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How to recover Google+ business page if it gets deleted by mistake ?
You may find the following helpful - https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1212172?hl=en "Google Accounts can only be recovered within a short period of time after deletion. If you received an error message stating that "This account was deleted and is no longer recoverable," the account has been deleted for too long and cannot be restored by our support team. Some common reasons people see this message include: Your account was disabled for perceived spamming and, because you did not sign in to verify your identity, your account was deleted. You intended to delete a certain product from your account but accidentally deleted your entire Google Account. You never owned this account, and it was deleted by the true owner. If you accidentally deleted your Google Account, you can attempt to restore it by going to our password-assistance page within a limited window of time after deletion. If you’d like to create a new Google Account, visit our sign-up page. Note that you will be unable to reuse your old Gmail username, as Gmail usernames cannot be recreated after they've been deleted."
Social Media | | GPainter0 -
Duplicate Content
Afraid I don't have any experience with Processwire. I would try looking through their modules/plug-ins to see if there is something for pagination tags. If don't have any luck there, I would try contacting their support or forums.
Technical SEO Issues | | iSTORM-New-Media0 -
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Afraid you would but its pretty quick and easy and you can see how many users have come from those places,You can also see how many of those referrals have completed goals (if you've set them up), if you wanted to get super fancy you can even track where they go on your site but if I'm honest it wouldn't really be that beneficial.
Vertical SEO: Video, Image, Local | | GPainter0 -
AdWords/Analytics Paid Search conversions not matching up - any idea why?
Couple of links addressing this topic below: Adwords and Analytics not matching up Adwords and Analytics tracking
Paid Search Marketing | | SEO5Team0 -
Does CTR Affect Ranking & Authority? Can PPC Influence That Too?
Hi there, Since Domain Authority is a Moz metric, it is not affected by CTR due to Moz not being able to determine or collect this sort of data. As far as CTR and PPC influencing search rankings goes, there are good reasons why Google would not rely on either metric too intently. For one, it would be very easy to mimic a very bad bounce rate on a competitor's site: set bots to click on search results to a competitor website, click straight out. It would be a big conflict of interest for PPC to influence SEO either positively or negatively, and although none of us are naive enough to believe that Google always does everything with the best of intentions, they would be in a world of trouble if this type of behaviour were proven. CTR and bounce rate are so easily influenced / manipulated by factors outside of quality, authority and relevancy that I assume their influence on rankings is quite low. Sure, this data is valuable to Google, but it won't be a signal that has a huge amount of relevance.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | JaneCopland0 -
Category descriptions and magento
Hello Carl, I tried to access those pages but didn't find anything on those URLs even after fixing them. The rel next/prev is being used properly for the issue you're having. I think the bigger issue is that you say all of your product descriptions are duplicates of any other site using the same affiliate feed. That is a big no-no and I don't think relying on category pages to rank for product searches is a good business plan. I hate to say it, but these types of sites really just don't do very well these days. Nevertheless, your question was about the paginated URLs and I think the rel next/prev has you covered there. If you are more worried about it you can use a rel = canonical tag to ensure the first page in the series is seen as the canonical version.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Everett0 -
Wordpress - redirecting tags
Hiya, I know a lot of people have enjoyed the following for ease of use - http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ The point of the tag is when you "tag" a post it helps people & search engines find the content via its related content. e.g if people like photography they may want to find all posts related to that tag. The problem is as follows: you have two posts both different but both with the tag photography for example you cant redirect that tag to both posts. so you could either not use the tag, leave the tag so it helps enforce the keywords etc. Last option you rel=canonical to the post you want to rank the most. Having said all of that the problem is restricted-robots-txt which means the crawlers may not even be getting to your tag posts which may be fine depending on what you want. Hope some of that helps and hasn't confused you.
Web Design | | GPainter0 -
Would having 3 locations NAP in footer of site hurt?
Hi Mash, I recommend that you definitely link to these three office landing pages from your top level menu. You could link to them from your contact page, as well. Absolutely want those links to be high-level and crawlable!
Local Listings | | MiriamEllis0 -
How can the Moz Page Grader support a 'keyword portfolio' approach?
Hi Chris, I like your approach. Although this is outside the scope of your question, another thing I do is use Google Webmaster Tools landing page report to see what keywords are driving traffic to my pages. In truth, with so much advanced semantic analysis that Google is doing these days, once you move beyond targeting a single keyword, the math gets really hard - really fast! So for now, it's the old one keyword at a time approach. Thanks for the question and keep up the good work.
Other Research Tools | | Cyrus-Shepard0 -
Getting a URL Unaccessible on the page grader
Hey Ryan, Thanks for the question. I just logged in as you and tested that URL in the on-page tool and it worked perfectly. If you're still having troubles can you take a screenshot of the error you get and send it into help@moz.com? Thanks! Joel.
Moz Tools | | JoelDay0 -
How to fix google index filled with redundant parameters
Thanks again Alan. I've checked the site with screaming frog and it doesn't return any url's with parameters so at this stage I might be ok. I am getting a message in webmaster tools saying "severe health issues" but it doesn't appear to be affecting the urls I want to keep. I'll likely remove the entry once things have cleared up some more. Thanks Jeff At the moment I'm stuck with Zeus web server (insert expletives here) so no htaccess file or I'd be in a better position. After messing around with it and very limited documentation I can only get the site operating with index.php in the url but with SEF url's for the remainder of it. I'm investigating migration to an apache server so that might make it easier. Regards Ian
Technical SEO Issues | | iragless0 -
Is there a way to set up a wordpress site so that the content is changed based on a location?
Ron, There are WordPress plugins that allow you to serve content based on geolocation. For example, the "Custom Content by Location" plugin comes to mind http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-by-country/ Alternatively, outside of WordPress, you can use PHP code to determine the user's location and then serve them up separate content. There's a sample of that code here: http://www.adviceinteractivegroup.com/how-to-display-unique-content-based-on-geolocation/
Content & Blogging | | GlobeRunner0 -
Product Variations in Ecommerce: Combine or Canonicalize?
Hey Samuel, I feel like this confirms some of the thoughts that I had. The different terms are, searched, so I think it will be best to leave them as individuals. Thanks for your contribution!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | evan890 -
Special Characters in URL & Google Search Engine (Index & Crawl)
Google handles special characters in URLs, titles, etc. just fine now - a page like http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Versailles uses the proper accent on the a, and is displayed properly in modern browsers as well as in Google's results. There should be no impact on rankings, although it's safe to say that best practice would include using the proper characters, as they certainly benefit usability.
Moz Tools | | JaneCopland0 -
Homepage not ranking in Google AU, but ranking in Google UK?
Hi Adam, Would you be comfortable sharing the site and the queries involved with me? You can PM them to me if you'd rather - I can take a look at the backlink profile to see if something telling lies there. Cheers, Jane
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JaneCopland0 -
Desktop & Mobile Sitemaps Covering The Same Ground - Any Benefit To Having Both?
Yes, it's responsive design with the exact same URLs for both mobile and desktop. Thanks for your helpful response!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | edmundsseo0 -
I am tempted to purchase a listing on an industry specific website directory with high domain authority. Will that be frowned upon as buying links?
Samuel's three questions are really good and are exactly what you should be thinking about. I am not so sure that you're directly asking for trouble by getting this link in "followed" format, although a Google rep would say that those links should be nofollowed. Definitely only do this if you believe you should be getting this link regardless of whether it passes authority. I say this due to it being a link on a directory - they're notoriously iffy for SEO, but obviously there are directories where you SHOULD be listed for marketing's sake. Because this is visibly paid and followed, beware of any alternate intent Google might assign to listed businesses.
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | JaneCopland0 -
Tools to check IP address of websites
ThompsonPaul and Jane Copland for providing the solution. In order to make this answer more effective and sharing my progress on finding the answer for this question. The following are the websites that I have tested and worth using. Thompson solution surely all in one for all but it takes some time and effort. http://get-site-ip.com/ http://www.ip-adress.com/reverse_ip/ http://www.selfseo.com/find_ip_address_of_a_website.php
Online Marketing Tools | | csfarnsworth0 -
Killing it in Yahoo/Bing...Sucking it in Google. What gives?
Hi Audra, You've categorized your question as a local question, and in visiting your website, I see you have 4 physical locations listed, though precedence is being given to your location in Thomasville, GA, the partial NAP of which appears in the footer of the website. It's important to understand that, of all of the search engines, Google has the most sophisticated approach to how it assesses and displays local businesses. Right now, the Local SEO of your website is not being handled properly and my guess is that it is thus not sending the proper signals to Google to achieve the visibility you'd love to achieve. I can't provide a full audit here, within the scope of Q&A, but I can point out a few quick things to you. 1). Your footer has a section labeled 'Our Locations', listing the names of 4 cities in 4 states. Yet, within the footer, the only NAP being provided is for the Thomasville location. And, that Thomasville NAP is only partial. Your NAP would be deemed 'partial', because the Thomasville, GA, location is being listed with a toll free number instead of a local one. Local SEO revolves around local area code phone numbers. So, we don't have complete NAP for this location, and when I visit the 4 location landing pages by clicking on the links in the footer, none of these are listing complete NAP either. In fact, there is no mention of a phone number at all on these pages. These pages are not giving Google the signals they expect and need. There is nothing in the footer to indicate that Oklahoma is of premium importance to the company. Despite the fact that you've optimized the title tag of the homepage to mention Oklahoma, what Google is finding in the footer would signal to them that Georgia is really your most important location. So, there are discrepancies and missing data here. You need to have a unique local area code phone number for each unique physical office you occupy. Seeing the way the site is set up, I am wondering how the company has handled its Local SEM, in general, especially in terms of the development of Google+ Local pages and citation building. Without those local phone numbers, the company's hands are tied in Google Land and you're unlikely to achieve the visibility you desire without complying with Google's basic standards for local businesses. If the company has not hired a Local SEO to consult with previously, I would highly suggest finding a top tier one who can dig into the site and the off-site Local SEM that's been done and to analyze problems and develop a marketing strategy. There are about 20 questions for which answers are needed and, hopefully, by consulting with a pro on this, you can discover both your issues and your opportunities. Hope this helps!
Local Website Optimization | | MiriamEllis0