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Hello.  My thoughts. Question 1.  I really don't think you're duplicating content by summarizing what someone else says.  I would make sure the article is primarily your content and not just rehashed content because as soon as you add links you're giving some of your Page Rank away.  It is not bad SEO practice to list sources and links at the bottom of the blog post, in this case I think it is a must.  You must give credit to the original writer and ensure that your content writer isn't plagiarizing anything.  Not preaching, just words of caution. Question 2.  Custom, relevant content is most beneficial for SEO.  Appropriate links to other credible sites is good for SEO.  Rehashing someone else's blog post probably isn't beneficial if that's the meat of the article. Question 3.  I try to not use nofollow links because there's someone on the other side of that link doing SEO.  When that someone sees I've given them a followed link, they come check me out and that creates an opportunity for a link in return.

Hi BJake, Moz & Google use different ranking factors, similar but different as they both have their own crawl spiders. If you're tracking the site on Mox base your figures on that campaign, & any of Mozs tools that you have. Other than that, have you looked at you Google Search Console reports?

Hi s1jkirkpatrick, Why create a new instance of WordPress? You just need et up the WordPress Blod section & import your articles into WordPress posts. As long as you get the 301s up in time all should be well.

Elaine, as you're probably aware, the account was suspended because Google doesn't allow for two Google My Business Accounts for the same location.  Here's an article on how to get the suspended account turned back on.  Make sure you've followed the instructions on Moz to ensure you don't create a cycle where you're having to repeat the process. Before going through this work,  were you actively working the old business listing?  If you have a history of pictures and posts I'd do the work to get the older listing reactivated.  If you've not effectively used the tool, don't waste your time on the older listing, just get into the game with the new listing. Google My Business Listings are an excellent tool to show new products and to have a steady stream of coupon codes to drive potential customers to your site.  To my knowledge, Google doesn't share how they use this information for Local Search Rankings.  That said, Google has always said the person doing the search is the customer and they drive the most relevant website to the top of the page for that customer.  If my Google My Business page is actively managed and my competitors isn't, I bet I win.  That's my opinion...

It comes down to a lot of factors but the typical reason is because the homepage has the most inbound links which gives it the most authority. In order to rank an inner page over a homepage: 1. I would make sure that you have the inner page properly optimized (500+ words of content with a few mentions of the keyword phrase) 2. Make sure to inner link to the page within your site where it makes sense. A high number of inner links usually helps rank the page 3. Build some external links to that landing page as part of your overall link building campaign I hope that helps!

Good morning and Happy New Year! Either way or both, with the internal links, is fine

Anybody else have ideas or suggestions about this question? Happy New Year! Greg

Hi Jason, I wouldn't worry about changing this at all, in the end, the 50K limit that has been put on sitemap is an arbitrary one. So if you keep your sitemaps well under that it doesn't really change anything at all. In the end, the files itself are not a ranking factor, they're being used to become aware of URLs that don't exist on the site or for search engines to be notified of URLs that have been updated (through the last mod attribute). So changing it to 15K shouldn't harm you. Martijn.

Hi Scott, Donna has offered some good advice. Something else you need to consider: If you have a single location, then yes, most of your content should be mentioning your city. Your Herniated Disc Treatment page can talk about how you treat this problem in your office in San Diego, and that's completely natural to do so. However, if your practice expands to more than one location, then you'll have to revisit this strategy. If you have 2 offices, or 10, or 100, how much city-oriented optimization you can do of your service pages will have to be rethought, because you're not going to want to put a list of 10 cities on your service pages. But, for now, if you've got just one location, a moderate mention of your city terms on your service pages (and other page like Home, About, etc.) is totally fine. Just don't overdo it.

Thank you for getting back to me.  This was very helpful!

I completely disregard those numbers.  Completely. On an informative site, I would use every genuine text connection in Article A as an opportunity to link it to other articles on the website.  If you look at wikipedia articles, you will see an example of what I am talking about.  We make those hyperlinks bold on our site becaused we believe that bolding increases the number of times visitors will use those links (and generates more pageviews that are monetized by ads). On a retail site with related content articles we have two approaches. 1)  On the article pages that explain the use, maintenance, selection, etc. of retail products, we use bold hyperlinks to direct the visitor to: A) pages where mentioned items are sold (this is done to help visitors easily connect to a sales page while information about the article is immediate in their mind); and, 2) pages where informative articles about that same product are located.  This is very similar to the linkage on informative article sites. On pages where products are sold we cut back on linking, and focus on linking only to pages were accessories are sold; and pages where important information about the item being sold is explained.  This decreased linkage is to help the visitor maintain their purchase intent, yet give them easy access to accessory purchases and the most important product information.

Write the post.  Get a couple of links into it.  Look at where the competitors got their links into their competing page.  Try to duplicate their best links. Go after the primary keyword.  Give it your best shot. You might not rank on the first page after the first month.  But, give it a year... and if your content is really better, I believe that you might move up. ** We can definitely write better content.**  If your content is really better I think you will move up. If you are targeting a high traffic, big money keyword, there will be lots of traffic and lots of money changing hands.  You will get long tail traffic and long tail money.  In time you might hit the big time. It is a mistake not to try this a few times.  You only need one to connect.

Looks like you took Nigel's excellent advice and have implemented the redirects. That's great. I did notice however, that you're redirecting vivitecsolutions to www.vivitec and then www.vivitec to vivitec (without the www subdomain). I suggest you get rid of the middle redirect and go directly from vivitecsolutions to vivitec. The redirect "chain" unnecessarily slows your site.

If the links hit different pages on your site, then there will be considerable benefit to those individual pages. If the links all hit the same page, then the benefit of multiple links is not as much.

I agree with Gaston. Something else I wanted to point out - the first site you listed is responsive. Usually, people create a mobile only site when their site isn't responsive. It's just something to note as you could be getting hit for duplicate content with your mobile site. Thanks!

Hi there, There are many ways of handling Out Of Stock products, it essentially depends on how probable is that the product has stock again: 1- Unique item. You can go for: 404 that page, hide it under a login or redirect to a custom out of stock page, so as users can search for anything else. 2- Will have stock soon: Schema is the way to go. This the parameter could be useful: https://schema.org/OutOfStock It always depends on how you want to handle user experience for people coming from search engines. Some ecommerce just convert them into 404, others redirect it to he category or to a internal search page and other even just set a noindex tag. Hope it helps. Best luck. GR

A Very Happy New Year to you, too! So glad my reply was helpful to you, and good luck with your publication.