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The pendant is not the necklace. It's an accessory related to the pendant. So I do not think of it as a variation. If the page is just about the necklace, I would limit the use of "pendant" on the page. I'd still use it sparingly as it's a related entity.

Have you run a Cora report? That would give you a better indication as it looks at multiple factors that can affect ranking.

You still see a lot of scams out there today. Some course/product/service providers produce things KNOWING that they don't work well (if they work at all). And you still see new SEOs posting in groups "I just got a client in the [name] industry. How should I rank them?" These charlatans give...

Happy to help. It turned into a really interesting problem!

Bingbot comes through for me. Ping me and we can compare configurations.

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I agree with Mantas. A lot of 404's is a problem. Potentially it's a site quality issue. At a minimum, it's hard on the crawl budget as Google will return to these pages over and over and over. I'd 301 all of these to an internal page that distributes any juice to a lot of pages - an html...

Let's keep it civil. People have been looking for the easy way forever. It's wired into that reptilian portion of our brains. SEOs are people. So yeah, most are gonna try to find the magic easy button. But in my opinion, black hat is more about rebellion against the rules. But there are a lot...

Alex - there are many possible causes of this issue. I'd suggest starting with this . . . Often the old URL persists because it still has internal links to it. Run a Screaming Frog crawl on the site and fix EVERY link that goes to the old URL. Most of the time this corrects the issue and fixes...

"Is the Google AI Mode intended to replace the traditional Google search?" Here's my 2 cents . . . Google has a tightrope to walk. If Google were to replace the SERPs with AI responses, content producers would block Google from accessing new content. Google would then only be able to get new...

You need to get the old 301'd pages recrawled so that Google processes the 301. No crawl, no removal from the index. Big tip (from Charles): you need to make sure the 301'd URLs do not appear on ANY page of the site. If Google finds an internal link going to the URL, it will remain in the index.

Go buy a new domain as a test site. Try the crazy things. Test what you think matters. Test what you think has NO SHOT at working. Measure the results. You will find over time that much of what you believe is false or doesn't impact things nearly as much as you think. That helps break the...

Run a Screaming Frog crawl and see if you have some malformed backlinks to those pages.

Like all SEO questions . . . it depends. But GeoffM is correct. First you check if the site is toxic. Point it at a page on a site you don't care about and see if the page moves or disappears. Assuming it's not toxic, then you need to determine what to do based on things like: - Did the site...

Great question! I have no idea of the answer but . . . If I had to guess I would say that each subdomain has its own crawl budget. Subdomains are treated as different sites by Google. Likely each subdomain has its own budget based on its size and history. For example LeesNewSite.tumblr.com is...