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Yes you must implement what I have suggested. Second thing I would like to suggest you to ask your same question in Google webmaster forum to get more suggestion on your query.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters

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Hi Brett,

If your company name is Rainy Day Umbrellas then you should register with rainydayumbrellas.com but as you mentioned that you want to register another domain newyorkumbrellas.com just to rank for few keywords like new york umbrellas,  umbrellas new york is not good idea.

I know there are still thousands of website rank for the keyword just due to keywords in domain name despite EMD update by Google.

IMO you don't need to register another domain (newyorkumbrellas.com) you can create separate landing page to target keywords or you can use city name in title and other places on webpage.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

In my case it is working all the time so far but I know this answer doesn't help you. Many SEO's facing the same issue. I am quoting  Google's John Muller's on this

"Just to sum up the possibilities ...  As others have mentioned, Sitelinks demotions are demotions, not removals, so what you're seeing might be as expected (also, the changes are not immediate).

If you'd like to have text removed from the snippet, there are a few possibilities you might want to look into:

• use the "nosnippet" robots meta tag

• use an image (as others have suggested)

• use a robotted JavaScript file (also mentioned above)

• use a robotted iframe

The "googleon" / "googleoff" tags are only for Google Search Appliances (so if you're running your own, local search engine), not for web-search."

You can read full discussion here @ https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/X1SluyGID9o/discussion
 
Hope that helps.
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Hi Luke,

No there is no logical reason to not use 301 redirect and even I would say it is a terrible mistake that will affect site very badly.

In fact if we don't use 301 redirect site will loose ranking /traffice/ link juice.

Hope this helps!!

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Hi,

For USA my vote goes to .com.

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Hi,

I assume that you are saying when you search a particular keyword at front end that keyword used 40 times and when you check in view source that keyword mentioned 100 times.

If my assumption is true first I would like to let you know that keyword used in different tag don't show in front end like keyword used in meta title, description and other tags but in your case difference is huge . I think you are hiding keywords by some spam method that is absolutely not good for SEO.

If you are violating any Google guideline that will not good for your site and your site could be penalized. Use keywords in natural way to give better experience to users not only for search engine bot.

Hope this helps

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Hi Kenneth,

If your landing page is only for Paid campaign then you can no-index and nofollow because there is no impact of no-index and nofollow on PPC landing page as well the QS.

but if you are using for both PPC and SEO then you should use rel=canonical and here is latest video on rel ="canonical"

Hope this helps.

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Hi Rob,

I assume you are aware of that Google only show sitelinks for results when they think that 'll be useful to the user.

If you don't want to show "Kolea 10A" as sitelink you can demote them. As far as best practice is concern Google said

"There are best practices you can follow, however, to improve the quality of your sitelinks. For example, for your site's internal links, make sure you use anchor text and alt text that's informative, compact, and avoids repetition."

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Hi,

does editing the META Description really have any significant benefit? - No, not in your case

does the Google Search Algo factor in the META Description tag, or is it only used for display purposes on the search results and doesn't affect ranking?

Meta description is not a direct ranking factor it is just for user to compels to click on search results but CTR does a ranking factor which is affected by meta description. If meta description is written in such a way that user compel to click on search result page , ctr will raise.

Hope it helps.

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Hi Shawn,

It can take months for Google to start deindexing old URLs.There are several post on this issue I'm sharing two post that will help you to resolve your issue.

http://moz.com/community/q/my-old-url-s-are-still-indexing-when-i-have-redirected-all-of-them-why-is-this-happening

http://moz.com/community/q/proper-301-in-place-but-old-site-still-indexed-in-google

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Hi,

In my understanding anchor text is still better than than the image link and If you use button as internal links don't forget to define alt tag. Please also check below article on the same.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/internal-image-links-seo/196007/

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Hi,

IMO if you are a one person team or don’t have the dedicated resources to help you build, maintain or troubleshoot a website, I would recommend trying Squarespace.

You can also check comparison between WP & Squarespace @ http://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/squarespace-vs-wordpress/

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

That is Google answer box and if you know how Google pulls it please watch below whiteboard friday from Rand Fishkin.

https://moz.com/blog/how-to-appear-in-googles-answer-boxes-whiteboard-friday

Hope this helps.

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Completely agreed with Moosa. you can also check below post.

http://blog.woorank.com/2013/03/a-guide-to-clean-urls-for-seo-and-usability/

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Here is list of stop words @ https://kb.yoast.com/kb/list-stop-words/

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Hi Michael,

I don't think so and as far as i know we should concern only when important images blocked e.g products images.

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Hi,

IN my understanding If we do any change in web content after that we have to wait till content indexed in Google. Once content is indexed then you will see result If it affects ranking.

content index pretty fast if not use fetch and render in Google search console.

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Hi,

There is only one way to find missing meta description from any website is by seeing view source. I hope you are aware of the facts that if any sites don't have meta description Google picks meta description from content on that page.

So in order to find missing meta description you can use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/meta-seo-inspector/ibkclpciafdglkjkcibmohobjkcfkaef?hl=en or you can do manually.

I would also request to wait for more answer from top community member.

Hope this helps.

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Hi David,

In my limited understanding that won't helpful. Content should published on the blog first then anywhere else

To prevent Google indexing other blogs/website you need to canonicalised the other sites to the Original(your blog), this means that users on the individual sites can find the same information and the correct path but if you search for Google you get to the final page quicker.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

First of all I would like to let you know that having keywords in URL won't give any ranking boost. Second thing I would go with 'yourdomain.com/business/personal-trainer-software' it will be helpful for user to know about what the page is about.

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