Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Hi Gaston,  Yes, it does answer the question. Thanks for your response. I will update here if I have any more questions.

Can you elaborate? Are you seeing a specific error in my snippet code?

Thanks Boyd, We appreciate the feedback!

Here are some quick things I noticed for onsite optimation: You don't have any title tags. You need to fix this before anything else. Title tags are very important for onsite optimization. I would noindex all of your tag pages. These are low quality pages and don't need to be indexed. I clicked on at least a dozen blog posts and didn't see one internal link within the content (links pointing to other pages on your site). You should add internal links where it makes sense. Also, there is no way around it; you also need to build a lot more links to rank for some of the phrases that your blog posts are optimized for.

Hi Miriam, Hope you're doing well. Thanks for always answering my questions. Yes, they closed at LAX Los Angeles and many other US cities as well. But they still rank for that location and rank very well. It has been almost 2 months since they stopped their operation at LAX. And to answer your 2nd question yes, we do serve LAX we're not ranking as well as we would like but I was hoping to try to capitalize on this opportunity. One thing to mention that is important is this. Their website does not mention that they no longer serve these locations, in fact their city page still lists these pages as being served. But if you try to get a quote online or even call the phone number you will get a response that we no longer serve this location. The company was sold to a venture capital firm which decided to close some of the unprofitable cities. I reached out to the venture firm to see if it possible to buy their local phone number, customer email list etc but they are not interested in selling those. So I was wondering  what else can I do to get their customers. They have been in business for almost 20 years and they do have a large number of customer lists etc.

There is no need for concern. It's not going to forever taint your site. I've had many pages over the years with no content or with lorem ipsum content get indexed before I was ready to launch. You don't get a penalty, the page just won't rank for anything while it looks that way because it's a crappy page. You could literally do nothing except add the content that you want to the homepage and when Google crawls your site again they'll put the new content in their cache and everything will be fine. But you might as well go to Settings > Reading inside wordpress and check the box next to "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" and hit Save. This will add name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' /> to all your pages and will cause Google to deindex your homepage the next time they come crawling. Just make sure to uncheck that box when you're ready to launch your website.

That's so nice of you. I m waiting for your response.

Thank you I will have a look

You can no-index these pages usually, I wouldn't say that Google considers them thin content pages though as they can be found on any website on the web and they can probably guess that the page isn't relevant for the user anyway. Some pages like thank-you can be no-indexed but in the end, Google shouldn't even be able to visit them as they require you to fill in a form. Overall I would mostly look at the priority of this task, in the end, there is likely a 100+ other things that I would do first in my strategy over no-indexing pages that have low relevance.

Thanks for the reply. I'll check out the links you included. I thought it might be helpful to show an example of what got me thinking along these lines. This is a study about A/B testing of title tag changes. They don't say they accounted for position fluctuation; maybe they didn't, but it seems like you'd have to in order to have meaningful results. https://www.rankscience.com/coderwall-seo-split-test

Can you share with the scree shot?

The canonical version of the page is the only one that gets indexed and only an indexed page can pass link authority. In this case, only www.mysite.com would be passing link authority.

Thanks, that's really helpful!

Thanks!

Thank you for your detailed reply.  The information you gave if very helpful. I will have a look at all this and make the necessary changes.

Can you explain better your case, please?