Welcome to the Q&A Forum

@gujjarshb I don't think so - no penalties for EMDs. But maybe for putting links into comments where they don't make any sense....

@ayofztk it doesn't work. Just google tech crunch and only tech crunch domain has tech crunch in domain name. A little special here, that's a navigational query.

You can rank with an EMD when the content is good enough, the popularity is good enough. Just a Keyword in a domain name doesn't help. Going away from a .com domain to something like you did ".blog" is also not the best idea,

If you have no (more) links to the tags, maybe there is a sitemap? I mean, when moz found them, there was a way to do that right? This way seems to exist, still. Maybe you have hidden links to tags or something?

In most cases you don't need to redirect them (if there never was value/rankings/something useful) from an SEO POV, but from User view, you should kill the links or kill tag-sitemap whatever. 404 is ok then, if not internal linked.

Links from xyz.wordpress.com and abc.wordpress.com are 2 different links from 2 domains. Not one of them has the "DA" of www.wordpress.com because thats also a different domain.

We can say, that google is seeing it that way and not. Not because, in search console linking domain would be "wordpress.com". Noretheless they are different in a lot of points, DA is the most important one.

If you get more links from the same domain, it makes them less and less important (for every new link, not the old links). In my tests (wordpress & blogspot) it was the case, that it was less and less for the one linking subdomain, not all the sub-domains. Somehow understandable? So the answer is "it depends" The test is not 100 % accurate and hard to compare but seems like thats the way it is.

What I also realized, when I get high increase in organic traffic and I have done nothing and no update was going on, it is mostly one new organic link. You can build links as much as you want but organic links beat everything and I dont know how google can figure that out so clearly.

So when you have a good amount of links, you should focus on your user. Like I do, thatswhy I cant tell you how MOZ or any other Tool is handling it, I simply do not care that much.

One of my former competitors has 10 times more Links as we have and today I call him "former" competitor. Former because we reached a new level, he not. We have now 9times more organic traffic and he still stuck where he is since a year. Well we have a single Page with more monthly organic visitors than his domain. We started on the same level 1.5 years ago. I did not build one single link, I just focus on users. A lot users, talking about hundrethousands organic visitors, for germany in this niche a lot. Ok we are now going into other topics, but thats not the point here.

All these topics are finance topics so maybe a YMYL special thing, but I have some more domains wich work better and better without building links and non-YMYL topics. But there is a lot great content wich makes the domains earn links. At least you need an entry, a dooropener to get links coming in.

Woop - to much hah So you are somehow right, but dont think to much link Anyway - Good Luck!

1.) Is imho the case shouldn't chose.  Or - thats what majority would tell you. And thats still the case. So the new sub-domains are new domains. Google told us that they treat subdomains like other domains. Of course they do, they always did, but still - new domains.

2.)  For long term, they all work well I am sure. It is easier in short term with new TLD's eg. .de .fr 
So in germany we have a lot of .de Domains in SERPs and less .com/de or de.xyz.com. But you have to manage more and more domains.

3.)This is what everybody is telling you in terms of Links and Pagerank. Stuff gets links in germany, french pages benefit. But - correctly linked content is working equal with sub-domains or new TLDs.

Amazon is doing 2nd, a lot SEO-Tool-Providers (e.g. ryte) do it with .com/folder - and both are working. I mention ryte because they also had .org before, they never used .de for germany. And that should be a hint - do what fits most to you and your needs. SEO is not that important - it is, but not in wich way you do it.

1. Search Console tells you, that they use a canonical for the homepage, that doesn't mean John Mueller is talking about that in this webmaster hangout (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAagTHeF9N0)

2. I can just guess, think it could be a structure thing, and maybe it is to fresh - 6 month old site with several regions set-up in same language. So a lot of duplicates, canonicals aso Google has to deal with. And of course, Homepage is strong, your landingpage may not be strong enaugh.   And whatever happens on Googles Page 5 is more or less useless data. If it still happens when you are on page 2, guess than there is a real problem.  At the moment, without knowing anything, asuming hreflangs, canonicals are right, think it is a structure, time, pagerank combined thing.

3. You can use canonicals and it depends, if you need them, you need them - no matter if hreflang in use or not.  You have to send the same signals, not confusing once. I think here is helpful stuf about hreflang and canonicals working together (https://www.searchviu.com/en/hreflang-canonical/)

4. It depends on depth, difficulty, and a lot more factors. I cant say anything here without topic or domain / page

5. You use hreflang, so you tell google what to rank where. Sending confusing signals (hreflang to a page wich has a canonical to anywhere wich has an hreflang-back  to that page. Nice confusing chain... ) google will start to ignore your canonicals in this case

Hope that helps a bit

If you redirect the page, there is no canonical on that page anymore. The page simply doesn't exist anymore. Make sure the redirect-target is a self-canonical page, thats all.

Matt Cutts said once  in a video that "the punishment will not be passed on to your site. However, you will lose the value of the untrusted site's link."  But if it was nofollow, it never had value.

How they figured that out? Maybe they talk to each other, or they are simply not visible in Google anymore. But they can't know that for sure . At least it wont hurt you. Google them, put them into rank trackers (semrush or whatever) and see if there is some big change in visibility. Than you can asume a penalty or update hit.  But, I bet John Muller also said, what Matt Cuts was saying, normal case - no passing of punishment.

target for optimization may be: Make it easy for a user to login with all devices

Google Analytics will track everything if it is implemented and it is working. It doesn't matter if the page is noindex or nofollow. That has nothing to do with Google Analytics. Not sure what you mean with "external site links" - but whatever you mean, guess you do it on your follow/index pages, so it will work.

In that case I think, I would chose _kawasaki.com/robotics _

To get the citation/trust or however you would call it from your 15 yrs old domain - instead of starting a new one, wich would be the problem in both of your options.

You may redirect them 301 to the page wich is now the best answer for the search query. That fixes the problem for the user immediatly.
You can than go to search console and let the bot crawl the url again (fetch as google) - he will see the redirect, you can send it to google.
Make sure your redirection is the best answer.

rel attributes like noopener or noreferrer arent used in search, even if he was asked for noopener nofollow, it is the same with followed links

here: https://twitter.com/JohnMu/status/1046429955595403264

RangeMarketing is right, but there is an pretty easier way to, share the page @ gplus.
I realized that it sometimes is faster. But usually I fatch as google in both cases, like Range Marketing said.

I've not that much time today, but: **EGOL **has some perfect examples like "hundsmiserabel" (wich is not really used anymore). The language changes, the words get shorter.  But thats not the problem here. Just 2 things:

[...] für Kursteilnehmer,dass sie Arabisch lernen möchten. Thats not german, that's anything different... _für Kursteilnehmer,arabisch zu lernen. _Thats a lot better. We allready had that:  Bedarf an Menschen, die Arabisch lernen wich is simply not the greatest german ever:  Bedarf an Menschen, die Arabisch sprechen. The rest is correct. But... to hard to read:

Algerien, Bahrain, Ägypten, Irak, Jemen, Jordanien, Kuwait, Libanon, Libyen, Marokko, Mauretanien, Oman, Palästina, Katar, Saudi-Arabien, Sudan, Syrien, Tunesien und den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten ^^ in the middle of that phrase I was like, ok letz go back and search another page.

I usually don't count Keywords, but for "arabisch lernen" the my result #1 used that phrase  exactly one time! It's really hard to read your stuff to the end. That's - for a language school - not really acceptable. You should make me want to read it.

Thats not the reason why you are not ranking well, just bad for readers.

iframes are not seo "unfriendly" - otherwise Google Maps Embeds or youtube embeds would hurt your websites SEO, thats not the truth. Without example I cant say something about your page, but it is "simple" to make sites with iframes visible.

Create enaugh visible stuff wich is unique an has a lot value arround your iframe. Do your "normal" SEO Stuff and done... Avoid sites with iframes only Thats not so much content.

Maybe you know that all - but someone may not and find that here googling for iframes and SEO. A lot of tools are saying: Your website has a problem, u are using iframes... and less people think about why - they just think: Ok, cut it out.

Hi Stacey, I have a lot of Wordpress Sites and there is not "the one solution" 4all, but in general I use categories (dont matter how many for a post, it wont exist more than one time).

I use Tags, but with the YOAST Plugin I make them noindex, and (because it wouldn't be usefull for noindex pages) they aren't in a sitemap.
Just kick them out of a sitemap wouldn't bring that much affect, when the post links to the tags.

There are possibilities to use both and don't change anything. Depends on how many posts you have per tag, if you display 100% of the post in a tag or only a few sentences, maybe a complete other description. Thatswhy there is no "one solution 4 all" but that one is a good solution in many (i guess most) cases.

Hope that helps

When I compare image and web, I can see that image searchers aren't counted as web searchers.
When I check positions, I can see that some search querries of one of my sites are at positions 1.1 to 1.9 based on web and 3.1 to 45.4 based on image search. Thats working - as long as it is picture search vs. web search. And as long as the search querry has no image-box.

Now your question - I checked another side wich has a lot of rankings in image boxes in web search. And I think you are right:

• Search Console is telling me I am on the web at postion 1.1
• When I Google it, my picture is the first one in a picture box at the top of the Results.
• Than there is a website (wich is not mine)
• And finally I am on Positon 2 (Picture Box, other Website, my Website)
• the same with a lot of querries. Google is here counting my image result (first result) in a picture box @ web search.

Tried to find some clients - found one. A search result he simply couldn't have with his website. But he had - it was a picture somewhere in the middle of the SERPs. I also saw that google seems to count each image as one result.

So finally you are right. If you have a Picture somewhere in an Image Box (wich is displayed in a Web Search) is a Web Search Position in Google Search Console.

I only would guess that google can figure it out.

Google has to figure out missspelling, that a "mention"-theory could work. I mean, with my domain intenseo.de I get a lot of mentions from people wich ment intenso. I don't sell USB-Sticks, sorry. So google has to figure out whats the topic arround the mention and the brands shouldn't do the same thing. So if (and I don't believe that) google counts each and every mention (whenever in future) and handle it like a link, google has bigger tasks than brands with slidely or complete different Domain-names.

Nearly the same thing - I work in an agency named bitskin - do you know _bitskins_for CS:GO? Bitskin gets a lot (thousends) of mentions from people wich meant bitskins - not bitskin. In both cases it's just one letter...

The point is: "Google is able to" doesn't mean: "Google will treat each mention...." 
If Google (will) work(s) with mentions, they will now the fine differences, they know missspelling, what people mean and wich brand is ment. If they wouldn't be sure 200% they won't count - Thats what I think.

You shouldn't focus on PR because you don't know him. The PR value we see is last updated in December 2013, over one year old. And Google wouldn't update it again. So don't take PR as goal, would be a bit frusttrating, it wont change.

Take a look at your rankings, organic traffics or - if you want a value depending on links - Domain Authority / Page Authority/ Citation / MozTrust / ... - whatever.

BTW, I really love that google doesn't show us updates of PR, just because a lot of SEOs (and also some clients) I know focused to much on that little number. Thats a wrong way.