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Hi John, You can certainly redirect these to the main site, but they're not likely to add value beyond capturing type in traffic unless the domains have links pointing to them. I think it's a good idea to buy these for competitive reasons. If I were you, I'd likely 301 redirect them to the main site and then ignore them.

Hi Caleb! That's a good question. It's very important for me to state here that Moz Local is not a ranking tool. We do not guarantee rankings in any way. Likely, you already know this, but just wanted to be sure this was clear. Whether using a tool or working manually, citations are built for 2 main reasons: To build up the 'trust' it is perceived that Google places in widely available, correct business NAP+W. To help customers locate your business on a variety of platforms. #1 is believed to help you with your Google local pack rankings and #2 is believed to directly market to customers on platforms they frequently use (like Yelp or Facebook). Citations are not widely recognized as a means for improving organic or national rankings. So, in your case, as you don't really see customers between normal business hours, citation building may not be the most important investment for your business. On the other hand, if you have a B2B relationship and your business associates are coming to your office between normal business hours, citation building could help them find you in the local packs of results. Additionally, citations are normally listed in the organic results below the main result for a branded search, so, it could be postulated that this could help B2B customers feel more secure about how established your business is. But, it would not like help you rank better for your software keywords. *However, there is one grey area related to this that deserves mention. The majority of citations include a link to the business website. So, in a sense, citation building is a form of link building. It would be possible, then, to parlay that out into thinking that earning citations means you've earned some new links for the business, right? And links do influence organic rank, right? But, it's my gut feeling that, because the links contain in citations are not merit-based (in other words, you're not actually earning them based on something great you've done) they probably do not have a ton of value in the current, more sophisticated Google environment. Could they help at all? My guess is that they might be of minimal help, but that you would likely benefit more organically from other efforts. Hope this helps!

Hi Guys, I found this : http://schema.org/Organization. I know that I might be good using it, but I'm confus how to apply this. Here the web page we have : www.mycie.com www.mycie.com/login www.mycie.com/employee-support www.mycie.com/payroll-service www.mycie.com/add-ons www.mycie.com/mobile www.mycie.com/contact-us ( Might have geo target resultat for our differents headquarter)

Happy to help!

Hello Geoff, It looks like you've installed the Yoast plug-in now and the category pages have a noindex,follow robots meta tag. That might do the trick, but you should make sure the posts are in an XML sitemap that you list in your robots.txt file and submit to Google Webmaster Tools - or whatever they're calling it this week. I checked several things and it looks fine: No robots meta tag blocking on posts. No robots.txt blocking of posts. Followable Read More links from category pages Mostly unique content on posts (though they may be seen as thin affiliate pages in some cases). At this point you should focus on getting your posts into an XML sitemap and also look into the following: Lots of pages that shouldn't be indexed, such as /contact pages with various parameters and redirect.php with various parameters: http://tinyurl.com/qdne3g2 Security errors. I see several popping up in Firefox, including "This website does not supply identify information". I'm assuming you have a valid SSL Cert?

^ This! Great stuff Linda, as always!

This should be totally fine. It's pretty common blog/wordpress practice to have excerpts on a category page and then the full article/recipe on that individual page. Also, just to dispel a myth there is no duplicate content "penalty" - so nothing to fear from that standpoint anyway - just try to make each page have a distinct purpose, which they do. The category page allows users to browse all the recipes in that category and choose which to view. The recipe page allows users to view the whole recipe and use it to hopefully cook something tasty

Hi Chenzo, yes magento to magento, 301 redirect on the base domain was made after the site was made live and indexed. Any advice much appreciated! I am really enjoying these forums - hope you don't all get sick of me! haha

Hi, As I said that there is no such data available in public domain. I would like to suggest you to start with search campaign only and to get high CTR use keyword in Ad headline, use call to action and don't forget to use Ad extensions. ***Initially use only restricted match type (Exact match Type) with few similar keywords in every Ad group . e.g 5-10 keywords. Thanks

Hey Kelly, Seems like there is a problem with your redirection. You should get the help of your developer to fix it from the controller. Check out this guide: https://www.apptha.com/blog/magento-url-redirect-from-controller/ You can also use this magento's extension (I've used it and it worked out really good) http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/optimise-web-s-mass-301-redirects-for-404-pages.html Hope this helps! Thanks,

You are welcome Laura -Andy

I agree.  100%.

Hi Mirko, can we consider this Q&A as answered or are you still struggling with this issue?

Great thank you Andy for your help

Hi Shaun, It is always difficult to diagnose issues like this without a little more info, so there are a couple of questions I would need to ask: When did you notice SERP movement again? You can often tie dates down by checking the Moz Algorithm History and by keeping an eye on MozCast, to watch for daily Google activity. What work (if any) was carried out prior to this movement? You are also able to annotate Analytics with information when changes were made (on or off-site). Great for keeping tabs on what was done when and impacts seen. -Andy

A webpage can rank for more than one keyword and that's a good thing. Having the low volume keyword ranking well wouldn't hurt the main keyword's ranking. However it could be that Google's algorithm decided that the page is better suited for the lower-volume query. I would take another look at the page, including links and citations and see if you see something there. For the homepage issue, it still sounds like a subdomain issue, especially because you see it when you search the root domain, but not the www subdomain.

Hi, There is no problem with international SEO and duplicate content, as long as you follow the rules around this. Start by reading this checklist from MOZ as it will give you a great grounding. I would also read this article from Google as this will walk you through what you need to do. HREFLANG will be used to explain to Google about international pages with duplicate content. I hope this helps. -Andy