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Nope, unfortunately not. Donford's answer is the only way you can remove those sitelinks without hurting your SEO. Google wants to provide users with the best possible experience and sometimes this means providing them with links to the strongest/most used parts of your site directly from the SERPs. You can at least take it as a positive that they're showing up!

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=([0-9_])$ RewriteRule ^(.)$ /p/%1? [R=301,L] the above works on our test area but not on clients so it hosting issue

Agreed. Google announced earlier this year,  that they are supporting markup for social media.  This will help show social profile information in the Knowledge panes in some searches as well as ensure the social profiles are shown in SERPs. The link below has instructions for formatting and publishing the proper markup code:  https://developers.google.com/webmasters/structured-data/customize/social-profiles After a quick review of the code snippets, it should be fairly simple to implement. Here is a snippet example:  http://schema.org/Organization">   http://www.your-company-site.com">    [http://www.facebook.com/your-company](<a href=)">FB   [http://www.twitter.com/YourCompany](<a href=)">Twitter You can specify these types of social profiles with the markup but Google may not show other social profiles at this time (yet): • Facebook • Twitter • G+ • Instagram • Youtube • LinkedIn You can use this markup to override the information Google finds automatically, but you can't specify not to list a social profile. To verify that your markup is well-formed and can be processed by Google, paste the HTML source of your marked-up page (or just the

Ultimately people complain about DA because they lack the understanding of what it measures. DA paints a picture of the hierarchy of the web and your "ranking" within the web. This is how DA was designed. As professionals we have chosen to utilise this ranking but sadly people are using it without first learning fully what it means and as such fall into pitfalls The scale is designed to represent the whole web. The web is to large to simply divide into smaller sections that allow you to have a scale in which you can climb. If you define a static ceiling or remove the ceiling you either end up with all websites above the ceiling forcing it to be redefined anyway or allow DA to climb so high that it is unobtainable anyway. DA can tell you everything you need it to, as long as you stop looking at it as a figure only you can influence.

Did you try Yoast SEO Sitemap or All in one. Yoast works fine for me. Never had any issue.

Hi Joe The index updates are manually processed and are not on an automated schedule. We have a release currently in progress which you will see the updates immediately directly in OSE at moz.com/researchtools/ose and within a day the data is imported into campaigns. Hope this helps

Hi Kristen Thanks for the heads up.. I have found the cause... Wordpress v. 4.4, on my test site i rolled back to 4.3.1 and it all works fine. So I think it must be an issue with the plugin which has not been updated to wordpress 4.4 Thank you for your help.

Hi Malika, From the info you've provided, removing those 301s is going to be a good idea. Below is a relevant section from a Google Developers article. The article is specifically referring to mobile site speed but the point applied to desktop as well. "(2) Number of redirects should be minimized Additional HTTP redirects can add one or two extra network roundtrips (two if an extra DNS lookup is required), incurring hundreds of milliseconds of extra latency on 3G networks. For this reason, we strongly encourage webmasters to minimize the number, and ideally eliminate redirects entirely - this is especially important for the HTML document (avoid “m dot” redirects when possible)." If you're 100% sure there are no backlinks or traffic heading to those old domains, there's no reason to keep the redirects in place, particularly if the redirected pages are old enough that it's unlikely anyone has them saved in an old email or under their browser favorites.

This sounds like a trust factor to me. When you search for a query and another very similar query is very common in the search data, Google suggest the common query instead of your exact query. I am not sure what kind of domain you are fighting for but if you get more links or somehow you can manage people to search your brand more, I think this can be eliminated. I guess!

Hey John, I recently wrote a post for Moz/Blog that goes more in depth on integrating our data into reporting dashboards (the post focuses on Klipfolio, a Tableau alternative). Your best bet would be to integrate our Mozscape API with Tableau on the backend. Tableau doesn't have a stable of easy integrations,  however they do make API integration possible with their Web Data Collector tool. Hope this helped! Reach out with any Moz API questions - IanW@moz.com Ian

Most of the data about the keyword + "near me" keywords came from GA - or its integration with the Webmaster Tools. This means I've got data about what the keywords are, where, and how many times, we've been in the SERPs, the # of clicks, & the click-through rate. Of course, the CTR is not super useful for comparison with other keywords if they're not at the same position in the search results. Is the idea of running a small PPC campaign to see how well the "near me" version of a keyword converts vs. the non-"near me" version? That seems like a good idea, (I'm fairly new at doing any active SEO or Keyword Research). Once I've got that info I should be able to see if it's worth devoting resources to tracking "near me" - heck, I could even add a few geographic areas as well, so I would see how "tire repair near me" compares to "tire repair" compares to "tire repair nyc." Thanks for the insight.

Good topic, and I believe what John is describing is a franchise in which there is a national website for the brand, but that individual locations of that franchise are owned by individual owners. Is that right, John? If so, the problem with franchises is that they frequently don't give location owners much or any control over what is on their landing page of the corporate site, so in some cases, the franchise owner might want his own website so that he can work toward building the brand locally more than the franchise is going to do on his behalf. Is this the right decision? It really depends. Honestly, if it's something like a pizza franchise where menus, sales and everything else is the same across the board, I don't see a compelling reason to operate a unique local website. But, if there is a high degree of differentiation between what's being sold or done at different locations, and the business owner doesn't have any control over what appears on the corporate site, then there could be a case for the separate site. How is it with the hardware store? Is everything the same in its Chicago location as in its Denver location, or is something really different happening at the two locations .... different products, different specials, different classes, something else? That's what needs to be determined.

Hmm, I'm not a huge fan of clients who refuse to implement their marketers advice, but photos are at least a start, accompanied by stories. BTW, Bob, this would be a good article to share with a client in this market: https://www.ethicalseoconsulting.com/25-email-lead-generation-tips-from-social-media/ Some good marketing ideas in there that your client might latch onto, given the visual nature of his business.

Hi Danny! If you're are saying you are listing this in Moz Local as 2 distinct listings, then they can each have their own hours of operation, but if you are saying there is only 1 Moz Local listing representing both the lobby and the drive-thru, Moz Local can only accept and push out one set of hours per listing. How are you handing this on your Google My Business listing?

Another option is add a custom variable in Google Analytics and add the snippet to your pages: ga('send', 'pageview', { 'dimension1': dimension2 }); 'dimension1' is the variable which has been setup dimension2 is the passing variable i.e. 'Blog' Hope this also helps, the normal GA code will also need to be included, however this will segregate the blog traffic, but include the traffic in your overall view. It all depends on how you want to view the traffic on the sites. I also use this method to segregate product groups.

Thanks - so I have to continue the search for where a tenfold increase in indexed pages (according to Search Console) might possibly come from. Sadly, the rest of your reply misses my problem; probably I have been unclear. The reason I was asking for a method to know what pages ARE indexed is: I seem to have no problem getting stuff indexed (crystal-clear sitemap with dates; clear link structure &c.) but google seems over-eager and indexes more than there really is. If it is some technical problem, I'd like to fix that - but Google does not show anywhere what pages are actually indexed. There are lots of methods around - but none that I found do work as of now. I have been well aware of JumpTo-Links, as I stated, and it works nicely. No problem at all with "not enough" indexed pages - really rather the opposite with no idea what causes it. Regards Nico

I understand Google is saying that they take action on paid links. But, there is no way really for them to find that out, is there? (unless it's explicitly said so somewhere on the website). About follow links - if correlation between follow/nofollow is "good" - let's say only 5-10% of all outgoing links are follow, then it's not gonna be considered spammy, cause it's quite natural. Hope this helps.

I have this situation on my sites too. This might not be right, but to double check that my 301s aren't being seen as duplicates of the 200s that they are redirecting to I'll filter my crawl test tool report from Moz to only show the records where the HTTP status code doesn't equal 200 and duplicate page content is yes. I have a couple different crawlers that I use and they each work a little differently. I think some might look at your situation and return page A as a 200 just because when it resolves to page B it is a 200, where other crawlers are more sensitive and see page A as a 301. I hope that helps!

Thank you! I will look into it.

Excellent thanks Dana I have a premium subscription to Screaming Frog so I'll get on this straight away - thought there must be an easy way to find them but forgot about the custom settings in Screaming Frog Will get on this right away Kind Regards Liam