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Hi, Is the issue got fixed? As we are facing the same issue and if you could provide any assistance on the same. Thanks

Hi There! I'm so sorry, but I have no experience with this product. Maybe others in our community will? In the meantime, just a word to the wise: modern Local SEO has moved away from the idea of building hundreds and hundreds of citations as a smart use of time/funding, as when you start talking numbers like that, you are likely talking about very low-quality directories that your customers will never see and that will have little or no effect on your local rankings. Rather, these days, a typical approach to citation management would look something like this: First, audit your existing citations by a) doing a lookup of your name/zip on a free tool like Moz Check Listing to discover where you have accurate, inconsistent, missing, incomplete and duplicate listings on the most important general local business data platforms, and, b) do direct searches in Google for your brand name and your industry/geography to see which platforms are coming up in the first 3-5 pages for your searches, again, to discover any missing or problem listings. This combination of efforts will turn up the platforms your consumers are seeing and that are most like having the greatest impact on your local rankings. Likely, were talking about 50 or so citations - not 500 of them, as you can see. Next, once you've identified all problematic listings from the above 2 steps, you have 3 choices: Correct everything manually, keeping track of all of these listings in a spreadsheet, including columns for the data they contain, their location, their status and any user/passwords you were obliged to create to set them up. Then, on a regular basis, you will want to manually monitor these listings for any changes that might occur (automation of bad data or third party edits). Pay someone to do everything in option 1 for you, including the ongoing monitoring of the listings. Use a citation management service. You might like to check out Moz Local if you've not done so before, as this is our product designed to manage your citations and monitor them on an ongoing basis for any changes. Moz Local covers the most important general platforms, and you might want to back this up with manually managing a handful of other citations if there are major industry-specific platforms in your industry (like Avvo for lawyers or ZocDoc for doctors). Using Moz Local tends to represent a major savings in effort on your part, and does contain that vital element of notifying you if your listing data changes (as well as other really cool features like review notifications). You might like to compare it to some of the other citation management services out there, like Whitespark or Yext. In any case, you should not have to worry about hundreds and hundreds of citation regardless of how you approach their management - it's just not going to move the needle. These days, you want to get those core citations accurate, be sure you've dealt with any rank-draining duplicate listings and that you're monitoring your listings for changes. Then, move onto other areas of marketing that require more creative investments: content development, earning and building links, managing your reviews, social participation, offline marketing, etc. Hope this helps!

I'm using a combination of tools but the ones that returned errors were Avast and McAfee - basic options but still worth having a look at. It's a better explanation than the alternative! Links are indexed with every crawl cycle. It usually takes 2 weeks or so to register new backlinks on your site. The content will really help, and from what you are telling me it sounds as if you are on the right track - just keep finding those relevant blogs and continuing to be a helpful poster in those communities. The links and the trust will come from that. All the best! Rob

Hi, Pages without internal links are referred to as “orphaned pages,” and they can be a reason for reduced indexation in Google. To determine if your page(s) are discoverable, it’s recommended to crawl your site with a tool such as Screaming Frog. and then search for specific URLs in question. Using sitemaps has many benefits like easier navigation and better visibility by search engines. Every site must have at least xml sitemap. Hope this helps. Thanks

Hello, With Wordpress I believe you can just add it under all that code, like below. After you make the changes, I would suggest opening a private browser window or clearing your cache and make sure the site, pages and redirects are coming up as intended, since .htaccess changes can sometimes be a bit hairy and cause the site to white screen or cause infinite loops. BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] END WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !^on$ RewriteRule (.*) https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

The interstitial update only affected mobile browsing, from what I can remember. This popup doesn't appear on their mobile site and thus, I would assume it shouldn't have any impact. However, I would recommend increasing the wait time to pop the message up,  so that it acts as a form of help to a user, rather than blocking their browsing immediately.

No problem. It's important to ensure that your client doesn't see this as an opportunity to build a PBN (personal blog network) and build backlinks between all of the websites, this is caught very easily by Google etc.

dk7, My experience with amp is that it is not necessary for SEO unless you are writing time sensitive news articles or articles based on current events. These are the real amp pages that google is displaying right now. I  have not seen amp product pages or service pages from small businesses show up in the SERPS. Amp will remove all programming from the page so it will mostly be text based. Sidebars and other page elements are not usually displayed with AMP pages. The purpose of AMP is to increase the user experience on mobile devices. So these pages have basic text and some images.

Hi James, Yes I do optimize for readability and there is very strong reason for doing this. If content doesn't help user what they are looking for they will not return and most of the time they will leave site very quickly and bounce rate will be very high. Google may decrease ranking because Google's policy is deliver best content to users so I would suggest you to create useful content for users not for search engines only. Hope this helps. Thanks

I've never seen rich snippets on a homepage and I don't think it's possible to get them (but would love to be proven wrong). Google's review snippet guidelines say that the ratings must refer clearly to a specific product or service. In almost all cases, this wouldn't be applicable to the homepage of a site. The only possibility might be if you had a one page, one product site... Cheers, David

So glad to help, Gabe!

I'm currently specifying USA for the US domain, but the .com domain needs to be relevant for all countries besides the US and Canada. Can I specify more than one country to achieve this?

Thanks guys. I feel confident that this is not something that is a must (especially as it doesn't look like my infographic has been particularly loved out there) but when i have a spare mo I think I will add the code Linda suggested to the head of the page its on.

I use list items for footer links in a menu. h tags are better used when organizing information on a page.

I'd question that timing. I recently uploaded a disavow file containing a few hundred domains and saw an uplift within a week.

Super, thank you. I thought I was going crazy. I didn't realise Google now serves different descriptions based on search intent.