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Hi, Thanks for your response. I was actually thinking I would 301 redirect every pience of content. When doing this the canonical of the old articles wouldn't matter. Or were you thinking about canonical link on the articles on the new domain, which I would give a canonical url from the new domain. /Magne

Hi there, Your title is important, a single H1 is important and then you should use a good hierarchy of H2, H3, H4's etc. So to answer your question, yes! Make sure you review all your pages and their H1s (one per page) and the rest of the H's! Hope this helps. Good luck! Katarina

I am saying this as a business owner and as a former employee who has foot prints on his back.... The business owner should be well aware of the number of clients, the amounts that they are charging, and the number of people who are on staff to do this work.  It seems to me that a choice is being made to collect payments rather than to provide service. Some people might not like what I am going to say, but if I was the employee here, I would find another job rather than work in an effort to improve this company.  Their actions are likely deliberate. You have a very generous attitude and ethic that deserves a better work situation.  I hope that you discover an employer who deserves you! I wish you all the best.

Dont worrie Matt is ok

Hi icourse, thanks for your question! You've received some thoughtful responses. Did any of them help you sort your issue out? If so, please mark one or more as a "Good Answer." Thanks! Christy

I agree with you Donald, all depends of what kind of link are we talking about 10 links from wikipedia ( same site )are better than 10 links from blogs that nobody knows. In the other hands 10 reputable sites linking to your site such as wall street journal, national geographic or site like that are better than 10 links of wikipedia

Thank you so much for your help!

Hi Tawny Thanks very much, as it happens Nigel has posted a response that'll hopefully solve the issue and Roman has given me food for thought on another issue we have brewing. Best Regards Nick

Yes, always keep or redirect URLs. So often during a website redesign, web designers become lazy and create brand new child page URLs. When the site goes live, those URLs are 404 codes stranded on Google for a few weeks. Terrible practice. As far as on page content, I am a fan of 300+ words as well. However, in a more competitive keyword, I would recommend 1,000+. The jury is still out as to how many pages to update per day. I would estimate 10 per week would be great...but build on the content...not necessarily replace.

Thanks Nick

"The only benefit is trust , increase CTR etc and obviously reviews markup." This is a huge benefit though.  It's abut users at the end of the day and having those stars showing in the serps and having the reviews scrolling on your site (using a widget) has helped me enormously with CTR.  It's one of those where you need to think less about the technical SEO stuff and more about how having the reviews there will increase the CTR and conversion rates.  It also helps time on site - all MASSIVE ranking signals. If I said to you that a piece of technical wizzardry could increase CTR, TOS and conversions then you'd learn how to do it and implement it like immediately.  Well that's what reviews do.  So i'd not worry about marking them up or just use a wordpress widget and get them on there. I'm not massively technical but we do have 500 5* reviews with a widget on every page of the site and are in the top 3 for most non-branded searches because of our CTR. Also google says they want to eventually live in a world without markup when the algo gets smarter so it's all going to be a moot point. Sorry If i've missed the technical nuances of this but we're doing super well just having the nice comments up there on the site (which is more than lots of your competitors have)

Hi Nigel Neither, they use server side filtering.Regards- David

Thanks, everyone! We'll consider adding these canonical tags in the future, but won't flag it as urgent at the moment

Hi Micey, Is there some additional info you're still looking for? The resources from Martin look pretty comprehensive to me, so I would second his recommendations. You can also just use Chrome DevTools for emulating different screens as a first step (although you'll always want to do real device testing as well).

Hi Wozniak You run a real risk of picking up an algorithmical Panda penalty by having so much duplicate content across these pages. For websites that truly operate in geographic areas it is perfectly OK to have location pages for each of those places. However you really need to break this down and present interesting pages packed with local information. This is going to require a bit of work but I would start from a blank template and just write original content or get a good copywriter to do it for you. Mention local landmarks, town history and places of significance. Make it really 'local'. Even include some photos of the town centre and make the URL of the photo eg /abbotsbury-carpet-cleaning.jpg and the alt tag eg "Abbotsbury Carpet Cleaning" You will not only present a far better user experience but you will not risk any penalty either now or in the future. Read more: https://inbound.org/blog/content-creation-strategy-for-businesses-with-multiple-location-pages Regards Nigel Carousel Projects

Hi Nigel, Thanks again for your help. Much appreciated.

Thanks Nigel, That is my line of thinking as well. I'm in the process of separating the pages of the blog into separate pages. Each post is already optimized with a meta description and from my perspective, I think that having them all on one page is muddying the content. They do claim to have the HTML5 configured correctly but I'm not seeing any of the blog posts ranking anywhere - only the home page of my site. This blog set up nonsense was the reason I went over to WP - but after dealing with too many system crashes and bloated themes- I realized, if I was a developer then WP would be perfect, but for me and the little time I want to spend on my website- SS is a good choice. However, their blog set up is confounding!

More is obviously always better, but you should definitely milk the opportunity to your best powers. Having a reputable site mention you multiple times is a really great thing.

You are correct, the more user readable friendly (short, easy to understand, without long alpha-numeric strings) your urls are the better they should perform, as long as your on page content is considered relevant by Google for whatever terms it is using.

David, This seems like the most logical explanation and makes complete sense. Thank you! I can confirm that I haven't linked to this page from my other website pages as I haven't quite figured out where the link fits best. However, I'll figure that out now and see how it goes in the next few weeks. Thanks so much for your help, and nice last name! -Chris