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Alviau

I believe most of them are basically the same as tabbed content, just presented differently.  I can't see the html in your example, but you should be able to--note Mueller's comment in this resource: "We do take into account anything that's in the html."  https://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-mueller-on-myth-of-hidden-tab-content/358724/#close

No. It's not worth it. Maybe you can fill me in  on  why you think it might be.

I haven't done this before but it seems instructions on the page I linked explains  how to do it from the story page of an existing post.  Did you check that out?

Here's Medium's info on adding a canonical tag to your content there: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033930293-Set-a-canonical-link

There's no problem claiming it's original on your site if you wrote it, even if it was first posted elsewhere, so long as you wrote it and you use the canonical tag.  Will you get dinged by Google for the move? Well, you are moving content from a very strong domain to a very new one so it's not likely to show up in the results as well as it did over on Medium.

Anna,

I'd say you're definitely on the right path to more customers by focusing on the effectiveness of your local search first.  And do keep in mind though, that it's not SEO you're after, it is customers. The beautiful writing about dog grooming is to inform your potential clients that you are an Expert at what you do, you are an Authority within your field, and that you and your business are Trustworthy entities.

A "blog" is not a necessity for a small company in a small niche to demonstrate EAT--you can do that with your individual pages. For most people with a business website online, I would venture to guess that the word "blog" brings up visions of a never-ending slog through the world of copy writing, wordpress-admin-techno-babble, and idea-generation  for which they have to slice off a daily or weekly piece of their work time to wallow in. You are allowed to be free of that and still have a  successful website.

For a wide variety of reasons, a huge number of business blogs are more hindrance to the company than help to their keyword rankings. Instead, use your internal services pages to develop EAT. Look at each of those individual pages about your areas of expertise as longer term creations that you adjust and modify as your business and your brand develop--a large part of which is, and should be, about your location. Incorporate locality and keywords into your those pages and have fun with them buy using them to display what makes you and your company you and your company.

When you're happy with your creations, you may decide that you want to continue to write and develop a blog, but do it because you want to, not because you think it's good for SEO.

Pascal,

Going by the numbers of links you're talking about (tens of thousands being only 5-10% of total links) in relation to them  being lost in the core update, makes me wonder about their quality. It makes me wonder if your rankings might have dropped, as well--I mean really, except for the people who closely watch the traffic brought in by hard-earned back links, most people would rather not have to worry about the dang things at all. Am I right?

Anyway, the seemingly most obvious explanation is that the pages and/or domains those tens of thousands of links reside on were devalued due to google's algorithm update and Moz's crawler/algorithm didn't incorporate them into subsequent updates as a result. Are you seeing the same sort of thing on other platforms?

It may turn out that the owners of the sites hosting those tens of thousands of links may be able to turn things around on their site(s) and all those thousands of links return to the realm of visibility.  But really, I don't know if I'd be clamoring to get them back, if I were you.

If your rankings haven't dropped, consider yourself lucky and take it as a lesson to develop better back links. If rankings have dropped, well, take that as a lesson to get better back links  too. : )  In either case, if I were you, I'd take a very, very close look at them with an eye toward disavowing them--and maybe any more thousands you have that you might think could be in jeopardy in a  future core-style update.

Having been a Moz member since before they invented such a thing as "domain authority" I've had quite a bit of time to digest its relevance to our job as SEOs. I would answer your question like this:

Domain authority is some accumulation of all the authority built up by all the pages (PA) on the site.  PA is determined by taking into account numerous on-PAGE and off-PAGEe factors. DA is determined by taking into account the accumulated on-SITE and off-SITE factors of all the pages.

So, back links to internal pages will help the page authority of the linked-to page and help the overall domain authority. It won't help (nearly as much) the PA of other individual pages on the site.

That's my simplified approach to understanding it.

A couple of things 8111:

You're going to have to give it some time. Link building is not a process measured in days or weeks.  Even months can go by before a specific page with a link gets crawled.  In fact, some links are never crawled if it is on a very low quality page.  Just for those reasons, the mind of a link builder is always looking forward to find the next high quality link, not looking back to see if a three-day old link is having an effect on their site's ranking.

As a qualified link builder, you really should already know if the link is OK or not. Moz is great for organizing and reporting on all your back links for you, but as the link builder should already have a good idea of their value by virtue of the page they're on.  If that's not the case, my friend, you should spend your time building up your knowledge of the topic before you actually build more links. You could end up hurting your site or a clients, if you don't.

Yes, here is a link  for you: Google "how local search works"

Yoast premium has that  functionality. You checked for that? And you've  verified that the page is actually  redirecting?

Anja,

Have you  looked at your google analytics to see if those resources are bringing in any traffic?

Generally, yes, you should redirect those resources.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-changing-image-urls-will-affect-rankings-in-image-search/286163/#close

Andrew,

If you don't see other redirects in your htaccess file, you could have a redirect plugin that's been set up to redirect a page or pages. Have you looked there?  They usually have a name that includes "redirect" in it.

Lee,

Have your read through this? https://moz.com/blog/how-to-optimize-your-google-my-business-listing.  I don't skimmed through it, but really learned it to the point where you can evaluate how well your competitors know what in there.  There is a lot more to GMB than keyword rich content and asking for reviews.   You will  really have to work on your pages to get them up there.

Eden,

You can certainly get away with using the same content on all the sites by canonicalizing all of the to a single main site. That would tell google to count only the content found on the main  site. All pages with the same content on other domains would be rendered non-competitive, which is not the same as a penalty.

However, if you want  each  of the domains to be competitive in their markets, they should have unique content--and we're not talking a few changes here and there in the copy. We're talking real unique copy relevant to each  of their locations. There must be good  reasons the company chose the locations it did. Be creative about those reasons and get them down on paper. It's just part of doing business online.  The company didn't just throw up  a facade at each physical location--they shouldn't do so online either.

And don't forget your Google my business pages for each location.

Yo, Gael,

I don't think any of your ideas are going to work for you. Not only that, but they could hurt your current site, if, in fact that one is ranking.

Firstly, it's not about the domain name, it's about the website's relevancy to its target market.  What's that mean? You have to look at your competitors to find that out. What's helping them rank? Where are their links coming from? Are the links coming from Ireland? If so, you're going to need to build  up authority from Ireland. Where it's host could be a factor too.

Secondly, your content isn't something you kick around like a an old hackey sack, it's something you grow, nurture and give a permanent home  for, like a puppy. And you don't duplicate it and pass it around to your besties just because they don't have any. You  tell them to make their own--and make it good.  No fluff content is going to rank for you unless there is zero competition. Spinning existing content stopped working more than decade ago.

For most small marketers, getting a single site to rank well in a competitive market takes most of their time, let alone three completely different, completely non-networked sites. You might want to start from scratch on these ideas and wrap your arms around some basic SEO principles before you take your next step.

That's a decent start but it will take more effort and more time to get your images to rank.  I recommend reading through the  results of this google search to bring up your knowledge level a little bit.  You'll get there!

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=site%3Amoz.com+"image+search"

Jessica,

I took a quick  peek at your site and my reply isn't directly about your articles. I think you should  focus your initial SEO efforts developing your business' distinct, core concepts of brand and details of how you want to get that message out. Also focus on your local SEO.  I think time spent on those things first will make the time you spend on the rest of your content more valuable and more effective.

That's your open graph description, which gets displayed when your content gets shared on social media. But it is not what the search engines use.  With out a proper meta description tag, Google will take a snippet of text from the page that it feels is representative of the answer the searcher was  looking for when they performed their search.  Even  with a proper description, Google may automate one that's different, but it's best to craft your own if you're good with words.  The meta  description doesn't impact rankings, though--just click through from the serps.

BZ,

You don't actually have a proper meta description on the page you showed. Your meta description would be constructed like this in your source code:

But I'm  not seeing it there.  Be sure you're looking closely at the instructions on Yoast.