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Duplicate Meta Tags Due to Paginated Pages Index

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I recently identified the SCG blog posts had duplicate meta tags issues. It is identified by the technical SEO discussion with the SEO industry person about the topic “Pagination”. During the discussion I said, the paginated pages should be indexed . After my discussion, I deep dive on the topic and analysed the paginated pros and cons. The SCG blog posts duplicate meta tags issues is technical problem, it is occurred because paginated pages were indexable. Mostly the paginated pages essentially add no value despite being indexed on SERP. Pagination is a clever way of distributing content across pages and users may even click those pages to discover the content. However, on SERP they bear the same meta tags and context as they did on the level 1 page. Consequently, issues like keyword cannibalization, duplicate content cluster, and index bloat arise. Aiming to improve the bot experience on the site blog posts, I non-indexed and followed all the paginated pages encountered. Be...

Alternate Page With Proper Canonical Tag

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Recently noticed the “ Alternate Page with Proper Canonical Tag ” status message for our SCG page - https://scgroup.global/blog/security/ in Google Search Console. It means that there are two versions of a page on our website having the same canonical URL . Google will simply exclude the duplicate version and index the main version of the page. Original Version – Front End: Original Version – Back End: Duplicate Version – Front End:   Duplicate Version – Back End: This page is https://scgroup.global/blog/security/ a duplicate of a page that Google recognizes as canonical. This page correctly points to the canonical page, so there is nothing for us to do. Google Excludes the duplicate version : https://scgroup.global/blog/security/ Google Indexed the main version of the page : https://scgroup.global/facility/security/

How Reinstate Suspended Google Business Profile Listing – Realtime incidents

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We received an email from Google business profile support team about our profile has been suspended just after uploading the image and post in our Google business profile.   Google will not give you a precise explanation for the suspensions, all we can do is to try to figure out what the reasons might be based on the guidelines to represent a business on Google. https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177 What we changed right before our listing was suspended: We have uploaded an image and Google post – it is completely related to our business. For reinstate, we have removed the image and post which is before our listing was suspended from our GBP Wetherill Park location and checked our "Info" section, the Google profile is OK now. We have submitted a reinstatement form on 11.08.2022 and case Id: [9-8387000033154]. But reinstatement was denied, below is the reply from Google business profile team (It takes three weeks).   “Thank you for contacting the Google Busi...