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Yes, if you have a site under 5k pages, it's considered a small site and you should optimize each page. Obviously, you want to start with the most highly trafficked ones and work from there. But especially in e-commerce, working on your product pages can really distinguish you from your competitors.

Hey There! Good question, and brace for a long answer here. So, where we start with this is Google's own guidelines for multi-practitioners which we excavate for clues to see how they feel about your scenario. These guidelines state: Individual practitioners (e.g. doctors, lawyers, real estate agents) An individual practitioner is a public facing professional, typically with his or her own customer base. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, financial planners, and insurance or real estate agents all are individual practitioners. Pages for practitioners may include title or degree certification (e.g. Dr., MD, JD, Esq., CFA). An individual practitioner should create his or her own dedicated page if: He or she operates in a public-facing role. Support staff should not create their own page. He or she is directly contactable at the verified location during stated hours. A practitioner should not have multiple pages to cover all of his or her specializations. Multiple practitioners at one location If the practitioner is one of several public facing practitioners at this location: The organization should create a page for this location, separate from that of the practitioner. The page for the practitioner should be titled with name of the practitioner only, excluding that of the organization. This is the sum total of what Google tells us and, and while some of these guidelines apply to your scenario (like your agents operating in a public facing role) there's a catch here. Though you've described having multiple offices across the country, you have further described that these agents you'd like to market don't work at these offices. They work from home and would need to keep their addresses hidden because of this. This is a common scenario and one of the more significant grey areas of the guidelines. The problem here is, should Google discover than you've created 30 listings in Iowa for your agents, and then they look at their street level imaging of the back-end addresses you've listed in your GMB dashboard, they will see that these are not offices - they are houses. And, at that point, it's up to Google to decide whether you have a legitimate business model or whether you are trying to game the system by appearing to have offices in these 30 locations when you really don't. The problem here is that many companies have spammed Google in this way. The yard cleaning company whose owner literally does work from home in San Francisco, but who has also set up listings in San Jose (his cousin's house), Oakland (his mom's house) and Walnut Creek (his sister's house). Google catches onto this and hammers down not only on the 3 spammy listings but may also hammer down on the legitimate listing in San Francisco, as well. So, while this is not what you are trying to do, and your agents genuinely do work at home while representing your company, the grey area here is whether Google will see it that way. There is no guarantee that they will, and so what I would say on this is that the safe path here is to only list your physical offices in the cities where you have them and list any agents that work in these offices and are "directly contactable at the verified location during stated hours". You could try it the other way, listing every possible agent, but you'd be doing so at your own risk. Hope these are helpful thoughts! It's good you're considering all the options here. Very smart. P.S. So sorry about the formatting on this. It is wacky.

Thanks, this is very helpful. I love the idea of having the new blogger write posts about the same topics thereby getting some much more engaging content at the URLs that already have traffic coming in.

Hi Steve, I'm sorry to hear about the trouble your company has had with this. First, I want to clarify that the actual sentiment in your reviews is unlikely to be the primary cause ranking failures. In fact, there have been famous cases like that of the dentist who shot a lion in which hundreds of people left him scathingly negative reviews which, unfortunately, led to him ranking highly for his query (though Google might now have adjusted for this). In other words, negative sentiment in reviews may/may not be the cause of ranking problems you are having (there are believed to be several hundred factors that contribute to local rank) but I can totally see how they would impact conversions for your business. So, what I think your decision here is whether you need to start your business from scratch, completely re-branding the business and starting with a fresh brand, fresh website, fresh citations and fresh reviews, or, whether the company can overcome its past reputation. The answer to this is going to lie in how extreme you feel the negative effects of these reviews are on your bottom line and the ability of the business to have a future. The answer is really going to vary, depending on the situation, and without being able to evaluate your unique situation, the community here can only give general thoughts on this. You might want to consider consulting with a good agency with whom you can share the full details of the company's history. Things to consider: If the complaints refer to mere inconveniences or annoyances the customers experienced, then it may be possible to keep your brand and, by implementing a very active review acquisition strategy, to balance out and eventually surpass the number of old negative reviews with new positive ones. But, if the complaints refer to something severe, like accusations of illegal business practices, then no amount of better reviews may suffice to remedy the problem, and you might be justified in wanting to start over. I recommend consulting with a reputable agency with whom you can share your company history in private so that you can get advice that is specific to your scenario.

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Thanks for the info. In my books a 301 redirect is for a direct replacement of an old webpage for a new one. I knew a bunch of 404 errors would be problematic, but I was also worried setting up 301 redirects to the home page (which is not a replacement for the product page being removed) would not agree with best practices. Also good point regarding existing incoming links pointing to the pages being removed. I think what we'll do is export URLs from the Google index, and either set a 301 redirect to the new product page (if it exists) or if not we'll 301 redirect to that product's category page.

Category pages are useful to help users browse deeper into your site; however, I doubt you are seeing significant SEO impact from not having your category folder in your product URLs. In general, it's usually better to keep a page at the same URL rather than to move it, and having a slightly more "SEO-friendly" URL wouldn't provide enough SEO benefit to be worth the risk and hassle that moving all of your product pages would take. I think it's fine to leave it how it is.

Yes I absolutely agree with EGOL. If the domain/page authority is good I would rather have a do-follow link.  But on the other hand if that is not possible and the brand/domain is mentioned in context then I would be happy that is a signal for Google.  Maybe small but still part of the mix.

You can definitely build your new mobile site with a different structure than your old OScommerce site, just make sure that your desktop site has an alternate tag pointing to your new site. I'd also recommend adding canonicals to your old mobile URLs pointing to the new versions; that'll allow you to keep the old mobile site alive, but stop Google from showing it in its index. Hope this helps! Kristina

SEO is definitely a long-term investment. In many cases, it takes lots of hard work (especially if personnel and resources are limited) and time.

Thanks guys! and sorry for the late respond... Here are the website: http://www.bamboozz.net/ Please let me know what we can do to increase the speed. Thx

Can you redirect the old help pages to the new help pages? Or are the old pages still present because people are still referring to them for old versions of the software? Do you have any flexibility to change the help page Content Management System or coding? The HTML frames being used are antiquated and a waste of your time to try and support. Can you edit the HTML of the subpages that are within the frames? Those HTML pages have sections and you should be able to set the <title>within them like any other HTML page. They will possibly get indexed with URLs such as <a href="http://kilgray.com/memoq/2015/help-en/memoq_help_title_page.html">http://kilgray.com/memoq/2015/help-en/memoq_help_title_page.html</a> even though they will get redirected to <a href="http://kilgray.com/memoq/2015/help-en/index.html?memoq_help_title_page.html">http://kilgray.com/memoq/2015/help-en/index.html?memoq_help_title_page.html</a>.</p></title>

Hi there Google does offer methods on getting your website listed in Google News. I would offer the following resources: Google News Publisher Center Creating a Google News Sitemap Enabling Rich Snippets for Articles I would take a look at your website, make sure the content is there in the way that it is worth being listed, read Google's guidelines, and see what from the above you can get started on. These methods should help get you noticed and possibly listed, but as always, it's up to Google! Hope this helps! Good luck!

I did a site command for your site and Google returned 54,100 results. I then clicked on a couple of the results that caught my eye cause they contained the word "banner": www.yellowpages.com.lb/actions/redirectbanner/883 www.yellowpages.com.lb/actions/redirectbanner/702 Both those pages immediately redirect you to another site. It looks like you're indexing all images on the site. You should probably only index the page on which the images reside. You're doing a ton of internal 302 redirects. Are all those needed? Why 302s? 302's don't pass search equity. Your indexing might be getting cut short b/c Google is being channeled elsewhere or distracted indexing content it doesn't need to.