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My client has received a bad review on Google and although has other good ones, wants to delete the current Google My Business page and open a new one. I disagree with this strategy but need some evidence to back it up. They are ranking well and so I don't want to upset the cart. I need reasons not to in terms of potentially harming rankings. Am I right that this could impact?

It could be that the pages which have ranked had links pointing to them or that the pages that ranked were for non-competitive keywords.

Having well optimised and original content in pages which are easily navigated to and easily crawled can make a difference. Pages which are close to the root domain will be more likely to move upwards than deeper pages which are several clicks away. So without knowing the structure and history of the website it is hard to say exactly. But look at where the pages which ranked reside within the navigation hierarchy and look at their backlink profile too.

Thanks Dan. That is interesting about what you say about using the Article Schema as opposed to Blog post one. Also the fact that you have a chance for the "in depth" spots.

Many thanks

Most if not all PR sites are now nofollow links so won't help directly your ranking. However,, like James said, the PR may send traffic to your site which can help.

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

Thanks Roman for trying to help. I guess what I was asking is from a Rich Snippets point of view, why bother with specific schema types- what is the difference in the search results to using specific types such as blogposting types versus article types. I understand the difference between articles and blogs and what they represent but why bother using specific schema types? Do they present differently as rich snippets?

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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?

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

Thank you. I have just started a trial of https://slickplan.com/ today and it seems quite good so far.

Thanks for your help.

Hello,

Can anyone suggest the best tool for a visual HTML sitemap? I want to show what a website looks like architecturally before and be able to drag pages around visually to show an enhanced site architecture. I have looked at a few tools online but would like to try before I buy and also get recommendations.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Hello,

I'm no Wordpress developer so need a little help please. I have manually created a video sitemap. It needs to be uploaded to the website. Where should the .xml file be uploaded onto Wordpress?  Which directory?

Is it Ok to add the code to a notepad file and upload? I'm trying to avoid the plugin route if possible.

Thanks

My preference would be for B. This is because the company blog is well established and so will have a lot more traffic to it so your blogs there are going to get seen and read. By showing an excerpt you are avoiding duplication but still driving traffic to the new website blog. Showing an excerpt on the company blog will entice people who are interested enough to click through to the new blog who may not otherwise have seen the article.

Option A is least favourable for me because the search engines will still have to crawl the blog article on the old website so is wasting crawl budget on that site. Also, the move you are making is permanent and that is what a 301 tells the search engines. Th canonical tag is letting the search engines know which is the preferred URL to index. You really want to move the blog articles and then build new fresh links and traffic to them on the new website.

No, just this one page out of 6. Can you explain what you mean by that and how that would mean one http url is still being indexed?

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

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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.

A clients site was moved to https recently. It's a small site with only 6 pages. One of the pages is to advertise an emergency service.

HTTPS move worked fine. Submitted https to webmaster tools, submitted sitemap. 301 redirects. Rankings preserved. However, a few weeks later doing the site:example.com there are two pages for the emergency service. One says https the other is http. But the http one says the correct SEO title and the https one says an old SEO title. This wasn't expected.

When you click the HTTP URL link it 301 redirects to the HTTPS url and the correct SEO title is displayed in the browser tab.

When you click the HTTPS url link it returns a 200 and the correct SEO title is shown as expected in the browser tab.

Anyone have any idea what is going on? And how to fix? Need to get rid of the HTTP URL but in the site search it contains the correct title. Plus- why is it there anyway?

Hello,

I see three locations for a client. Two legitimate which I have ownership of, the third is  a duplicate of one of the locations. Ithink it is harming rankings and I want to get rid of it. It is  service area business. Things keep changing, but how will I remove it? My client obviously set this up a while ago and it is left with wrong or missing info. When I click on the business under "more listings" on maps there is a chance to "edit it" AND "claim it" but not delete it. When I strart to claim it I go through adding in everything but then I worry I am legitimising the duplicate. How do you get rid of it?

Thanks

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.

Thanks for your answers. It seems bizarre that there are so many hoops to jump to post a visible review. I understand that it could be opened up for spam but at the same time it is hard enough to get a review sometimes and my clients won't be spending time writing loads on Yelp- Facebook yes- but not Yelp. So I guess I just have to hope!