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I agree with alt tags but believe google combines that with neural nets. Thank you,

Hi Seorankfuse! You are so right that this is a very serious problem. Google's apparent inaction regarding it could be stemming from two causes that I can think of: They are too comfortable as a result of being a monopoly. When Google entered local search, they did it without the consent of local businesses. Most owners simply found themselves thrown into the deep end of the pool, scrambling towards the realization that their information was now on a highly visible platform. So, basically, you had an entity representing the country's local businesses without their authorization, and Google support was so incredibly lacking back then, it was extremely stressful for owners whose information was wrong, spammed, conflated, hijacked, etc. It hurt real-world local businesses. Google's support has improved quite a bit since those days, but their brand attitude all too often appears not to have changed. I've now read so many stories of business owners who are literally being blackmailed by spammers or having their professional reputation damaged by review spam companies, I'm not at all impressed by Google's response. If their inability to address this scenario stems from a lack of competition, it's an object lesson in why monopolies are bad for the market. Google may simply not know how to manage what they've built. It's a vast body of content they have on their plate. Other review platforms (like Yelp) appear to be far more stringent in the enforcement of guidelines and policing of content, but it could be that Google either lacks the dedicated staff members to manage their review corpus or that their engineers have yet to hit on an algorithmic solution that they're happy with for auto-detecting most forms of spam. I am not an engineer by any stretch of the imagination, but it would basically come down to a combination of identifying suspicious patterns + human support to greatly reduce the damage happening to real-world businesses as a result of Google's uncontrolled spam problem. That's my take on this situation. I agree with you 100% that Google should be publicly addressing this and proffering a timeline of their planned solutions, but this just isn't happening. So, in the meantime, if you, a client or someone you care about is subject to a large-scale review spam attack, my best advice is to utilize PR to the maximum to draw attention to that particular case in hopes of one-off resolution. Not great, but there it is. Further reading: https://twitter.com/JoyanneHawkins/status/1069596742776061952 https://www.localsearchforum.com/threads/4-star-fake-review-issue-over-2-3-million-fake-ratings-on-google.53556/

So glad to help!

As far as I know, Google will automatically pull up the Header 1 as your title and your meta description will be the first 160 characters of your blog post/page. Its more ideal to install a plugin like yoastseo and set up the title and meta description manually every time you create new pages. But if nothing is set, Google will automatically generate that for you. It can be bad for your on-page SEO if you have overly long H1 tags but it won't be too much of an effect. You would see it as an error every time you use tools to audit your website as well as not having a proper meta description.

It was great,Is it applicable to this website as well?موکت محمدی

Well... I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 410 is not one of the redirect codes They all begin with "3", e.g: 301, 302 or even 307. 410 is the status code you employ to let browsers and search engines know that a page is gone forever and is not coming back. 410 means 'gone' and without any redirects, basically erases the SEO authority of those addresses (unless remedies **VERY **gosh darned fast)

Hi Adam! Yellowbook still exists and is accessible from the US. I'm sorry but I'm not sure why it wouldn't be so from your location. As for workarounds, I can suggest two: Infogroup feeds Yellowbook, as far as I know, so if you have something you need to do on Yellowbook, you might want to take that up with Infogroup. If you need a citation built only on Yellowbook, get someone in the US to do it for you. Of course, if the business you're promoting is in Israel and there is some reason Yellowbook isn't accessible to anyone from there, having a citation on that platform would be of questionable value. Hope this helps!

Concentrate your efforts on one domain name and just use the other as a redirect for those people searching and mistakenly put in the non www for example. you shouldnt see too much effect but I don't quite understand the necessity of two ips though. It sounds like the problem is in the redirection rather than the IP. Personally, I'd look at the problem rather than the workaround as it could point to a larger problem of misconfiguration.

RE: Changed page name, etc - still get a "missing canonical tag" error. At this point, I could be wrong, but I am convinced there's hidden problem, or a bug in the system. No more posts here, I emailed help@moz.com

Hi Ann! Great question. Each location should have its own phone number that connects directly to it. As you're just beginning your local search marketing, I think you'll find the Guidelines for Representing your Business on Google to be especially helpful in adhering to best practices and avoiding mistakes. You might also like: https://moz.com/blog/45-local-seo-pitfalls Best of luck with your marketing!

Thank you for the help, Gaston!

Here is the answer that I've received: "Hi At the moment the work round is to set as open for 1 minute at 2am on Monday morning. It worked for a top contributor but not for Nathan who tried it. I think it could be a bug affecting older GmB entries? Its been known about for a long time. Andrew."

Hi there, The URL structure will remain the same? If so, in the .htaccess file of the subdomain, you should add the following after the RewriteEngine On: RewriteEngineOn RewriteCond%{HTTP_HOST}^shop.domain.co.uk$[NC] RewriteRule(.*)https://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L] this should do the trick to redirect https://shop.domain.co.uk/product-category/great-merchandise/?product_order=desc to https://www.domain.co.uk/product-category/great-merchandise/?product_order=desc I hope this helped

Keyword difficulty should be based upon the skills of the author and how good of a job that you can do against the content of the competition. If you can beat their content, go after them. Do not fear competition, because where there is competition there is plenty of traffic and plenty of money changing hands.   Even if you do not rank at #1 right away there is still long tail traffic and searchers going onto the second page. The greatest risk that you have by taking the advice above is if you are not honest with yourself about your abilities.  If you go challenge a battleship with a potato gun then even God will not be able to help you.

There is no best practice. Although I've read that google does not takes into account that much signals in sitemap. So: hreflang in HTML Header Hope it helps. Best luck. GR