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How to make same places listings show up for variations of brand term?
No my client is based in the UK. I'll check for mapmaker functionality on My Business interface. Thank you!
Local Listings | | DinaDiligent0 -
Controling Wikipedia info in Knowledge Graph
The short answer is "no". Your info in Wikipedia/WikiData is probably fine. Essentially, either: (1) Google doesn't view you as having enough entity authority (for lack of a better phrase) to display more information, or (2) They aren't able to validate that information against other sources. You might be able to nudge them with the Organization schema, although results seem to be mixed. There's a decent article on the general topic here: http://searchengineland.com/leveraging-wikidata-gain-google-knowledge-graph-result-219706 To some degree, though, it's not something you can tell Google to do or not do - they generate these features on the fly and it's always evolving. Best you can do is make sure your information is correct in WikiData, continue to build your overall authority, and gently nudge them in the right direction.
Local Listings | | Dr-Pete0 -
Ranking
Hi there! We've actually got a lot of materials that should be able to help you out. I'd definitely recommend you read our Beginner's Guide to SEO, and even though it's getting to be on the older side, Cyrus Shepard's How to Rank. You'll be able to find a lot more resources on our Learn SEO page, as well. Because there's so much that can go into an SEO strategy, I'm afraid it'd really be a lot to ask community members here to guide you through every step. We have a list of recommended consulting companies if you'd like to hire a consultant, though.
Technical SEO Issues | | MattRoney0 -
Bad Backlink?
Hi Cyrus Thank you for you feedback. I'm going to leave it there for now and see how we go. Thanks again
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BeckyKey0 -
How to 301 Redirect /page.php to /page, after a RewriteRule has already made /page.php accessible by /page (Getting errors)
Hi, You might want to try this solution: Redirects domain.com/file.php to domain.com/file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # is not directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f # is an existing php file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+).php$ # request URI ends with .php RewriteRule (.*).php$ /$1 [R=301,L] # redirect from file.php to file Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1992183/how-to-hide-the-html-extension-with-apache-mod-rewrite (2nd answer) Dirk
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DirkC0 -
Local cTLD site not showing up in local SERP
Update: Still no improvements in the results even after all the changes have been implemented. Anyone with other suggestions perhaps?
Local Website Optimization | | Jacobe0 -
B2B > Social Channels
Hi Megan Thanks for the feedback! I am in the process of working on the content so as it's taking some time we'll need to work on this first to ensure we have enough to post once we get started Its' B2B so our customers are other businesses but the actual people who order could be anyone. A competitor analysis is a great start! Becky
Branding / Brand Awareness | | BeckyKey0 -
Question For SEO Companies From An On-line Retailer
Number of keywords ranked in SEMRush? This isn't such a great metric for a number of reasons. SEMRush as a whole isn't all that great for small to mid-sized sites. It's great for huge sites and even "pretty large" places but I wouldn't think you'll find many results on dentists, plumbers, photographers & even SEO agencies. "my belief is that the more related keywords that you have ranked the better you will do." I'll take "dresses" and you take 250 keywords related to window tinting in Kyoto. "More" keywords isn't necessarily better. A lot of SEO agencies don't bother trying to rank keywords as they're often busy working on client work and not on their own marketing (I know two of the agencies I'm intimately familiar with don't 'drink their own koolaid' - their marketing is way behind their actual skills.) Finding a good company is challenging but you should look places like here (Moz Q&A is great and you get to know people before you work with them) as well as LinkedIn local groups, social media (again, insight) and try to get an idea of what someone's philosophy is before you engage them. When you talk about traffic "drop offs" - again, if this is SEMrush, it's hard to say ... but I've seen frequently when a company is engaging an SEO agency that has their own private network, the contract ends and they remove links. If you have 20-200 strong links removed, you're going to take a massive dive. Also, check if these dives are around algorithm changes.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | MattAntonino0 -
Duplicate/ <title>element too long issues</title>
Hi Dmitrii, Appreciate the reply. I didn't really explain the part about the beginning of the title because it wasn't really relevant to my issue, but you are right they should be unique. They won't all be the same, but the date and title makes sure there will be no duplicates. Thanks again for the answer.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Brian_Dowd0