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This has affected some 100+ pages, is there any plugin to do this? We are on Wordpress.

Connect site to Ahrefs crawl. Connect it with search console. Run an audit. It'll give you report of all the slow pages. Check the images individually from there  ( If there are any)

• Convert all the images in webp format; this will reduce the image size to good quality. There are many plug-ins available for the same.
• Minify all java scripts, CSS and HTML files. That will reduce the download size for the browser. 
• Identify any large file, and it’s format on your webpage and try to reduce its size or try to load that resource in last. 

+1 <@U03GX83LJD7>. But deal with minifying JS &amp; Css only when you know what you're doing. Or else it'll break the structure of site

if they address the same or a similar target audience, go for it!

it becomes more than just seo then; it is like piggybacking on their site to extend your reach :slightly_smiling_face:

Go for collaboration. Ask yourself "What is in it for them?" Leads? Backlinks? Traffic? And what about the content? Are you going to use the same content (which is not recommended) or a canonical URL? How are you going to introduce the topic? Perhaps do a joint webinar/interview to warm up the reader. It is not scalable but could be worth pursuing if you think about its distribution.

Hi,

Good morning. You can reach out to me.

Try Sitebulb. It will automatically give you a list of technical fixes on your blog

Pretty easy to setup

<https://sitebulb.com/seofomo/>

Hey Manvi ! feel free to ping me if you need anyhelp regarding Tech SEO Part

<@U030SDYNX7V> can you share more details on this? What do you want to achieve?

Do the website has multiple language version of the site?

1. &lt;link data-react-helmet="true" rel="alternate" href="<https://www.upskillist.com/>" hreflang="x-default"&gt;
 2. &lt;link data-react-helmet="true" href="<https://www.upskillist.com/>" rel="alternate"  hreflang="x-default"&gt;

between 1 and 2 by changing order does it matter?

The sequence doesn’t matter as there is no such guideline provided by the W3.

But the browser will read the HTML code line by line, and using the <https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.3.3|standard template> will help the browser decode the relationship of the linked URL or Document first.

ex - <https://www.websitebuilderinsider.com/>

yeah. Also another example is DelightChat

<https://webflow.com/blog/programmatic-seo>

Haha I know <@U04B562U0PL> very well. But we haven’t done YouTube seo as a standalone service. 

Thanks for the tag <@U030SDYNX7V> we are working with sneha and beaconstac team on paid side. 

<@U031NC9B67L> :sweat_smile: Let's talk soon!

YouTube SEO can be a subset of the normal seo on page and backlink activities. The process is similar. Is the requirement still open?

<@U036DTKS6KX> On-page agreed. Backlinks, not at all. The most important factors IMO - CTR through discovery in the first 24 hours, Retention rate

And the thumbnail. YouTube is all about showmanship. So, the thumbnail should pique curiosity. Think of the YouTube thumbnail as a movie poster - from afar it should appeal to a viewer to click that. Also, the title and description should be awesome -  Use keywords in it, refer your other content URLs in it, answer every query, acknowledge every comment, and your videos will do well. YouTube SEO is not complicated - it is a logical series of steps similar to what we do for any search engine.

```<https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratieksawhney/>```


Please refrain from posting self promotional posts here. <@U02PDC6B0HH>

What if I post a guide on how it was achieved? to be a bit specific?

Post like the above add zero value to the community

I'll change the Title, and content and post a guide, (i.e that's how helpful content update works ):eyes:

The better way imo would be to organize a knowledge sharing season with like minded or interested folks and recording can be made available for all. <@U02PDC6B0HH> <@U02PDC4883V> your thoughts?

<@U03V03CE75K> - this is nothing but muscle flexing. Better do that in front of a mirror and not here. :smile:

Agreed <@U030SDYNX7V> - <@U03V03CE75K> ideally you could share the posts on <#C0318NH5G3C|> or conduct a session

Right mods, <#C0318NH5G3C|> sounds like a good idea

<https://www.s11s.club/rules> refer to this please. We have the rules written down and we do encourage everyone here to help improve them over time.

<@U03V03CE75K> - I remember you'd posted similar stuff in the past. And we had asked you to take it down. While we appreciate your kind understanding. We request you to follow the rules as everyone else. And not repeat it further. Thanks! :pray:

Not passing the link juice / letting crawlers know not to follow that source

noindex - to not index your website on search engine

nofollow - to not follow your linked webpage

in my case <http://in.upskillist.com|in.upskillist.com> they have set this up for <https://in.upskillist.com/signup/?courseId=photography-21>

Yep usually websites do this. You don't want search engines to index these urls + also helps avoid brute force / Chinese pages hacks

If users search for the “BRAND-NAME signup” queries the signup page should appear for them in SERP. Indexing recommended.

Yep, should do it. You've got your login page indexed

another fun puzzle :slightly_smiling_face:

this is GSC for <http://upskillist.com|upskillist.com> (domain property)

apply the filters at page level. Compare custom - day before spike and day after spike

Also head over to the indexing report and check if any new pages got indexed

thanks <@U03V03CE75K> found the culprit :slightly_smiling_face:

So, <@U030SDYNX7V> do you think I can create my own masterclass? :eyes: I promise I made millions, and this course values over $10,000 but today I'll be offering just for 499rs

YouTube pe daal seo optimize and make money from ad man

subdomains are considered as separate standalone site. As long as there is no technical constrain, I'd prefer later (<http://xyz.com/blogs|xyz.com/blogs>) any day.

Why though <@U02VAM808KV>? For the ease of seo purposes or any other reasons?

Sub folder performs much better for SEO than subdomain 

Unless you have a specific goal, such as events or different geographic locations, or you have huge website with lots of content, it is better to use a subfolder than subdomain. Disney is one such example. 
There’s nothing wrong in using subdomains but it could possibly take much longer to see results unlike subfolders. 

The only thing that would differ would be tracking. If you don't want to go through search console reports and filters a lot, you can choose a subdomain. Subfolder or subdomain don't affect seo

But I would prefer subfolders, reason - better silos

Thanks <@U02PDC6B0HH> <@U0325QQQALR> and <@U03V03CE75K> for your inputs. Appreciate it :pray:

if you already have a web property which has a good number of pages etc, go with the same domain. otherwise i dont think it matters much

I chatted with Tim Hanson <https://fivethreeoh.com/> who suggested the same thing - go for <http://xyz.com/blogs|xyz.com/blogs>

This Semrush article suggests it's hard to be absolutely certain that one is better than the other, but ultimately recommends subfolder
<https://www.semrush.com/blog/subdomain-vs-subdirectory/>

Yep, Tim's a great man. Has a great LinkedIn post on finding content ideas

• Keep it short, and just make sure that variation or exact keyword appears in the url. 
• Avoid using numbers and years

So in this budget 8-10 authority pieces you mean?

Dude you're kidding right? For $10,000 you can produce "Best" Content for 2 quarters

Oh sorry, got the number wrong when I calculated based on INR...

Beyond content, I was also thinking of audit, link building etc

Again, confirming the budget. Is it 10,000 inr?

Yep, content it is. Links are expensive. Get an audit in the beginning, the person will layout the existing fixes that need to be made + will layout a strategy for upcoming months. Get a writer to write all the pieces that are suggested, once all pieces are published hire back the audit person to optimize the new pieces. Or simply outsource this to an agency

I love this idea of outsourcing it to an agency, and for that you just have to DM me :smile:

hey look at <#C02S4318139|> channel, i remember seeing quite a few related openings recently

Hi Rajesh. Recently my colleague was searching for SEO position. Kindly dm me, I will make an introduction. 

Hey Rajesh! Exactly the role we are hiring for. DM me please

Hey Rajesh,
Please share your resume/cover letter at <mailto:rebels@sureaboutshor.com|rebels@sureaboutshor.com>

hey , we are hiring, drop an email to <mailto:akshita.j@thesocialtribe.co|akshita.j@thesocialtribe.co> and <mailto:chris@thesocialtribe.co|chris@thesocialtribe.co>

Imho its a terrible idea as you would be overriding the session source of traffic

I won't suggest doing it. Although it will help you with tracking, while performing audits you'll have tons of variants of the same URLs due to the tags. And believe me it's a bit frustrating. Apart from tracking, no SEO benefit

Then how do you guys track internal links. Aren't itm parameters just a custom version of utm tags that one can create in Google Analytics? I read some post about them a few months ago and some organizations do that.

<@U046JQLA603> Till date, I've implemented and used it only on 1 website:sweat_smile:. Most of the internal links report that I need ( Seo perspective) are from Screaming frog and Ahrefs webmasters and also search console

<@U046JQLA603> Google advises against doing this. Atleast John Muller does. It's absolutely terrible to manage canonicals for Google and for you with this set up. 

According to him link authority can get distributed among utm and non utm urls, which can affect rankings. You might start seeing internally linked urls with utms as separate urls in the search console.

Definitely wouldn't recommend utm tags for internal links. If you'd like to track your internal links' performance, you can use the behavior flow report in GA

Understood. Thank you guys for your suggestions.

<@U034WGLASMA>, this is a violation right? I remember you encountered something similar. Sorry Upsana, don't know much about Google ads ( I'll be learning it this year, part of my new year's resolution)  Coming to the SEO part, if you've got resources double down on everything that's already working for them. Get a list of all their best performing pages and content and get it done. Try to outrank them for all the pages that you don't have. Considering that you've got a decent domain age and search presence. This should not take much time.

Trademark your brand name. It's going to limit their impressions (by more than 80%) and ad eligibility

As long as you have a trademark registered for the name, it's a violation. Talk to your legal team and the Google team - they will help. 

If not, it's actually pretty legal to use the name in the ad copies. To combat you could

1) Double down on Organic efforts as <@U03V03CE75K> pointed out. 
2) if you have the budget run ads on your brand KW
3) If you have the budget run ads on your competition KW

Might be noob question but how do we identify from our end that whether trademark is registered for brand name or not?

Most countries have a search portal. 
India: <https://ipindiaonline.gov.in/tmrpublicsearch/frmmain.aspx|https://ipindiaonline.gov.in/tmrpublicsearch/frmmain.aspx>
US: <https://trademark-search.marcaria.com/en/america/united-states-trademark-search|https://trademark-search.marcaria.com/en/america/united-states-trademark-search>


Thanks for all the prompt responses!! This is super helpful

Adding to this-
1. Trademarks work on a regional level.
    a. If you trademark it in India, it won't
2. Trademarks don't stop ads. They just increase CPC required.
    a. Not being able to use your name= Low quality score = Higher CPC required to rank + limited delivery.
    b. Running ads on your brand will make it MUCH more expensive for them.
3. They can try to miss spell your name and continue running ads with a lower CPC.
    a. This is a violation and you can &amp; should report this.

Search console :white_check_mark:, Or Ahrefs

Ahrefs, Semrush should be able to provide this data

I have checked on Ahrefs. They do need a higher plan to go 2years back. Haven't checked GSC yet for this.

GSC is best , compare data from last 2 years to this previous year ..

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Over a period of time, Google removes pages that are irrelevant or the pages that have less engagement. So, in effect, Google is retaining your best performing pages. Most of your earlier clicks may have come from these “best performing pages” and that’s why the clicks haven’t reduced.

thanks for the clarification :slightly_smiling_face:

there are 3 types of RCA you can do for troubleshooting this:

• funnel analysis (run a before after impression to CTR report for different pages and keywords)
• cohort analysis (run a day wise report for both keywords and pages and see which dates are the issue, from your graph this looks most likely case, maybe you were hit by a google update or a technical glitch at your end)
• segment analysis (run a geo level report for keywords and pages and see where you see this drop the maximum)
doing the above 3 will help you triangulate on the real issue. remember the above approach for any future RCA.

majority of our traffic is from brand keywords

there impressions have stayed the same - but CTR increased from like 20-25% to 35%

do all 3 analysis to be really sure of the actual problem

also one of the subdomains is suffering from japanese keyword attack? Does it cause impact across subdomains?

not if you include "i ruvv sushi" somewhere in your landing page

Hi Rajesh - it is basically to retire the domain. The domain will no longer exist or will be redirected to different site or link

Can you please elaborate on this? I know the Kw vol is available for YouTube search in Ahref.. 

Or are you suggesting I see the serp list for the keywords that I want to target?

Yep, if you have the list of keywords. Just search for them and enable the serp features tab with videos

1. Nope doesn't count as duplicate. You're free to make as many stories you want on the same topic/keyword. If you're talking about copying the content directly to web stories, I won't suggest that.
2. Yep, for stories you can use /web-stories/xyz

I tried using web-stories, results weren't great. Is Google still promoting it?

this is for <#C0318NH5G3C|>

<@U02PDC6B0HH>

Plz share your CV: <mailto:chirayu@leena.ai|chirayu@leena.ai>

Hi guys, are there any link builders in this community? If yes I’d love to collaborate, please DM

try this: <https://saijogeorge.com/json-ld-schema-generator/faq/>

<@U02UTKLHSTW> Tried this one but it's for manual generation. What would you recommend: schema generated using Plugin or manually generated schema?

We have about 100+ pages so we are leaning more towards automatic generation of schema. Besides, we haven't had any success with Rankmath plugin.

Hi <@U046JQLA603> 
Disclaimer, I work for WordLift, that has a WordPress plugin for adding various schema types. FAQs are something we play with daily! :) 
We also train models(LLM) custom for each website, to generate FAQs at scale. Happy to chat more, if this piqued your interest. 

<@U046JQLA603> I'm just curious when you meant rankmath didn't work

<@U03V03CE75K> so we are using customized wordpress design and for some reasons, rankmath is not generating schema automatically even when all settings are configured.

<@U046JQLA603> <https://technicalseo.com/tools/schema-markup-generator/|https://technicalseo.com/tools/schema-markup-generator/>

Not an agency, but can recommend <@U03V03CE75K>

<http://Growfusely.com|Growfusely.com> - not based out of Delhi tho.

Hi <@U03HQL70DAM>, sent you DM :slightly_smiling_face:

<http://Visiner.com|Visiner.com> based on noida

Hi Harshini - how many pages fall into the bucket of 'crawled but not indexed'. It does happen sometimes. There is an option to request for reindexing

Interestingly when I got to the individual pages it’s not even been crawled. I’ve requested 2 pages to be indexed one being the homepage. I assumed if it crawls the homepage it will index all linking pages as well but that didn’t happen. It indexed only the homepage :joy: 

Alright. Can you check meta tags are not set to noindex, nofollow?

And indexing typically takes a few days. So give it sometime

Yea I've done the basic checks. there's no nofollow. I've been doing SEO for many years now but never faced an issue like this. I submitted the sitemap more than a month ago it's still not crawled

Hi <@U03T51KGLAG>, now that you have done all the basic checks, also try adding an internal link from other pages(if performing pages then great) to the not-indexed ones. As relevant of course. Another opportunity for crawlers to come across the pages. 

If it's crawled not indexed, check for the quality of content. By quality I mean is the information/structure similar to what you find on thousands of other pages that are already indexed.

Thanks <@U0325QQQALR> and <@U03V03CE75K> for your suggestions. To set some context, its a brand new website and with a new domain since it's being set up for the first time. It's for a small organisation so there aren't many pages right now. Here's the website link to give you some idea: <http://silkdesigns.co>

My only hunch is that content is a little less. But that can't even be the problem right now since search console says that the sitemap was read but there were 0 discoverable pages. So Not sure what's going wrong there cause the sitemap is working fine. Checked it multiple times. I'm using Yoast SEO so it's the auto generated sitemap that I am using.
Also when I check the individual page, it shows last crawled as NA so I don't think its not being indexed due to low content or bad technical stuff. It looks like something is wrong at a more fundamental level.

Let me know what you think

In that case, especially if there aren’t many pages, you can manually request indexing like Srikanth said, and ensure there are internal links to the page. 

Hmm yea so I've already manually requested for 2 pages. One (the homepage) is indexed and linked to all other pages, but the other pages didn't get recognized. This site is going to have blog articles launched soon, and I'm worried that this issue will continue, so I'm trying to solve it at the root to avoid this in the future

The homepage is indexed <@U03T51KGLAG>, use the site: operator

Yes yes, that's what I mentioned na.. I manually indexed that

<@U03T51KGLAG> Only the homepage is indexed? How long has it been since the site has been live?

Have you submitted - <https://silkdesigns.co/page-sitemap.xml> ?

Yes, I've submitted the parent sitemap which is <https://silkdesigns.co/sitemap_index.xml> and the page sitemap is under the index one

In one case I have seen sitemaps having a no-index command at the very top. If I’m not wrong when crawlers encounter this, the entire list of URLs are skipped. Not sure if this is relevant for you, worth checking. 

Just checked, doesn't seem to be the problem. There's no noindex on the sitemap

The site is mobile friendly as per the testing tool. So that’s good. Which pages aren’t indexed from these? I checked 3 from Pages list, they are crawled. 

Blog is indexed too*

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Performance can be improved. Some sources site this could hinder indexing. JavaScript issues are common. 

<@U0325QQQALR> where did you check the indexing?

<@U03T51KGLAG> Googles mobile friendly testing tool. It showed last crawl was today. 

That's really weird <@U0325QQQALR> cause search console is still showing indexed as 1

Ok also realised search console data is 2 days backdated.. so maybe it will reflect in a few days

No. Not pagespeed. Sorry my bad, not indexed data but crawled. 

• <https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly/result?id=2SEnJIKYgfM7Tsl6siuOBw|https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly/result?id=2SEnJIKYgfM7Tsl6siuOBw>
• <https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly/result?id=LAb43sVWsUTi1JgpdExZKQ|https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly/result?id=LAb43sVWsUTi1JgpdExZKQ>

Yes, the crawl info mentioned on mobile friendly tool is just the info of when the test was run.

Right! These were two potential factors some sources cited could be issues. So checked! :raised_hands: 

If you domain is new then your website is in now sandbox period and if you guy's produce content poor then this is initial not good signal for you..pls check Canonical and also resubmit your sitemap in google...and be patience within a month your website start getting indexing and crawling

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It collects site's name from various sources. Most probably Branded mentions and links. Try implementing the website schema - <https://schema.org/WebSite>