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A site running ASP should be perfectly fine. I bet you will see substantial increases in a lot of positive metrics by just pairing down that navigation.

Hi there, Just check the answer from the following question: https://moz.com/community/q/unable-to-crawl-after-301-permanent-redirect-how-to-fix-this. Jordan Railsback describes the issue, and how to fix it.

They are actually upgrading our platform in the next couple of months, so I will be pushing this. Are there any areas (apart from TTFB) I should push? This is really not my area so I'm a bit lost with where to start. I know you mentioned the caching issue - I'll look for your comments and try to review this. Thank you

Hi seoman10 answering your question They are important, but I think they are not even in the TOP 20 of the priorities when you rank a site, for me the most iportant factor are Content Backlinks Mobile-First User Experience Other Technical Factors To support my point of view you can check the 200 ranking factors from backlinko and Image Optimization is in the 24 position. "24. Image Optimization: Images on-page send search engines important relevancy signals through their file name, alt text, title, description and caption." Optimize the ALT tags can give you a better score but will not give thousands of visitors. In the other hand a good link mixed with agreat content can give you that traffic. When you are making an onpage optimization is really good idea to put your main keywords or releated keywords in the images and those ALT tags must be related to the topic of your article but is very usual that you will have a lot of images without ALT tag, such as icons, ads, backgrounds and Im sure that they will not hurt your SEO Sources Search Engine Journal Backlinko

Great thank you for this! I'll take them on board Becky

Hi Pintapin , i am understanding you have a website that runs on the .com domain but you also have the .ir domain.  And you want to know what to do with the .ir domain. So if you are in Iran and your users are likely to look for your domain with the .ir domain, or you actually communicate the .ir domain, you should setup a 301 to the main .com domain. I am assuming here you have been the only owner of the .ir domain so there wouldn´t be any legacy issues. Not redirect - so park domain, disallow, delete domain - will only benefit the SEO of main domain if you would suspect to have spam problems on the .ir domain. Hope this helps, (if i didn´t understand the issue correctly let me know)

Hi SSDigital, Ooof...listing hijacking is truly awful. I'm so sorry for the trouble you're experiencing, and even sorrier to have to mention that it's not uncommon. Here's a phone number for Yext: 888-444-2988. Hope it helps!

Hi AtlasGlobal! Great questions. You do not want to assume the old listings for the former brand, as their reputation belongs to them and not you. Rather, I recommend that you read this post https://searchengineland.com/business-owners-guide-moving-office-234671 and follow these steps outlined in this post for what to do when a business moves: https://moz.com/blog/delete-gmb-listing. I would follow those steps in dealing with the GMB listings, and I'd recommend updating any existing  Yelp listing manually for your client, and then I would use Moz Local to get the new info out there on the major aggregators + other critical platforms.

Thank you both for your help!

Hi Tariq! You'll typically be best off building your Google My Business listings manually, which you can then import to Moz Local for the purposes of building out the rest of your most important citations. You can learn more about syncing Moz Local and Google My Business here: https://moz.com/blog/my-business-console-free-tool A WP theme isn't really going to ensure higher maps rankings. Yoast's Local SEO plugin for WP (https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/local-seo/) is popular, but I think it oversimplifies the idea that any plugin or theme is going to = high local rankings. There are several hundred factors that contribute to ranking well locally on Google, and your website factors into that in terms of its basic SEO, content and links. Check out this year's Local Search Ranking Factors survey for further details: https://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors Hope this helps!

Correct. Long term, it could even become a hinderance.

Maybe I'm missing something? You can implement an htaccess rewrite rule (or equivalent for your server stack) using regex/host so that essentially http://example.com/foo OR https://example.com/foo redirect to https://example.com/bar That's the standard approach and serves in one hop. Is there something I'm missing why you're getting into a load balancer etc to accomplish this? P.

In addition to Russ's excellent advice, you can quickly and easily submit a DMCA takedown request to Google yourself - no need to pay for it. Follow the instructions for filling out the form very carefully https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/legal-removal-request?complaint_type=dmca&visit_id=1-636440705749643193-3331676266&hl=en&rd=1 Note this is to get the site removed from Google's index. To get it actually removed from the server, you'll need to serve the takedown notice to the host and the site owner - but folks who engage in this kind of fsckery usually do a good job of insulating themselves from such action. Get the site out of Google's index, then focus your energy on improving your own site. Good luck. Paul

Definitely depends on the topic/audience, like you said. It never hurts to run some tests, and don't take anyone's personal opinion on it. I would say that black check marks are better, but I may be 100% wrong in your case. Lime green frames improve CTR in some banner ads, despite looking hideous and spammy, same for red/yellow text/background combinations and other questionable things.

Hi joelmd, Yeah that changes the situation and you surely add value.  This needs a very custom solution though, besides the things you already mentioned one ideia could be a series of articles you could publish on your website where you list the top 10 businesses in category xxx in a certain geographical area. you could base this list also on the completeness of their listings and offer the ones that appear on the page a badge for being in the top 10 and ask them to insert it in their website (people and businesses like being part of a top 10) and the badge could have a link to the said article on your website. Just one of many ideias you could think of. regards

Great! sometimes google just needs a bit of time.

Hi James, You're right. In these situations, DA will not help you assess how valuable a link is. If you want to use a metric to help you assess the quality of a link from a subdomain, PA is a much better metric to look at. However, I always take DA/PA with a grain of salt. Cheers, David