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Hi MrSem, By open/closed for business do you mean a permanently closed business, or something you look up when it's after hours for a business? Any further details? BTW, I mentioned I would have more coming soon on this topic of SAB challenges. Just published: https://moz.com/blog/sabs-decreased-local-search-visibility

Good Point TaylorRHawkins

Hi, I contacted Twitter via the link below and they actually resolve the issue within 24 hours. https://support.twitter.com/articles/20171312 Kind Regards

I just found the ticket where we were working together on this, so no need to write in again. I'll just respond to you there.

Hi there Kalyn, We've had some users in the past who have experienced similar issues. You might find helpful advice in one of these responses: https://moz.com/community/q/429-errors https://moz.com/community/q/what-s-the-best-way-to-eliminate-429-received-http-status-429-errors

Thanks for such a speedy reply! Its such a daunting task as there's literally thousands and thousands of pages so we want to be sure we're doing the right thing. I appreciate your help. Now i'll investigate blocking within the robots.txt and using google search console to remove the URLs

Thank you! I'll check this out too

Interesting I will check the details, I'm pretty sure that your solution will be useful in the future.

Hi Alex If I understand this, you're changing the literal file folder on your server, but to the user and in the browser the URLs and folders stay the same? If so, there's no danger here. Just redirect and URLs that do change. -Dan PS (I think James, understandably, misunderstood the question - you only need to worry if URLs in the browser change.)

Thanks James, I just wanted to clarify as it was not clear you were making that distinction in your initial answer.

Disavow backlinks First, you’ll need to download a list of links to your site. Next, you’ll create a file containing only the links you want to disavow, and upload this to Google. Download links to your site Choose the site you want on the Search Console home page. On the Dashboard, click Search Traffic, and then click Links to Your Site. Under Who links the most, click More. Click Download more sample links. If you click Download latest links, you'll see dates as well. Note: When looking at the links to your site in Search Console, you may want to verify both the www and the non-www version of your domain in your Search Console account. To Google, these are entirely different sites. Upload a list of links to disavow Go to the disavow links tool page. Select your website. Click Disavow links. Click Choose file. Source Search Console Help

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here! The timeframe in Open Site Explorer is a bit tricky to pin down, as it takes us about a month to gather and collect index data. You can see what date our most recent index update was on the main page of Open Site Explorer, below the search bar. The index spans roughly 180 days of data. Hope that helps! If you still have questions, feel free to drop us a line at help@moz.com and we'll do our best to sort everything out for you.

Hey There! Thanks for asking a good question. First, it's important to state that local results are city-based rather than provincial or regional. So, your local search ranking rankings will be tied to the city in which your business is located ... not to any other city you serve. In other words, a plumber in San Francisco can rank locally for San Francisco based-or-related results, but he can't expect to rank locally for Oakland or Mill Valley searches, even if he serves there. So, where does this leave businesses that serve a variety of cities? It sounds like this is the point you are at, asking this question and seeing your competitors doing a variety of things. The process I would advocate would look something like this: First, answer the question of whether you have a real-world relationship with these cities. If your staff goes to clients in these service cities to fix their computers, the answer is "yes". If, however, you have a single location that all of your customers come to, then the answer is "no", you don't actually have a relationship to these service cities, because you're not going there. If your answer to step 1 was "yes", then you have the option to pursue organic rankings for these service cities by creating content surrounding your work there. If the answer is "no" then you don't have anything real to write about, and in most cases, will need to rely on localized PPC to create visibility in these target cities. Finally, if your answer was "yes", it's time to evaluate whether you have the resources to create content that will help you and your customers, or whether a lack of resources would end up creating poor quality and duplicate content that will not help you or your customers. You are seeing your competitors take this second route - creating duplicate content - and they are not being wise in doing this. If you have the resources to do better, move to the next step. Identify the most important cities you want to target. Maybe this will be 5 cities, or 10 of them. If your business is small, it's generally not a good idea to set yourself the goal of targeting 50 or 100 cities at once: it's too big a job to do well. So, pick the most important cities and then really brainstorm about the types of content you can create that will be the most helpful and persuasive to your customers. The content should be the very best you can produce, or the effort may be wasted. This article can help you with this step: https://moz.com/blog/overcoming-your-fear-of-local-landing-pages When it comes to the technical implementation of these pages, you may either want to go with something like https://www.domain.com/service-city for these pages, or you may want to create a subfolder, like https://www.domain.com/region/service-city. It's really up to you. Be sure you're doing all of the basic things to optimize these pages. Finally, if you determine that you don't have the resources to build city landing pages that help instead of harming your brand, then you may need to rely on PPC, instead, targeting specific cities. There are further nuances to this situation, and I'm hoping the blog post I linked to will provide further details, but if you have any additional questions, please just ask!

Yes that would be an indication but a stronger indication would be home / repair centre / computer repairs

Google's algorithms prioritize bike paths, bike lanes, and net elevation gain, as far as I can tell. It's useful for that, coming up with paths I wouldn't have used otherwise. My town has a published map, bike paths with color coding, lanes and known routes. I use it as a structure to begin and improve how I prefer to (often lowest traffic, in spite of added distance). Long ago, I started using "4 stroke bikes cheap" to map known routes, and I still find the UI to construct a path convenient. I never used it to download music, I don't even know if it was capable of that. "RideWithGPS" does that, I guess, if that's what you want.

Is your site appeared with brand name and domain name? If no then share your domain name or if yes, then update with unique keyword which don't have any other page.

Hi Seoanalytics, Is there a correlation or causation between the search popularity of a keyword an the difficulty to rank?  I would think the primal reason for dificulty in ranking is a high comercial value of the Keyword that could be because a lot of people search it or because it has high values + margins.  So not just the popularity of the search term is key and a keyword could be highly popular but have no comercial value. e.g. for "tying shoes" (i know not very exciting example) i find 6.600 monthly searches in US and moz ranking diifficulty 50.  and for "ty slippers" 390 monthly searches moz ranking difficulty 65, whereas you would excpect the other way around if there was causation. so i would say there is correlation but no causability.  Just my 50 cents

Hey Ben! Please check out my 2016 article on this topic: https://moz.com/blog/are-coworking-offices-eligible-for-google-my-business-listings Let me know if any further questions arise after reading it