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Thanks for the response. It does make sense but I will also send the site in question just to make sure you can the best idea of what I mean. Thanks

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HI Dirk, Sorry I missed this one, thanks for your input

I did - but if I wanted to cancel the subscription I did minimal effort to find out how I could cancel it. Just do this search query in Google: refund site:moz.com/community you'll get >200 results. If you're active in a community (on a voluntary basis) it is annoying to see the same question popping up because people are too lazy to search for themselves.

Hello, I took a look at your site. It does come up when you search the company name, NWI Chiropratic, but maybe not for key terms that you want to rank for. I would say this is because you have not optimised any of the pages for specific keywords or location. Take the SERVICES page, the title is: Services — NWI Chiropractic The description is: Chiropractic care in Northwest Indiana. Our location is in Schererville and near Dyer, St. John, Highland, Munster, Griffith, and Merrillville. Neither of those relate to each other, nor to the content on the page. That particular page is full of images, with no alt tags and it has no writing on it what so ever, no introduction to what the services are or where the company is. Instant information should be available at the top of the page for mobile users. Google is having a hard time understanding your page is about, and will not reward you if you haven't tried to help the end user. Also consider providing a lot more valuable content on the website, and getting relevant and quality back links. You were probably lucky for a bit, as it was a new site.

Thanks, Michael! While what I say here can't equal a professional audit, I'm going to take a quick look at your business and one of your keywords (limo service charleston sc). Using our free Moz Check Listing tool, I see you've got quite a few inconsistencies on the major local business data platforms: https://moz.com/local/details/JTI1NUIlMjUyMkNoYXJsZXN0b24lMjUyMEJsYWNrJTI1MjBDYWIlMjUyMENvbXBhbnklMjUyMiUyNTJDJTI1MjIyOTQwNyUyNTIyJTI1MkMlMjUyMkNoYXJsZXN0b24lMjUyMEJsYWNrJTI1MjBDYWIlMjUyMENvbXBhbnklMjUyMiUyNTJDJTI1MjIxNTI5JTI1MjBTYW0lMjUyMFJpdHRlbmJlcmclMjUyMEJsdmQlMjUyMiUyNTJDJTI1MjIyOTQwNyUyNTIyJTI1MkMlMjUyMjg0MzIxNjI2MjclMjUyMiUyNTVE You have duplicate listings on Facebook and several other platforms. Your duplicate listing on Facebook is throwing up a little red flag for me. This is what I see: Your correct NAP is: Charleston Black Cab Company 1529 Sam Rittenberg Blvd, Ste 2B, Charleston, SC, 29407 (843) 216-2627 www.charlestonblackcabcompany.com But I see a Facebook duplicate with: Charleston Black Cab Company 7281 Cross County Rd, North Charleston, SC 29418  (843) 216-2627 http://www.charlestonblackcabcompany.com/ Perhaps this is a second location, or you have moved, but in any case your name and phone number are being tied to two different addresses. If this is an old address, you need to close the duplicates and all old references to it. If it's a second location, it must not share a phone number with the Sam Rittenberg Blvd location. I am also seeing a duplicate YP listing with this info: Charleston Black Cab Company 1140 Barfield St, Daniel Island, SC 29492  (843) 216-2627 So, same as above, whether this is a previous or active address. Looks like you have some citation cleanup to do. If you are a Moz Local customer, our tool will certainly help with this important aspect of your active location data management. If you are not a customer, please study the results of the free tool closely and take manual actions to resolve inconsistent data and seek duplicate closure. *Please note that Moz Local is not finding your Google My Business listing because Google does not show us service area businesses with hidden addresses. It's correct that you've hidden your address on Google in compliance with their guidelines ... please make 100% certain that your address is correct in your GMB dashboard, though. Now, I'm taking a look at Google's local results for 'limo service charleston sc', keeping in mind, of course, that what I see in my location will not be identical to what you or your customers see. While not in the 3 pack, you are coming in at #6 in the local finder view: https://www.google.com/search?q=Charleston+Black+Cab+Company&oq=Charleston+Black+Cab+Company&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3j69i61j69i60.665j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=limo+service+charleston+sc&rflfq=1&rlha=0&rllag=32800332,-79976385,5062&tbm=lcl&tbs=lf:1,lf_ui:2,lf_pqs:EAE The good news is that I don't see geography locking you out of the results. In other words, there doesn't appear to be a centroid issue playing a role here ... you are located in approximately the same area as the 5 businesses outranking you. Good to see. I notice there is no place marker on the map designating your business at the automatic zoom setting. Not sure why that is, but it does make me wonder how much Google trusts the data they have about your business. I notice this on a few of your competitors as well, but others do have the place marker, with their name written out on the map. I notice that you have earned many, many more reviews than any of your competitors. On the one hand, that's awesome, on the other hand, we always have to ask the question (no offense meant here) of whether you are positive that the review earning process is sticking to the letter of Google's guidelines. You'll want to be certain that you haven't somehow offended the Google gods in any way. A couple more things ... I'm looking at your website and see: You're doing a good job trying to cover a variety of user groups that need limo rental, but some of the pages you've devoted to these are on the short side. Do you feel you've made the best possible effort, or is there more you could do? I wonder about the business name. Most of your competitors have the word 'limo' in their name. I wonder if the fact that you are using the words 'black cab' instead of 'limo' is giving your competitors an advantage. Not a lot you can do about this, but I thought it was worth mentioning. Have you made sure there are no errors being reported in Google Search Console? Likely you have, but just mentioning Summing Up The citation situation is paramount. Getting those cleaned up really matters. I can't see if you have Google duplicates because the business is an SAB, but a full citation audit and the use of automated tools + possible manual correction seems warranted here given how quickly Moz Check Listing surfaced 3 different addresses tied to the same phone number. The review situation and more thoughts on the website come second. These are at-a-glance thoughts. There is likely more to be looked at, but I hope this gives you a good start!

You should avoid redirection chains; ask your programmer to redirect http://www.colocationamerica.com/dedicated_servers/linux-dedicated.htm directly to https://www.colocationamerica.com/linux-dedicated-server. There is no need to have the step in between (it's just wasting crawl time of the bots)

Hi Meier, This is possible. You can see your DA and the history on https://analytics.moz.com/links/competitive-metrics/4215297.961982?metric=domain_authority#domain_authority The number here represents my own membership so for you this would be different. An easy way to get there is go to your dashboard and click on Domain Authority. P.S It will only show the history since the date you joined Moz. Good luck! Tymen

Hi, Depending on how long ago the links were added, you might need to wait a bit before you start seeing links in tools. Also, I would try Majestic and Ahrefs to check for links since not every link gets picked up by one tool. Using Ahrefs I can see a pickup in links pointing to your domain recently. Another place to look would be Google Search Console under "links pointing to my site". Oh and in regards to your second question, always check your main domain (it looks like for you it's the www version, non-secured). Hope that helps!

Hi Ronell! First, I want to say that I love this topic and your blog post was extremely insightful. Featured snippets were a hot topic at SMX this year, I have been mesmerized by them ever since. I do think they definitely play a vital role in a company's SEO efforts! Currently, we haven't made it a huge priority to get our content featured within one of the answer boxes, but I have a feeling that this will be changing in the coming months as featured snippets become more and more popular. By focusing on getting featured in these snippets, you're essentially snagging the #0 rank on a SERP—which is obviously where any company would want to be! Thanks for the reminder that this should be a priority!

ok, I accept the points raised above and understand where you are coming from. The difficulty I am having is that I want to outsrouce link building/content reach (and yes, in white hat manner), but everyone I speak to seems to have a 'network' of sites they can build links from which really worries me as I'm sure google will spot a pattern. How do I outsource without having this issue?

Never seen this, doubt it's any useful as this isn't part of any search engines recommended statements to use. I don't think this would have any impact on what search engine robots would look at as it's not a statement in the robots.txt documentation.

Thank you so much Tyler! This was helpful.

It might work, but eventually Google will catch on. If the site gets penalized for it, trying to get the ranking back up is a pain.

The best way to crawl a site is Screaming Frog. That should give you the information you are looking for.