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How did this all play out for you guys? I am late to the party but am just now experiencing this for the first time with an HVAC client. In the clients knowledge graph on Google it shows: "Products and Services: places.singleplatform.com" I tried what was explained in the original post but it appears some things have changed in GMB since Aug. 2018. Imagine that Any help on getting this link removed would be greatly appreciated!

Hey Gaston, Thank you for your reply. Yes, that makes sense to me! All fixed now.

Three websites = 3x the work...and budget needed. Similar to a medical clinic when it comes to services. List this company's services and optimize accordingly. If it is an incredibly competitive market, niche website may be the way to go. If I had it my way, in a medium to low competition market, i would focus on strengthen the content & DA on one site, rather than 3.

Can I also note that I don't think you've made enough of the benefits of this thing. 'Features' is great but that's more B2B, benefits is B2C.  People want to feel liberated and you've done this great with your imagery but the copy and words perhaps need more depth to them. Put more copy on the site.  I know it looks beautiful and you don't want to interfere with the design but copy sells not images.  It doesn't have to be long but explain the benefits and problems that you're solving right at the beginning.

- so in general, it should not matter how many links are in the article, as long they're relevant and not too spammy looking? That's my opinion for internal links. For external links, relevance and the quality of the destination are important.

I'm seeing something very similar, except the inbound links are all for my site (not a competitor.) This isn't intentional, and I can't figure out why/how it's happening. Did you make any progress on this? Every link is showing the exact same Shopper Approved review (identical text.) The only difference is that the query in the search box is unique. "https://search.aol.com/reviews?q=..." There are over 600 of these inbound links, all linking to (1) our homepage, and (2) our Shopper Approved page. Both are followed links. Any ideas? I'm going to reach out to Shopper Approved and see if they have anything to say, but I have a feeling that'll be a dead end.

Make sure products are in your sitemap and it has been re-submitted. You can also submit your products to request indexing for them in Google Search Console.

Sorry for disappearing on you - any updates here?

Hi, There could be a variety of things that could have caused this, but I would start by asking a few questions: Did the drop happen quickly? Did it go from positions 1-3 to 20 below in a day or two? Is the SERP volatile? Has there been lots of movement for the SERP historically? Have other sites in your space seen negative drops? I know there has been a lot of movement in the last few weeks. Some general things I would jump into to start looking: Core technical elements. Was the page de-indexed somehow? Was the page canonicalized elsewhere? Did the core on-page elements get re-targeted to another term or removed? General health of homepage/site Is your backlink profile healthy? Did you ever purchase links/did someone purchase negative links to your domain? Is your content scraped or duplicated across other sites? Is your website mobile friendly? Does your site load quicker than 5 seconds? As Nikki mentioned, it's also important to look at who is ranking now. What is the DA of their site compared to yours? Is it much higher? Is their quality of content better? If the drop happened quickly it's likely that something technical went wrong or you've been hit with an obvious penalty. If it's happened over months, it's probably less obvious and could be multiple things. I know that's not a straight answer, but those are some starting points I could think of with the information provided. Hope that is helpful!

The URL structure should match the menu structure. This is beneficial to bots crawling your site. You're two specific questions are open to discussion. I've heard pros and cons of both. Traditionally it's include www with trailing slash only on directories

Hey is it best practice to redirect all 404 pages. If the page that was taken down has no inbounds links or a relevant substitute landing page, 404's are fine. For example if the 404 pages had 0 traffic and no links why would you need to redirect that page? If it has a contextual-relevant landing page, use a 301. Even it has no traffic, it may have organic rankings and/or traffic until it gets dropped from the serps.

Thanks for the response. How would you redirect http and https at the same time? You would have double urls per page which could get long and tedious. Just wondering if there is better approach.