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Hi there These pages don't appear to be deindexed. Are you thinking this because you are not appearing in your searches? [1] [2] [3]

I've installed Google custom search engine (CSE) on multiple client websites. The $100 option is a good place to start, that gets you 20K queries. Plus, over the past year Google has updated the features and UI allowing to easily customize the look and feel of the CSE. Attached is a screengrab showing the CSE UI. Hope that helps! VHV7RcM

Hi there "never" on my end was a strong word - I apologize. What I am saying that without proper optimization and taking advantage of opportunities like those listed above, you probably won't appear for those search queries here in Chicago. My point being - you need to invest in associating your brand with these different regions that you provide services in and have representatives in. Whether it is dedicated on-site content or mentions on other sites that are in those regions, you have opportunities to appear for location based searches. "It seems like what you're saying is that we need to establish locality in every large and small city in the U.S. and order to be found by people who live anywhere in the U.S." Not at all - I am saying people in these cities do searches for hotels / tours / travel packages for different cities/countries around the world, researching where they want to go on vacation and get a deal. What I am saying is take opportunities to appear on hotels / tours / travel package websites in those cities/countries that are legitimate and relevant to your business. Two things happen - you appear on sites in different countries and regions that you legitimately do business in and you increase chances of appearing for location based searches because you appear on sites in those countries and regions. Does this make sense?

Hey Ben, Thanks for sharing your problem and it's indeed a very tough situation for your business. If I were at your place, I wouldn't take this step to go with domain that's not matched with my brand name. Even if I had to, I'd go with something that at least partially linked with brand name. For the email marketing problem, I strongly think this "FREE" word problem can be taken care, if you implement some latest email marketing strategies like Email Schema Markup. You can also work out on the useless traffic by creating some great and targeted content. From the SEO perspective, if you have good amount of quality links at your original branded domain, I'd suggest you to go with it. Let's see what other experts recommends! Good luck! Umar

Hi Michael! That is actually not correct. Moz Local and Moz Pro are completely separate products, and having access to one doesn't provide access to the other. It's possible that you're think of the Check Listing tool, which is a part of Moz Local that can be used for free. It'll let you know the status of your listings, but it won't update them for you. I'd recommend watching this video on how Moz Local works. Does that clear things up?

Great question! We will send your listing to these partners and they will begin to populate there automatically: Infogroup Acxiom Nuestar/Localeze Factual Foursquare Superpages Best of the Web

Hi Adam, Excellent advice from Laura. While Google has never taken a stance that I know of against putting all of your locations on a single page (and you'd be doing so on the Contact Us page, of course), it's considered a better practice in Local SEO to develop a unique, high quality landing page for each physical location for the following reasons: Ranking a page that's clearly focused on a single city is going to be easier that ranking it for three different cities. You'll be sending a clearer signal to both humans and bots that 'dentist orlando' is a primary topic for the business than you would be if you're diluting the focus of the page with multiple cities. It's very likely that your competitors will be making use of the practice of developing these landing pages, and you want to be able to compete with that. Establishing a unique page for each office will enable you to link from all of the citations you build to a dedicated page on the website for each. Historically, this has been viewed as helpful in preventing against accidental merges of your Google+ Local pages, though there seems to be fewer cases of this in recent times. Regardless, it's very clear to be able to link your Orlando Google+ Local page and other citations to your Orlando page on your website, where the first thing one encounters in the compete NAP for the business, identically matching the NAP on the citations. It lessens the potential for error. The prerequisite for developing these types of landing pages will be the willingness of the business owner to invest the necessary time/funding to creating high quality pages with unique content on them. If this is lacking, then it's better to wait until the owner is ready to devote the necessary resources to the project so that the pages are an asset rather than a liability.

Hi Adam, My short and sweet answer to this scenario is: A page for every city and a page for every service So, you'd have a total of 30 pages to budget and plan for (one for each of the 10 cities and one for each of the 20 services). Most small local businesses are not going to have the funding for developing 200 exceptional pages ... what I've seen when small businesses try to go this route of developing a page for every possible service/city combo is that they end up with a collection of so-so pages at best and at worst, thin or duplicate pages. So, for a client like a dental practice, I believe that a sterling quality page for every city and for every service tends to be an achievable goal if structured over a reasonable time frame contract. I definitely do not recommend developing a different website for each city. Build a powerhouse and keep working on improving it for the life of the business. Hope this helps!

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Hi there Take a look at Hotjar and VWO, they have different surveys and poll opportunities for you to explore. Good luck!

Good suggestions. Let me do that research and i will get back to you. Thank you!

Hi there 1. Yes, and go through a backlink audit - what needs to be removed / disavowed? 2. I used this combination of information (as well as Majestic / Ahrefs) for multiple audits / manual action clean ups 3. You can use tools like LinkRisk to assess your backlink profile and score individual links. All in all - the best way to define a bad link is to use your own intuition and common sense: Does this link help my website? Is this link relevant to my website? Would I trust this site (that's linking to me) if I landed on it? Is the website or content in which I am being linked from topically relevant to my website? If you check metrics - does anything about the metrics (domain authority, page authority,Majestic, SEMRush traffic/ranking data, etc) make me feel uneasy? Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there! We cannot resolve this page nor can my browser: The server at new.kbc.be can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the network. Hope this helps!

Looks like Rich Snippets / structured data are whats doing it on this particular URL. If you right click on the site and click inspect elements you will see bits of code like this Sports The itemscope & item type tags all have to do with rich snippets / structured data, im no expert as i've not implemented them yet myself, but you can find out more at the following links https://moz.com/learn/seo/schema-structured-data https://moz.com/blog/a-visual-guide-to-rich-snippets https://developers.google.com/structured-data/breadcrumbs In short, they tell the search engines what the data is so it can be displayed in a more appealing way in the search engine.

Hi Mark, For some projects I have also set up more than one GWT profiles, but that was only to make sure that Google does take in consideration the preferred URL version I have set. What you are currently doing is that you give Google three different URL versions that you would prefer in search results. If you are showing the same content one these three version than I would say it is wrong to apply different versions. But we need to clear up some stuff: http vs https protocol. Does your website has a site-wide https protocol? if so: why do you need to register the http protocol website in GWT? If you are running on an apache server, you can force people/bots to visit only the https version. You can do this by creating a redirect rule from .htaccess: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L] Does your website has only for a particular folder on which it uses https? Then you can simply create a rule that redirects that specific folder: somefolder in this example RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} somefolder RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/somefolder/$1 [R,L] If you are using a sitewide HTTPS protocol, then I would go with only one GWT profile for https://www.example.com (and I would make sure that all traffic is redirected to the https://www version) If you are not using sitewide HTTPS protocol, I would create more profiles: One for https version One for the http version www versus non-www version. Now we have two versions here: If you prefer www over non-www #Force www: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC] If you prefer non-www over www #Force non-www: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301] This way we make sure that only one version is going to be crawled and indexed by the Big G I hope this cleared it up a little. Greetings, Keszi

Well, the point of a landing page is that visitors go directly to an offer of some sort from SERPs. That tends me toward suggesting you remove it from each page. However, you've already had them there for what I expect is a while. So it might be harmful or tricky to do that. Generally speaking, if you want to make a change that you're either unsure of, or that might have a large impact, you want to start by taking small steps rather than do it in one fell swoop. My overall suggestion is that you remove one or two of the landing page links from your homepage, and check reporting after a couple of weeks. If it went well, then EITHER remove that same one or two landing page links from all bottoms of your pages, OR remove a few more landing page links from your homepage. I can't stress enough that you don't want to do both. That might make too big an impact. But it all boils down to a consensus between what you should do and what your boss will allow.