Hi Chris,

I agree with Moosa,

Use a 301 redirect and if you have valuable content you can check that using Moz or Google Webmaster tools look for top pages or your analytics.

check out the method described here where you use page to page not domain to domain

http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

You'll want to 301 redirect instead of point them out your name servers because if you do that you are not really going to help your site out at all. This is a great article regarding merging to websites

http://moz.com/blog/2-become-1-merging-two-domains-made-us-an-seo-killing

here is some more helpful data

http://blog.woorank.com/2013/05/the-flow-of-link-juice/

http://www.seoblog.com/2014/06/link-juice-lost-301-redirect/

hope this helps,

Thomas

I use Wistia as well and recommend them I do not recommend using their plug-in

You can defer loading of the video and make it so that the site very quickly and is almost not affected at all.

• https://varvy.com/pagespeed/defer-videos.html
• https://varvy.com/pagespeed/defer-many-javascripts.html
• USE  this to get JavaScript queries https://varvy.com/tools/js/
• This for an overall https://varvy.com/pagespeed/ test
• **Best practices **https://kinsta.com/learn/page-speed/
• https://varvy.com/pagespeed/defer-loading-javascript.html
• https://varvy.com/pagespeed/critical-render-path.html

How to defer videos

To do this we need to markup our embed code and add a small and extremely simple javascript. I will show the method I actually used for this page.

The html

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OMOVFvcNfvE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

In the above code I took the embed video code from Youtube and made two small changes. The first change is that I made the "src" empty by removing the url from it as below.

src=""

The second change I made is I put the url I cut from "src" and added it to "data-src".

data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OMOVFvcNfvE"

The javascript

Script to call external javascript file

This code should be placed in your HTML just before the tag (near the bottom of your HTML file). So "**defer.js" is **the name of the external JS file.

I hope this helps, Tom

Hi Robert,

I think what you've brought up is extremely interesting. We have one in turn and currently we are not paying them at their own request. This is odd I know and I believe possibly illegal.

I think federal law states that you must pay an intern for any job you would pay an employee to do.

I've never met anyone who comes to a business and asks can I work for free without anything in return.

This particular intern needs this internship and so you know we are in fact paying her even though she keeps refusing our checks. Simply because we will have trouble on our hands possibly if we don't.

I agree with your statement about wanting to pay people so they will have the incentive to work hard for you.

I do pay my interns although I do only have one at this current time as school has just restarted.

I have always given a paycheck of $12 an hour to any intern we have had. The maximum amount of interns we have ever had is four for blueprint marketing however my main business is in plastics and the amount of interns we have had their is well over 40.

Every one of them is paid as well and we essentially have copied the word went to pay you rather you like it or not planned from MTI Polyexe for instance http://www.mtipolyexe.com is built on Hubspot (we are not abandoning hub spot just hosting on WordPress) and currently it is the interns job to rebuild the website in WordPress we are using a dead domain as a staging server please feel free to take a look at what they've accomplished so far.

http://www.fundblueprint.com

&

http://mtipolyexe.wpengine.com

my other company that manufactures plastics.

My advice to you is make sure you pay them regardless just because you never know with federal law.

I do think they benefit quite a bit by learning from somebody who has been there and done that as long as they're interested and really care about coming to work I'm cool with taking them on. I have had some interns that have blatantly no interest at all and unfortunately we have to let them go.

I hope my story of how we use interns in my marketing company has been of help to you. If you would like to know more about how we use them in the plastics business I would be happy to share my stories with you.

Sincerely,

Thomas

before I could tell you the best way to get your ranking backup I would have to look at your site.

I Would bet you that because you have bad back links that you try to remove you might've missed a few.

"There are 2 other paid links from two PR4 sites that look editorial. There are other links on the sites to other websites that are paid. All links for these 2 sites look editorial."

Google it is a $40 billion a year company that has the resources and ability to figure out if it's a paid link or looks like a paid link. They will find out from other sites using similar services paid links are one of the worst things you can have in my opinion.

Do a title tag like this is spamming

running shoes | walking shoes | cross-training shoes

using something like Shoes - Walking - Running - Cross-training

would be a better title tag

"Google changes the way the title tag is displayed sometimes in the search engines."

This is normal for Google will change your title tag to suit the queried keywords. It is supposed to help you.

"We may have many 404 errors (due to some mistakes we made with the URLs in our cart) - if Google hasn't deindexed them all then we could have dozens of 404s on important category pages. But nothing is showing up in GWT."

Are you only using Google Webmaster tools to try to figure out if you have for 404's?

when you say blogs I'm assuming your meaning posts?

when you delete blog posts and other parts of the website you're essentially deleting interlinking, back links that you may not know about, your changing your website structure.

If you have not corrected all possible 404's or at least most this will hurt you quite a bit.

For instance when people redesign their site and do not 301 redirect properly even sometimes when they do 301 redirect properly they go down drastically in the SERPS

this is because Google does not trust change immediately.

if you scroll down you'll see my answer in this post and its relevancy to changing parts of the website and Actually trying to keep your site rank.

http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-keep-old-url-juice-during-site-switch

" We have a lot of subcategory pages that rel=cononical to main categories in the menu."

That might not be the wisest idea.

I would strongly recommend a site audit.

if you give me your URL I will run it through some tools for you and give you my opinion.

Sincerely,

Thomas

UPDATE

Chris is not someone I would use

I have to say I do not know Chris but I looked at his site and it looks good. He looks like he knows what is doing I obviously cannot vouch for somebody had to not know but most people here are fairly honest and knowledgeable. The one thing Chris does have over me is he is in the UK. I will give my information if you do end up needing It. One thing I will leave you with is that conversion rate would get you one month of link building from a company called vast visionSEO http://www.vvseoco.com/seo-services.php They are employing very many ex- SEO.com guys that really know what they're talking about. I would definitely talk to Chris as he seems like a cool guy and his site is very good I'm sorry my site right now is under construction. So I think the right thing to do would endorse Chris is in the UK if you guys have an issue my Info is below. I can get you very good work for that money.

All the best,

Thomas Von Zickell

CEO

Blueprint Marketing LLC

http://www.blueprintmarketing.com

tzickell@blueprintmarketing.com

+1603-978-1964

Yandex is Russia's answer to Google.  Can give you data and you can rank and it just like any other search engine however it is specific to Russia.

If you do a lot of international search you would care quite a bit. It also has some unique local tools that are not as good as MozLocal however not bad at all. Compared to most local toolsets. If you find yourself in Europe or Russia and or need to target that area you will want to be friends with Yandex.

I use it it has some pretty cool tools.

Hope that helps,

Tom

In **apache **"permanent" "RedirectPermanent" is  the same as "Redirect 301"

By default, the "Redirect" directive establishes a 302, or temporary, redirect.

If you would like to create a permanent redirect, you can do so in either of the following two ways:

1. Redirect 301 /oldlocation http://www.domain2.com/newlocation
2. Redirect permanent /oldlocation http://www.domain2.com/newlocation

• See
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-temporary-and-permanent-redirects-with-apache-and-nginx

Page to Page 301 Redirect Generator for Htaccess

https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/

If no <var>status</var> argument is given, the redirect will be "temporary" (HTTP status 302). This indicates to the client that the resource has moved temporarily. The <var>status</var> argument can be used to return other HTTP status codes:

<dl> "permanent" & "Redirect 301"</dl>

<dl>

<dd>Returns a permanent redirect status (301) indicating that the resource has moved permanently.</dd>

"temp"</dl>

<dl>

<dt>Returns a temporary redirect status (302). This is the default.</dt>

"seeother"</dl>

<dl>

<dd>Returns a "See Other" status (303) indicating that the resource has been replaced.</dd>

"gone"</dl>

<dl>

<dd>Returns a "Gone" status (410) indicating that the resource has been permanently removed. When this status is used the <var>URL</var> argument should be omitted.</dd>

</dl>

**https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_alias.html **

https://www.askapache.com/htaccess/seo-search-engine-friendly-redirects-without-mod_rewrite/#seo-301-redirect-single-file

https://www.bruceclay.com/blog/how-to-properly-implement-a-301-redirect/

To 301 Redirect a Page:

RedirectPermanent /old-file.html http://www.domain.com/new-file.html

To 301 Redirect a Page:

Redirect 301 /old-file.html http://www.domain.com/new-file.html

https://i.imgur.com/PTEj5ZF.png

https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/

Single URL redirect

Permanent redirect from pageA_.html_ to pageB.html.

.htaccess:

301 Redirect URLs.

Redirect 301 /pageA.html http://www.site.com/pageB.html

https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/page-to-page/

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
Redirect 301 /pageA.html /pageB.html</ifmodule>

https://www.htaccessredirect.net/

//Rewrite to www
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.com[nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.site.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

//301 Redirect Old File
Redirect 301 /pageA.html /pageB.html

You asked about Regex

https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204643270/using-htaccess-rewrite-rules

.htaccess

Regular expressions

Rewrite rules often contain symbols that make a regular expression (regex). This is how the server knows exactly how you want your URL changed. However, regular expressions can be tricky to decipher at first glance. Here's some common elements you will see in your rewrite rules, along with some specific examples.

• ^ begins the line to match.
• $ ends the line to match.
  • So, ^folder1$ matches folder1 exactly.
• . stands for "any non-whitespace character" (example: a, B, 3).
• * means that the previous character can be matched zero or more times.
  • So, ^uploads.*$ matches uploads2009, uploads2010, etc.
  • ^.*$ means "match anything and everything." This is useful if you don't know what your users might type for the URL.
• () designates which portion to preserve for use again in the $1 variable in the second string. This is useful for handling requests for particular files that should be the same in the old and new versions of the URL.

See for more regex

• http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Regular-Expressions
• https://www.askapache.com/htaccess/mod_rewrite-variables-cheatsheet/
• https://www.askapache.com/htaccess/

Hope this helps

Tom

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Hi,

Adding the things that you're talking about our actually a lot easier than I think you're making them sound. Federico is right but I would start with HTML and Java PHP is harder. Use www.w3schools.com for that, or my fave - http://teamtreehouse.com/.

Best advice is use distilled.net/U & http://teamtreehouse.com/. It goes over learning HTML and how SEO's should understand HTML. In addition you can find money off of distilled.net/U as well as http://www.grovo.com/ ( and outstanding way to learn coding). Both have money saving offers through Moz.com/perks check it out as I believe there are other ways to learn HTML in their as well.

You said you had trouble with small piece of codes to a website for verification purposes or adding rich snippet try this is is easy http://schema-creator.org/ or https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2692911\. I like the first for modifying the ga code to get more out of it. I know some HTML and understands the core elements and attributes. Any website made up word press or any CMS will have a box You Can Place Google analytics code in it. You essentially have to learn where the header begins and ends you can do this with the distilled course, or any of the other ways mentioned. If you are using WordPress and you want to get something verified simply use Yoast. Or if you're not using WordPress, use an FTP server to download the content make the changes only after learning them then upload the finished product.

It honestly is a lot easier than it seems. My developer friends bust my chops because I asked him how to center a video on the screen because I could not remember when I remembered, and he told me how I would feel when I was told I felt like I had forgot my keys but not lost my mind. What I'm getting at is if you can do search engine optimization well you'll be able to understand HTML, Java, PHP & all the other fun stuff out there.

All the best,
Thomas

Hi

Moosa is right I don't know if you want to make open site Explorer a better tool or a few who are looking for alternate tools?

I'll give you the usual suspects just in case Ahrefs, MajesticSEO, monitor backlinks ( quite inexpensive and kind of cool)

I use all of the above but Moz has something very special about it meaning it has the closest thing to what Google Webmaster tools has and that counts a lot.

so from what little you've written I'm going to guess you're looking for more backlink tools and I'm going to list some because that's what I think you want.

Starts at $19

• https://monitorbacklinks.com/
• http://www.majesticseo.com
• http://ahrefs.com
• http://semrush.com
• https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/
• http://backlinko.com/
• https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en

Here is a comparison but I think there is a lot of value in Moz that is not easily picked up on here.

If you're looking for something inexpensive and to complement your already fantastic OSE on Moz tryout monitor backlinks it gives you Ahrefs my second favorite to Moz

http://www.analyticsseo.com/blog/link-data-research-majestic-seo-moz-linkscape-ahrefs-part-2/

please rephrase the question if this is not what you are asking if it is I really hope it is a been of help.

All the best,

Tom

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EGOL just nailed that answer.

Everybody knows EMD carry a small amount of weight but I think the deciding factor should be what else were you going to spend at capital on?  you can create a very good site for $42,000 in less it is literally Huber competitive and you're going to not sacrifice the rest of your website and think your domain is going to hold your site up by itself Then go for it.

I honestly would really investigate that traffic. I would want to see not just traffic but how much money in conversions is that site able to make? WHAT IS THE ROI & if it was making money hand over fist why are they selling it?

What Is the back link profile?  when you update the whois Google may take this into account

I don't know enough about your particular niche or what you plan to do with the site to tell you what to do but if it's the better half of your budget I would spend it on making sure my site is the best possible site compared to my competitors.

look for a domain that contains the word or words you want and has enough space for a name or abbreviation. It'll cost you about 12 bucks on most domain registrars. Google's domain registration is awesome at showing alternatives.

See https://domains.google.com/   I would have to know much more about what you're doing to give you any more device than what I have.

https://domains.google.com/about/index.html

Hope this helps,

Tom

Can you give me a snapshot of your analytics? Also I don't want to alarm you but Google's pigeon effects sites having to do with real estate really hit the United States hard. Now it's been rolled out to Canada and the UK I am not sure if it is an NDA had but I'm guessing it might have just hit.

http://www.homeadda-sobhaaspirationalhomes.in/

The URL itself is extremely hard to remember but that probably did not do it. You do not have very many back links and  local real estate is becoming similar to organic search

https://www.seroundtable.com/googles-local-pigeon-algorithm-global-19620.html

http://searchengineland.com/google-pigeon-update-rolls-uk-canada-australia-211576

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2364296/2014-is-the-year-of-the-pigeon-for-google-s-search-algorithm-will-2015-be-the-year-of-the-gtld-cat

make sure the site conforms to everything here

http://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors

I hope that you have not been hit and I wish you luck let me know if I can do any more help,

Tom

Each product can have a few different variations

See Google's https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/product

Aggregate offer properties

An AggregateOffer is a kind of Offer representing an aggregation of other offers. When marking up aggregate offers within a product, use the following properties of the schema.org AggregateOffer type:

Properties
lowPrice

Number, required

The lowest price of all offers available. Floating point number.

|
| highPrice |

Number, recommended

The highest price of all offers available. Floating point number.

|
| priceCurrency |

Text, required

The currency used to describe the product price, in three-letter ISO 4217 format.

|
| offerCount |

Number, recommended

The number of offers for the product.

|

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/product

**Just 1 **

Product rich results provide users with information about a specific product, such as its price, availability, and reviewer ratings. The following guidelines apply to product markup:

• Use markup for a specific product, not a category or list of products. For example, “shoes in our shop” is not a specific product. See also our structured data guidelines for multiple entities on the same page.
• Adult-related products are not supported.
• Reviewer’s name needs to be a valid name for a Person or Team For example, "James Smith" or"CNET Reviewers." By contrast, "50% off on Black Friday" is invalid.

To include product information in Image Search, follow these guidelines for required markup:

• To show your product information in the rich image viewer: Include the name, image, price, and priceCurrency properties. Alternatively, instead of price and priceCurrency, you can include any four properties and exclude price.

• To show your product information in the Related Items feature: Include the name, image, price, priceCurrency, and availability properties.

• Be careful that the text you use is the same text that is on the page

• https://searchengineland.com/spammy-structured-markup-penalty-recovery-use-schema-markup-caution-223289

• https://moz.com/blog/json-ld-for-beginners

• https://www.distilled.net/resources/understanding-and-implementing-json-ld/

• https://yoast.com/rich-snippets-product-listings/

• http://www.remicorson.com/add-woocommerce-product-to-cart-from-url-using-products-sku/

/*

• Remove the default WooCommerce 3 JSON/LD structured data format
  */
  function remove_output_structured_data() {
  remove_action( 'wp_footer', array( WC()->structured_data, 'output_structured_data' ), 10 ); // Frontend pages
  remove_action( 'woocommerce_email_order_details', array( WC()->structured_data, 'output_email_structured_data' ), 30 ); // Emails
  }
  add_action( 'init', 'remove_output_structured_data' );

Hi Robert,

That is awesome the fact that you are changing people's lives like that is amazing. You are literally taking somebody's entire life and change it for the better. That is a fantastic thing you are doing. I want to help.

I have been using Basecamp for a long time now I cannot speak on the other products but I believe it is one of the best project management tools in the world. Not only does it allow you to keep everything in one place making the project infinitely easier to stay on the same page with developers, designers clients you name it. Basecamp allows you to upload any type of file you can think of it also can work with Google Drive if people want to save space. It has an amazing ability to render photographs, Videos and now PDFs on the screen by simply placing the link into the text area will show up as a photograph.

This makes it very easy to illustrate what is happening and really give you something special in my opinion. including photos, e-mails can be replied to or forwarded this is just the tip of the iceberg that comes to base camp's abilities.

I have attached this link and sent it to some people at base camp I hope that they will see what a wonderful thing you are doing.

I will also cc you Robert.

Thomas

I am assuming this means you're keeping your content and everything else link structure at the same correct?

** If you are going to be changing URLs and things like that please let me know so I can answer this more appropriately for that.**

If you use a high-quality developer to make sure all the minor things that will be changing that make up the theme are handled properly you can get away without being touched by Google and may be going up. Although the opposite can happen if you do not take precautions.

The quality of the theme can hurt your rankings as well as boost them. Use a high quality developer to guide you through this. I would run “screaming frog seo spider” before the change then again after. Also pay close attention to Google Webmaster tools.

I know that there can be changes with JavaScript, CSS and many other things because of a theme change you'll want to be very conscious of these things and they can affect your site architecture.

there's a good chance that there will be other things inside the site that will be changing. You will want to look out for 404's you want to be certain that the theme you are changing it with his a high quality theme at least from WordPress.org I prefer studio press or Woo themes that these are my preferences.

you will have a lot of small things change inside your site you'll want to use the crawl tool to monitor issues and take care of them right away.

One tip if you use Genesis-based framework or studio press themes you get built-in schema which is a nice perk.

I hope this is helpful and remember to check your site for changes that most likely will occur when you modify your site.

Sincerely,

Thomas

run it through Moz OSE, Ahrefs, majestic & GWT's

that is what you will need to see before purchasing something so expensive.

If it has been sitting waiting for somebody to purchase it I don't think you're going to see anything close to the traffic they're talking about. Their name servers are hosting it changed Google is very smart and they may want to take it from the top.  Run the domain through http://who.is  see what the NS's are

I agree with Patrick we need more info

there's no way to run them side-by-side efficiently without using Hreflang
you will have to pick a www.or non-www.
domain
using a tool like https://www.deepcrawl.com/ is going to make this easy to check. You can do this many ways including via site map

http://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag
http://www.themediaflow.com/tool_hreflang.php
http://www.internationalseomap.com/hreflang-tags-generator/
http://www.internationalseomap.com/
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/getting-a-better-understanding-of-hreflang/60468/

Let's assume you were to pick website.com as your default

http://moz.com/blog/hreflang-behaviour-insights

By Geo targeting your subfolder e.g. /ca/ in Google Webmaster tools you can accomplish your goal that would look something like this.

If you end up choosing to 301 redirect your existing site to a new site make sure it is page to page not just redirecting the entire domain.
http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

I hope this helps and please inform me more about what you are actually planning on doing because it is kind of tough to guess.

All the best, Tom

hi this is something that I believe is the result of your link profile not content.

I used a few tools to check out your site and unfortunately you have a lot of junk pointing to it

http://marketing.grader.com/site/www.thelaw.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thelaw.com#

I would also use tools similar to scribe content when building your content

http://scribecontent.com/

look for information from hub spot and scribe that way you can't generate what I'm seeing is a very large amount of free directories that aren't worth anything and Google is penalizing you mostly because you are getting by before with your exact match domain now that they have most likely taken that away from you in fact I'm sure they have you are now stuck with very few links pointing to your website of any value. I would contact a very good firm like

distilled.net

http://www.portent.com/

Internet marketing ninjas

You have some links that are not at all related to your site pointing at you.

however even worse you have a tremendous amount of spam links pointing to your website here is a handful Google essentially is telling people now if you do this your and a lot of trouble.

You have quite a few of these pointed out your site, and I would do everything in my power to remove them.

you can compare yourself to your competitors here I have given links sites that are similar to yours

while one of them has a very good hosting company as the actual domain this is got to be the strangest link I've ever seen please put your mouse over the lines below this is all in clear text if you highlight it with your mouse you will see what I'm talking about

the link itself is here

http://www2.pair.com/budg/  I know this must of been a strange test because that company pair networks is a fantastic web host

Cyberlinked Bookmarks !! ..... Happy Surfing on the Web!! 
Over 1,700 sites, thanks for all the global email and support of friends ..... latest entries are at the bottom of this list!!
from Cyberlinker (Bud)   click here for bottom

http://irkawebdirectory.com/society-culture/law/

http://business-research.info/business-research-links.htm

http://www.srikumar.com/freebies/freebies.htm

Linksnow Directory- International > Reference >

http://linksnow.se/international/reference/ask-an-expert/

As you're probably aware your content can be stolen on a and Google will rank it page that has more authority it's extremely unfortunate and based on the fact that your site is about the law I would definitely go after the people or what  I have found much easier is go after the web host allowing the content on their site you can use copy scape to find the people copying your website then simply write a letter Google web host responsibility the Digital millennium act

you will find that every web host would rather lose a customer then be find the $150,000 you are entitled to if they keep the content up. I had this issue I went directly to the host towing bother with the person you can actually give them a form signed with the digital signature and they must take it down or you can take them to court I found they made the offending websites go away within 2 days of me delivering them a affidavit did he mail and the Digital millennium act.

freeadvice.com

• 2justanswer.com

• 3expertlaw.com

• 4law.cornell.edu

• 5legalengine.com

• 6worldlawdirect.com

• 7uslaw.com

• 8nolo.com

• 9megalaw.com

• 10lawyers.com

inspect your competitors websites see what's happening to them. Write in your blog continuously create new content that way

you may also want to look at coppyblogers authority program it is definitely what I would say can help you in this situation.

I hope this helps,

Thomas

Yes try http://awe.sm

HubSpot.com

http://www.distilled.net/u/

http://www.distilled.net/blog/

http://www.portent.com/blog/

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/

http://list.ly/list/5ow-mozcon-2013-speakers

http://www.slideshare.net/randfish/social-media-marketing-for-traffic-seo

http://marketing.grader.com/

Hope this helps,

Thomas

Try this then click right for the next topic video

http://wistia.com/learning/diy-office-video-studio

http://wistia.com/learning/down-and-dirty-lighting-kit

http://wistia.com/learning/get-loose-for-the-camera

http://wistia.com/learning/shooting-video-with-an-iphone

http://wistia.com/learning/shooting-for-the-edit

Good too

http://wistia.com/blog/yale-appliance-and-lighting-two-pronged-strategy

All the best,

Tom

If the background of the site is white and you made the H1 White you are doing something black hat rather your intentions are good or not in the eyes of Google.

I'm not saying you're trying to do something wrong if the client does not want to use the H1 tag what are they using for a title? You can still combine the two if you must is much better than making it essentially clear text which is what Google will think the white text is if the background is white.

you have to tell your client the H1 tag is extremely important and they need to introduce the page with the H1 tag displayed to the end-user.

Respectfully,

Thomas