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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...

It was a matter of 24-48h. I forgot to include the pages within the 'robots.txt' file, and then, including the time to let Google crawl and consider the new 'robots.txt'... it gave Google time to crawl and index 10,000s of new URLs. The obfuscated links from the main pages were inserted some...

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...

Thanks a lot for your detailed reply . Just to clarify, my revenue model is advertising-based (AdSense), not direct sales. Do you think that changes the way I should prioritize those 26 high-impression URLs? My thinking is that improving CTR on them could significantly increase ad revenue...

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...

The URLs were not never within the sitemaps, but received links from other pages of the site. I need those links to invite users to browse further content, but without indexing that content.

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...

I've been doing further research: - by using Screaming Frog - by using 'find' in the shell script of the server to find any file containing links to '/photo/' - by using in Google: inurl:photo site:example.com No current webpage in my server is links to '/photo/'. However, all the old URLs...

I will try with LinkWhishper or Screaming Frog, thank you. But GSC should tell me about any hidden link, right?

Perhaps the issue that I consolidated a big website, with both HTTP and HTTPs versions - http://example.com/photo/label --> https://example.com/product/label (300,000 URLs) - https://example.com/photo/label --> https://example.com/product/label (300,000 URLs) - http://amp.example.com/photo/label...

Good question. I've been checking it for months. When inspecting the old URLs in GSC, I get as referrer: - https://example.com/product/unique-label (the new consolidated HTTPS URL, but it does not content the link to the old URL into the HTML code) - http://example.com/photo/unique-label (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...

Ok, thank you, I will ignore them. Wondered why Semrush does not ignore them as well. If they want to offer a top-quality product, they should know that such sites do nothing even though the are indexed.