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You are right about the additional accounting task.  We mainly didn't like the delays between the transaction occurring and approvals.  And, some transactions were approved and then, the next day, after the package was 1/2 way to the customer, we were told not to ship. You are also right about customers wanting PayPal.  The ones using a mobile device especially like it because they don't have to type in credit card and address details.

Hi Megan,  Bit slow on responses sorry - thanks to the festive season haha. The answers were exactly what I was looking for.  Marked as answered. Cheers, K

You should not have too. However if you are concerned this has not been picked up then go right ahead - it won't hurt matters. The reason I mentioned the sitemap in the last post is if your sitemap has the updated URL included, you're already submitting the index request that way, no need to manually do it again. You can also search using site: and see if the page has been indexed/updated with the new URL yet.

HI Martijn, I used Screaming Frog and it finds the H1.   I tried moving my content around on my page putting the H1 at the very top and the IIS tool found it.  Sadly I can't really do that in production but at least I know what IIS dislikes. I suspect this is a bug in the IIS tool as it doesn't seem to bother Google.   Its tragedy that the IIS tool seems to be dying on the vine.

Thank you for your help, I'll get the technical team to look at this.

Thanks guys, The client has presence in over 200 countries? Does it mean the client should implement 200 lines of hreflangs? The sitemap route appears to be ideal in that case. Thanks, Asad

I see your site is running SSL - are you sure you are looking at a search console profile setup for https? Is the sitemap submitting https now after a switch or vice versa?

Rather than creating an extra page to alert users on the brand change, why not use some kind of on page cue for the new home page to alert users. Common options are Top or bottom of page alert bars modal popup hero image or temporary homepage treatment Use these cues to alert users of the change and invite them to manually browse your page with more detail about the transition.

You're welcome. Hope it worked out for you. You can mark this as answered if the problem is solved.

Hi There, I do agree with Martijn that this does not appear to be keyword stuffing of the content, I do not think this would cause any issues. However, I did notice that the meta keywords tag is extremely over-optimized, this could be considered keyword stuffing/spamming. The meta keywords tag does not provide any value, major search engines abandoned it as a ranking factor years ago. However, it is possible this is sending spam signals. Google states that they ignore the meta keywords tag, but Bing has acknowledged that they review this tag as a spam signal. I noticed that many pages contain meta keyword tags that are fairly 'stuffed', I would recommend removing these or significantly decreasing the keyword usage in these tags. Example: Screaming Frog Screenshot

I don't use social.  If you make content like what is described above, the visitors to your website will share it on social for you. It is easy to describe what is above, but difficult to pull it off.  If you want to see examples of this type of content just visit the Moz.com blog.  It takes this type of content to be published there. Again, these links are valuable.... https://moz.com/blog/why-good-unique-content-needs-to-die-whiteboard-friday https://moz.com/blog/how-to-create-10x-content-whiteboard-friday

Thank you!

Thanks for your help, Carson! I just realized that I put in http://example.com while using Open Site Explorer. When I searched for http://www.example.com, I received the result with PA 29. Once Moz tech support rep told me that in ranking results, only the best optimized page is shown for a particular keyword. I'm doing optimization for an appliance repair company and some time ago we created area pages (burbank-appliance-repair.html, etc.) for area based services (like burbank appliance repair, for example). I decided to promote area based services through our blog and created respective blog posts (post for Burbank Appliance repair, etc) I made sure to delete all previous area pages links but I didn't delete area pages from server. And they are still shown in Moz ranking results as pages for my high ranking keywords. Do you think that those pages are really better optimized and I should go back to them? My blog posts are also shown for some keywords in ranking results, but not for highly ranking area based services keywords...

Thanks Tymen, Anthony - that helps a lot. It is indeed - domain.com/post-title (no category in url) so I am safe to clean up the site without repercussions. Better to learn this lesson now than down the line. Cheers!

Hi Kirupa, I'm not sure I understand what you mean regarding 'wrong' information. If it's something you're seeing in your Moz Local dashboard, please definitely contact our Helpsters at help@moz.com.

Hi Daniel! Thanks for your question. It's kind of hard to know what's going on without seeing your site. Feel free to PM it to me. There's definitely a chance that this is the case, but if it's happening with Yoast it is likely a configuration issue on your site not with Yoast's technology. You may need to adjust your tag permalinks within your WordPress admin so that the URLs are correct in your sitemaps. John

While I agree with EGOL, I'd also do two more things: Check to see if the same issue happens when going to the organization's site when you are at home or somewhere other than work. It could also be an issue because of your office's security settings. Regarding if Google will penalize you, no. If it's a paid listing (eg you're getting listing only because you paid) then it's a bit more of a grey area, but it's also a legit association and so I wouldn't worry about it to be honest. If you are worried about it, then you could always ask for it to be nofollowed. But as I said, I think this is a case where a followed link is totally fine and no search quality reviewer would bat an eye at it.