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This may be an issue with your hosting provider. Some web hosts may not support SNI (Server Name Indication), so if that's the case, you may need to get a separate IP address for that domain. With SNI you can have multiple SSL certs for one IP address because it's tied to the virtualhost.

Hey there!  You can indeed add local tracking to your keywords through your Moz campaign once it has been set up. Just pop over to the Add & Manage Keywords tab, and click the 'Add Keywords' tab here: http://screencast.com/t/xwESEFqi You can add new keywords and click "Track Locally" to do just that. Or you can add a geolocation tracking option to your existing keywords. Just click “from your existing list”. This is what it looks like: http://screencast.com/t/uKuZ9WOZr You can read more about the keyword rankings tab here: https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-pro-overview/keyword-rankings/add-and-manage-keywords If anything is unclear please do let me know Cheers! Jo

There are a few good use-cases for subdomains; higher education sites use them frequently, and often have organizational need for it. Another instance I can think of is international websites that want to have different sites for each country in which they operate. This can help each division operate a site without having to go through HQ every time they need an update. That being said, given the typical website, with SEO considerations, I always favor subdirectories for the simple reason of keep all domain metrics (links, authority, etc.) together, rather than splitting the metrics across subdomains.

I agree with Logan. If the ratio of redirected or broken URLs is too high in your sitemap XML, there is a chance that Google won't crawl it as frequently as it should because the search robot doesn't want to waste resources on these URLs. The only time when redirected URLs are useful in the sitemap XML is when you're migrating the domain or make IA changes and you want to make sure that the search engine discovers the 301 redirections as quickly as possible.

Hi there! I popped into your account to take a look at your Moz Local listing and also found your Facebook page directly on Facebook. From what I can tell, it looks like there's currently no phone number listed on the Facebook page, which is a piece of the NAP that we'd need to be visible on the page in order to associate it with your listing. If you 'd be able to add or surface that on your Facebook page, then we should be able to start picking it up right away. For privacy's sake, I didn't want to give any specifics on the public forum about your business or Facebook page, but if you need any more guidance in this process, you can feel free to shoot us a message over to help@moz.com. Cheers!

Hi Luke Wikipedia can be a friend or a foe. I recommend doing the following strategy: Create a Google My Business account and claim your business (Google+ is not the same as GMB). It takes only a few minutes and the verification postcard should arrive in 1-2 weeks. Make sure you optimise and complete the GMB profile to 100%, add logo, select the correct category, etc. Create a Wikipedia account and make sure disclose your relationship with the company. This is important, so Wikipedia admins will see that you are editing the company's Wiki page to improve it and not just for SEO purposes. This is from the FAQ:Do I have to disclose my relationship with my organization? If you are paid to edit Wikipedia, you must disclose certain information under the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations Update the Wikipedia page, add the company's website link and make sure all the details are correct and up to date. If you do SEO continuously and improve the authority of the company's website, the homepage will outrank Wikipedia, but until then, make sure you take as much above the fold SERP real estate as you can by optimising Google My Business and the Wikipedia page. Apart from the address, there's also a schema markup for the organisation's logo and social profiles. Add those too! https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/using-schemaorg-markup-for-organization.html https://developers.google.com/structured-data/customize/social-profiles

Hi Cole, When you're trying to understand the relationship/the difference between the different entities I find this to be the most useful screen: http://schema.org/docs/full.html. Taking your example, we can see that LocalBusiness is a type of Place and a type of Organisation. You'd always want to try and pick the most specific entity possible, so you'd pick LocalBusiness rather than Place. But your business does multiple things and LocalBusiness isn't very specific. Schema.org supports the concept of multiple types for a single object but at the moment, all the structured data validators throw up errors and can't work with it. Here's the last discussion that happened on it: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2015Feb/0061.html And the page that came from it: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2015Feb/0061.html In your case I think the right thing to do is either to use Restaurant gain the special markup properties available to a restaurant and put the other features in the description. Or use Localbusiness and then use the additionalType property to show the other kinds of things you do. (Although they as they mention in the documentation, they might not understand this bit quite as much at the moment.) You can find great examples for the first one on the restaurant page at schema.org http://schema.org/Restaurant And 2 in JSON-LD would look something like this: On the menu point, I couldn't recreate any rich menu's, the only examples I could find were links to menus from the local business blocks. And in that case it's being pulled from the Menu property in Restaurant.

Sorry forgot...here is an example section.  Any other edit suggestions? <urlset xmlns="<a href=" http:="" www.sitemaps.org="" schemas="" sitemap="" 0.9"="">http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"></urlset> <loc>/bands-by-location/Charlottesville-VA</loc> <lastmod>2014-05-02T22:47:30+00:00</lastmod> <loc>/bands-by-location/Lynchburg-VA</loc> <lastmod>2014-05-02T22:47:30+00:00</lastmod> <loc>/bands-by-location/Lexington-VA</loc> <lastmod>2014-05-02T22:47:30+00:00</lastmod> <loc>/bands-by-location/Homestead-Resort-VA</loc> <lastmod>2014-05-02T22:47:30+00:00</lastmod>

Hi there!  Don is absolutely right that spam score values varying by subdomain, as that's how we make distinctions for the metric. With that being said, spam score of a given subdomain is not particularly easily influenced by the types of sites that are linking to it. Most of the 17 possible spam flags (which can be viewed here: https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/spam-analysis/flags?subdomain=www.penn-criminallawyers.com) are reflective of on-site factors within the subdomain itself. So, while I agree that spam score is not particularly well-adjusted to speak to the fact that http://www.penn-criminallawyers.com/ has some serious issues with their inbound links, it's worth noting that they didn't necessarily have to have cultivated all of those backlinks for themselves. I'm certainly not trying to go down the rabbit hole of spam conspiracy theories, but simply accounting for the fact that anyone can create a link to any site (unless disavows are involved), and it could be rash to judge a subdomain's "spammyness" based purely on their inbound external link profile. Spam score is based on these 17 flags based on correlation (not causation) research that was done by Moz's data scientists, and it also makes the acknowledgement that there will be penalized sites with low spam , as well as non-penalized sites with a high spam score. For more context on that, I'd highly recommend that anyone looking into using spam score watch this explanation from Rand on the topic: https://moz.com/blog/understanding-and-applying-mozs-spam-score-metric-whiteboard-friday To clarify, am I advocating that http://www.penn-criminallawyers.com/ is not a spammy site based on what spam score says? Nope. I'm not even speaking to that topic at all. For all I know, it certainly could be (and maybe I'm even inclined to think it is). Am I saying that spam score is a value you should take at face value without doing any digging into the specific subdomains, themselves? Certainly not. I would stress doing serious research any time you're looking into spam, credibility or disavowing; it's simply there to serve as a potential source of guiding information. Hope this helps!

Thanks Rob! That helps a lot. I've been considering beefing up copy content on some of the pages (especially the gallery pages). This kind of gives me a direction to move towards. Devaluing was probably a bad word to use. I mainly just wanted the better content pushed forward without having to actually delete anything. Thanks for the help and also the kind comments on the photography! Mickey

Certainly and thanks! They chose Bigcommerce so they wouldn't need to worry about security and cart features along with updates that may be needed in the future and not implemented quick enough that it causes a site issue. It's not a huge company so time is better spent on customer quotes since that seems to be what generates leads along side providing the proper information to answer all issues that a user has as redundantly as possible. ( even then it's hit or miss it seems ) They have used magento, opencart, and I believe a few others but have been happiest with BG. But from a SEO and backend developer standpoint, it's kinda a giant waste of time, since logs out after weird idle times, has a limited backend use mainly css and html, minor room for js use without overloading pagespeed since bg uses a good bit of js themselves. And no ability to use custom php anywhere...( pouts ) But looking at it for what they need, it's pretty much the whole package, They didn't want to worry about servers or the security, updating and basically everything a web admin would be handling anyways.

It's best to use dimensions in your img code, since this helps speed up the whole rendering process, and if those images are already scaled both in size and resolution for that image size, then things work even better. This is what image optimization is all about, creating less file waste both in time and size during page loads for the user. The best way to prevent distortion with images, is to make sure they are scaled for their size and resolution, using a image editing program like photoshop ( paid ) or Gimp ( free opensource ) you can properly scale the images in just a way to keep the pixels at the right variables for the image quality. Here are a few articles to help explain further. http://www.sitepoint.com/resize-an-image-in-photoshop/ http://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=282942&p=1888162 http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-resize-and-make-images-larger-without-losing-quality/ And a website that claims will resize without loosing quality, but be warned, I have not used it, just appeared in results and felt it could be of use. http://www.simpleimageresizer.com/

Hi Ben, What you want here is: Ideally, 1 website with a landing page on it for each of the 2 locations. A unique Google My Business Page for each of the 2 locations, linking to their respective landing pages Google Plus, as a local product, is dead. Read: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2015/11/25/google-plus-upgrade-faq-for-the-smb/ The only reason to maintain a social presence on Google Plus is if your business has somehow earned a major following there. Otherwise, you may be better off devoting social efforts to Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube, and what have you. For a couple of years, the advice for local businesses was to post on Google+ but it never really took off and then Google divorced it from Local, so, remaining pages are kind of useless and if you don't log into them every 6 months, Google will un-validate them. Whether it's necessary to close them, I can't really say. That's a good question, but not one I've seen raised before and am not sure how the millions of local businesses who have recently gone through the +/local divorce are handling that. Hope this helps!

Hi Joel, We don't get a lot of questions in this forum about Baidu. That said, I'm a little surprised we haven't had a response to your question yet, as our community of marketing experts is quite diverse in terms of areas of expertise (including international SEO), and includes folks from around the world. I'm reaching out to our team of Associates to see if someone may be able to help you sort this out. Thanks so much for your patience! Christy

Thanks for your responses. It would definitely be beneficial to users, so I may just get on and do it. It is a good quality link though, hence my consternation.

Alvaro - has detailed it well.... Also add in Semrush.com and Keyword planner... then if it is a different market (country), I try and speak to a local.. as sometimes there are whole new phrases or words that you could never be aware of... On semrush, if you know the competitors you can undertake alot of keyword research from reviewing the keywords your competitors are targeting...

Yes. It will often take me 3-6 weeks to do a thorough job on a manual penalty. I can do it faster if I dedicate all my time to it, but yeah...it's time consuming. If you don't get example links it usually means that you have a large number of unnatural links still not addressed.

Hi Netkernz_ag, It is just good practice to have those types of pages available. While I wouldn't say it is an absolute requirement, it should be something you do for your users. The page you pointed to is a general checklist of things to do, and not to do for your users. Creating a Site Index maybe a bit dated, but I still tend to do them as they are fairly easy to create. (example). Hope this helps, Don

Hi Ben! These are some great suggestions, and I'll add that you should attend one of our twice-weekly Pro walkthrough webinars. If the times don't work for you, there are some recordings of past webinars available, too. Sign up here: https://moz.com/help/guides/getting-started/welcome-webinar