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Hi Jenn! Ah, I thought this sounded a little familiar So, no, I would not remove main navigation from the homepage. But, I would do this: Have universal navigation for the website including all the major links. For the sake of users, yes, divide the contents of the homepage into two side-by-side sections in whatever way offers the best user experience (one side for the club, one for the wedding service). Have each side link to its respective set of content, but with all normal navigation intact in both sections. You honestly do not want Google to view this as two separate businesses. You don't want them to be confused about whether (222) 111-2222 is the number of a restaurant or a wedding venue. You want to promote the whole thing as a single brand, with a single GMB listing and supporting citation set, for a business that offers a varied menu of services (dining, events, etc.). But, for the sake of users, you simultaneously want them to be able to quickly access the content describing the services in which they have the most interest. So, if they happen to enter to website on the hompage (instead of on the main page for weddings) you can certainly give them a big, visual cue about how to navigate to that section of content. Ranking for these different types of searches is just going to come down to good old SEO, both local and traditional, and all of the marketing you can do to promote the variety of services offered. Authoritative local links to the main page for the weddings (for example) will help in your pursuit of visibility for wedding-related searches in your city, while getting great restaurant reviews on Yelp should bring in diners. I'd seriously urge the owner to view their brand as a brand - one that offers a variety of services, just like a general contractor who does roofing, remodels, fence building and deck design. Each is a different experience, for a consumer with a different need, but all needs are being met by the single, unified brand. Hope this helps!

Howdy, Well, to my understanding is that link wheel is a link wheel. No matter if you own the domains/hosting or not. If you do something spammy or potentially "illegal" in the eyes of Google, they won't care who owns the domain

Hi AdvertisingCloud - Thanks for your question. It's definitely one that gets asked pretty often. Honestly, you should do what is right for the user. Do you have multiple of the keyword (eg widgets) and not just one (eg widget)? If so, use the multiple because it's what the user who is looking for multiples will want to see. If the latter, use the singular. If you're really concerned about losing rankings, build more good links. That'll help out across the board with your rankings. Hope that helps! John

Howdy, So, typically, if category pages have typical product information like prices, names etc., all the schema will be the same. There is no special schema which will be used on category pages only. The rest transfers.

If your website isn't indexed, you'll want to try a few things first. Check your robots.txt file, make sure you haven't blocked bots. A lot of webmasters get it wrong when they set up that file by copying the file they used for their staging environment. Next make sure you have a dynamic .xml sitemap and check to make sure it has been submitted to Google on google search console. These are the first two things you should check. If it's neither of those let me know and I'll provide some other methods of diagnosing the issue. Adult websites get filtered from most queries. Google sets a high bar for these types of videos to show up in search in terms of how explicit a person has to be to find it, so don't be surprised if it takes some time to gain traction after you've managed to get the site indexed.

Hi Becky, Impression drop is really huge in your case. If you have access of paid campaign dashboard you can check keywords list whose impression goes down. There could be few reasons Advertisers were using broad match types initially and now they have either removed those keywords or targeting more restrictive match types e.g exact match or phrase match. Second reason could be huge drop in Ads position due to reducing the bid or competitors starts bidding very high on your brand terms, You can check live results by searching brand terms in Ad preview tool. you will find whether your Ads is displaying or not or if displaying at what position.* If you have any other query please let us know Hope this helps. Thanks

Hi! Your physical location will have little to do if you can rank an online casino site in Thailand. Are you having problems at the moment? What is the domain? Is the site's content the same as any other site out there? Have you geo-targeted the domain to Thailand in Google Search Console if it's not on the Thailand CCTLD (.th)?

Andy, Tough question, this may help: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479312.aspx KJr

Hi, I can't really comment on what kind of a folder/domain structure to use for your new country site. But what I'd like to recommend is looking into the option of using the HREF Lang canonicals to make sure that Google understand that your content might also be available in another language /country. You can find more information about that here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en Martijn.

Hey there John! Sam from Moz's Help Team here! The URLs that appear in Top Pages are there because we've found the most external links to them. Although the pages are no longer on your site, those links (using the previous and now redirected URLs) still appear on other sites. Top Pages is simply counting up the links we found to you, to show the most frequently used URLs. I hope this helps to clarify! You can always check the status code for a given URL by plugging it into a third party HTTP status checker like https://www.hurl.it/. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with!

I think this is great! I agree with all of your thought process. I wish all migrations could be this thorough It looks like you posted this question a little while ago though, so if you've already started the process I'd love to hear how it's going!

Hi Brett, thanks for the response. I am on Chrome in Windows. This is the first time that I have noticed a page cached for more than 72 hours after a site update.

I think it's a great idea to stoke demand by creating blog posts before the product pages are up. If you think about it you're suggesting two options: do nothing or do something. If your product pages won't be up for awhile, might as well put that content to use, which will help you uncover a few things: How difficult is it to rank for product related keyword? How much natural demand is out there for my products already? Are people willing to sign up for a waiting/mailing list for my products? What types of content do readers find most compelling on my site or in my niche? I wouldn't wait because you never know what delays there will be in the future, so might as well start now. Switching platforms, such as to Shopify, is always a pain, but if you're going to be migrating pages anyways, a few blog posts won't be a huge technical challenge. Possible SEO consequences/recommendations between blog posts and product descriptions: They are two different things. When reading blog posts, people are looking for information, stories, ideas, etc. When people read product pages they want to know details and FAQs about that product specifically. There will be some overlap, but keep the goal of the user in mind. That said, you can use some of the product descriptions within blog posts, but I wouldn't just copy/paste. There's no such thing as a duplicate content penalty, but it's usually not a good idea to replicate pages across your site word for word. When you write blog posts about your products, link to the product pages from within the post. You always want to prioritize product pages for your money keywords, and blog posts for more informational/long-tail/high volume, but low difficulty keywords - two different strategies. Hope that helps! Let me know if you have follow-up questions!

Thank you for your response! Unfortunately, we're not working within wordpress, so it's not as simple. The article you referenced was very easy to follow but im concerned that it's a bit outdated since it was from 2010 and we all know best practices change. I'm hoping I can use it as a basic guide to share with my dev team. Thanks!

I think Emily is on the right track here. You'll want to 301 redirect to pages that are similar in content. Your top level page on flowers from the old site should redirect to the top level page for flowers on the new site for example. It's more time consuming to implement one to one redirects this way rather than forwarding the entire domain to the homepage, but it will keep your referral traffic intact and Google is more likely to pass on the equity you've built over the years.

I tried your exact search and it's still not coming up for me. I also used the GWT fetching and rendering tool on some other links that were once indexed and then removed- and what I noticed is that they would get reindexed for short time, and then will get removed from the index again. We are submitting a sitemap through GWT and no errors are getting returned. We must be having an issue with Google crawling our site, but I haven't been able to find anyone who has had a similar experience- do you know of any other things I can try to fix this issue. The main problem is that it's intermittent and there is no consistency as to why some of our links are indexed and some aren't.