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You're very welcome, David, and good luck!

.htaccess file has nothing but BEGIN WordPress <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule> END WordPress Installed Plugins Yoast SEO, Google XML Sitemaps, Akismat, Udinra All Image Sitemap, Social Share Bar (Digg Digg Alternative), Jetpack by WordPress.com, AuthorH Review. Apart from Yoast, it seems nothing can block site, and Yoast settings are fine, just disabled tag indexing & subpages along with author archive. Problem is something else I guess

Hey Richard, I'm sorry I didn't see this until today. Yes, Google definitely seems to be demoting Google+ in a big way. Recommended reading: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2015/08/07/thoughts-about-the-new-local-stack-display/ http://blumenthals.com/blog/2015/08/06/7-pack-becoming-3-pack-with-mobile-like-snak-pack-rollout/ I'm not sure I'm totally following your last paragraph about the national agencies. Are you saying they no longer seem to feel G+ is as important as they used to? Sorry, not quite sure that's what you're explaining, but I can see why people would feel that way, given that G+ links have become so invisible. Nevertheless, the Google My Business dash remains as important as ever as the main source for the data now featured in the new Local Stacks/Local Finder and the other types of Snack-Pack style results. So, the dashboard is still important, but the front-end display represents a genuine departure from what we'd grown accustomed to. Many Local SEOs feel the Local Stack is a step toward a paid inclusion model and this could certainly be true. Glad you used my favorite little trick - looking up the business on Moz Local to get to the Google+ page. Works like a charm every time Thanks for starting a good discussion!

Sounds to me it's more like a PR thing + a organisational restructure to get business wise not in trouble with laws etc.

Thanks Mirko, Yup, I have this done on my site It seems to be on a general scale that Google chooses to ignore Irish sites even .ie sites over UK and US results. Very frustrating for Irish businesses and buyers. We've only a population of 4m and it would be nice to have the Irish online economy to work a little better!

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Honestly speaking, it was some other website, I would have encouraged you to set a do-follow tag but as they are social media plguins, there is no problem with that! I personally think, anything follow or no-follow both should work fine and it should any affect your SERP positions. Just a Thought!

Hi Amanda, What Moosa has explained is super important. Duplicating content across 2 different domains is putting the business at risk for duplicate content filters. General best practice for a mutli-location business is to build a single domain featuring all of your data and include in it a page for each physical location or each major city you serve. This post should help you plan a better marketing strategy: https://moz.com/blog/local-landing-pages-guide Hope this helps.

The straight answer to this is NO! You cannot look in to analytics data and see who are visiting these pages and where are they coming from but yes you can always look in to their back link profile and see which websites are linking to those pages and guess accordingly. Just a thought!

Canonical tags would be the most important thing to look at for your dynamic URLs. As long as each of your dynamic pages has a canonical tag to the static version of the page (i.e. package-search/holidays/hotelFilters/) then you won't have to worry about duplicate content.

From my experience I could see this being a risk, but, it sounds like you are aware of the important factors to consider. I'd want a good portion of unique content on any of those types of pages that is: Different from other places on the web Different form other pages on the site I'd also focus on making sure the content is utilizing correct grammar, punctuation and reads well. I'd think carefully about your plan for indexation and crawling based on how users actually search as well. URLs like this: https://www.noodle.com/colleges/williamstown-ma_location/comparative-literature_subjects Don't seem like they'd be likely targets for searchers (I didn't check volume..just a guess that there isn't much volume there). Meaning, while this page is likely useful for someone once they hit the site, it seems like it's fairly long-tail and might pick up few searches. While that's not necessarily bad, it's easy to get a large chunk of dynamically generated pages out there that: Attract few (if any) organic searches Waste crawl budget Put you at risk for algo adjustments because they can start to have very similar content, show little user activity, etc. While I haven't looked to see how some of the other big players in vertical search that you mentioned are handling this stuff, I do know that clients we've worked with in the past playing in these spaces have found benefit from carefully crafting architecture for users and bots to make sure the site aligns well with how people are actually searching and that that is the content available. I would also wager a guess that Glassdoor and other big players are getting a lot of benefit because of their off-site signals (large link profiles, brand mentions, branded searches, good user signals, etc.). That would help them be seen as legitimate if there was question about their content. Make sure you're providing good value for users that makes you the place to go, make sure you are building your brand signals, and make sure you have a strong plan that aligns your site with how users are actually searching. Hope that helps!

Hello Matt. Thank you very much! Maksim

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Hi , I'm sharing two articles(one from moz) on this , might be helpful for you. Improving Search Rank by Optimizing Your Time to First Byte How to Optimise Your Time to First Byte (TTFB) to Improve Search Results Thanks

Hi there, I'll try to break it down so bare with me! A canonical link is not seen by the user by all accounts they would never know about the original origins of the content. This is fine if you've made a straight up copy or want to keep all link juice to the original source. A follow link would be at the bottom along the links of "this article originates here link " or how ever you wish to create that point. The user would see this and the pro of this is you keep some more of the link juice whilst also passing some onto the source, this only really works assuming you've made some slight changes to the article e.g. commented on it or followed it up etc. etc. The choice is of course up to you but there are two options. Best of luck!

Hi there! It looks like perhaps this could have to do with the server's responsiveness. I ran a cURL on http://everydaycorporatecars.com.au/, and the request timed-out (http://www.screencast.com/t/Joc9HyrT). So, I would consider taking a look at the server settings for the site, and feel free to write in to help@moz.com if you're still running into issues!

Well, you’re definitely going to lose your rankings if URLs are changed. Luckily, there’s such thing as 301 SEO redirects that let Google know your pages are being permanently moved to another addresses. As the result, your SEO rankings won’t be affected, even though URL structures will be altered (in your case by adding /product/ part). If you’re interested in automated migration of your store, I’d recommend you using Cart2Cart. For a moderate additional price, it allows to migrate 301 SEO URLs of categories and products, as well as all your products, customers, orders, review etc automatically, securely and swiftly. Good luck!