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Hey friend, I'm from NUSRAT BLOG ACADEMY a blog learning site want to suggest to post different sites to post your articles with the same link or author name. Because It will help you to get a unique backlink. on the other hand same link and post on in a site, google find less value. Thanks a lot. Md Alauddin Administrator and Author, Nusrat Blog Academy

Thank you to everyone for their input. I appreciate your feedback. I'm going to research more about link building and where to start that process. I will advise against the multi-site approach and focus efforts elsewhere.

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. "Review" is only a recommended property of "Product", so while you will get a warning, it should not be detected as an error and won't affect the structured data being parsed.

GMB and citation are working. But before everything complete your homepage SEO.

No point in repeating. Depending on the city, it could make your URL too long as well. Try to keep a simple structure such as: domain.com/collection-agency/dallas

I have to note, as with any SEO question, the answer is just my opinion and not knowing the full and specific scenario, take it with a grain of sale. As a general rule in that scenario though I'd simply let the bots do what they will with it but make sure to canonical the page to itself so if the other sub you're CNAMEing gets picked up it canonical's back to the real one. In essence, let the link weight flow as it will - just make sure you don't get hit with a dup-content issue on the page. As for ranking ... I'd focus your energies on the main site unless there's a term that the page lends itself to. But then ... that's pretty much a global truth: focus on rankings a page with content that lends itself to the term you want to rank for. Good luck !!! Dave

The canonical tag is meant to tell Google....   "These two pages are the same" It was not meant to prioritize pages in the rankings. Because your pages are very different from one another Google is probably ignoring the canonical tag. "should we just appreciate the fact that Google ranks us twice on the first page for this important keyword? " Yes.  You got two pages in the top ten of Google.  When that happens to me, I give thanks.

Hello there! I might need some clarification here. The screenshots look to me like they are extracted from a Google Business Profile, in which case, they are stemming directly from the reviews customers leave you on Google. If I'm misunderstanding, would you mind taking a screenshot of the whole search engine results page so I can better understand the context of where you are hoping your reviews will appear? Thanks and I'll check back on this thread.

Hi Sam and thanks for the response. I am still unclear whether or not my local business info will be updated in Factual if I purchase Moz Local service. Can you please answer this question?

Perfect - thx Alex.

I agree - thanks for the response!

Hi OrioleOriole and effectdigital, apologies for the delay, but thank you for your help, we preserved the links in the end. I've marked your responses as good answers and liked them, thanks again

Google will often make up its own mind what to put in your description, especially if it thinks that your provided description doesn't match what it thinks the page is about. I'm afraid your developer hasn't fixed the issue. I was looking in the wrong place (your screenshot identified the issue), the malware isn't replacing the meta description, but actually inserting text at the top of the page, but only when it detects that it is the Mobile Googlebot visiting. Using Google Chrome Developer Tools you can set your user agent and see the issue yourself (See my screenshot) If I were you, I'd disable all the plugins and then reload the page in Chrome with your user agent set and see if that helps, if not, I would look at your theme's JS/source files. oBUJqpm

I like to use Keyword Explorer for YouTube research the same as I would for SERP  keyword research.  The difference is I look at the keywords differently.  I try to think of the "user intent" and how it would differ from a web search vs a video search per se. As an example, let's take the keyword "NBA sneakers".  (I know nothing about sneakers but it's the first thing that came to mind) User intent for organic search might default to "buy nba sneakers" as the dominate interpretation.  For the most part when people do a Google search for "nba sneakers" they will probably be looking to purchase sneakers and the results will generally be "stores" in the top results. When someone is on YouTube, the default might be to compare or get more information about the different popular sneakers that are out right now.  Generally it's people looking for a visual vs actually purchasing. (not that they won't want to purchase soon) Keyword Explorer will help you find questions and keywords around the topic you are researching, you'll need to decide what the intent of those keywords are based on user intent. You can read more about user intent here --> https://moz.com/blog/a-guide-to-setting-up-your-very-own-search-intent-projects and here is some information about building an intent-based keyword list here --> https://moz.com/blog/the-basics-of-building-an-intent-based-keyword-list https://moz.com/blog/the-basics-of-building-an-intent-based-keyword-list

The true answer to reinstating the old site depends upon the quality of work done on the many parts of the job by the PR agency.   If this was my site, and it was performing kickass before these PR guys got their hands on it, I would toss the old version back up and do a deeper assessment - because the results thus far suggest that the PR agency doesn't know much about SEO. <kibitz>In the past few years a lot of PR agencies have become spammers who wear suits to work.</kibitz>

Hi Dennis, I wouldn't worry too much about this, in the end having the same server location and CMS have such an incredibly tiny impact on your SEO that there is likely 100 other things to worry about first. Content + Links and many other things are much more valuable to focus on than having to worry about a competitors server. Hope this helps! Martijn.