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Do you do local, in-person services, or work only online? Are these directories that real people are likely to visit to look for your services?

Hello HuptechWebseo, No, there is no harm in having an autoreferrential canonical tag. In my experience, that tag is set as a reminder and/or to be used when tracking or other parameters are used with that page. I dont remember having read any experiment and/or done experiment where having an autorreferential canonical tag carries benefits. Hope it helps. Best luck. GR.

Let me know how it turns out. If the problem persist, I'm glad to help good luck!

Thanks István Keszeg & Gaston Riera. That helps a lot.

I probably got hit by the survey a half dozen times over the course of a year. The problem was it's really difficult to take screenshots on my phone, without closing out to the 'desktop'. Finally managed to capture one about six months ago, then sat on it. I know the brands involved, so it's probably pretty easy to verify if the pay per review thing was sanctioned. I'm just not certain which tree to bark up. To me, it's clear the ethics have been at least modestly bent. Compensation involved with any review is a paid review. But the dark side tells me if this is readily available, it might be handy one day.

No, create original content, it's a beast, but it's worth it. KJr

Hi there! Yes, pages with poor user experience do affect SEO, even more if those pages receive traffic from google. So there are two scenaries here, regarding whether they receive traffic: 1. They do receive traffic, either move to other CMS (like wordpress and woocommerce) or improve those pages experience. 2. Do not receive traffic, leave them as is. Alls this is considering that you are not able to change Robots.txt and do not want to move to other CMS. Adding nofollow links will not make any difference, because Google does honor the robot.txt, so pages blocked there will not be crawled never. So as to remove them fron index is crucial beind allowed in robots(or what's the sabe, not being disallowed) Hope it helps. Best Luck. GR

You could just use excel and/or google sheets to keep track of your indexed and not indexed urls. It's not very elegant but should work. Here a useful article on the topic.

Hi there! If there isnt any video shown in the results, its very likely that Google understands that people does not look for videos results by that query. There is a great opportunity as you say ranking videos, but not in that search query. If you dont mind, I'd like to recommend you to try SEMrush and its keyword tracker, they show the rich snippets for any selected keyword. It's very usefull to kickstart a research from there, it may help to find other paths for finding video rich results. Yeah, keyword research takes time. Finding the gap where to put all your effort is difficult, always be sure and try to confirm that you are targetting the correct set of search terms with other tools and/or other proffesionals. Hope it helps. Best luck. GR

Meta-keywords in the head of pages have no SEO value, and in some instances may even be used as spam signals. It's been a very long time since they ever had any value. So Drupal did the right thing by removing them by default. I understand there may be a few smaller European search engines that might still use meta-keywords, and there are some internal site search engines that use them for internal indexing purposes. But if neither of those cases applies, there's no point in wasting any time implementing them. Hope that helps? Paul

Unpublished?   404's? I would not delete them.  Instead, I would enhance them (with permission of the bride and groom).  Ask the bride, groom and family and attendees, the photographer, the baker, the florist, the officiant, the catering service to contribute photos, memories, and more.  If you provide good reasons, people will share these pages, link to them, revisit them, browse them and more.  Imagine links from the photographer's site, bakers, florist, etc... As your collection for a specific destination grows you have more cred in search, more in bound links, more type-ins and direct traffic to your website.  Allow people to sign up to receive a message a few weeks after the wedding when the page has some enhancements. Yes, this will take a lot of work but it might be worth it.  It might be an add on that you can use to earn an extra fee. You might be able to get an interface where the bride and groom or their friends can help build and take the work burden off of you.  This might be used in advance of the wedding to communicate. Just wild ideas as I am not in this business but know how many people like to build things and share stuff.

If you understand html and SEO, then this could be an "in-house" job, otherwise hire only a professional that can be held accountable. Make certain of your wishes/needs and document that both parties understand the need and expected results. $800 is not much money to have your site professionally repaired. KJr

Hi Jocelyn First thing, is missing meta description (especially on those pages) are not an issue really. I also just crawled your whole site with Screaming Frog SEO Spider, and didn't find those links or pages internally either. And I also don't see any of them indexed in Google. I would maybe wait a few weeks and see if the error sin the Moz report go away. It could have been something temporary. -Dan

Do you mean what Moz products should you subscribe to?  Is this actually a product question?

Everett, Thank you for your time and responses. They have been most helpful in deciding our strategy direction moving forward.

In a lot of niches there is not enough traffic to pull in 20k relevant visitors. In niches that have enough traffic, top positions were earned by worthy websites twenty years ago.  In those niches you must earn your way to the top and that earning will take highly linkable content and an attack that could require a year or more of work. There is no quick and easy route to 20k per month. ================================= From your website.... did you try it yourself ? Top 30 handpicked ideas to generate huge targeted traffic

Your second sentence looks spammy to me. If you wish to use the museums, try using them as a reference point: "The Van Gogh museum is a popular destination for many bike tours." KJr

Yes, I think this will make it easier for them for sure and should theoretically help your links pick up. If you want to be 100% safe you don't violate any guidelines, just make sure you're not explicitly telling them they have to link back in exchange for product, but you can encourage and if they do on their own free will it should be fine.

Good morning! Great question, and a little history on this may be helpful. In 2015, Google drew attention to the fact that users were increasingly using "near me" as a modifier for searches, and in an effort to prompt local results. According to Google the use of such terms as "near me" and "nearby" had doubled within the foregoing year. As a result of this, the use of "near me" terms became the subject of optimization experiments. However, fast forward a couple of years, and Google came out with an update on this topic, which you can read in full here: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/consumer-insights/local-search-mobile-search-micro-moments/ To sum up, these near-type searches had begun to subside. The obvious answer to the "why" of this is that users are becoming increasingly aware of that fact that Google will automatically localize a huge variety of searches to which they assign a local intent, without the user having to modify their search at all, with "near me" or even with a city name. You look up "pizza" on your phone in downtown San Francisco and you can be pretty sure Google is going to show you pizza places nearest you without you having to add a modifier of any kind. So, does this mean that brands should no longer be including terms like "near me" in their website optimization? No, it doesn't mean that, as, according to Google, people are still searching this way. It's just that fewer of them are, so whereas in 2015 SEOs might have advised quite a good sprinkling of near-type language in a website's tags and text, in 2018, the recommended sprinkling would likely be quite a bit less. And I'll add an it-depends on this, too. There could be some demographics, perhaps by region, or age, or level of technological sophistication, or even business type where use of "near me" could still be quite prevalent. And let's not forget about voice search, and whether more natural language patterns might be leading folks to be asking their assistants, "Where's the best pizza near me?" instead of just saying "pizza". Which brings me to why I'm voting in major favor of your A/B testing! It will help you identify which language best matches your customers' style of search. It would be really nice if, after your test, you might come back to this thread and let the community know how it went. Good luck!

Thanks Tomas and Mike - good advice - I have done that and found legacy stuff they've since moved away from - there is indeed no current use for the directives. I wonder whether there's any resource on the web that lists all robots.txt directives - and interprets them - if not then perhaps it would an idea for Moz?