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Have you tried Schema Creator by Raven? You would need a static home page to use it. It's been around quite a while but works very well. It will place a text box on your page that will be visible which is good since Google wants it that way. You would select the "Review" category. Best!

Hi, As far as I know Google won't be treat this as hidden text, you are using it for better user experience. You have already mentioned the price very clearly beneath Reviews. Thanks

What about going in and hard coding the canonical tags?

Hi, I would think it is the javascript being used on the pages (google can theoretically render the page as a browser would, screaming frog and other similar tools on the whole cannot). If you visit the homepage with js turned off then you see a pretty empty page with a list of links (region, activity, country) which are the same links that screaming frog is picking up. If you go into one of the search results pages with js turned off, you don't really see much of anything at all. Google is obviously doing a better job of crawling the js content! A solution would be to present the data in a simpler, crawlable format for non js enabled browsers but that is (probably a big) conversation with your developers

Hi there. Yes, the global rule should work. However, there is a reason this is happening, and it look like there is an extra rule, which adds that trailing slash. Go through those new rules you've added, make sure that you don't have anything extra. Example might be "Redirect everything from old blog to new blog with adding trailing slash" or something. It's quite common error, so you should be able to figure it out. Also see when these 404s were discovered, if it was right after you did redirects, it means for sure, that some of the new redirect rules are messed up at some point. Cheers!

The two affiliate sites are well etablished and huge sites, so I guess they know what they are doing... Lots of affiliates are really smart people.  They often have websites that are much more powerful than the vendors that they sell for.  The result of that is that their sites will often displace the program site in Google search results - because they are more powerful. Lots of people say that people who copy your content will not outrank you, but those folks need to upgrade their knowledge.  If your content is published on more powerful sites or lots of less powerful sites you can be outranked or filtered from the SERPs. If you tell these folks to take down what is currently published on their website or point rel=canonical to your site you run the risk of them refusing or taking your product off of their page and replacing it with your competitors product. The best way to fix this is to look towards the future and have rules for all new affiliates that they must not republish content from your website.   That will reduce the number of affiliates that you acquire and you run the risk of them writing really bad content that misrepresents your product. Affiliates can be your strongest ally or your strongest competitor.  Tread carefully.

Thank you Logan! Very helpful. I'm in process on a website overhaul but I appreciate the heads up.

I'm also going to recommend WordPress. It's big, battle-tested, and relatively easy to set up and use. They also get security updates out quickly, and your site will auto-patch itself if the security update is critical enough. Non-crucial updates are also very simple to install, (click a few things in a web interface). For the E-commerce part, WooCommerce is the big guy in the room. I'm also happy with WP e-Commerce, (disclosure: I contribute to its development sometimes), if Woo doesn't work for you. Shopify just launched WordPress integration as well, if that's more up your alley. As for SEO: Yoast SEO will do a ton. Also, if you really like code you can make WordPress output markup in pretty much whatever way you want without sacrificing the upgradability I started with, so if you're willing to go deep enough, it's, (to me, a WP fan), the perfect CMS.

Thanks John, Always nice to get a second pair of eyes on my code. I made all the changes you described and ran another crawl test. Turn's out you were exactly right! The <divclass...>missing a space was the main issue.</divclass...> That very tiny error stopped MOZ from crawling any and all content within that main content div, so it couldn't see anything else except for the duplicated navigation, header and footer elements. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I found confirmation from another thread that the Moz crawler has issues with SNI digital certs, which we use on our site. Here is an example of someone else who had the same issue: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=614259 Note their closing comments: "I turned off SNI and everything appears to work, as long as these services use the http version of the site. At the end of the day, nobody wants to take the blame. MOZ claims that SNI is supported but does admit that there appears to be some problem." We can not "turn off SNI" and allow http access to our site, we must enforce https across all requests. Since Moz is unable or unwilling to engage with us further on this issue I suggest we find a different service with more up to date crawler software.

Optimize the umbrella company as a brand for organic search but NOT for local SEO. Use the 3 local venues for local search optimization and it helps to use the local landing page for Google My Business and 3rd-party citations.  For the GMB pages, you really need a separate phone number for each venue even if they forward to the main line.  You can create a Google Plus page for the umbrella company but you should not create a Google My Business listing.

We can clean up the channel...the reason we were considering moving to a new channel is because we were considering moving from an xyz@gmail.com login to an @domain.com login. Does anyone have thoughts on the SEO benefits of an @domain.com login vs @gmail.com login? Or is adding my url to the  "Associated website" channel setting sufficient for SEO purposes?

Not too big a problem to have slightly longer title. Just be aware that how they display in SERPs can affect CTR, which can affect rankings. You can use https://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool to get a good view of that.

Laura, Yes thank you for your reply, this helps greatly. Right now for the client, because they lack a good strategy for organic SEO, AdWords generates their greatest traffic. I hope to leverage this with a better organic approach for SEO, and help create a better AdWords strategy. But all that said, I just wasn't sure about the contact info and address... now I can move on. Thanks again!

Hi Ajay, Great question. First off, I think that both a video sitemap and the correct schema optimizations are extremely important in getting your videos to rank. Personally, I would start off with creating a video sitemap and then branch off into utilizing schema. This is just a matter of preference for me because I like to get the foundational elements done first. In terms of what tools you can use - I know of a few. If your site is in WordPress the Yoast Video SEO plugin has worked well for me in the past. If not, here are some great posts on Video Sitemaps and the best process for creating them. https://www.distilled.net/blog/video/creating-video-sitemaps-for-each-video-hosting-platform/ https://moz.com/blog/video-sitemap-guide-for-vimeo-and-youtube Hope that helps! Serge

Hello Sarmad, I don't recommend having a single-page website on the front-end. You can handle the loading of content however you like: Javascript, lazy loading, dynamic serving.. as long as each section/page has a different URL. A hashtag is not a new URL, but rather a named anchor link to somewhere else on the same page. Thus, using this technique you would only have a single page indexed in Google, not a lot of room to target different topics. Lots of sites use the parallax design style, but have multiple pages. Parallax and single-page are not necessarily synonymous. The most common use on a multi-page site would be to tell a story on a landing page or the home page. More concerning to me right now is that it looks like they're putting their clients' sites on their own subdomains, which are fully indexable by Google: https://goo.gl/z9dSDl .

To answer the second question I think the reason for the suggestion between 100 to 200 of internal links is Google will crawl roughly 150 links per page before they may stop spidering. Moz says this internal link limit is pretty flexible and could be between 200 or 250 as well. Google does not disregard multiple occurrences of the same internal link to the best of my knowledge. But with more links comes a reduction in 'link juice' that would be distributed to the other pages. So, you would be watering down your 'link juice' potential for your interior pages.