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Hey Patrick, Coming back to give you 2 additional pro tips I got from Mike Blumenthal: Get multiple people to report the issue via the "send feedback" link. This could help the job get done. If you see no traction after a couple of months, go report the whole issue in the GMB forum. The TCs there can try to escalate it for you. So nice of Mike to offer these extra tips

Hmmm, this is a difficult question to answer as this is determined by bid type, demographic, business sector, bid amount, quality scores, ad copy, your competitors and more etc There are too many variables to give you an exact answer.

Personally I think it's a bad idea, I tried it and it was a waste of time, 0 results. My time is better spent improving the quality of our websites, adding rich content and building links. It's my understanding that 3rd party blogging site are not indexed by Google anyway. Just my opinion, hope it helps KJr

Duplicate Content I have experience facing problems like these ones. In the past, I worked with sites multilingual and multi-region and even multi-location (same country but different cities) websites, mostly for Hotels, Restaurants, and Business related to the tourism. First of all (probably you did it. But is ok keeping it in mind) Add Every domain and every variation of your domains on Search Console http:yoursite.com http:www.yoursite.com https:yoursite.com https:www.yoursite.com Talking about your questions It's common for websites to provide similar or the same content in different languages when targeting different regions while having different URLs. Google is okay with this as long as the users are from different countries. Your website will not be penalized when translation is manual and accurate. Even though Google still prefers unique content for each version, it understands that having unique content can be quite tough. Google clearly states that you don't need to hide such content by not allowing Google to crawl it using a robots.txt file or no index robots meta tag. The circumstances are entirely different if you're providing the same content to the same audience through two URLs. Let me explain this with an example. Imagine you've created yourbusiness.com and yourbusiness.com.au. One targets the USA and other targets Australia respectively. Since both are in English, this will cause duplicate content. Luckily, it can be easily solved using an hreflang tag, which is widely accepted by all search engines globally. The hreflang tag protects international SEO campaigns from being penalized with duplicate content. It's usually required by businesses that cater to different languages or countries through sub-domains, subfolders, or ccTLD. The hreflang tag also is important if you have multiple languages for one single targeted country. Here's what I do to implementing it: Step 1: First, we must handle language targeting. You'll have to list out the URLs that have equivalents in different languages. Any stand-alone or non-equivalent URLs would not need the hreflang tag, so don't list them. Step 2: Now comes setting up the tag. This is what a general hreflang tag looks like: All you need are the country-wide codes http://www.mathguide.de/info/tools/languagecode.html For having a site that targets different countries in same language, you'll use code like: **Step 3:**Here the hreflang="x-default" is used to create a default common page for all countries. This is generally the homepage or another neutral page for all countries. After implementation, you can check that what you've done works properly by logging into your Google Webmaster Tool account. Proceed to "Search Traffic" and then "International Targeting." If the hreflang tags were placed properly, you'll be able to test them utilizing the feature presented there. When problems ensue, try using the hreflang tag generator tool to make things easy. Common Mistakes to Avoid Incorrect use of language codes: All tags should contain codes as per ISO 639-1. Using incorrect ones will negatively impact your international SEO. Missing confirmation link: If page A links to page B, page B must link back to page A with a proper hreflang tag. IF THIS ANSWER WERE USEFUL MARK IT AS A GOOD ANSWER

Yes, organic conversions and then organic traffic are where I would focus. Rankings should be monitored but don't obsess over them. Typically origin of backlinks matters. Pick 5 of your top competitors and see which country their backlink profiles are from primarily and emulate that. The perfect backlink profile is always based on the niche and tends to vary. I will look out for the other questions.

Hi there!! Sam from Moz's Help Team here - I'm sorry to hear about the trouble there! This is actually going to take a little more investigation on our end (including taking a look at each listing and Facebook page) - could you please pop an email over to help@moz.com and include the names of the affected listings, as well as their correct Facebook page URLs, so we can look into this further for you? Looking forward to hearing from you!

Hello, Sure you can promote both businesses that operate out of the same address. Just do it separately. Submit everything for each business as if it was the only one there. You will need to make sure to keep things separate and not get things mixed up as that could actually cause some problems. To make it easier I would work on one business at a time to make it easy to keep everything separate. Do business "A" and get it verified by Google and everyone else. Then go back and do the same for business "B". Make sure you set up separate accounts everywhere for each business. There are many times that businesses work out of shared office space. Like coworking facilities or some executive offices. It is a lot more common than it used to be. Best Regards

Search Engine crawlers don't pay much attention to HTML sitemaps - they're considered thin/worthless pages with no real value, since they're just a huge collection of links with no context. Build them so they are useful and relevant for a human visitor, or just make sure your site navigation and internal search is well-thought-out and drop the HTML sitemap altogether (which is my strong recommendation). Paul

Since you are WordPress, install "Really Simple SSL" plugin https://really-simple-ssl.com/ You have a mixed content warning as well as the redirect problem. Really Simple SSL will fix that pretty painlessly. Worth the $25 for the premium version but the free version is also great. Also looks like your host may be WP Engine? They can work with you to help as well. I see the mixed content warning if I go directly to the page: https://intercallsystems.com/nurse-call-manufacturer/

Hello, Well, you will need to work on a few things to increase your presence in the search engines. It does not really matter if it is a brand new website or one that has been around for a while. It does sound like you may have a newer site and are trying to figure out how to get started. The first thing I would do is an analysis of your own website in relation to your business on the internet. Go through the content you have now and determine a large list of relevant keywords that relate to your business and company. Then after you have a pretty big list of maybe 50 to 100 relevant search terms you can start to do some analysis on which of those terms have some potential. A good way to start is by using "Open site Explorer" and "Keyword Explorer". Open site explorer will allow you to see how your site stacks up and give you information on things like your websites "Domain Authority" and "Domain Trust" scores. You can then compare your websites scores to those of websites that rank on the first page in Google for the terms you are interested in. "Keyword Explorer" will help you determine how the various sites stack up against each other and if there are some search terms that have low competition and also get the traffic you can then develop a plan to target those keywords. Here is an article from the Moz blog regarding growing site traffic. I hope it helps. https://moz.com/blog/launching-new-website-seo-checklist-whiteboard-friday Best Regards

Thanks. How about if a h1 tag is in a module by itself for example on wordpress at the top of my page. Can it hurt ? wouldn’t it better if the h1 closed at the end of my page so that it includes my h2 h3 tags within the h1 for search engine to understand the relation between all the h tags ? Je

Href lang tags are your friend here I've got a site set up as .com (our global catch all) .com/uk .com/us and .com/de Get the tags right and you're golden - having fewer pages wont matter either it'll just be a lot less exposure/SEO in those countries

Hi Michael, You're welcome. Regarding the use of brand names in title tags, we've had some good discussions of this here in the forum over the years (https://moz.com/community/q/include-site-name-in-page-titles-or-not) You'll see opinions differ. My personal feeling is that, for a local business, the brand name should definitely be in the title tags on the home, about, contact and reviews page + city landing pages for multi-location businesses. Then, it should be included where you can on other pages (product/service for example). I don't think it's essential for it to be on every single page, but for the sake of branding, I like making room for it where possible. I hope you'll read that discussion I linked to, and you might want to research this further. Great title tags are so important! Worth the research and effort. To that end, I think you'll enjoy this Whiteboard Friday: https://moz.com/blog/title-tag-hacks-whiteboard-friday

Thanks, that part we know. We have already passed the day we get our updates