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The odd thing is before adding the link, the first keyword was position 11 the second was position 12.  The first one boosted up to the first page, the second one has dropped to the third page!

I'm not quite sure if I'm correct since I'm not in the gaming industry, but I don't think there would be many benefits in terms of SEO for having provider name in URL. There are a few reasons that I wouldn't add provider name in URL: Your URL will be much longer, Moz suggests to keep it within 75 words, including https://www. I'm guessing the more important keyword here is the game name, by having publisher name you're moving your important keyword further from the root domain It cost more time and effort to manage and create content for each provider page/content Provider name is a branded keyword, and it would be hard for you to outrank them in their brand name doesn't give much SEO value When I search for "Battlefield 1", almost all the top results have "Battlefield 1" close to their root domain. https://www.windowscentral.com/battlefield-1-2018 https://www.gamespot.com/battlefield-1/ https://www.g2a.com/en/battlefield-1-origin-key-global-i10000016618004 https://www.origin.com/sgp/en-us/store/battlefield/battlefield-1#store-page-section-criticalacclaim I think at the end it depends on what keyword you're trying to rank for and does having the publisher name helps.

Hello there, If I understand correctly you want to know the cloud of keywords, and the first thing that comes up to my mind is Ahrefs Keyword explorer. It shows you keywords that are similar or related to your keywords, there's also a beta features that try to tell what is the parent topic (keyword). Take a look at the screenshot, I wanted know keyword that surrounding "coffee machine" it then shows me thousands of other similar keywords and its parent topic "coffee maker" You can also check out the "organic keyword" from the top ranking results of a keyword to see what keyword they're also ranking for, so you get an idea of similar keywords. Ahref isn't free but you can try out with the trial which cost you much less. Regards, Joseph Yap cSMxX1j.png

Sorry, This is the site I wasreferringg to, love to hear your thoughts on what could be improved. https://intrinsicallysafestore.com/product/intrinsically-safe-handheld-barcode-scanner-bartec-bcs-3600/

Thanks for the response. Sorry for the dumb questions --  If I have a bunch of PDF's, why is this useful? Does this allow Google to crawl them and I get the SEO juice?

So glad if it's useful!

So have you tried putting a new url in its place, with new/revised content with the same internal pages linking to it--and NOT using a 301 from the old to the new?

Hi Kate, If you're talking about the delete account page I'm thinking of, it won't delete the listing. It will just unverify it. So, the listing will continue to exist, just outside of your client's ability to control it. In your shoes, I would: Explain to the client again that their only option is to mark the business as closed, which is equivalent to going out of business. Google My Business is not really an opt-in opt-out platform. If you're in business, you have to deal with it, because even if you don't create a GMB listing yourself, Google can automate one for you, based on their pull of data from around the web. So, educate the client once more that "hiding" from this reality isn't an option. In terms of Google Analytics, that's a separate product from GMB. Whether or not you have a listing doesn't affect use of GA, but, certainly, if the business marks itself as closed, I would expect that to impact their traffic, which will then be reflected in GA. If the client isn't able to face the reality of how Google works, I would end the relationship. As a marketer, it's your job to offer information to the best of your ability. But if a client is unable to act on that information, success is unlikely for you or for them. So, I'd take one more shot at educating this client about basic local business operations, and if they're unable to work within the realities of that, I would walk away. Hope this helps!

IF the webmaster has everything set correctly, you should use http. If you use https and it's not secure it's broken, they should have http and www. all pointing to the secured version KJr

That would be the first step--push it onto HR's plate and have them write new ads and job descriptions. : )  But it's hardly likely that it would be sufficient, anyway, I mean your company may have authority in organic rankings for whatever it is your company does or makes and the likelihood that Google's going to push a page up for what is essentially a barely related topic (the job description) may be overly optimistic on the boss' part. If you can show that at least the job ad comes up for the job title and company name, at least that might be something they can latch onto.

Thumbs up, Sean!

Be very careful about changing hierarchy or structure.  It does have an effect on where the pages rank. Any pages that are ranking well (i.e. position 0 to 5) don't even touch them, in fact anything on the first page I would be slow to alter without very good reason. Anything that is on the second page or worse you haven't got a lot to lose, so restructuring probably would make sense.

It is certainly quite possible that I'm doing wrong as well but basically if you manage to include the page title in the alt text you've essentially met your quality points for the most part. Because at one point I implemented those annoying popup overlays on an adult affiliate site, I coded some jQuery to randomly select 1 of 20 different banners. not only did I want it to dynamically pic a random image, I needed for the image to have alt text entered on it as well. I was able to essentially use a snippet of code and the alt tags reverted to the page title automatically. It seemed to not only please Yoast, but Google as well. I do fully understand that the initial intent of the alt tag is to take place of the image when it is not able to load, but for some reason matching the page title seems to be the all important Google pleaser. And as far as adding the same alt tag on every image on the page, my site didn't seem to effected negatively, but quite the contrary Thing is, while Wordpress seems to pretty much only seem to impliment alt tags off the rip despite having a caption and description box, they don't seem to get implimented when u drop the image down. There's actually quite a few different  Image SEO metrics that are quite often overlooked. Rand has a white board Friday that covers pretty much all of them. I made this infographic based upon it. Full Size Image 1bCoCnR.jpg

No problem

Another thing that can burn you is if you're using a country code suffix. Some of them such as Tokalau allow still the registrar owner to specify a location, but that's an exceptional circumstance due to the fact that country gives those leases out in an effort to stimulate  e-commerce growth. However if you put the wrong country code on a suffix, you may as well just toss the domain, I've done it before, sux.

Hi Luca, there should be no reason to link to ProductY.com if it's an empty web that you redirect to www.CompanyX.com/ProductY, unless you create those backlinks, and if you create them, better to point them directly to www.CompanyX.com/ProductY If there is some reason why someone naturally could create backlinks to that domain that I'm missing, in that case it could help, and it would transfer link juice to www.CompanyX.com/ProductY If your company wants to do this for marketing purposes, go ahead, it won't benefit your SEO but it won't either harm it. Greetings!

It's not necessary to ping the links often, but I put a reminder and revise them from time to time.Of course, key information and global SEO changes mentioned in guest posts need to be updated.

The reason I ask about the seo folder is because "seo" isn't usually something that's separate from any of the rest of your site--folders, or otherwise. Rather, it's something that is integrated into the site's words, pages and programming so as to not even identifiable as seo--just proper best practices. When a site's services pages are optimized, for example, they end up being just plain ol' services pages--it's just that keywords have been properly researched and utilized, internal link anchor text has been researched and properly implemented, page titles and metadata have been thought out, etc. The same goes for the homepage and all the site's other pages. You may already know all this and I'm being overly simplistic for you here. If so, my apologies, but I wasn't quite sure from your question what you were looking for.

I certainly wouldn't use 2 sets of images. I typically use a framework like bootstrap or materialize and would just use the image class fluid. However when I'm working on a clients and they have some super annoying theme that I don't want to add any unnecessary additional plugins, or if the framework would cause any complications i'll just use the responsive CSS rules of max and min width and specify different optimized images at certain breakpoints: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_mediaqueries.asp