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Write in to help@moz.com so that we can take a peek at your campaign, we should be able to figure out the cause of that negative number pretty quickly.

Hi Ryan, I haven't had this myself, so have sent John Mueller at Google at Tweet asking him to have a quick look at this for you. If he comes back to me with a reply, I will update you -Andy

Unfortunately, this issue has been up for debate over the past few years and there's no clear-cut answer. You might like to take a look at this staff-endorsed answer from 2012, which indicated that Google will look at how much unique content is above the fold. If your content is buried deep in the source code and duplicate copy comes first, then this _could _be an issue. If you can place your unique content higher up within the source code, then this wouldn't be a bad thing, but I have suspicion that chances are there's always more pressing things to optimise. Sorry there's no '100% yes!' on this, but IMO this has always been one of the vaguest areas of SEO; especially as we know G has become more adept at crawling in the past few years (javascript support, etc).

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Looking for the benefits of using this markup (https://schema.org/LocalBusiness) for profiles. Note: the website lists company information on profile pages, it is not a local business website.

Something to avoid, is the mindset of buying links / sponsoring. Google values a genuine link that is editorially gained, rather than a side note / footer / site-wide links. These carry very little value and in some cases, can create a big headache for you in terms of penalties from Google. Good SEO is actually a mix of a great user experience, easy-to-use website, interesting information and closely following Google's webmaster guidelines. This all boils down to best practice. Keep your visitors happy, social media buzzing, content well written and Google will start to value your site more. -Andy

Building a website with a list of high quality website to build your backlinks. example, you are a technology agency and you don't know where to build your backlinks for a backlinks strategy. You would go to the site search for technology category and you will get a list of all of quality  backlinks blog website that you can build do-follow backlinks in the technology field. I dont want to build a spammy directory that everybody would put their links. But how can I show to Google that this web sites with a lot of backlinks is not spammy. I tought that if i put content aroud of each backlinks it would be a solution

Thanks for letting me know others are experiencing the same. If I find anything interesting I will be sure to let you know on this thread - Likewise if you notice anything interesting would be appreciated if you could come back and share also.

Hi RosemaryB, AFAIK, no - you cannot implement a 301 redirect from an old FB/Twitter profile to your new one. The business should minimize the old profile (remove any unnecessary content) and put up a description/text about the new company's handle/page/twitter. You could also send out an email blast with the updated profile and make sure to check the old accounts for any straggler users that find the old profile and need to be redirected to the new profile.

Uhmn. Yes and no. 302 suggests it will be back. but actually it will be never back.  So a 302 would keep the link juice where it is which is fine. because you do not want to have all that juice to the invaluable login page right. but noindex following is the way to go.

hahaha.. Im not afraid of hard work, I know it's not the most glamorous job but I am obviously quite happy about it, I worked hard building up the SEO of all my pages on the old site, just a bit naive not to know the answer to that one already but that's why I am here. to get help from the best out there. thanks again and best of luck regards Wes Dunn

Sounds good! Keep us updated with how it goes. -Andy

I think the script for Universal Analytics (new new version of GA) is built with subdomain tracking built in.  According to this Google article about cross domain tracking, "This document is only for tracking users across domains where browser restrictions prevent cookies from being shared. Tracking users across subdomains does not require any additional configuration." I'd try the regular script, and see if you can see traffic on both URLs for all of your subdomains.  If you can, then it's working!

Wouldn't there be cases where a trailing message could actually entice the viewer to click though? I know I've clicked on SERP titles before for that reason.