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Mememax,  thank you.  I did not know this. Have you tried the Custom 404 Widget?

Hi Donald! Good topic! Ideally, this is how most Local SEOs would suggest organizing a business with this model: A single website representing the brand A unique page on the site for each service A unique page on the site for each of the two physical offices Both offices on the Contact page and in the footer A unique Google+ Local page for each of the 2 locations, and a unique citation set for each of the physical locations Instead, what your client has done is to build out a unique website for each of their two specialties. Fortunately, as the business has two unique locations, many of the concerns that would normally surround such a strategy do not apply. If the client only had one office and had built out two websites - that would be a big concern. But, happily, this is not the case with your client. Nevertheless, the drawbacks of your client's approach are that, instead of all of the work he does pouring into building up the strength of a single brand on a single site, he is going to have to split his energy and funding between two different sites. It's not as convenient to do this, but if the client wishes to stick with this approach, here are a few things to be sure not to do: Don't share phone numbers between the two offices. Each must have its own unique local phone number Do a citation audit to be sure that there are no merged listings and that the name, address, phone number and website for location A are not mixed up anywhere with those of location B. Everything must be separate and distinct at all times. The Google+ Local pages and citation sets for the 2 offices must be totally unique. Do not put the address, phone number or URL of website A on website B or vice versa, anywhere. Keep these sites totally separate. Do not link from one website to the other. Do not share content of any kind between the two websites. All content must be unique on the two sites. Hopefully, following these steps, you can prevent merging of details, and can simply market the two sites the way any local businesses would be marketed. Hope this helps!

Hi there If you have a search console profile for that .net URL, you could use the Change of Address tool to let crawlers know the site has moved. I would also check this migration guide to see if there are any loose ends that may still be indexing those pages. Sometimes you can have internal links or sitemap issues that may still contain old URLs. Lastly, there is the remove outdated content from Google tool, but I would make sure that your new URL / domain are appearing for all searches that you need it to be, and that the .net address isn't. Hope this helps! Good luck!

Very good answer.

Sorry for not been clear everyone. I meant the Moz campaigns and the solution is provided by Jordan.

Hi Luke, Just make sure that your robots.txt file located at https://www.example.com/robots.txt doesn't block search engine spiders. Of course there may be some folders or filetypes you want to block but it certainly shouldn't look like below which would block everything: User-agent: * Disallow: / Hope that helps

Google talks about this as part of Dynamic Serving of content. Here is their article, which also includes tips on how to distinguish user agents (including how to signal this to Google): https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/configurations/dynamic-serving This is an okay practice and I'd not had any Google penalties when I've utilized it. The big concern with doing this type of dynamic content shift for different devices is to avoid cloaking, which Google mentions in that article as well (be sure to click on the link in that Dynamic Serving article for more about cloaking). So long as you avoid cloaking, you should be in okay territory. My advice is to test out your user agent matches thoroughly - I'd even go so far as to try this on one or two pages with some simple changes for each user agent and then make sure Google indexes those pages correctly before rolling this out to your entire site. Hope that helps.

It's not a secret that Google can use Chrome anyway that it wants for data collecting. Just read the TOS.

Thanks all for Inputs I searched Google and found this note from Google which may happen post server migration https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6033412?hl=en&ref_topic=6033383 A note about Googlebot’s crawl rate It’s normal to see a temporary drop in Googlebot’s crawl rate immediately after the launch, followed by a steady increase over the next few weeks, potentially to rates that may be higher than from before the move. This fluctuation occurs because we determine crawl rate for a site based on many signals, and these signals change when your hosting changes. As long as Googlebot does not encounter any serious problems or slowdowns when accessing your new serving infrastructure, it will try to crawl your site as fast as necessary and possible. Add on Thompson Paul - Appreciate - yes its a good suggestion, will see to include sitemap

And technical aspects?

Hi Frank, Don't rush to disavow or worry about these links as Google will look at the types of sites where you are featured. On the other hand of course, the links will appear on very reputable sites, as these are regular media sites This is what matters in cases like this. The sites are reputable and that is a big plus. If you had an article spammed across 50 random blogs, then it might be a different story. Without seeing everything for myself, it's a little hard to say with 100% certainty, but from what you said, it sounds OK. -Andy

Hi, Are you using Yoast for your SEO? I would have a look at the Post Types and Taxonomies in the Titles and Meta's section as you can set rules for noindexing, if you wish. This would certainly allow you to have the attachment pages but noindex them. Alternatively, install / make use of the gallery functions on Wordpress. Not knowing your site, I don't know if this would work for you though. -Andy

Thanks for the answering but i am not exactly getting your 3 check points, can you please explain it again?

The reason why everyone has different views on SEO is because there is an exception to every rule, and for the most part every website is different.  You will have to find what works in your niche market.  So take it slow. My suggestion is to watch 1 White Friday every couple of days - go back 6 months and start from there.  No better education to be had on SEO.  So that is the best place to start and then try and work out from the WBF's what is relevant to your website and what are the priorities. I write a list down for each site... You simply can't do everything that needs to be done.  You need to prioritize. One more thing. Firstly google are emphatic that Adwords has no relevance to organic search. I see things a little differently. But you might want to run a small adwords campaign, create a relevant and quality landing page - even a small budget of $10 a day for a few weeks for your targeted keywords. Then watch how the customers respond to your page, review the User experience - review your message. It might hasten up your understanding of some issues... Good luck

Hi, To add to all the good advice given so far, you can also utilise URL Parameters in WMT Search Console to specify that a cert URL pattern is canonical content. Kind Regards Jimmy

As Joost said, you should not block access to files with help in the reading / rendering of the page. Looking at your Robots file, I would look at the following two exclusions. Do they block anything else that runs on a live page that Google should be seeing? Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /scripts/ -Andy

Hi there Yes - as Andy said, avoid this practice. I would also make sure that you read up on Google's Link schemes resource in Google's Quality Guidelines. It has everything you need to know about what Google thinks about these sorts of things. I recommend you also read Moz's Beginner's Guide to Link Building as well for more tips. Hope this helps! Good luck!