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Okay, thanks Patrick!

This is good advice, but as far as I'm away if you have a ccTLD (.com.br) that you cannot change the international targeting away from the country of your ccTLD, you can only do this with a gTLD.

Thanks Martijn. I figured that was probably the answer, however, there seemed to be some hubbub over this issue, so I was wondering if there are any other issues regarding AMP pages being hosted elsewhere. Do you have any insight you could share in that regard?

HI John, I replied to Patrick. "Why Google is not stopping them.....": What I mean was, Google claims that they will take care of any bad , low quality or spammy links pointing to us to make sure their they don't affect us. But it's not happening in our case as few links can impact rankings and they did. Is Google really accurate about this? Thanks, Satish

Great, thanks very much!

Google testing tool seems to be showing a Software Application schema but not the reviews. When I pull out just the review source code, it's saying that the item being reviewed is missing. Honestly, though, trouble-shooting these can be tricky sometimes. I'd check the tool, though, and just take a look at the errors: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/ It is possible to have the schema correct and still not get reviews, though, if Google simply decides not to display reviews for that SERP. I'm not seeing anyone with reviews for the first give pages of that query, so that's a solid sign that this may be more than just mark-up. Google seems to ramp up and scale back which queries get reviews all the time, and there's no way to track that (other than their presence/absence). Most you can do is double-check the code and hope for the best. Sorry, I know that's not a very satisfying answer.

Thank you Thomas, that was my biggest concern. I'll definitely take a look at the guide. Cheers!

As I stated earlier we do not buy dead sites and redirect them. If you're in Texas you could search for 24x24 real estate frames and see us on page 1.  I've had a few orders from there and that is what they relayed to me when asked how they found us. You might also search for custom re/max banners and probably see us on page 1. We're the only ones who work with the standards dept for RE/MAX to assist their agents in getting the size they want and a custom design that is compliant with their requirements. Most other vendors, even approved vendors do not offer more than 2 sizes of banners. We do have all of our directories displaying correct info, and I check them routinely. I also connect on social sites with online customers to tout their event, agency or business. A lot of times they reciprocate. We also support some local charities and have run contests for military welcome home banners. Trust me we're not sitting on our thumbs over here.  Building relationships is a huge priority. Recently I've added diagrams, which appear to be linking to sites who love diagrams. To date we have over 3k backlinks when I started there were about 300. This shows what a bit of focus and determination can accomplish with very little budget.

That is good advice, thank you. I would still want to hear from a few more people just so we have a variety of opinions. It's a big and expensive switch, so all advice is helpful.

Personally I wouldn't do it. No way. At the end of the day this would be very clearly against Google's terms (not to mention low-quality work), so effectively you'd be placing a bet with your site's reputation on if Google's engineers successfully catch you. If it's a business that wants to do well in the long term online, I wouldn't take the risk of a bet like that against someone like Google, who have 'one or two' decent engineers actively trying to catch this sort of thing. Pattern spotting is likely to catch you out and end up with you in hot water, it's just not worth the risk (in my opinion). As John points out, for a churn & burn website this may work I guess (not something I'd be involved in tbh!), but at the end of the day if you get caught, you're a bit screwed... Plus it'd just be contributing to more crappy content out there on the web - not something any of us need!

Hi Sean, While multiple variables are technically allowed—Schema.org only requires that your URI templates follow RFC6570, and that does allow multiple variables—there's no indication that Google will recognise it. In fact, if you look at schema.org/SearchAction, you'll see there's no such property as "query-input". The property they've agreed on is the more flexible "query". Google isn't using that, and it seems that, for now, they'll only expand and use one variable in your target URL. They might change it in the future. For now, as a bit of a rubbish workaround, you could hardcode the value of category to be "all", like this: "target": "https://www.example.com/search?q={search_term_string}&category=all" This way, sitelink search results will always at least come through to your site and by default search through all categories. But by then, at least users are on your site, and you could then use faceted navigation to help them drill down into particular categories.

Hi there Ideally, create one page that serves both search engines and users, because you want users to find your page via search engines and you want search engines to be able to crawl your content. It's thought that Google is getting better at crawling Javascript, but you need to make sure that you text or content is readable in a text-based browser or is visible to Google with Javascript off. Here's a resource for you. That being said, focus on having one page for the content you're trying to create, so you can put more SEO efforts into building the equity in that page. You can also build other pages around variations of that topic that link back to that page, and link to these new pages from the one main topic page as well. This will help build your site from both a topic standpoint and passing linking equity throughout your site. Let me know if this makes sense or helps. Best of luck! Patrick

Hi Ricky, If you look at Restaurant item on Schema.org you'll see that they have a property for menu. Restaurant Property Info --> https://schema.org/Restaurant They suggest either wrapping the entire menu with the itemprop="menu" tag or linking to it. Below is an example of a linked menu. Fondue for Fun and Fantasy Fantastic and fun for all your cheesy occasions. Open: Daily from 11:30am till 11pm Phone: 555-0100-3333 View our menu.

Hi Brett! I'm so sorry - I didn't see you had replied until just now. Okay, so as I understand it, you are using Moz Local to manage the listing for these 2 legally distinct businesses. While I want to be sure I've mentioned that Google doesn't actually pay any attention to suite numbers, I do think you have some important questions here that you'll get the best, most customized answers on if you get in touch with a Helpster at help@moz.com so that they are looking directly at your account. Please, shoot your questions that way and you will receive a speedy and custom reply, based on your own listings instead of any general advice I can give not looking at your actual account. Hope this helps!

I suppose it all depends on who set up the account in the first place, if they did all the ground work and set up the campaigns, and ad groups then they probably don't have to let you see it. I would rather have my account set up in house initially then grant access to third parties who then get tagged as an editor etc, that way you remain as the account holder. I do not think it unreasonable that you have asked for evidence of what they are bidding on, negatived keywords, search terms, ad trials, optimisation etc. It is all basic data that can be shared. Like Egol said, look into your contract and see what they should be divulging via their reports etc. Finally.... Are they proving their worth? If not consider outsourcing to someone/ some agency that can or is willing to share, build a relationship and improve.

Seems strange that the duplicate url is being created - without knowing if you've used the Twitter embed option or a plugin, it's a bit difficult to figure out the issue. You're probably better off solving it by fixing the duplication issue, rather than hiding it with a redirect, as you'll end up with a large number of redirects in place if it continues... If you did just want to redirect everything, then the easiest would be to add a redirect via .htaccess for anything /www.twitter.com to redirect to the proper blog post title. Honestly, I'd question having the Twitter feed on your blog? If it's just your own posts appearing, then it's not going to offer any value over having a follow button - it's only if it's aggregating multiple sources that it's worthwhile...

I can't help with the Moz tools as not a mozzer But do you have rel tags on the pagination links (rel next/previous/view all)?