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Hi Elisa, If your law practice were my client, I would have them take these steps: Get a unique phone number for each practitioner. It can be any number the lawyer is reachable at during listed business hours. It can be their cell phone, a phone at their desk, etc. Diversify categories as much as possible so that the lawyers aren't competing with the practice. Link each practitioner's listing to a landing page on the website for just that practitioner. Put the name, unique phone number and address as the top of each practitioner's page and then write good, useful content for the page, optimizing it for longer tail terms rather than the head terms the practice is targeting. Be sure you've updated all other citations that exist for the practitioners on other sites, so that they include the new phone number, more diverse categories and appropriate landing page link. Build long-tail kw focused links to these practitioner pages. These listings can be an asset to the business in widening the number of search terms the overall practice is able to target. So, before you consider abandoning them, I would advise the client to think seriously about how the listings could benefit the practice. I'd implement all of the above tips I've given and then give it a year to see how the practice feels about the benefits coming from having these more diversified practitioner listings. Of course, be sure you are tracking this in Google Search Console for the year! And do be sure you're having the client assess whether it's actually negative if the lawyers are getting leads, regardless of how rankings are playing out. If it's income for the practice, is this a good thing or a bad thing? If, at that point, the practice feels it really dislikes having practitioner listings, it could strip out all of their details to de-optimize them. Remove all but one category, remove photos, hours of operation, etc. But, before doing something drastic like that, I'd really evaluate the good that could be done with the listings, in properly handled instead of being a muddle like they currently are. Good luck!

Can you elaborate? Are you seeing a specific error in my snippet code?

Here are some quick things I noticed for onsite optimation: You don't have any title tags. You need to fix this before anything else. Title tags are very important for onsite optimization. I would noindex all of your tag pages. These are low quality pages and don't need to be indexed. I clicked on at least a dozen blog posts and didn't see one internal link within the content (links pointing to other pages on your site). You should add internal links where it makes sense. Also, there is no way around it; you also need to build a lot more links to rank for some of the phrases that your blog posts are optimized for.

Thanks Boyd for such a detailed reply. This is all very helpful information!

Hi Boyd, Thanks for getting back to me about this, a big help. In the past, I have tried contacting websites that have mentioned us in their articles etc... and asked for a link back to our website in which a lot have turned around and said that they don't do that anymore, linking to websites. How can I combat this? Regards

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Hi there, What you are finding is perfectly normal, as Moz's bot usually takes some time until finding most of the links present on the web. Keep in mind that the internet as a whole is so vast that not even Google can crawl it entirely. I'd suggest you wait a little longer. Also, you can find more information about that in Moz's official resource: Moz Isn’t Finding Your Links - Moz Help Hub. Hope it helps, Best luck

A lot depends on how much competition there is for those keywords. If you're not ranking, it's either because you haven't (a) given it enough time to see your rankings go up, or (b) you haven't overcome the strength of your competition for those keywords. First I would take a look at the pages you are trying to rank for and make sure that they are highly relevant for your keywords, contain helpful information for your target audience, and are optimized onsite (on-page SEO). Then I would just focus on creating link-worthy content around your keywords and post on social media and other blogging sites, sharing your link back to your main content. In turn, you'll hopefully get others to share your content, helping increase the number of backlinks that are pointing to the pages you are trying to rank. Just remember to focus on user experience and optimize for both your users and the search engines, not just the search engines. I hope this helps.

There is no need for concern. It's not going to forever taint your site. I've had many pages over the years with no content or with lorem ipsum content get indexed before I was ready to launch. You don't get a penalty, the page just won't rank for anything while it looks that way because it's a crappy page. You could literally do nothing except add the content that you want to the homepage and when Google crawls your site again they'll put the new content in their cache and everything will be fine. But you might as well go to Settings > Reading inside wordpress and check the box next to "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" and hit Save. This will add name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' /> to all your pages and will cause Google to deindex your homepage the next time they come crawling. Just make sure to uncheck that box when you're ready to launch your website.

I would only use a specific schema on specific pages it adds to the site gives google a way to show the content/data in new ways Like the home page should have Local Plastic Surgery markup The blog should have post markup The contact us page should have  local business mark up as well with the address never mark up any content that's not visible to google. Meaning visible to you as well. Take a look. https://moz.com/blog/structured-data-for-seo-1 https://moz.com/blog/structured-data-for-seo-2 https://yoast.com/what-is-structured-data/ Sincerely, Tom

Yes, I would noindex them if Wix gives you the option.

That's so nice of you. I m waiting for your response.

PS if you can send me the site I'd be happy to take a look at it and give you a lot more information then I can just let you've given me. If you don't feel comfortable posting it publicly just click on my picture and my contact information is there or posted here. Tom

I would go with a sub-folder if passing DA is your goal. As far as I understand it, DA is not considered by Moz for sub-domains. Here is a similar post on the same topic. I hope it helps. https://moz.com/community/q/is-moz-da-inherited-from-tld-for-all-subdomains-on-the-tld https://moz.com/community/q/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-domain-authority-of-a-subdomain

Thank you Gaston.  I had WP-Rocket on my sight, which offers some of the same abilities.  I will try using that.  Thank you for your guidance.

Hi Miriam, Hope you're doing well. Thanks for always answering my questions. Yes, they closed at LAX Los Angeles and many other US cities as well. But they still rank for that location and rank very well. It has been almost 2 months since they stopped their operation at LAX. And to answer your 2nd question yes, we do serve LAX we're not ranking as well as we would like but I was hoping to try to capitalize on this opportunity. One thing to mention that is important is this. Their website does not mention that they no longer serve these locations, in fact their city page still lists these pages as being served. But if you try to get a quote online or even call the phone number you will get a response that we no longer serve this location. The company was sold to a venture capital firm which decided to close some of the unprofitable cities. I reached out to the venture firm to see if it possible to buy their local phone number, customer email list etc but they are not interested in selling those. So I was wondering  what else can I do to get their customers. They have been in business for almost 20 years and they do have a large number of customer lists etc.

I finally heard back from Google - the issue with bulk uploading directly into Google My Business is a known issue that there is no fix for (at least not at this time). I was advised to continue to add each location manually, waiting out the clock when I added too many listings in a period of time. After a while and a lot of typing, I was finally able to get all of my listings into my account in order to apply for bulk verification. Thanks.