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  • Hi Florin, It's a bit difficult to say, because this is a big topic, and there are many things you have to do in order to get the links working. You're doing the right thing on the website – your links are correctly formatted – so you need to focus your attention on the app. There are no independent guides I can recommend you, because the specification changes quite often, so you really need to work through this page and ensure that your app has followed all of the guidelines. Secondly, if you haven't already got Android Studio you should install it, and then test the links in there. You'll get more detailed error messages on specifically why a link might not be working. Android Studio's link testing tool is described here. Even if you still aren't entirely clear what the problem is, you'll at least have a specific error message from Android Studio. You can then post the error message to a programming Q&A site like Stack Overflow, where you're more likely to get specific advice that'll help you solve that error.

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | StephanSolomonidis
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  • Great answer thank you. Can anyone advise me on this?

    Local Listings | | SEM_at_Lees
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  • Hi Aleyda, Thanks so much for your in-depth answer! You have confirmed what I suspected is the case. I've been working with dev to try and get this issue fixed, and hopefully it will be soon! Thank you again. Daniel

    Technical SEO Issues | | DanielKiely6
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  • Personally I'd use Screaming Frog for this. The URLs for prev/next elements can be found in the "Directives" tab and can be exported to excel for easy comparison. Regards, Nico ... ah, too slow and essentially same answer

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | netzkern_AG
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  • Hi Laura and Everett Thank you for your responses. I had a read of those articles and completely agree regarding the product descriptions. Since I do want to rank for each individual track, I can't afford to use a drop-down menu as ideal as that would be. Time to get writing. Thank you!

    Technical SEO Issues | | JDadd
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  • Either of these options is ok depending on the context, as Laura mentioned. As always, if there's no real reason for both pages to exist then I'd suggest using a 301 to point that old page to the new one.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ChrisAshton
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  • The short and generic answer is yes, it will lower the strength you're receiving from that site but it won't drop it to 1/20th. More links is a good thing if those links make sense but the more you have, the less strength each of them carries; 20 links will not offer 20x the strength of 1 link, if that makes sense

    Link Building | | ChrisAshton
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  • Hi Meier! Very good feedback from the community, and scenario you are describing is why most Local SEOs would recommend the approach of a single domain with landing pages on it for each of the 7 locations. This way, every single thing that you do to build up the brand simultaneously benefits all the locations, instead of this requiring 7 separate efforts every time you want to make a marketing decision.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MiriamEllis
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  • 1) Analytics data is based on the UA code on the page. Assuming your pages are built on a template, by default the UA code for yyy.com is going to receive the visit, not yours. You could ask them to put your UA code on there but... that kind fo defeats the purpose of having analytics in the first place when you're blurring the data! 2) From a user perspective, it would be a little confusing to click a top nav link and end up on another website, so yeah I would suggest putting that link somewhere else on the site and making it clear that they're about to leave yours. Bonus points for using target="_blank" to open that other page in a new tab, also for user experience. **3) **Right again. If yyy.com has nothing to do with xxx.com (as in the owners of X and Y don't even know each other) then it's a very strange request and one I'd be hesitant to even entertain. The quality of their site can hurt you to a minor extent, I'd just be more worried about the confusing user experience and the fact that you'd be electively sending your users to their site, while they offer you... what? The reason they want that link up there is simply the implied strength of that location. Link value is typically seen in order of priority from top left to bottom right; a link in your top nav gives them a sitewide link from almost the very top of every page. Good for them I suppose, though sitewide links aren't great, but not something you should do.

    Technical SEO Issues | | ChrisAshton
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  • Hi Taylor, That screenshot is interesting. My assumption would be that Google has seen this duplication and is simply disregarding the other versions of what it considers to be the same content.  The reason duplicate content isn't such a huge deal these days (it's not a good thing at all but it won't really get you penalised) is because Google is much better and dealing with it. From my understanding, what you're seeing here is exactly the expectation - they determine which piece seems to be the most relevant and useful to searcher intent based on a number of things, then disregard the others. No point in indexing multiple versions of the same thing, right? As for the smaller bits and pieces, I'll take a closer look at your site again once I'm back in the office this afternoon and let you know

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ChrisAshton
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  • Thanks for the info - and of course always for good and not evil with these types of tools. What I'm hoping to do is just enter a URL, have it scrape the site, and then dump all of the text on the site into a document to put into a keyword density tool to gain perspective on new partner websites for industries where we are entering for the first time. All for SEO, content ideas, learning about value propositions and services as well as for keyword ideas for SEM. Looks like doing some programming might be the best way to go here - was hoping someone may have already built this kind of functionality! Thanks again!

    Paid Search Marketing | | ReunionMarketing
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  • Lots of web sites with outstanding site visitors don't get that visitors without a doubt because their identify tags are artsy fartsy in place of being direct as like this.  The titles should be aligned with the hunt quantity.  Take a study key-word research for the comedian class, trouble titles, characters, and issues.

    Keyword Research | | Njnbiure45r4
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    Technical Support | | DmitriiK
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  • I agree with this approach, but I also would be trying to dig into _why _they think they want a second site instead of just coming back with a recommendation. What do they think that will accomplish for them? Sometimes clients will ask you to do something that they think will solve a problem when really they should be asking you how to solve the problem, and the situation as he's described it totally feels like one of those times to me.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BradsDeals
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