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Thanks Kate! I didn't know that about the Facebook relationship. I'm seeing some improvement, and it looks like it's due to changes like the ones you're mentioning. It's like Bing/Yahoo are just a couple years behind and are still using factors Google has moved past or doesn't pay as much attention to.

I agree with ntcma that there are gains to be had if you wish to retain their existing clients, brand, etc., but are you looking to just sweep them out of the way in Google altogether? What is your preferred scenario? -Andy

Not sure about the & (That doesn't mean it's not true) however if you are interested in search operators have a look here on Moz : http://moz.com/blog/25-killer-combos-for-googles-site-operator If you want to know how many pages are indexed by Google then use the WMT here http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Unfortunately, it's a bit of a black box right now. The timing is unclear (it's usually not immediate for the information to go from Wikipedia to Freebase to Knowledge Graph), but a couple of notes: (1) If you can, make a direct edit to Freebase. I'm not sure how/when the Wikipedia to Freebase transfer happens. (2) Definitely get the information into another source, like Google+. Google seems to look for multiple sources, whenever possible. Andrew Isidoro has some great posts on the subject (and he's one of the only people writing about it): http://moz.com/blog/i-am-an-entity-hacking-the-knowledge-graph

Cool, thanks! Ruben

The reason you can't see individual referring keywords from which a site is getting traffic anymore is because of Google's policy on not showing the vast majority of these in Analytics. Instead, you see "not provided" listed alongside a lot of organic traffic figures. More about "not provided" here. Others' answers about using Webmaster Tools, etc. are our best way of analysing the keywords used in organic traffic nowadays.

No, you cannot edit Avvo answers.   I suppose you can ask the folks at Avvo to just remove all of client's answers. No idea whether they will do it for you. I have had them remove an answer or three for me, so it can't hurt to ask.  Not sure how your client will feel about you doing that, of course.

It seems that Shopify (shopping cart platform) does this automatically? | # style="display:none"><a <span="" class="webkit-html-attribute-name">href</a><a <span="" class="webkit-html-attribute-name">="</a>/"> My Website Title | |   |

hey guyz it's so important to know for me please help

Thanks Spencer & Kevin for valuable input, But why it doesn't show this same with the website has its own wikipedia page link.

I would recommend using tossible digits then. Each number is only a few dollars a month, and they have an on site tracking system which allows you to see all calls, with dates,  call duration, and time of call. Another benefit is you can enable email tracking, which sends an mp3 of the phone call to the email(s)  of your choice once the call is over. Very affordable, excellent features. I think this would work better for what you are trying to accomplish. We have used them for 3 years now with no issues. Hope this helps!

Alot of search bar functions really don't provide accurate results, hence I would agree with you on not having this. Focus on good SEO. Organising blog posts into specific categories and then proper internal linking to encourage site dwell time and utlimately where you would like to end up is far more valuable (but more work).

I agree with what Miriam stated, but to play Devil's advocate, it would be interesting to do a study to see if things changed up (unique descriptions for each) would improve local rankings.  I get that it could be on the IYP/directory to make the changes to better their site, but wouldn't it be on the business owner to have unique content there to ensure their listing ranks higher than others that are using duplicate descriptions? For example, I work with an eCommerce company that sells over 50,000 products, most of which are on other affiliate marketing channels.  Currently, our team members that run those channels pull the generic content that we're given from the manufacturer.  As we're going through updating our content to be unique for our individual product pages, I've asked them NOT to pull that content through the feed (our developers have helped them manage this part).  One of our team members, who's interested in SEO, asked me what would be the best way to help improve his listings on Amazon.  In my opinion, he could keep the generic content that hundreds of other competitors are using (they also pulled it from the manufacturer) or he could write unique content for Amazon and maybe, just maybe, have a better chance of those pages ranking higher than competitors because it is unique content, i.e. it's the business taking the initiative here. To take this back to local SEO, that unique description for top players in the IYP/directoy realm could potentially bring in better results.  Again, this is only theoretical, I don't have solid proof around this, hence the reason for a study, but the person/company that does the study needs to think objectively here. Great question by the way, I was wondering what others thought about this too, which is how I stumbled upon it.

While I don't have first-hand experience of this issue, I've done some searching around and I wondered if this helps at all: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20491445/tracking-android-installs-via-google-play-source-medium-from-website Some other possibly useful links: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10033313/android-google-play-referral-tracking-limitations https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11241158/how-to-use-google-analytics-track-referrer-install-from-google-play

Glad to hear it and do post again with any additional questions -Andy

Hello, Maybe a bit late, but maybe for other people who needs a good search technology. We used the sphinx search technology before but we still needed a better solution, we found: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/blast-lucene-search.html with the Lucene search technology. It works really great with a 'did you mean?' function integrated.

just perfect, thanks Moosa

Thanks John I do use SensorTower, really looking for a service that combines all, a hybrid of appfigures and sensortower is desired Will check Appcodes when get a chance Thanks for all your comments

You have two issues here. 1. Interlinking site sis never a good idea with a dofollow links, so I would look at that. But it is not an issue if its nofollow. 2. Googlebot only crawls from the US and will only every crawl the US site if you send all US ip's to the US site. I would use hreflang on your site. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en Otherwise you will confuse Google and possibly get a cloaking issue on the site. Also look at the canonical tag https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394 AND https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en&ref_topic=2370587

You mean MOZ.com considers it duplicate content, right? Duplicate content, as in having pages with duplicate content will cause you a "ding" in your rankings-- but mostly when it's duplicated from domain-to-domain. I have never seen evidence of duplicate content on the same website, harming a website, no matter what Google says about canonical links. (I still think you should use canonical links.) But assuming that having some duplicate content on your site is really very harmful... Google knows the difference between a page that is actually duplicate content and plain old blank pages. MOZ may consider blank pages duplicate, but MOZ isn't nearly as sophisticated as Google. I wouldn't sweat it myself.