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Since "you receive exactly the number of visitors you purchase", you know it has to be fake. My suggestion would be to put this money into improving your website instead. They're not doing anything above board to generate actual traffic for you which means it's likely going to be bots or maybe some kind of traffic trading scheme (you visit websites in their list and those sites visit you) but I see no mention of that anywhere. It seems traffic does boost rankings but only for as long as that traffic remains and to be getting significant ranking improvements, a significant amount of traffic is needed from the examples I've seen in the past. As Cognitive SEO said, "impressions don't buy, real people do..." so I'd suggest thinking more about how you can rank higher and more about how you can deliver UX that leads to revenue. Here's Cognitive's article of their experience of picking up a large spike of real traffic from a Reddit thread - worth a read. As Marie Haynes pointed out in this Q&A thread on a similar topic, the key difference between buying traffic and generating traffic is that generating real traffic brings real user engagement and the potential for organic backlinks. These backlinks mean lasting results rather than a brief stint of improved rankings.

Hi John, What you are referring to I would roughly term as a 'place label' though your industry doesn't have dedicated icons, as do restaurants or medical centers. Here is Google's somewhat old page on these: https://support.google.com/business/answer/6056435?hl=en&ref_topic=4854129 They state: _The place labels shown on Google Maps are determined algorithmically based on a large number of factors. One factor these algorithms consider is the accuracy of the business information and the richness of the content associated with the business. _ What you're experiencing is not uncommon, and your best hope is in excelling at as many of the factors as possible in the many that Google may take into consideration. How strong are your citations, how clean, are there duplicates, etc. Hope this points you in the right direction.

Thank you so much I really appreciate the response.

Hi John Google's public statements about this say that the length of your domain contract makes no difference. In the big picture, maybe if Google needs to dig for signals, perhaps it could have a .001% (tiny) impact, but I'd imagine they are using much more important signals. In other words - I wouldn't really even worry about it

sub-domain vs folder - here is a whiteboard friday about the differences: https://moz.com/blog/subdomains-vs-subfolders-rel-canonical-vs-301-how-to-structure-links-optimally-for-seo-whiteboard-friday In your case i'd put it in subfolder

I like Seo RoundTable from Barry Schwartz and also some of  those already list above especially for up to the minute search engine changes and trials that have been seen. As per Egol's comment - I too have probably learnt more about SEO technique and current topics from the Moz Q&A than anywhere else. To the point where I am now vastly more confident in my knowledge of the area and can now try and help others.

Howdy. Is the website accessible through a browser? All DNS propagated? How about robots.txt blocking? If none of these is the issue, and website has been live for couple days, then there is something wrong somewhere. Email at help@moz.com - they'll help you out Cheers:)

No problem

Thanks !!

Thanks Tymen.

Hi, No it is not penalised. It doesn't add value either though. Unless the video makes your visitors stay on the page longer, then it is a good reason to use them. I use a lot of 3rd party video's on "how to make...." and these are very good for the "Average Time on page" of my visitors so that could be a good reason to put them on. Who made the video? If you are allowed to use them you can also republish them on your own Youtube/Vimeo account and change the video's name etc... and it will be regarded a "new" video. Good luck! Regards, Tymen

So glad to have helped!

Thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for.

LOL. Sorry, I didn't have the time for a correct answer.

Hi Raymond Very nice question to ask i also see people in my industry using the same technique to aquire tons of backlinks, but as you consider about penguin 4.0 as it is now using the core alogorithm as a real time, one or another it will get penalized by google i think its not a long term strategy to sustain in market Note: the key points in seo as we are a marketers is not to rank #1 in google . we need to just build the trust, great UI/UX interactions on our website

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