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UK vs US: Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user

Hi there, I have a website working in different markets, but especially UK and US. Both .co.uk (UK currency £) and .com (US currency $) sites have historically been very similar in terms of pages, structure, layout, content, etc. The news section - which is a massive portion of the site - is completely duplicate, and due to the website set up, we cannot make them different other than the URL and canonicals. Technically, everything is correctly setup - self-referencing canonicals, hreflang across the main service site and news section, different schema markup for UK and US, open graph and metadata. Content wise, English has been American for both sites in the past - now different with local focus for each, on the main service pages. It remains duplicate in the news sections as cannot be de-duplicated. The problem is that since November last year, Google is considering the US site as the canonical version of the UK site - therefore some UK clicks and impressions started being reporte...
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Chinese factory new to SEO — need help figuring out GEO/AEO strategy for our portable printer brand

Hey everyone, We're a small factory from China that makes mini pocket printers. Right now we mostly sell on Amazon, but we want to build our own website and do SEO/GEO so people can find us directly. The problem is... we have no idea where to start. There's so much information online and it's all confusing. If you were starting from zero for a small gadget brand targeting the US and Europe, what would be your first 3 things to do? We're not looking for some fancy advanced strategy — just the basics that actually matter for beginners. Any advice is really appreciated. Thanks! submitted by /u/Hot-Safety4082 [link] [comments] from The SEO Authority https://ift.tt/COl8bZq
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What automations or tasks have you set up or are currently using in ChatGPT or Codex?

Hey everyone, Given a bit of education background in AI and working in digital marketing I am leaning more towards getting the most of scheduled actions or tasks on ChatGPT work / codex . I came across a lot of stuff on X and on YouTube which are good but they falls short somewhere or not that reliant when dealing with or working with some actual business or clients. So far I only had 2-3 scheduled tasks setup which includes -Reporting & research work using Ahrefs MCP -Competitor research using Ahrefs MCP ( yes if feed the comp URLs) -Generating content plans using GSC & Ahrefs MCP data - (Not related ) - but I also do use Meta Ads MCP and this works great to give me daily performance reports of meta ads. I know these are more kind of at a basic level which I feel and so thought of asking what other automations have you been using ? So that I may think of more further ideas It can be Claude cowork or any ai tools but that must be something which actually provides some v...
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GSC not updated for 14 days, is that normal?

I'm only starting to do some SEO, so sorry if I am asking something stupid. But I have noticed that GSC shows last updated 14 days ago. Page traffic updated normally, website has visitors. Is that normal for GSC? submitted by /u/DoomCross [link] [comments] from The SEO Authority https://ift.tt/8xH137a
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I applied basic SEO to my browser game and it hit number one on Google within two days

Built a little browser game, threw it online, and got almost nothing from search. So I spent an afternoon actually doing the on page SEO properly. Two days later it's sitting at number one. Here's exactly what I did, and the honest caveat at the bottom because I know this sub will ask. What I actually changed: Rewrote the title tag and meta description to match real search intent instead of clever branding Added full JSON-LD structured data (VideoGame schema) so Google knows what it is Proper Open Graph and Twitter card tags with a real preview image, so shared links pull a clean thumbnail Semantic HTML and one clear H1 that says what the thing is Sitemap.xml and a clean robots.txt, submitted in Search Console Requested indexing manually instead of waiting around Canonical tag to kill duplicate URL versions The part people underrate: It's on Cloudflare's edge, so it loads basically instantly worldwide. No cookie banners, no bloat, no render blocking junk ...
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