Hi ramb,

It's totally fine to have different robots.txt files for different subdomains.
Thus said, http://domain.com and http://www.domain.com are different subdomains. Consider the one with non-www as the full root domain.

In case it is needed, here you have Google's official resource about robots.txt: 
Learn about Robots.txt file - Search Console help

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
Gast

Hello Jaro,

What Andy says is right, im backing him up. Remember to not include that URL in the sitemap.

Also is a good moment to say that with the robots.txt you just tell google bot not no follow it, that differs from indexing it. There are cases where URLs are indexed instead of being "blocked" in the robots.txt.

The fine way stop google from indexing a certain URL would be adding the meta robots tag including a noindex atribute.
Here there a quote from the Webmaster central help forum in Google:

If you block a file from crawling and Google discovers a URL for that file on another site, it may still index the file using whatever information it can find, even though crawling is blocked. So robots.txt disallow does not necessarily stop something being indexed.
(in the ets answer, a note below the Disallow part)

Hope it's clarifying.
Best luck.
GR.

Hi Ryan,

In 2019 already, EMD domains didn't help at all. I wouldn't expect that this will help you rank better.
Google also said it almost 3 years ago (well it was John Mueller, not Google in its resources): Exact Match Domains Don't Get Magic Ranking Bonus.

My advice to you is that you focus on creating good content and help it with good user experience. Some topic related backlinks could probably help.
Don't leave out of sight what your competitors are doing and their overall site and SEO performance on that searches.

Hope it helps,
Best luck.
Gaston

Hi Kris,

This brings a bigger question: Why do you need a 20 point increase ?

You MUST know that having higher metrics will not make you rank higher. It will increase the chances of ranking higher and impress your clients/supervisors.
In my opinion, you should not focus in metrics, such as PA or DA. Focus in doing what google wants.

To answer your questions, just get (somehow) links with higher PA/DA than your page and make your link profile to have more and more of those links. Timeline? a few per week for the entire life.
Remember, moz's metrics look at the most, the backlinks pointing to your page and the links in the pages related to the backlink and you website... So the key in Moz' s metrics: BACKLINKS!

Hope I've helped.
GR.

Hi there!

There are some theories that include a single H1 as a best practice.
Although, a few months ago, google said that its just fine to have several H1 tags.
My site's template has multiple H1 tags - Google Webmasters Youtube Channel

Of course, those multiple H1 tags must be correctly used. Google does understand those tags and comprehends whether are correctly used. Try using h2, h3 or other, as long as the content requieres them.
Your principal concern should be creating exceptional content, not having more than one H1 tag.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi Jonathan,

I think there werent any MozCon Local this year. Only the main event: MozCon 2018.
I believe that you have found that, but anyway: The MozCon 2018 Video Bundle

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Sorry to hear that.

Its possible that googlebot still didnt find out that you've changed noindex tag.
Would you mind checking what does the _Inspect URL _tool report? 
To find that, go to the new version of Search Console and enter one of that URL that should be indexed in the textbox. 
Then clic on the "test live URL" button. This image could be helpful: https://imgur.com/a/CPvfwif

There you might get a hint of what is going on.

Hi there,

tldr; There is no importance.

I have 2 things to say:

1. In 2009 there was a post and a video stating that Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking.
   Post, Video
2. Personally, I believe that there's no reason to use them. There are a lot of "experts" that say you may not be 100% optimized using meta keywords. Other directly say that you will me penalized. As Google says it is not used, just dont use it.

Another idea is that this tag is public, so you may be saying publicly to your competitors what are your important keywords.

Best Luck.
GR.

Hi there,

Yes, what you are seeing in your web browsers are personalized results, the same for everyone searching for that specific keyword.

The most reliable way to track the average position is with GSC, but you have to keep in mind that:

• Those results are for a specific country and for users that google chose to collect data.
• That metrics depends on the selected date and for the type of search(web, mobile, desktop, etc).
• From day to day positions can change rapidly.
• The last position you might find in GSC is at least from yesterday and might be different from today's ranking.

My advice here is to rely on GSC and/or use a private tracking tool to compare, such as Moz's rank tracking tool.

Hope it helps,
Best luck.
Gaston

Can you post what was the issue? (without telling the web)

What do you think about the update that was informed some days after your answer?
It's showed in the WMT console:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6211453#search_analytics

Hi Pervaiz,

The redirection 301 that you're planning to do might improve your SEO.

On one hand, you must be certain that those 400 links that are in the old domain have some quality and are good for your main site.
I do recommend you to check them over somt platmforms, like OSE or Ahrefs.

On the other hand, in my experience making redirections like that were a pain. Remember that the momento that you set the redirect 301, all the links will be pointing to you URL, that makes a ton of new links to the final URL. I may be something that causes harm to your linkbuilding history.

Hope it helps.
GR.