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That is a very weird situation and I think that, adding some canonical tags may not meet with your expectations. If Google have strong views about what is / is not a canonical URL, they will usually override canonical tags anyway (which is usually when you get the error you have described). I think we'd really need to see some examples of actual URLs to help you

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Thanks Miriam, that's really helpful. I'll be digging into all of this and come back to this thread if I have any notable updates to share!

Thanks, Paddy!

If you consistently see the IP address and redirect, or change content, based only on that then you will want to exempt Googlebot from those personalizations in one way or another. There are many options to this, like blocking the resources that handle this (i.e. the JavaScript.js file associated with personalization based on history or geo-location), or what was suggested above. Blocking that piece of script in the robots.txt file is less likely to be seen as cloaking. All of this begs the question though: If you're looking at the IP, then setting a cookie, then updating the content based on the cookie, it shouldn't be an issue in the first place. Googlebot isn't accepting your cookies. So if I were to browse in Incognito mode using Chrome (and thus not accept cookies), would I see the same site and product assortments no matter which location I was in? If that's the case, maybe you don't have a problem. This is pretty easy to test. Ultimately, I think you're going to want a single product page for each Sku, rather than one for each product at each location. The content, pricing, etc.. can be updated by location if they have a cookie, but the URL should probably never change - and the content shouldn't change by IP if they don't have a cookie. 1. Check IP 2. Embed their location in a cookie 3. Set cookie 4. If cookie is excepted and thus exists, do personalize. If the cookie does not exist, do not personalize. You can show a message that says you must accept cookies to get the best experience, but don't make it block any major portion of the content.

Thanks Andreas, it makes sense. In this case I think I'll apply the "no index" strategy for those pages, the website has great potential and I wouldn't want to risk a bad reputation.

I think Google might actually have a problem with my site title.. I just googled BlowFish SEO west palm Beach and this is the result I got. Hqt5g7W

If your traffic is redirecting on your new domain from the indexed old domain, that's fine. However, if you're worried about duplicate content because the old site has the same content as the new site, that can be a problem if the same page is being indexed on two different domains. You can tell Google that your domain has changed in the old search console. 1. Make sure both domains are setup in Google Search Console. 2. Set up a permanent redirect on the old site's .htaccess file, redirecting every page to the new site. 3. Search "Google change of address" in Google. The first link above should be from Google Support. Click on that and they will give you a link to the old search console. 4. In the old search console, go to the gear on the far right and click on that. You will see "change of address". 5. Be patient. It can take months before those old URLs are gone from Google.

Search Console's reports (Webmaster Tools) do include SEO data (organic) yes

Hi, That is Moz's support. Regards

Thank you very much everyone for your answers. They were very insightful. Took away a couple things that I did not implement. This biggest thing I need to completely understand is: If there are any SEO practices implemented in the franchisees page Ex:  website.com/west-palm-beach any efforts are not stiffened because the SEO was not implemented on  website.com but was instead implemented in /west-palm-beach (subfolder)

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Hi Joe, So canonical tag if the pages have the same (or very similar) content. The page for each location would have different content (adding as much value as possible to the user). So it sounds like I'm on the right track. Thanks for your help. Justin

Hi Waquid! Thank you so much for adding a bit more context to your question. I perfectly see your scenario now. So, if a business does something like landscape design and has only two offices in San Francisco, it's likely that the homepage and both location landing pages will include references to "San Francisco" and "Landscape Design". The landing pages could also be optimized for hyperlocal terms like "North Beach" or "Glen Park" if they are in different neighborhoods. However, if the business has, lets say, 20 offices in California, then they wouldn't be likely to use any city or neighborhood terms on the homepage because there are simply too many cities to cover. Rather, the homepage might reference regional names, like SF Bay Area, or Central Valley or Orange County, etc, or even just Northern California/Southern California. If the service is identical at all locations, then there's really no avoiding using those service keywords on all pages. You can vary them in any way that keyword research shows you variants. For example, you could dice up findings like "sustainable landscape design, native landscape design, commercial landscape design" etc, between the pages, but if you have just one overarching service, then it will be reflected on all pages. It's the geo-terms that need to be parsed up to fit the scenario of your various offices.

You can use maximum 56 charactar for meta title.

Hi there, For Hotels, I would recommend: **name.com/hotel/luxury-rooms/ ** WRT to your enquiry about the location, for hotels, I would use : name.com/hotel/luxury-rooms/location If you have multiple locations, then use name.com/hotel/luxury-rooms/country/city or name.com/hotel/luxury-rooms/state/city For Cottages: name.com/cottage/cottage-name/country/city or name.com/cottage/cottage-name/state/city Create Google My Business profiles for each location.

My pleasure, and thank you for responding with this extra info. So, you have an eligible local business model with GMB listings for each of your locations that aren't coming up for the local searches you feel they should or want them to. You have a single site with a landing page for each of the 12 branches, but are aware that you're not yet taking full advantage of GMB features. There are 3 core things you need to do here. First, you need to make certain that there are no obvious barriers to the local pack rankings you feel you should be earning. So, this means ruling out guideline violations, review violations, suspensions, technical website flaws and duplicate listings. It also mean ensuring that there aren't any filters at work that are causing your listings to be filtered out in favor of competitors. For example, if two businesses are in the same building or within a block or two of one another in the same Google category, one may be filtered out at the automatic zoom level of the map due to the Possum filter. Or, in some cases, a business might be located outside of Google's city borders, and therefore find it hard-to-impossible to rank within that city. In other cases, Google might be tightly clustering the results around a specific area of a city, and if you are outside of that radius, it might be a bit harder for you to compete. So, your first step is to establish where these challenges are. If they fall under the realm of bad practices, you'll need to correct them. Otherwise, it's simply important to observe how Google is behaving surrounding your desired search phrases so that you understand the lay of the land. Next, you need to identify the local pack competitors for your core search phrases in each geographic market. Here is my tutorial on Finding Your True Local Competitors.  You have 12 businesses, so I'd start with just one to familiarize yourself with this process. Once you know who the top competitor is for each local pack you're hoping to get ranked in, audit them. Here is an example basic local business audit: https://moz.com/blog/basic-local-competitive-audit Audit your location against the competitor's location and see where they are stronger than you. Now that you've identified your competitors' strengths in each market, create a strategy for improving your metrics so that they match and then surpass those of your competitors. This is the basic process for discovering why you are ranking where you are ranking in the context of each of your geo-markets and for basing a strategy for improvements on the findings of your research. If all else fails and you don't have the internal resources to undertake the work, hire a good local SEO agency to do it for you. Hope this helps!