Recent content by Conor Treacy

In Google Search Console, is it saying that it was crawled and not indexed? Or something else? Any details when you use the 'inspect the URL' in search console? If you type just your domain into a Google search, does anything return? Try a site:domain.com also.

From what I've read over the years the internal links that point to error pages make Google continue to crawl them and reduce crawl efficiency. So even though you 404 or 410 a page, if there are still internal links to those dead pages, that continues to affect the crawling and how often Google...

I actually hadn't even thought about doing a 410. It makes sense as it would instantly delist it with Google, but we also have a fairly small site relatively speaking. If I had 5k pages, maybe it would be worth it to save crawl budget, but I hadn't considered it for a non-ecommerce site.

For the articles that can be redirected or rewritten, we're doing that. So any of our articles on how to use Schema, content creation, header tags etc, those are all either staying, redirecting or rewritten. But anything that doesn't match what we're doing, we do a strict 404 on it. No...

Hey guys, I don't know if I'm sharing my excitement or my fears on this post :) We're getting ready to purge over 400 articles from our website. Very few of them are going to be redirects, most will actually be a full delete. All of the articles are from 2011 to 2016. They were written in a...

Product schema is a fixed price for an item. Most legal services are not a fixed price item - unless you class maybe setting up an LLC or something that would be fixed price. Everything else falls under service. "Legal Services" not "Legal Product". So for a law firm you'd usually have...

Yoast has a FAQ block that you can use and that will add the schema for you. RankMath has its own schema block too, with expanders, etc. From what I remember, though, didn't Google depreciate the FAQ Schema except for government bodies? I thought there was something a few years ago that they...

Our experience has been that if it's an older post that has been significantly updated, then keeping the old publish date and then the new modified date shows an intent of freshness. Google does look at both published and modified dates. I don't believe they actually look at what data changed...

Thanks for posting! I think it's a better method, but hopefully the business response will carry more weight than a review. If someone asks, "do they have tomato soup?" and I post a QA saying that "we have tomato soup after 2 pm every day" and someone's review says "I went and there is no tomato...

If you want to do things in browsers (incognito too), you should pick up this extension: https://valentin.app/gs-location-changer.html It allows you to enter the city (or long/lat) and then check Google for how something is displaying or ranking. This has been an invaluable tool when doing...

You should be just fine. They're legitimate 404 errors that never existed and shouldn't. You only need to worry about pages that actually existed on your site and then redirect if needed. It's perfectly fine for old pages that you no longer need to also be 404, as long as you're willing to lose...

If you go through the doc, you'll see there's nothing about Page Attribute, or meta tags etc. What the guideline refers to as Title has to do with the title ON the page itself - the H1 or large text at the top of the page. The guidance deals with how it shouldn't be misleading etc. However...

There is nothing in the Google Raters Guidelines regarding Meta Tags or Page Title Attributes. Where the guidelines do come into play with regard to title information is that the text on the page (the header) must not be misleading. The standard over the years has been 50-60 characters is what...

I got the same results as you @codyecp (Searched from New York, Nebraska and California). Something to note is that maybe there are limited places actively doing SEo for dentists in OKC area? When you search for specific procedures, like dental implants, the landscape changes, and each of the...

If you're seeing URLs for pages that never existed, it could be someone else spoofing Google's crawl or someone who created links to then push it on the web. Take one of the URLs, put it into Google Search and see if anything actually shows (site:https://domain.com/webpage/ ) If something...