Running a large site and using a two-tier internal linking setup: Standard <a href>, for pages I want to rank (pass link juice) JS obfuscation with base64-encoded URLs in custom attributes + click event listeners, for pages I want users to reach but keep out of Google's radar The JS looks...

Hey guys, Need some advice on adapting to this Zero-Click nightmare. I manage a huge geo-directory (tens of thousands of towns, local businesses, in a specific country). My rankings are great (mostly top 3), but Google’s Local Pack is absolutely destroying my CTR on mobile. I’m talking 1% to 3%...

Hi guys, quick question. I run a solid authority site about Canada Hotels (canada.mydomain.com) with good organic traffic. I've been offered a free transfer of another site: italy.otherdomain.com (Italy Hotels).The catch: The Italy site has zero traffic from Google. It’s basically dead in the...

Hi everyone, I’m managing a large website (millions of URLs) and I’ve run into a massive data discrepancy in Google Search Console that is making reporting a nightmare. I understand the basic difference between "Property Scope" and "Page Scope," but the gap here seems extreme. I’m looking at a...

Context: Large site with 350K main pages The Situation I have photo galleries at example.com/photos/item-name that are: Linked from main pages (obfuscated links) Set to noindex + blocked by robots.txt But 40,000 were indexed by Google BEFORE I added the robots.txt block Now GSC shows these...

I’ve got a site with ~350k product URLs (names of products). They’re doing fine: ~37M impressions / 2.9M clicks in the last 16 months (avg pos 7 in GSC). CTR=8% But here’s the interesting part: I also have 26 “starting-products” pages (like “products starting with X”). They only got ~18K clicks...

I’m managing a website with around 3,000,000 URLs (most of which are noindex or 301 redirects) under https://example.com. In Google Search Console, I have 1.1M "not indexed" pages and 500K "indexed" pages. I’m currently facing an issue with crawl budget, and I’m looking for some advice. Seven...

I'm managing a website with 500K indexed URLs and 1.5M pages with redirects (according to GSC). I’m seeing that 7% of Googlebot's activity is spent on 301s, and 900K of those are redirects from old non-HTTPS and AMP URLs (set up in 2021): http://example.com → https://example.com...

I’m dealing with an issue in Google Search Console where I’m seeing alerts about "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt" for thousands of URLs (e.g., https://example.com/photo/label). These URLs should never have been indexed. Here’s what I did: The URLs weren’t online previously. Updated...

I manage a website with 1,000,000 pageviews per month, currently relying solely on AdSense ads through plain HTML code. However, I've noticed a decrease in my AdSense income and am considering transitioning to Google Ad Manager (GAM) to manage multiple ad networks and increase competition for my...

In October 2023, I changed the frequency of Vignette (Auto Ads) from 10 minutes to 2 minutes, and impressions skyrocketed from 2,000/day to 7,500/day. However, after finding that the incomes were unchanged (even lower) I changed the frequency back to 10 minutes (even 30 minutes), but the...

A few years ago, I 301-redirected thousands of URLs from https://example.com/photo/unique-label to consolidate content (https://example.com/product/unique-label). Even after 4 years, Googlebot is still crawling the old /photo/ URLs frequently. I’ve checked in Ahrefs, and these old URLs aren’t...

My site has 100,000 URLs, and each page includes an image generated by server-side programming to visually represent data (e.g., https://example.com/page/unique-label uses https://example.com/image/unique-label.png). However, a programming error now causes each image to return empty, and they no...

I’ve recently started using Semrush’s Backlink Audit tool and found several toxic domains deep linking to my website’s image files. I’m concerned that this could be impacting my rankings in Google. Does anyone have experience with toxic backlinks affecting image files specifically? Could this...

I manage a site with 300,000 insect pages (example.com/insect/unique-label). Due to a mistake, we linked each insect page to two additional URLs that shouldn’t have been indexed: example.com/photos/unique-label example.com/map/unique-label Many of these URLs got indexed, so we added them to...

I manage a website with a high expertise in a specific niche topic, listing 300,000+ URLs. And I've received so far around 500 natural links from different 'en.wikipedia.org' pages. However, in the last months, I've received: - 600,000+ nofollow-links from 'xx.wikipedia.org' ('xx' is a...

I manage a site with 350,000 URLs across two languages (Spanish and English). Since August 2023, the English subdomain (99% USA traffic) has seen a major traffic drop, further declining in March 2024. Here’s a quick breakdown: English subdomain: 73k indexed URLs, 573k backlinks, 210k "Crawled -...

I’m managing a site with 250,000 product pages. To save crawl budget, we consolidated some URLs by 301-redirecting URLs like this: https://example.com/photo/product-label → https://example.com/product/product-label#photo The old URL had only product photos, while the new one includes photos...

Hi, I've seen a website with the following headers to show the favicon <link rel="icon" href="https://theserver/images/myfavicon.ico" type="image/png" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://theserver/images/myfavicon.ico" type="image/png" /> I wondered if this method, inserting both 'link...

Hi, Starting on Sunday at 13:30 (Central Standard Time), the visits from Google to my website dropped 35%. As a tip, the average Googlebot's crawling rate had been 90,000 pages/day, and starting on February 1st it increased up to 260,000 pages/day. From January 24th, 'Core Web Vitals' section...