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Google Treats Some Subdomains as Single Site, Not Multiple Sites

February 29, 2016 at 4:20 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Treats Some Subdomains as Single Site, Not Multiple Sites

There has been a pretty fierce debate in the SEO industry on the issue of subdomains versus directories, and in what kind of situation websites should use each kind.  But John Mueller made another interesting comment in the most recent Google Webmaster Office Hours. The question was a longer complicated question about the use of […]

Triggering Manual Action Won’t Fix Algorithmic Search Issues in Google

February 29, 2016 at 4:10 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Triggering Manual Action Won’t Fix Algorithmic  Search Issues in Google

Normally SEOs don’t set out to trigger a Google manual action unless they are specifically testing something.  But Gary Illyes was asked an interesting question on Twitter.  If a site had some kind of algorithmic penalty, would causing a manual action, then fixing it, cause the algorithmic issue to be lifted? As you can imagine, […]

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