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Hi, Yes! They're still important, in itself they won't give you any ranking boost as it will only increase the easiness for the search engines to crawl your pages. So they will find all your pages on your site more easily. If you're already using WordPress you can easily set up your plugins to provide you with sitemaps, don't forget to add them in a line to your robots.txt and definitely make sure you submit them in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. Martijn.

Is this a manual action that you can see in Google Search Console --> Search Traffic --> Manual Actions? It sounds like you're saying that this isn't a manual action, but rather, the site was not ranking well and then when you implemented https it recovered to high rankings and then shortly after it resumed ranking poorly. There are many different filters and algorithms that Google uses to determine quality. When a site switches to https, the URLs are different and I do think it's possible that some of the dampening filters (such as Panda for example) could lift off. However, as Google recrawls the site and assesses it in the eyes of these algorithms, then whatever quality problems were there previously would eventually surface again. To me though, this situation is exciting because this really does seem like evidence that the site is being suppressed. Often it's hard to tell whether there is suppression present or whether the site simply doesn't deserve to rank well. It sounds like there are some issues that still need to be addressed.

Hey Mike, I believe you are asking about Google My Business listings, right? Provided they meet all of Google's guidelines, it's perfectly fine for a company to submit all of its listings for a multi-location business from the same Google account and the same IP address. What would not be okay would be a marketing agency submitting multiple clients listings via the same Google account. Agencies should always make sure each client has his own Google account so that his listings are controlled via that client's Google My Business dashboard - not via the agency's dashboard. It's always important that each client directly controls his own listings, even if you are helping him with them. Does this answer your question? If not, please provide further details.

You may want to have a read of this. I wouldn't change the domain name to a .photography TLD - .com is much more recognisable and easier to remember for any potential clients. Just my opinion.

This issue just keeps getting murkier and murkier... Even though ahrefs 'overview' reports 104 backlinks from 46 domains, when I go to The Best Pages by Backlinks, it says there are 691 results with a 429 Too Many Requests error. Anyone know how to fix 429 errors on Shopify? Or even what causes them?

Instead of adding a bunch of no value links to your home page, which might be seen as black hat by Google, could you no-index the extra pages? It's not as if the page has any authority to distribute.

Hi there John, Sam from Moz's Help Team here! If you've added the competitors in between weekly updates, you won't see data for them until your next campaign update day when we've collected all the necessary data. If you're unsure if this is the case, would you be able to pop a message over to help@moz.com and let us know the affected campaign name so we can take a proper look into this for you?

Thanks, Hurf. Thanks for the excellent reply. Unfortunately, with Volusion as our web-store we don't have the option of displaying anything but the full product name on listings by category unless we engage a Volusion partner to modify our store or we migrate 80K products to a different and more complex product/option structuring model. For the sake of the clients, 12-products-per-page would be maddening. Text search is very ineffective when it comes to parsing product dimensions, so we produce long listings, sorted by size so the user can quickly locate their product. In the short term, I think it makes most sense to pay for custom programming to reduce the product description to just the dimension and quantity when displayed on a category page.

"Clicking a search result to an outside page, returning, then clicking the same link again counts as only one click. Clicking a different link counts as a click for each link clicked." from https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828#click

Just testing something, ya'll. Don't mind me...

Thanks Tim. Do you have any examples of what those problems might be? With such a large catalog managing those rel canonical tags will be difficult (I don't even know if the store allows them, it's a hosted store solution and little code customization is allowed).

The URL that is valid is http://rushhour.net.au/bootcamp/ (rather than the .html variant) and that is being indexed and shows: BootCamp Parramatta | Outdoor Group Fitness | Rush Hour <cite class="_Rm">rushhour.net.au/bootcamp/</cite>Boot Camp Parramatta comprises of 1-hour training sessions, 3 days a week over 6 weeks. You also receive a complimentary pre and post Health Assessment. So it looks like there have been some changes recently? All appears to be in order, just give G a little time to catch up. I hope that helps.

Hi Ahmet, 1>SEMrush 2>SECockpit 3>Moz Keyword Explorer I would also suggest you to read below article on keyword research. http://backlinko.com/keyword-research Hope this helps. Thanks

Thanks Tawny, It has been well over a month and I am not new to using MOZ but simply trying to figure out how long the latency is... I will read up on the API. Thank you for the information.

Can you share the listing? I can provide some feedback with the NAP. Also, did it used to rank?

Thanks Miriam, It's a unique situation where the greatest distance between two clinics is 30 miles, but as the crow flies there are two in between them at a distance of 5 miles each. I see  several ways to approach this based on the links you provided and some further research.  What is difficult about siloing each treatment they offer is that it is the same one they offer five miles away.  I figure the best thing to do is to make sure each businesses NAPs are the same and that they then make each directory unique with content relating to the nearby businesses, parks, showing different photos and using ppc as well as referral marketing techniques. I really enjoyed the tool discussed in https://moz.com/blog/overcoming-your-fear-of-local-landing-pages, it is http://answerthepublic.com/  which generates what, why, how, when, where long tail questions.  It is simply brilliant! The way REI creates their landing pages for individual cities is very smart.  They are super NAP on page and have created a blog roll of events coming up.  The only thing I don't like about it is when you click on the menu items on the left all you get is a pop up window with non-linkable bullets. The same is true for the rental page.  The location urls on the rental page should connect you with a page where you can order gear for pickup. thanks again! michael