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Hi Lewis! Did Matthew answer your question? If so, mind marking one or both of his replies as a "Good Answer?" It'll get him a couple bonus MozPoints, and it helps us keep track of things.

Hello Logan, Great thank you for getting back to me. I have gone through and created 410 redirects for all the old content. I guess only time will tell if this is the write solution. Regards Rob

Hi Kady, I did tweet about this and Aleyda and Gianluca were both kind enough to reply. It does seem that at present, it's not as widespread in other languages as in English, but it's also interesting to note that it seems to be less common for Italian queries vs Spanish. The example from Gianluca was "que es una meta description" which on Google.es displays a Direct Answer. In Italian I tried "cos'è una meta description" but no Direct Answer was given, just regular search results. Maybe it's because in Italian for example, there's no equivalent article which explains what a meta description is which meets all of Google's requirements for displaying a Direct Answer... but that does seem unlikely! Daniel

Hi Kristen,  I sent you a PM.

Hi Trevor, Andrea from the Moz Help Team here Our Index rolled out yesterday and the blog post went live this morning, I'd recommend checking that out as well as the Q&A thread from Rand that it mentions which covers fluctuations (or non-fluctuations) with PA/DA scores. Hope that helps but we're available to assist if there are any other questions!

I checked out your site in Moz's opensite explorer within their spam analysis feature and you have a few questionable sites linking to your website: sfolimos.com/ , sjcsfooaklimousine.com/ , santaclara-limo.com/ . I would recommend reading how to use Google's disavow link tool and work on building more solid backlinks. If you need to view the websites linking to your site go to Opensite Explorer - > insert your url then click the spam analysis tab and you will get an overview of links pointing to your website. Hope this helps some. sfolimos.com/

Do people tend to search for "CF-19" in the Toshiba example, or do they tend to search for "CF-1956Y6XLM"? If it's CF-19 then I would add more value to the example pages, and not worry about the subpages as much. But, I'm guessing that it's the specific model numbers, in which case the ideal situation is to be able to index an exact page for that model number. If you take a look at the "CF-1956Y6XLM" example, PC World is ranking #1 pretty much on all spec content, meaning they're coasting on domain authority to rank those pages. Meanwhile I see you guys at #4. Typically I would suggest that it's a bad plan to go with really thin content, but if everyone else is doing it, you may not need 200-300 words to move up in the rankings. Try producing 50-75 custom words on 100 of these pages where you're ranking Top 5. Do it for models that are newer so you can monitor ranking improvement over time. If the ranking and traffic improvements happen, and they convert, then figure out if you can scale that process up for every new incoming product. Other SERP benefits can beat rankings here, too. If you can get legitimate product ratings and generate some rich snippets for the products, that will help maximize your CTR. Try to write better meta descriptions, too - right now they're all pretty drab on that SERP example. Martijn's suggestion of reviews is a good start but will probably only help on 10-20% of pages that you're able to get reviews on. Nevertheless, probably worth the effort. Some e-commerce platforms will allow you to save a single product with variations, which helps with this problem. If 10 models can share a page, and be selected with a product sub menu (like the t-shirt size or color selector on a fashion ecommerce site) then that is a good way to cut down on total URLs by 50-90%. But, I'd try the unique content route first and see if the numbers add up.

If these were previously closed locations or removed in Google My Business then most likely Google picked them up from the aggregators. It sounds as if that's the case, as those locations were probably listed on other websites, the local search data providers. Moz has more information about these here: https://moz.com/learn/local/local-search-data-providers What you'll need to do is figure out where your other listings are--and get those removed, as well. Otherwise, even if you get them removed from Google again they will show up again once Google pulls the data from the data providers again.

Hey Miriam, That is interesting...and complex! Considering the location of the user at the time the search take place makes so much sense...especially for Google to rank them that way. Unfortunately, that also makes it harder to help clients who want to be in the top three all the time. Thanks so much for your time and insight. Kirk

Super! So glad it helped. Spammers beware!

First off, you're talking about two things here. It sounds like you have two sites that are geo-targeted to two different countries. There might be some translation in there, but if you have a .co.uk and a .com, those need to be treated like different sites as they are targeted at two different markets. Second, please never use an automated IP redirect. Google only crawls from the US, it's asking to not get your .co.uk crawled. In addition to that, it's a poor user experience for some people. As the other commenter mentioned, there is a big chance someone is traveling and needs to see the .com, wants to, and gets redirected to the .co.uk because they are traveling. If you want to attempt to put people in the right place, detect their IP and use javascript to pop up a message if they are going to the other site that asks them if they'd prefer to be on the one associated with their IP. Flags in the header is the best way to go about this in conjunction with the IP detect and javascript prompt. You can even set a cookie after the prompt that will always put them on that country site when they come back.

Hey Jim, Linkbuilding isn't really my area. One is always aiming for a natural link profile, but you might want to start a new thread about linkbuilding, and also, check these out: https://moz.com/blog/link-building-outreach-in-a-skeptical-world-whiteboard-friday http://niftymarketing.com/list-of-local-link-building-ideas/ Hope it helps!

Rob, generally speaking, creating pages or sections of your site just to target certain cities is not going to get you anywhere. Those typically are going to be considered "doorway pages" and violate Google's Webmaster Guidelines. What we typically recommend is being honest with the location of where you are, posting that location/address on your site, and using Schema.org markup to the search engines where you're located. Then, using Google My Business (Google maps, etc.) to set up your local business listing is key. I would also consider working on local citations in order to get more listings for your business, as well. Since you're a photographer, using social media such as Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook is going to be key to driving visitors to your website, as well. Google is watching engagement on the social media sites, and that typically helps your site's search engine rankings. When it comes to Yoast, we typically use it for on-page changes only, such as optimizing the title and meta description tags. If  you need to redirect pages, you might consider a separate WordPress plugin to do that. If you're having trouble with duplicate pages showing up, then you may need to delete the specific duplicate pages and wait for Google to re-crawl your site.

I wish I had an answer to that If I had to guess, I'd say sometime in the next 2 years, but not anytime in the next 9 months. We've stopped asking the team for a final delivery date because it's just too hard to estimate all the work required, and past estimations have been so far off target. Instead, we just try to estimate the next quarter worth of sprints and then measure how we perform against those. It turns out, replicating a processing system like Google runs without billions in revenue is really hard

This is definitely a good answer and the way to be thinking about it. You're never going to outrank Z/T/HP/RDC based off domain authority if you're a small site. First you need to have your onpage SEO absolutely dialied (H1s/H2s/keyword mentions (in this case address)). Then as Matt suggested pull in other content that is related to that listing or area, such as pricing and information about other homes selling or being listed in that area. The more of this rich content you have, the more you will be able to compete. But as others have said, you also need to get more links. If I were you, I'd find aggregators that you can form partnerships with as the originator of the content. Qualifications: I ran SEO at HotPads and Trulia Rentals for a while