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Are your blog posts showing up for specific keywords that have to do with individual blog posts? Like Madeline mentioned, your top level blog page won't always rank when your query is something like "Fundsindia Blog" is the query. Your goal should be to have your company's blog show up on the Page One of Google when someone searches, "What are dividend yield funds?" Ideally this blog would show up in the results, bringing traffic to your website. Focus your blogs on topics that people are searching, but also on topics that have opportunities for you to rank!

Also, I was looking at your website and noticed that the main website is HTTPS, but the blog is not. Is there a reason for this? Is the blog a part of the main domain or separate? I would also ensure that the blog is HTTPS for consistency purposes.

Like Linda said, it's a bug that should work itself out (if it hasn't already). It's not a problem with your website, but a glitch on Google's side and should be cleared up and working again in a few days. Hope it's back for you!

I have to agree with Bernadette. If it's a small handful of content, you might be better removing the pages altogether and redirecting the group to your top level blog page or your homepage. But if it's a large number of blog posts, it might be better to do an analysis of these blog posts.

Even if you don't offer the service anymore, you don't necessarily want to remove a blog post that is generating a ton of organic traffic (and possible conversions!) to your website. Use GA to track the organic traffic and conversions, and use this data to determine which pages you should keep and optimize to have more relevant information about the services you do currently offer. This can also help you see which blogs are not worth keeping, and in that case you can remove them and set up the proper redirects.

Good luck with the project!

Hi Robert!

I have to agree with Chris. Option 3 is the only one that my eyes didn't jumble all the characters together when glancing at it. While you definitely want some of the keywords in your URL for SEO purposes, short and sweet is definitely the optimal choice. I would definitely go with option 3 over the others.

As for the .html, leave that off. More modern websites are not utilizing the .html on their website URL so this will help make your website seem more up to date to users who might not know that much about URLs, etc. Good luck!

Hi Stephen,

Defintely use the first example! The second could be seen as keyword stuffing in the eyes of Google which would hurt your chances of ranking instead of helping them. The first way is also just much cleaner looking. You never want your URL to be too long.

Hi There!

I would run your review schema through the structured data testing tool another time to double check that nothing has changed between when you implemented the schema and now: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/

Keep in mind that Google gets to choose whether or not they want to show the review schema on the SERPs. So, your best bet is having the schema on your website and knowing that it passes the schema grades—but know that there is a chance it will not appear on the search results. Google chooses who it shows up for and when it shows up, which can be annoying but as long as you have it implemented correctly you're doing everything you can.

Before realized that the Moz listing should have the correct GMB account connected to it, a few local listings were purchased. Is there a way to change the GMB page it is pulling data from and sending out to directories?

Thanks!

Hi Max!

Which will work the best?

I think your second plan of action will be a better strategy in the beginning. Getting backlinks from guest bloggers (who have authoritative websites) is an easy way to get quality backlinks. Don't forget that your backlink profile should be about quality, not quantity. These blogs will naturally incorporate the most important keywords, which will help those pages to rank organically and drive more traffic to the website. Social media, email marketing, etc. are all great ways to get your brand in front of users quickly.

The first strategy is great, and will have longer lasting results than the second strategy, but it will take more time to develop and more time to see the results.

I would choose your plan of attack based on how quickly you want results. Do you want them now? Or are you willing to have slower results initially but have them be longer lasting?

What changes should be made to the strategy?

For whichever strategy you choose, I think you hit the nail on the head. Both plans of attack should help to increase website rankings.

How to perform a perfect keyword research for product pages?

Use Moz's keyword explorer tool. This will tell you the difficulty of certain keywords and whether or not you have a high opportunity to rank for these keywords. This will be your best tool for narrowing down which keywords you should be targeting up front, and which keywords are of secondary importance.

Hope this helps!

The 301 redirect is only temporary, so as the new Website that you're redirecting has been submitted to Google Search Console to be indexed (link: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url?authuser=1) you should be fine!

Hi There!

Blue Corona is an Internet Marketing company so this is exactly the sort of thing we help our clients with! We have years of experience tracking and testing different SEO strategies so you can take our word on this one!

A title tag is limited to only 70 characters so you want to use this small space wisely! (Anything over 70 characters will not help you, only hurt you and confuse search engines) Given this small amount of space, you do not have room to put your company name in there. You may have room for your name in the Meta Description, but never the title tag.

In the title tag you want to enter keywords and location modifiers. Let's do an example. Let's pretend you are creating a page for plumbing repair service in Tampa, Florida. You should use the title tag:

Plumbing Repair in Tampa, FL | Florida Plumbing Service & Repair

Hope this helps! If you would like additional SEO tips or service, please visit our website at: http://www.bluecorona.com/

To add on to what's already been said, consider investing in keyword tools, whether that's AdWords or even using MozPro. That way, you can research keyword volume for topics that you're targeting on your website and see how often they're actually searched.

Additionally, it would be wise to blog frequently and create an authoritative voice in the community. Target long-tailed keywords and set up an FAQ (which you can later build out by posting a blog on each question in addition to the short answer featured in the FAQ).

Since you're targeting millennials, having a social media presence and considering an email newsletter are other strategies that will help YOU nurture your relationships with your users.

At the very least, a business owner should install a widget on the backend of their site to enable blog posts and new content to be auto-published to Facebook. It provides no additional effort, but then keeps up social presence. Another easy thing to do is repost good testimonials.

That way, you're frequently updating Facebook, but barely doing any work!

Great question! I found this guide very helpful: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1008278

Key points from this guide:

PDF Optimizer (Learn how to reduce size, remove fonts embedding, remove unwanted data etc)

Acrobat 9

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Professional/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7 c84.w.html

Acrobat X

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7c88.w.h tml

Conversion Process:

To create smaller size PDF, I would suggest to plan it from the beginning. As Dave mentioned- smallest size PDF, you can select this joboption from the conversion dialog box (If you have the origional document word etc.which you are creating a PDF from). This will automatically do maximum part of the job for you. So, try to keep the size lower from the beginning of PDF creation won't give you much trouble later.

Images:

You can also create small thumnails of the images and insert them in the origional document before conversion. do not resize them in the document as it still contains the origional size. Try to compress them or resize them outside the document and then finally insert them.

For example: if the image is 640x480 and you want only 50x50 in the PDF document. Try to resize it using some applications like Adobe Photoshop or MS Office picture manager (comes in MS Office suite) or using many apps freely available online. then finally insert them in the document. If you resize them in the document itself, they will still be containing the origional size.

Along with this, try downsampling the images to 72ppi (using Acrobat PDF optimizer) and use poster images instead of the videos. These images can have links pointed to the videos over website.

PDF Size:

Try to keep the PDF size between 1-2 MBs.

I hope that this helps! Good luck to you

As long as you make sure the content differs slightly across the board, you'll be fine--especially if the bulk of it is new, super unique content.

Depending on the service, it could be useful to have different "default" content to add to certain pages--if it's a seasonal service, there's one paragraph you tweak as needed, etc.

Hope that helps!

Hi there!

What's most likely going on is the assigned person doesn't have the right amount of access, or you haven't set up the ad account correctly.

It's billed to the credit card attached to the ad account. Have you set up the ad account? You can't run ads just with a business manager you have to use the ads manager.

How are they boosting the post? There are two ways to do it, once from the page directly and one from the backend of the ads manager.

To echo the previous responses, rely on redirects to successfully migrate your site to HTTPS without any hitches. Afterall, security has been a top priority for Google and since they've called for HTTPS everywhere across the web, they're likely to reward those who stay up with the trends. Read more about it here: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html

If someone leaves a review of your business on your Google My Business listing, and you respond to that review, will they receive an email notification of your response to their review?

We are working with a client who has unanswered reviews from several years ago, and though it's best practice to respond to all reviews, we didn't want to respond to reviews from 2013 if the person (who has likely forgot about their experience with the business in question) is going to get an email notifying them of our late response to their review.

Thank you!

Great question! This guide is particularly helpful if you're looking to easily create a multilingual website on WordPress: http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-easily-create-a-multilingual-wordpress-site/

If you're not working with WordPress, the tips in this article may be more helpful: https://www.nomensa.com/blog/2010/7-tips-for-multi-lingual-website-accessibility

From the most basic standpoint, what you'll need to do is assign a primary language and then whichever multiple/alternative languages you wish to display on the site within the code. The link above will show you how to do so on your website.

I hope this helps!

Chris and Mike both make great points!

If you choose to consolidating under one domain, consider creating geo-targeted pages for each of the countries/service areas you want to make sure you're ranking for. The content can be similar to a point, but that way your website will still target the areas you care about.

Chris' point about the challenges of authority with multiple sites raises a great point, too. Get authority up through link building, social campaigns, etc, and you could see some positive changes.

Great question!

You may want to consider providing two separate sets of NAP information for these two separate locations.

So you would have:

#1 - Business Name - Existing Address - Existing Phone Number

#2 - Business Name: Conference Center - Conference Center Address - Conference Center Phone Number

As long as you're able to go through the Google verification process with this conference center (receiving the postcard and phone call to verify that the NAP information for this new location is correct), you should be fine from a Local SEO perspective, and this should also improve user experience (since users will be directed to the proper location!)

I would also recommend listing these two addresses separately on the Contact Us page of your client's website, along with specific details about which location the user should plan to visit based on their needs.

Hope this helps!