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So because my entire site is a marketplace of personal trainers (and only personal trainers) I won't need to create another category Correct. URL structure is such an infinitesimally small ranking factor, it's not worth your time trying to change it at this point.

thank you very much Dirk. this sunday i try to fix all the error and next i will try again. Thanks for your assistance.

Thanks, Josh. I'm certainly focusing on content creation and site optimization, though this looks like a manipulation on their part. If the 301's are not being counted, would they still redirect to the site they want to value? Thanks, Scott

Hi Neil Our Moz Local tool is largely a search tool so it will depend on Facebook and any other service to return the data we are querying for your business name. Here are the reasons we outline in our FAQ for not being able to find them on Facebook or Google: https://moz.com/help/guides/local/listing#frequently-asked-questions Facebook Must be a Facebook local business page. An easy way to see if your page is a place/local business is to see if it has the following: About, Address, Hours, Contact and Reviews. Make sure that your business’s name, address and phone number are listed exactly as you would like them to appear in your Moz Local listing Ensure that the page is publicly accessible (Check with incognito browser to see if the page is available prior to logging into Facebook. Also, possibly give a screenshot of a functionally configured Facebook page’s privacy settings.) Make sure to have at least 2 check-ins to verify the physical location of your business. Not sure what to do here? Head to Facebook's resources to see how to let people check in and how you can check in. Google+ Must be a Google+ local business page. Look for the ‘Review Summary’ section on the page. Some other things to look for: Verified check mark next to the page image, Address, Hours and Reviews. Here's an example of what the page looks like. Make sure that your business’s name, address and phone number are listed exactly as you would like them to appear in your Moz Local listing. Note that service-area businesses (SAB) without their full address listed will run into complications with Moz Local since not all of our partners support SAB's. Must be a listed as a “verified local business". Remember that check mark we mentioned earlier? That's what you need! Hope this helps

I think Tom lays this out quite well and I would follow this advice.

Thanks Ria! Would be useful so hopefully comes sooner rather than later. Have a good weekend!

It's definitely worth asking about that canonical link. If they are nice, they'll add it - and I've personally been lucky with that before. If they were "nice" enough to credit you for the blog post and link to the original source, then they should be fine with adding it.

I've only just seen this Thank you! I'll try and get to grips with User Flow, I need to dedicate some time to analysing the data Becky

Issac, When you say "simplifying" can you give us an idea as to what that means? Do you mean shortening or titles are truncated, etc. or do you mean the title convention is changed? So "Hot Fresh Bagels | Bagels Dallas Texas | Bobs Big Bagels" is now what? your question is to unclear to provide a reasonable answer. Thanks

Hi Robert, Thanks for your prompt response. Then what do you think the reason for my sites drop in rankings when Panda 4.2 was updated. I have attached my index status as well as Organic Traffic. Panda 4.2 started on July 17th and on July 19th my index status increased and from July 19th my organic traffic went down. Any advice on this. pRs1jfs.png hoy6uIj.png

Thank you. I'll try to solve the problem

Hey. Thanks everyone for theses great answers.  Very informative. Doesn't look like any of their blog posts have established any backlinks, so I'm gona guess that our link should have the value same value as the older ones.  Looking forward to Google finding it

Strictly speaking - you are not using the correct url in the link. Your code:  => however this url doesn't exist but is 301 redirected to https://de.yourdomain.com/**a**bout-us Could you try changing the url to small caps & test again with the hreflang tester flang.dejanseo.com.au  (which is also indicating the same error as WMT) Dirk

Thanks again Marie! You've been really helpful, and it's much appreciated. Unfortunately, we've still not found anything that could cause the issue. That thread shared was really interesting, but their problems was quite different to ours. They lost traffic immediately after moving their hosting, whereas our client lost traffic 2-3 weeks after moving server. I'm still not ruling out the possibility that this could've been the catalyst that set off the big drop. We're stumped; but still dedicating time into solving this issue. I'd love to drop the client's URL in here but I'm sure they wouldn't appreciate us sharing it in this way. The only alternative would be to DM it to someone who knew what they were talking about.

My response is a big fat NOPE. If the client isn't happy with the speed of back linking, then it's time for an education session in which you stand up as the expert they hired you to be and explain exactly why it's a bad, bad idea. Brokered links are often not contextual, which means they're not actually all that helpful. They tend to come from low quality sites, which means they're not actually all that helpful. And that's just if you don't get caught. Getting away with black hat tactics is an intense, highly skilled, full-time endeavor. It's not a quick and easy way to anything. So even if you are willing to go there, given your inexperience with shady link building tactics, it's still a wretchedly bad idea since you've got no idea how to not get caught. Best thing to do is to build a content and outreach campaign that builds links in an above-board manner that no one can take issue with. Believe it or not, that's actually probably easier than anything that link buying would steer you into.

I love URLProfiler for this - here's a blog post and video on how you can use the tool. As they say, nothing is a substitute for manually reviewing the links, but if you want some quick classification and identify those links that have toxic 'signals', this is the tool for you.

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