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Thank you--   That's looks like a great resource- still working on this and appreciate your input Stephen

Hi Amy, Does the ranking shift coincide in some way with your hours of operation on affected days vs. the hours of operation of your competitors?

Google bot can read any URL that is viewable by itself. Try this: copy the URL of the complete transaction page and paste it in fresh broweser where your website is not cached/cookied there. If you can see the page - So google can! For your "discount for a link" concern - I need to know more details.

Thank you EGOL!

As long as the content is bringing you traffic and conversions, keep the content online. Maybe you could place a popup on the old content to explain to people that you have rebranded, just so they don't get confused.

Hey, So right now I am using business listing, classified, and other activities to gain backlinks are they effective in 2018 for gaining backlinks? and also I am using the same content and posting it on various platforms, will that help me gain backlinks?

Apparently it won't be considered as a link according to John Muller https://twitter.com/Errioxa/status/1005024345650094080?s=19 Also that was from a few months ago, thing might have changed.

Just as EGOL describe it. If you're on Amazon AWS then you can use their CloudFront as CDN. But also you can observe source of traffic. Could coming from one country, one IP range or one user-agent. There should be some kind of pattern and you should investigate it. Then just need to make rule to block that traffic or just redirect them to one static "hello world" page. I was also victim of such traffic, but was from humans trying to depleting an AdWords daily budget. Once budget it over ads was stopped showing, after few hours they recalculate clicks, some funds was returned, ads are shown again, they click it, budget is over... and so on.

Can you personalise the content to each location? For example list UK customer case studies on the UK site. This will provide a more personalised experience for the user, and may also reduce the risk duplicate content. If the identical content does not need to be personalised (like the terms and conditions page for example), then you could just rel=canonical the identical pages 1 one page. thanks

Hey, I'm Dave from the Help Team! Moz Local is currently only available in the U.S. and Canada.  Sorry about that, let us know if there is anything else we can help with!

Thanks for your time answering my question. I've reported a few of the websites being hacked. Hopefully Google takes a look at this. There are actually pages of SERPs where the sites are hacked currently! Its crazy. Hopefully Google cracks down.

Both help in SEO. Internal links for ensuring that bots crawl and connect your pages together. Backlinks for improving your site's authority. The latter has more weight in terms of outranking competitors.

Hi rswhtn, We have not seen proof of structured data having a direct impact on general organic rankings. However, we're confident that clickthrough rate does have an impact on rankings (see Rand's Whiteboard Friday on this here, as well as Larry Kim's post). Since "rich results" (rich snippets) can impact clickthrough rate, the should then have a secondary impact on rankings. That said, it doesn't sound like your homepage had a rich result from this use of structured data. It's also not clear whether/how Google uses this postal address data. Since it's not likely been implemented at any significant scale across the web, I'd be dubious if it were a useful ranking signal for them. It's possible, but I'd call it unlikely. We have seen rankings fluctuate significantly across client accounts even when the pages in question have not been updated. It seems that Google's AI/Engineering team iterate on search results frequently. So, in short, I suspect this has to do with something other than structured data. The significant changes to the homepage may be involved (UX can have a significant impact on rankings), but these changes could very well have generated a net gain in terms of overall traffic/results in spite of this lost head term position. Unfortunately I think easy/clear answers on this will prove evasive. If you have the data (via Ahrefs or otherwise), I'd recommend reviewing the "flux" in the top 10 search results for "clothing manufacturers" around this time. If yours is not the only result that shifted significantly in this time frame, it's like part of a larger shift in Google's ranking algorithm. Best, Mike

"Mr X flew back to the United States last week" In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with your sentence.  I understand it.  I think that Google will understand it. Most of the writing that I do is very formal writing.  Other people write in a relaxed manner, as though they are speaking.  That type of speaking and writing is known as **colloquial. ** I believe that much of your writing is colloquial and Google will accept it without a problem. The only thing that I might add to your writing is some periods and commas.   You might do that when you write for a website as forum writing is not given as much time.

Yes! I read the example backward. I'm with you! All pages should point to C.

Hey there, Thanks for reaching out! Could you please write in to help@moz.com along with your email address? We'll be happy to help!

Hello there, from what I've read, so long as you write unique, interesting natural content, you don't need to worry about keyword stuffing. If content flows naturally and gives a lot of value to users, it should be fine. Unnatural keyword usage looks like this: "Bob's cheap Seattle plumber is the best cheap Seattle plumber for all your plumbing needs. Contact a cheap Seattle plumber before it's too late." If you are worried, maybe try spreading the keywords around, using synonyms or adding more valuable content to thin out the keyword mentions. Hope this helps.

Hello AlishaW, Do you mean that If I provide incorrect information about an entity that could hurt my ranking. If i say something wrong such as : Football is played with your hands. Will it hurt ?