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This is a very normal thing for Google to display a different Page Title for the home page of a website. If you do a search for a head term like "Vitamins" you sill see the page titles for a few of the listings automatically get switched to "Company Name: Rest of Title" Simply put, you can set a Page Title but Google does not always honor it if they think they can pull in a more relevant title.

I agree with Jane. I apologize earlier I assumed you had done a disavowal request. There is not much harm in waiting a month to find out if the site has been crawled and then see if Google reflects the changes in Webmaster tools. However if you do a disavowal you could possibly do damage to your your site's ranking. As I believe someone already has said sites that have had links less likely to get crawled as often as sites that are not in need of link removal. Therefore I could definitely be the problem. Sincerely, Thomas

No, you can't migrate the video. in terms of embedding - an iframe is super lightweight. Just embed a YouTube iframe and you should be fine.

I agree with Travis & Moosa. You shouldn't try to target a page to more than one phrase. You will quickly run into keyword dilution (cannibalisation) where Google won't really know which page to rank for a particular phrase. The net result here is that generally, none of the pages will rank well, or perhaps only one of them. Keep each page highly targeted, make good use of prominent internal links and ensure that the content on each page is well written to explain exactly what is on there. Remember, there are billions of pages out there, millions of them all trying to compete for the same phrases - do everything you can to make yours the best it can possibly be, but try not to do everything (or anything) just for the search engines. Write and design your pages for maximum user experience. -Andy

The only results I've seen is "x-rated" lol I had an article called "My X-Rated Secret" which was in no way adult oriented. Other than that, I have really random words like: x-rated   2 xrated    2 alt          1 ctrl         1 ctri         1

I would have to say that the best software to create videos is going to be either Final Cut Pro which is available on the Mac operating system only. http://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/what-is/ you can use Adobe Premier and get the same level of professional capabilities when tied to its creative cloud makes a pretty cool set of tools. http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html on online only tools I would look at most likely http://www.powtoon.com/ it allows you to do quite a bit and has a lot of animation capabilities built-in other online tools are http://animoto.com/business http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-tools-to-make-a-home-movie-online-for-free/ I did not know if you were looking to use YouTube only however I would recommend Wistia over YouTube for a lot of projects in order to show you why please check out this link. http://wistia.com/learning/advanced-seo-with-distilled I hope this is of help, Thomas

SEO tools are an indicator. Never rely on one exclusively. Also, Moz looks at white hat factors. Your competition may not be playing by the rules. If that's the case, just hope Google handles them and keep doing your thing the right way.

Hi Dana, I'm inclined to think that this is a problem with how the tools process links to and from PDFs rather than the passing of PageRank through PDFs itself as well, although I am not sure. I would certainly not say no to a link to or from a great PDF if that was the only option, although I have also actively encouraged clients to re-publish their quality content housed in PDF format as HTML and redirect the PDF file to the new source. We're just a lot more sure about how authority passes through HTML files.

Hi Conrad, Unfortunately every migration is going to yield different results in terms of how well the redirection goes and how long you have to wait to get your rankings back if they suffer. Thomas' experience is fairly typical (and the resources he cites here are good too). It's impossible to say what will happen - a particularly large site (let's say a big e-commerce site for a high-street retailer) might suffer due to the sheer volume of URLs that need to be moved and picked up by Google; a small website may have an easier time. However, metrics like the age and authority of the moving website may well play into how successful the move is as well. As such, it's really hard to say exactly how a migration will go without seeing the sites (and even then, ranking problems can crop up that were unexpected). Cheers, Jane

Hi Dan, Hopefully your read-through of Google's guidelines will have helped to clear this up, too.

I think the answer to your question is right here I reference to it below http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/05/using-schemaorg-markup-for-organization.html "Using schema.org Organization markup, you can indicate to our algorithms the location of your preferred logo. For example, a business whose homepage is www.example.com can add the following markup using visible on-page elements on their homepage: <code>[Home](http://www.example.com/) </code> This example indicates to Google that this image is designated as the organization’s logo image for the homepage also included in the markup, and, where possible, may be used in Google search results. Markup like this is a strong signal to our algorithms to show this image in preference over others, for example when we show Knowledge Graph on the right hand side based on users’ queries." http://www.brandpoint.com/how-to-use-googles-structure-data-markup-helper-to-add-schema-to-your-wordpress-blog/ sincerely, Thomas

Thanks team!

Haha I couldn't agree more Travis- as the one responsible for updating the site I have no access to changing where the number is, the lack of social media buttons, or the broken video links / bad videos. These are all reasons as to why we need to change the layout of the website completely. Question: Literally the only part of the website I can edit is everything below 'Search Louisville homes on our website'...if I delete all the text won't it hurt my SEO for keyword rankings?

Matt Cutts just released a video that addresses this exact question - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HX_8BAhB4

Close... you still have them all grouped into 1 event though. You need to remove the [itemscopeitemtype="http://schema.org/Event"] from the and move it to the level (and repeat for each )

No one has mentioned authorship here. My local listings have benefited greatly from my Google plus authorship showing up in search. In my experience Google+ has worked well for me, so I feel validated in recommending it. Yes it might just be a fad that will eventually be extinguished, but you need to take part and be engaged to get the benefits from it. It is another free channel to reach your audience and being linked to Google should provide higher authority, because they can directly measure engagement. Google plus is also an excellent learning resource, with some terrific content being shared by authorities in every field. Content on Google+ needs to be visual. Yes your posts can also show snippets of content and link directly to your site, but a visual hook is going to work well, because of the speed at which people scan through the posts. Having title text within the images can also be beneficial. I have been on Google+ almost from day one, and the access to game changers and authority's in the field of SEO and SEM has been invaluable. The best resources for Google+ engagement are on Google+. Just type the question into the search bar and the very latest posts and information is there for you to see. Do you need to be engaging on Google plus in this industry - well yes, because why not?

No problem Gordon. This is just me providing an example which can be modelled next to any project, however big or small.

You do know that you can put raw HTML into Wordpress, right? It's a full CMS system so you can paste the raw info in and it will keep the same template. Google itself really doesn't care about the extension or how it looks. If the page is isolated from the site (i.e. it doesn't interlink like a normal page) then Google might view it differently.