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Hi Alastair Moz Local cannot be used to delete citations. Since the information only uses your business name and not the address or number. The person at the location might be the only one who can claim and request the listing service for removal or submit a close requests. I would recommend you reach out to the listing service directly as well to try and claim the listing for removal. The only thing you can do is make sure your information is as consistent and accurate as possible so the true results appear above the incorrect ones. Claim listings with services we do not submit to so you can increase your presence to further push the bad one off until you can have the listing removed. Hope this helps

Hi, I often see the same myself and the recent Moz ranking factors survey (and all previous ones) show that general opinion is that links are still the strongest signal when it comes to organic rankings. As others in the thread have mentioned, your content can be great but if no one ever sees it, then it's a bit wasted. One of the ways people can see / discover your content is via links and Google see links as vote of confidence in your website or content. The one thing that hasn't been mentioned is that it's often the high quality links that can differentiate websites in the long-term. Lower quality links can boost a site for a short period but will often not work long-term anymore. So you're right in that things often come down to backlinks, but it's usually high quality backlinks that make the difference. Having said all of that, I wouldn't bet against Google bringing in more signals that could become as strong as links. Social signals may become stronger for example, as may user signals or brand / offline signals. Machine learning also plays a huge part in rankings which are largely driven by user behaviour. I hope that helps! Paddy

Hi Darcy Looking at what has been mentioned previously I would agree with the train of thought that a more focussed sitemap would generally be advantageous. Andrew

Hi. Honestly, I think since marketing needs and, therefore, conversion points are different for every company, you probably would be best with custom solution. That's what we did. It's quite easy to create simple CRM, which would tell you exactly what you need. Plus over time you can improve/change it. I believe ours took about 3 days of work. If you have in-office developers - it will cost you a fraction of any on-market solution. At the same time custom solution wouldn't have any extra stuff you don't need (which you gonna be paying for). Other than that, I heard Adometry by Google is good. But i never used it.

Thanks everybody for your help. We are still figuring out why the click rate in WMT has dropped but we discovered the main reason of our traffic drop. Our external advertising company had added a Analytics tracker in an external script which was interfering with the normal measurements. When I checked the codes last week with the Chrome plugin everything was fine but I was visiting the site with my Ad blocker activated (so the external script wasn't called). When I visited the site today with Ad block de-activated it indicated that our tag wasn't measuring. The external tracking code was removed & traffic went back to previous levels (it's a bit scary to realise that about 50% of our visits have the ad blocker activated) Dirk

I think the API will help, but for the same date range, no filters, etc, the data shouldn't have changed. BUT Google has been known to edit their Search Console data, or they have in the past when they found discrepancies. There are any number of reasons why, but I am sorry we couldn't nail it down for you. I really do think the API will help. Best of luck!

Thanks Deacyde, I agree with you that scheduling is better but is it better to schedule via Facebook scheduler or a 3rd party tool, does the 3rd party posts have reduced reach as compared to scheduled posts via FB own tool. (As i have heard they do) I will be scheduling one way or the other, and ideally using Buffer etc since already set up but i thought i would review the current landscape of opinion regarding this matter before proceeding. If 3rd party posts have reduced reach i will likely use FB instead, since with FB organic reach dropping all the time anyway we obviously all want as much of what little organic reach remains Opinions of others still definately welcome ? All Best Dan

Thanks Dmitrii, your thread helped me a lot to understand.

Thank you guys! The responses are really useful! Sander

Hi, If the campaign is archived it doesn't count as active campaign. Suppose you have a campaign limit of 5 in your subscription - with 5 active campaigns, archiving one of them liberates one "slot" that you can use for a new campaign. You're not really charged on campaign basis but are charged a fixed fee (with 5/10/25/100 allowed campaigns depending on your subscription)- so archiving one campaign wouldn't really change the monthly charge. Dirk

Hi I am in a similar situation, regarding improving the content on product pages. I'm going down the route of adding product reviews to our pages and after my research think it's a great idea. Read https://econsultancy.com/blog/9366-ecommerce-consumer-reviews-why-you-need-them-and-how-to-use-them/ https://moz.com/blog/ecommerce-seo-making-product-pages-into-great-content-whiteboard-friday I know it's difficult - we have thousands of product pages and only a couple of us working to improve and write content.

Hi Issa, You're right, duplicate content and bad usability could be triggering the slow rolling Panda 4.2, but I'd dig in a little more (apologies if you already did this research): You mentioned 200 pages are potentially duplicate; how many are on the site in total? If you have thousands of pages indexed, 200 duplicates probably aren't going to cause a Panda penalty. How similar are these postings? Just the page title? Or is the entire page extremely similar in content? (To answer this: if you made a keyword cloud for these similar job descriptions, would they show roughly the same mapping?) If it's just the page title that's similar, make sure to set the pages apart by including the name of the hiring company (which I assume makes the different positions unique) towards the beginning of the page title If the entire page is similar, then add more content to make the pages more unique, like a blurb about the hiring company, how long the job has been up, how many applicants the job has (if available), etc. Either way, make sure you don't have any old jobs that still have live pages! If possible, I'd redirect them to a similar job posting. Like John asked, did your traffic drop dramatically one day, or has it been tapering off? If it's tapering off, I'd guess it's not Panda. And, last, which pages lost traffic and rankings? Which keywords dropped in rankings? You may be able to tell how you were penalized by which keywords were most affected. Hope this helps, Kristina

Ah ! Good tip ! Thanks but in this case the brand is actually unheard of since brand new b2b biz being launched into Turkey so no brand related kw search volume yet. Hence i will use Turkish language of brand name and hyphenate. Thanks again and have a top weekend !!

Yes, some tools like SEMRush or SearchMetrics might be able to provide you with this data if they obviously have the keywords that you are looking for.

Hi Rob Morgan, You've talked about 2 issues here, please find my views on them: "Since launching my new website design - www.advanced-driving.co.uk I am not convinced Google is seeing all the content on the page. I took a long extract of text and did a search on Google and nothing was found. Also although in the search results for "advanced driving course" I can see the new title tag, the snippet isn't showing" => Here, you can check the cached version of any given page by googling "cache:<url-you-want-to-check>" and then clicking on "Text Version".</url-you-want-to-check> As a scroll down I can see the URL changes i.e: www.advanced-driving.co.uk then: http://www.advanced-driving.co.uk/#da-page_in_widget-3 then: http://www.advanced-driving.co.uk/#da-page_in_widget-4 then: http://www.advanced-driving.co.uk/#da-page_in_widget-5 => This is absolutely fine as far as canonical URL is there, and its there in your case. So, good to go Hope this helps!

Thanks friends, for your reply. As you said, I will also make a deep analysis in to those spammy links manually. If I feel really those links are spam then will get rid off them.

Thanks alot!

Cheers for the input Nico, you're right. Variant is not the right word I just can't find the right terminology ha! Our product is always the same it can just be applied to all models of car/van etc so this may be one of those grey areas. It's a vague question really, I think we'll just have to run a trial and see what happens over a few months. Thanks for taking the time! Jamie

Hi Cyrus, Thanks for the feedback. I'm concerned that some of the other more urgent on-site optimisation changes will already impact traffic volume in the short-term so I don't want to compound this further by making the switch over to HTTPS. So this is off the table for now. Thanks everyone for the feedback on this. More on the discussion side, Google shouldn't really be re-evaluating URLs when there is a protocol change in my opinion, especially when moving from http to https. It seems this would discourage site owners from making the move as organic traffic would be more valuable than user privacy. -Jason