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Thanks for reaching out to us! While I am not very familiar with Yatz, I can let you know we do submit to these partners when you submit your listing through Moz Local:  Infogroup Acxiom Nuestar/Localeze Factual Foursquare Superpages Best of the Web When you update your listing, we push the new data out to those partners every time at no additional cost to you. Anybody not mentioned above, you'll want to manage manually. The Check Listing tool can help walk you through that process. Does this answer your question today?

Thanks Ray. I was also under the impression that Yext may have created this listing trying to get a foot in the door. I also share the same dislike for Yext as you do. We already have a page out ranking the false listing, but that false listing just started popping up in the first page of results. Another issue is the the way the listing is title makes it seem the office manager is a dentist. Guess I will give contacting them a shot. Thanks again.

Hello, I am also having this issue with hundreds of dummy urls that never existed as a part of our website's blog. Do I go into parameters and specify each of the dummy urls to avoid this? Thanks in advance for any help!!!! (and sorry to piggyback this question Theodore-hope you don't mind!)

You can pull the meta descriptions with Screaming Frog from the Wayback Machine if your site is archived. If you want to do this, let me know and I'll help you with the settings.

Hi Lorne - Welcome to the Moz community! It's great to see you questioning your IA and usability, it is a continual process and there is always improvement to be made. I like to consider the following: My main navigation should include all highly relevant, top level links. These are usually links to categories and very important pages. Your current nav structure does not include very many links, so I'm not seeing much of a need to adjust it as it stands. I consider my Footer Navigation to be a secondary navigation. Google does discount links in the footer, they understand that this area is mainly used for supplemental links to pages like contact and company information. If a page/section of your website needs to be within 1 click of the homepage, but not necessarily a core part of your service, then it is a good link to put in the Footer. For example, Moz puts its Affiliate Program links in the footer - it's not a section that deserves much exposure, but should be within 1 click for the user. I think you could clean up the language of your nav a little bit - what exactly are 'Other Quotes?' I think it is quotes that can't be instantly generated, but maybe other text is more appropriate. 'Humour' also isn't self-explanatory and I suggest considering a different label for that menu item. Finally, I always like to see the use of Semantic HTML and the<nav. tag="" whenever="" possible,="" that="" helps="" search="" engines="" and="" certain="" readers="" understand="" ia="" better.<="" p=""></nav.>

There are some pretty good suggestions here, though I think we have your extreme case (50 pages) covered as well. Advanced Web Ranking can record results about as deep as you would like to go. Though you will have to 'tune' AWR and likely employ some proxies to get those results without being blocked. Settings>Performance>General Performance Settings (in the second drop down) I haven't used this utility in a couple of years, but it can go about as deep and wide as you need - on the spot - if you use proxy IP addresses. I used it to report on 200K+ total keywords (I'm glad those days are done-ish.), with one report comprising about 30K KW. That report took a bit of tweaking to avoid being blocked.

Are you using Canonical tags on any of these pages? If you aren't, you should, it will help the duplicate content issue somewhat. If 1 product has 2 different URLs then it is technically 2 pages to the search engine. Canonical tags will help get rid of those errors as well. If the content is copy and pasted it is duplicate content. If the content is thin then the html coding that is probably very similar on both pages is what the bots consider duplicate content because it is the only content. Your text to html ratio should be much greater. The engines don't need copy to be 100% identical in order to classify it as duplicate content. Those errors are important because it is telling you that the engines don't see those pages as relevant because they aren't uniquely valuable to the searchers.

I think that it is a good possibility. I wouldn't put Canonical tags on the product page however. The product page isn't the same as the category page, the html coding is just very similar between the two.

Hi Richard, I understand that it gets posted about in fair detail , but I do feel that the issue of when trying to create a branded enterprise for an SMB that's trying to move toward franchising is typically not addressed. This was a particular situation I was inquiring about not just a general inquiry about subdomains versus subfolders.

By the way, I buy my certificates here: https://www.namecheap.com/ In my opinion from a visitor perspective, to move in and out of ssl during a visit is bad; they would notice something is changing and average visitor wouldn't understand. So I would go for a 100% https. If you google about it you will find a lot of testimonial saying moving everything from http to https didn't have much impact in terms of performance. In my opinion the bad name of https is all coming from ages ago when protocols and hardware were not very good at managing it.

You can think about presenting the "related products" or the "related recipees" or the "most popular recipees" (if you have a user rating system up, so that users of the site can upvote a recipe or another) as normally blogs do with "related posts". I would present them below the product description and below the recipe, depending on the case. I would not hide them behind a tab, because of that alert Tim is writing about in his comment (which, if it is really so - someone should test it - could be an interesting option for hiding content that you don't want Google to consider for ranking reasons).

Sorry I missed this! If you have your website architecture set up well you can always request Google to index a page and all pages that it links to. You'll see this option when you click the Submit to index button. You won't have to submit a substantial amount of individual pages this way. I personally would keep an eye the pages of most value. These are the pages you are optimizing for that show up in the search results and are generating traffic. Hope this helps.

Understood. Just post more details as you learn them, and I'll do my best to address any issues.

OK, I think I understand what you are asking now. Canonicals are for identical or near-identical pages. I don't know that those two pages would be considered to be identical, even after you added the arctic listings to the Canada page, especially as the above-the-fold content is different. Keep in mind that the "penalty" for duplicate content is that Google will choose only one page to show, depending on which one it thinks is most relevant. And if you have one page that gets a lot more traffic and engagement, that is likely to be the one Google chooses, anyway. If I were you, I'd probably make sure the description sections at the top of those pages each has a good bit of unique content and maybe I'd change the titles and h1s to make them a little more different from each other (if you can do that) then I'd just leave it at that and see what Google makes of it. If it seems that your higher traffic page starts to lose traffic, you can always add the canonicals then, and resubmit the URL through Fetch as Google in Webmaster Tools.

Hi Monica, i am also not happy with this situation, especialy it's gonna be difficult to reach my kpi's when SEA is performing on SEO's traffic, but i have to find a solution to reach my goals. the conversion rate has changed, 1% less. what you say: "I cleansed the AdWords account of everything I wanted to rank for organically. As the CTR increased organically the AdWords spend decreased" Is something i want to do, i told the SEA guy about his, but he said it has no use, but now you write te same i'm gonna do it. Thanks for that! Grtz, Leonie

I would definitely fix them. The meta data is important to your site. It tells searchers and engines what your pages are about and leads to how relevant they are compared to your competition.

I'll use the list to help with SEO, especially building links.

I want to do this in multiple websites. To give you an example, here's a great tool I've found: Atomic Email Hunter If you can suggest other similar tools, that would be great. Thanks!