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Hi,

First off it is my understanding that Penguin is operating in real time now - so it is part of the algorithm and as such it will be dealing with spammy links on an ongoing basis. Furthermore, the latest release of Penguin will devalue spammy links and not punish whole sites. So having a bunch of low value spam links is like having no links at all. This is worth reading: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-algorithm-history/penguin-update/

Regarding content over links, good content is always required to rank by search engines and your website users. But in a competitive market good content will also need some quality links to be able to do well.

When  I run a wordpress blog through the structured data testing tool I see that there is @type hentry. Is this enough for blogs etc? Is this a result of Wordpress adding in this markup?

Do you recommend adding @blogposting type and if so why? What benefit to add a specific type of schema? How does it help in blogging?

Thanks

Ideally you don't want any duplicate pages on your site? So if you are asking do duplicates impact rankings, well it is certainly possible as that is why canonicals are deployed. If it is not malicious duplication i.e. you are not trying to dupe the search engines then it will have less of an impact. This article may help:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en

Thanks Tom

Two websites is a big overhead in terms of managing content, SEO, hosting, NAP issues etc. I would stick to one website and create individual service pages for each of your services. Not having keywords in your domain is not a deal breaker. I think your domain name fits the services you offer. If you concentrate on other key aspects for ranking like onsite and links, citations mentions etc then you will rank just fine. If you do it correctly, not having "printing" in your domain will be of no consequence.

Many of the businesses I help have more than one service and their domain doesn't reflect all of their services but their individual service pages rank fine.

Good luck!

Hi,

Thanks for replying.  I think the problem for me is when I copy the graphics onto a word document and it becomes unreadable.  Any suggestions to do this better would be great.

I had a very similar problem a few weeks back on an ecommerce site and followed the same advice and there has been no problems if that helps.

Hi,

My preference would be the second i.e. a newcompany.com. In fact one of my clients has this scenario. The first company can link to the second and give it some authority. If it is a separate activity not related to the first company I would suggest a new brand. However, a new "company" would need to be distinct from the first company in order for Google not to lump them together. So a different address (if possible) and certainly phone number, social accounts etc.

Hi,

Thanks for your extensive  help.  The vanity url is Google.Com/mypropertycompanytown

To clear up my confusing query:

The searches we are running do not have "near"  in them.

Property agent +town=local results and organic

Property agent+ area= organic only

This guy has 11 genuine reviews on google +.  The local town is in the geographical  area of search.  Google runs out of property agents to display on the area local search yet lists other types of businesses and not his.

So am still a little perplexed.

Hello,

I have opened a ticket and attached example documents.

I wonder if this is a problem?

The canonical of this page http://www.conseilfleursdebach.fr.  is  http://www.bachbloesemadvies.be

The canonical of this page: http://www.conseilfleursdebach.fr is http://www.conseilfleursdebach.fr/

It is tricky for me to understand what is going on as I'm no linguist so the languages look pretty similar to me. But having a "." after the fr does not result in a 404 but resolves to a page whose canoncal is a different site? So it maybe that you have too many duplicate home pages? I would redirect the one with the "." to the one without?

Not sure if this is helpful or actually a problem but it doesn't seem right.

Ah ok. If it were a really spammy website, would you still recommend disavow even though you can't see a link?

I don't believe having all capitals in your content will affect SEO at all otherwise everyone would do that. If you want to write in caps then do so but it may not be visually appealing? Best practice for the meta title tag is to have the first letter of each word capitalised.

https://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag

Sorry Daniel,  I was responding to David's earlier comments about consistency.  To be honest the whole Google local area is much more complicated when you delve deeper and I have much to learn.

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to provide feedback.

Hello,

I had a similar problem recently with one website. Here's the answer I was given

https://moz.com/community/q/old-domain-to-new-domain

If you can't set up individual 301's to every page it would be prudent to find out the pages with the most traffic on your old sites and redirect at least these pages via 301's to similar on your new website.

Yes, that's great. Thank you

Hello,

A client has opened a new office in another city. I have created a local landing page for this city. Now I want to build citations for it. However, I have already set up directories like Yelp/Yell  with the primary/original address in the original city. Is it OK to set up new citations using the new city local address. The company name stays the same obviously. So I will have duplicate listings on the directories for the same company. Will this work?

Thanks for any help

Hello,

This is pretty frustrating. This is the third time Yelp has hidden a review for my business. I don't know why. I am trying to get lots of reviews on different platforms but I feel at the mercy of  Yelp as they decide what to show and what not. I think it was triggered when I actually replied to the reviewer on Yelp. I should have done nothing I think. Any hints or reasons why this might be happening?

Hi,

Thanks. I do see the benefit of schema but my question was about the value of what wordpress adds as @type hentry versus adding in specific types such as @type BlogPosting? What value is adding in specific blog posting types? Is there a difference in the rich snippets?

Regarding the last Google major update, has anyone seen anything specific to certain local industries? I'm thinking about locksmiths and this type of industry. It would be good to know if anyone has noticed fluctuations with certain clients and not others?