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  • Mozbar will show links for those TLDs. Hope this helps!

    Other Research Tools | | DavidLee
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  • If you go to site settings in webmaster tools you can set your geographic target to United Kingdom which may help.

    Local Website Optimization | | spencerhjustice
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  • Is this theme Ok with mobile? - http://demo.jawtemplates.com/goodstore/goodstore03/product/black-t-series/

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | JordanBrown
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  • Excellent. Good luck with your new site.

    Web Design | | DeanAndrews
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  • Thanks Keri and sorry for not getting back sooner Akhilesh. Keri is right that I am in the UK. As Keri has said, you really need to read the section on link building and content - If you get this wrong, you can cause yourself some big problems. Have a read of this so that you are sure what you need to be doing... http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links -Andy

    Link Building | | Andy.Drinkwater
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  • Hi There, I sent a response not too long ago so there is a chance that your ISP may be blocking Moz. In order to troubleshoot I would try following the steps provided: It doesn't seem that we are experiencing an overarching issue with the site, which leads me to suspect the issue involves one of several aspects of your system or internet connection: 1. Your web browser; 2. Your web filter, antivirus software, or other third-party software on your system, if you have any; 3. Your internet router; 4. Your internet modem; or 5. Your ISP. Oddly enough, over the time I've worked here I've seen problems for customers with each of these individual aspects of their network. First things first, try accessing the site in another browser, computer, and internet connection to isolate the level of the problem. I would try clearing your cache and cookies, as well as enabling third-party cookies. Next, I would add exceptions for www.moz.com and www.opensiteexplorer.org to your protection software if you have any installed. Also, try restarting your router and modem by unplugging them and plugging them back in after 30 seconds. Finally, if it's still not working, make sure your ISP isn't blocking the site or messing with packets from the site. I have seen ISPs do this on occasion, I'm afraid. Sorry that you're not able to access the site as immediately as we'd hope! Let me know if any of these things works for you or if you're still having difficulty or need help; in my experience, checking all of these levels of your connection typically helps weed out the troublemaker. Best of luck!

    Other Research Tools | | Sean_Peerenboom
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  • Hello again I've just seen in our GWT that we have a message "Googlebot encountered an extremely high number of URLs on your site" It is from 4 days ago only. I don't understand why we have this message. As we haven't change the number of pages. And in fact, as we have put gathered some pages very similar with a canonical url for the most important of them each time, Google should "see" less pages than before... Any idea about what happen? And what to do to fix it quickly? Regards

    Technical SEO Issues | | Poptafic
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  • "theatermania.com/broadway/news/06-2014/[slug]" Sounds like you are using Wordpress for the site. I would set it as simple as possible, and not inlcude any info but what you want to rank. You can add broadway into the URL structure, since you can do custom URL's. No need for it to be its own category, unless that is a big category on your site. I personally like this one "holler-if-you-hear-me-opens-on-broadway" since it includes everything but tupacs name, which I would include

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | David-Kley
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  • Hi Everyone, I just wanted to follow up on this thread to see if I could provide any further assistance. I would be happy to look into your site if you could provide the URL that is giving you trouble.:) If you want to to work 1:1 with a help teamster I would recommend sending an email about this to help@moz.com. In the meantime if you have any other questions or concerns please feel free to ask. Have a great day!

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | Sean_Peerenboom
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  • In most carts they aren't an actual add to cart per se. They are link to the product that uses ajax or a query string to add the product to the cart. So basically if people enter in through that link they will have the product automatically added to their cart. I think most people see that as bad e-commerce practice. Plus it really would make it hard to do any evaluation on abandonment.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | LesleyPaone
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  • On one URL. How I have always tried to explain it to people before. If you have two urls and a person is searching in google, you are leaving it upto Google to pick the correct page to display. Google isn't perfect and may show the user the wrong URL and not help the user. However if all the information is on one url, then you don't need to worry about this. Plus you don't need to build links into two pages, just one page (hopefully getting you a better page authority and ranking). Plus it adds fresh unqiue content onto otherwise product pages, which can be similar across the web If you worried about not ranking because of the word review missing from the URL, this is only a small issue but the benefits of the above IMO out weight the slight disadvantage. Great article by Econsultancy on benefits of Reviews on product pages: https://econsultancy.com/blog/9366-ecommerce-consumer-reviews-why-you-need-them-and-how-to-use-them#i.1mpjwvuml2epzz

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Andy-Halliday
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  • I would strongly recommend using schema creator or Google data-highlighter or microdatagenerator.com http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=uploaded:8004fd1b864bd1586879eaf3856d1a1c need to get rid of the outdated  data vocabulary http://data-vocabulary.org/product  outdated for http://schema.org/product  works on everything up to date you want the schema to look like this below the format that is universal on all search engines is able to be created with either schema–creator.com or microdatacreator.com Manufactured by: itemprop="name" itemprop="name">Vollrath Model: 40862itemprop="description">Product ID: sku:VOL40862 http://schema-creator.org/ works on Google , bing & Yahoo http://blog.raventools.com/an-seos-guide-to-schema-org/ http://schema-creator.org/product.php works on Google , bing & Yahoo http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/12/introducing-data-highlighter-for-event.html http://www.microdatagenerator.com/ works on Google , bing & Yahoo https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/146750?hl=en works on Google http://www.productontology.org/ http://moz.com/blog/schema-examples http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/googles-data-highlighter-and-a-view-into-the-future-of-seo http://www.searchenginejournal.com/schema-101-how-to-implement-schema-org-markups-to-improve-seo-results/58210/ http://moz.com/webinars/microformats-real-life-use-cases http://searchengineland.com/see-entities-web-page-tools-help-194710 http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/products-and-offers-markup-138d0977 http://www.whoisip.co.za/source/www.etundra.com/restaurant-equipment/refrigeration/display-cases/coutnertop/vollrath-40862-36-inch-cubed-glass-refrigerated-display-cabinet/ or view-source:https://www.etundra.com/restaurant-equipment/refrigeration/display-cases/coutnertop/vollrath-40862-36-inch-cubed-glass-refrigerated-display-cabinet/ itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> 36" Cubed Glass Refrigerated Display CabinetVollrathitemprop="brand" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Brand" itemprop="manufacturer" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> Manufactured by: itemprop="name" itemprop="name">VollrathModel: 40862itemprop="description">Product ID: sku:VOL408625 based on 5 reviewsitemprop="offers" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer" itemprop="offers" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">itemprop="price" itemprop="price">3,915.80 New [ type: http://schema.org/product property: | url: | Refrigerated Display Cabinet Vollrath | | url: | 36" Cubed Glass Refrigerated Display Cabinet | | name: | 36" Cubed Glass Refrigerated Display Cabinet | | brand: | Item 1 | | brand: | Item 2 | | model: | 40862 | | description: | Product ID: sku:VOL40862 | | productid: | sku:VOL40862 | | aggregaterating: | Item 3 | | offers: | Item 4 | | name: | 36 | | image: | http://schema.org/Product | | url: | https://www.etundra.com/images/products/372x372/restaurant-equipment/refrigeration/display-cases/coutnertop/vollrath-40862-36-inch-cubed-glass-refrigerated-display-cabinet/vol40862-1.jpg | |](https://www.etundra.com/images/products/372x372/restaurant-equipment/refrigeration/display-cases/coutnertop/vollrath-40862-36-inch-cubed-glass-refrigerated-display-cabinet/vol40862-1.jpg) P1gtMht.png ke18lB0.png

    Technical SEO Issues | | BlueprintMarketing
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  • +'s in urls simply represent a space.  Dashes are also used as a space.  So, there would be no impact.  You can find thousands of sites doing well in the SERPS using +'s. That being said, if I was building it from scratch I'd use dashes.  Just easier to read for users, and there is a small possibility that it could trip up the search engines.  Super minor unrealistically small chance, but I put my tin foil hat on the same way many SEOs do.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | WhoWuddaThunk
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  • "So, if these guys don't even have their own queries nailed down then they either are not very good at this or the cost isn't worth it even for them." Sounds legit. This seems to be a bait and switch service directed at those unfamilar with seo to get them intrigued. Gotta love those pesky seo emails selling dreams every day! We get quite a few of them here. Most go straight to the trash folder. Wonder what they tell the client when it doesnt work and they don't show up in auto suggest? lol

    Technical SEO Issues | | David-Kley
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  • What is the purpose of the 2nd site? The age of the domain a ranking factor, but one of many. If he wants to change the domain your client can tell Google about a change of address in GWT and do a 301 redirect from the old site to the new site. If the purpose is to have two sites ranking on the first page, a quicker and easier tactic would be to do some barnacle SEO (see http://moz.com/blog/barnacle-seo-whiteboard-friday) and get some of their citation / profile pages ranking on the 1st page for their mold related keywords. With the recent updates and focus on quality it has become more difficult to try and operate multiple sub-niche sites, and will be much better to focus attention on creating one quality site which is seen as an authority.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | tomwhite
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  • Excellent discussion going on here, ladies and gents! I am so impressed by the deep questions and answers present here. Our community makes me proud! Ruben, I'd like to bring up a couple of things to add to this good topic. You might like to read my Moz Post http://moz.com/blog/local-landing-pages-guide which covers the concept of building out pages for various locations in some depth. Citations are a big part of the picture - absolutely! They serve 2 main functions which are a) to help customers find you on a wide variety of platforms and b) to build a consistent, trustworthy body of information about your business on the web, which is then crawled by search engines, causing them to have confidence in the cluster of data they have about your business which can then increase your chances of being considered a relevant answer for certain queries. So, it's a 1-2 punch kind of thing, building citations. There are direct benefits in a customer finding your listing on a site like Superpages and indirect benefits in the consistency and prevalence of your citations helping search engines to feel confident about the validity and prominence of your business. This being said, it's my belief and understanding that it takes time for validity/prominence to actually start affecting rank. Every local business platform has its own schedule for taking a citation from zero to live, and then I have to think about search engine bots picking this up and stirring it around in the bucket in which they've got all my other business data. Then, I have to take into account whether my citation building has, in fact, surpassed what my direct local competitors have done or has simply brought me on par with them, meaning citation building will not be the difference-maker I'd love it to be, because my toughest competitors have done the same thing I have (meaning, I'm going to have to find some other way to distance myself from the field). In sum, citation building is a must-do for any local business that doesn't want to fall behind in their niche, but it takes time to see the positive effects from it and the level of positivity is going to directly relate to the stiffness of the competition. You are in a tough market - law in major cities, which I would consider one of the most difficult ranking environments. Yes, you've got to get those citations in good shape, but my honest appraisal of this is that you are going to have to go way beyond these basics to surpass what is doubtless a highly active/ heavily marketed competitor base. The usual advice of build excellent content, implement on-page Local SEO, build citations, earn reviews is going to be common to all your competitors', so finding something that they're not all already doing may be necessary to see yourself rise in the SERPs by dint of some extra creative, superior effort. Hope these thoughts are helpful! Glad you brought up this topic, and I hope once Moz Local has had a few more months to bake in the oven, we'll be able to publish some case studies that prove a correlation between participation and positive results!

    Local Listings | | MiriamEllis
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  • If a site over links to itself then they are most likely creating a bad user experience. When it comes to internal links, I would always but more priority on taxonomy and the user experience, the SEO would be a result of that. Natural, diverse links from highly trusted sources is what comes to mind when I think about link building.

    Link Building | | Brando16
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