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OK - thank you, good to know.

Right so yes I can see both sides here, but too now and when I've used OSE I was a bit confused by the results -- and in part I know my experience using the tool.

Though I am wondering if it would be good to see back links even those without a lot of authority...

_Cindy

Thank you Linda. My first reaction was why not incentivize authorities within particular industries to comment and answer questions on such a sites with link juice, but it makes sense now that people would try to take advantage

And I guess it would asking too much for publishers of such forums/review sites to give link juice for approved authors...? Maybe then I'm think more of a reputable news publication...

_Cindy

right of course nofollow
thank you.

OK thank you - that helps clarify my questions. So while the link may not carry weight if you were to gain traffic to the website, along with smart link building, that could be of help. If I'm understanding your response.

Thanks again - much appreciated!

_Cindy

And what about other sites like quora or other niche forums/blogs where one might leave answers, with a link to their profile, which has a link back to the owner's website?

_Cindy

I know my websites have links from other sites, but I don't see it listed using the open explorer tool.

perhaps the reputation of the external link is a factor?

_Cindy

Thank you for your reply.

This info is helpful, but my next question is by what criteria then are the websites being graded as either true or false,

--  all the websites on my campaigns are responsive sites, work well on a mobile, but perhaps one particular grading point is labeling all the websites as "false" for Mobile Friendly.

I noticed in my keyword ranking reports that the heading "Google en-US Mobile Friendly" indicates false for all tracked keywords...

Is this information still helpful in the reports?

_Cindy

Laura,

Yes thank you for your reply, this helps greatly.

Right now for the client, because they lack a good strategy for organic SEO, AdWords generates their greatest traffic. I hope to leverage this with a better organic approach for SEO, and help create a better AdWords strategy.

But all that said, I just wasn't sure about the contact info and address... now I can move on. Thanks again!

Laura,

Thanks so much for your response.

I guess what I was thinking is if online directories have duplicate info that would be expected.

But if duplicate content information, and business name, were on two different websites ((each set up as a service or consulting business)), would it look like the two websites were trying to capitalize on search results  -- especially if some outbound links (like AdWords) were coming to one site (tires, say) and also to the "main site" (brakes, and some tires).

Still you think this is OK?

ccee bar

My clients has had a website for many years, and his business for decades. He has always had a second website domain which is basically a shopping module for obtaining information, comparisons, and quotes for tires. This tire module had no informational pages or contact info. Until recently, we pulled this information in through iframes.

Now however the tire module is too complex and we do not bring in this info through iframes, and because of the way this module is configured (or website framework), we are told we can not place it as a sub-directory.

So now this tire module resides on another domain name (although similar to the client's "main site" domain name) with some duplicate informational pages (I am working through this with the client), but mainly I am concerned about the duplicate contact info -- address and phone.

Should I worry that this other tire website has duplicated the client's phone and address, same as their main website?

And would having a subdomain (tires.example.com) work better for Google and SEO considering the duplicate contact info?

Any help is much appreciated.

ccee bar

(And, too, The client is directing AdWords campaigns to this other website for tires, while under the same AdWords account directing other campaigns to their main site? - I have advised an entirely separate AdWords account for links to the tire domain. BTW the client does NOT have separate social media accounts for each site -- all social media efforts and links are for the main site.)