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I haven't gotten it to load myself.

I would just rely on circlecount, circlescope or other tools for Google+.

They are probably working on it, maybe they'll enable API for Google+ in the future or something.

Oh that certainly is tedious

It took us months, one of them took over a year, just to remove panda. All I can say is that you need to be patient and keep up the improvements. There's also a new update so keep an eye on that.

You can also setup a separate site or focus on paid/content marketing while you wait for the recovery for the mean time.

Moz's competitive link finder can do that

LinkResearch Tools has this feature as well and you can include other links you get from AHrefs/majestic/ose etc.

Is it a big site? If not just start it from scratch while using the same url/content.

If it's a huge site, then that's another problem. You have the find the best pages, check analytics. Identify the most important pages. Prune the rest.

Since there's nothing you can do to get the backup, outside of a lawsuit, then I would just go that route. As for the redesign, you can actually pitch for that to happen ASAP so there's no time wasted. Have the data for the URLs lined up neatly in a spreadsheet with content already save for the important pages.

We don't really know the whole situation, but if it's wordpress or some cms, IF you have backend login, there's a plugin to just backup the whole thing to s3 or anywhere you want. Download it from there and put it up on your server.

I actually would do both but for time issues, Noindex is already fine.

Ouch. Just remove them if they are not worth anything.

You could use canonicals but it will depend on how much time you have.

Find the cause of this and just start with that so it doesnt keep producing these urls

• Fix broken internal and external links, like the Yoy-search url. That should solve one area of your 404 problems
• Identify why you have 404's in the first place. Find the root of the problem. Are these dead product pages? Definitely 301 them to the correct URL. If the product isn't there, consider redirecting to the homepage (or asking the linking site to change the URL to a relevant page) or showing a custom 404 page to show their other relevant offers.

Have you checked your Google Places? See anything wrong there like warnings?

I've seen this take over 3 months just to show up. Sometimes, it's just a couple of weeks.

It will just show up, sometimes, I just completely leave it until a few months later and check it again. It's usually there by then.

I would put the blog on the domain of the company.

Since the blog is on Wordpress.com, I would just move it even if it has little traffic. The PA 30 is generic wordpress.com blog PA. Nothing really important with that. Keeps things simple and you'll have more freedom. Overthinking this will just make things harder and since you are new, itll just make your learning curve longer.

Tell them what to do, don't give them options and hope they aren't sentimental for a wordpress.com blog. Move on and market their site. Boom!

First of all, youll need a lot of help.

A go to strategy for scaling this for me is using an infographic.

Find a common topic of interest that can be changed per city. So you have this interesting, informational infographic that you can scale per city and promote in different channels there.

Sachin mentioned travel bloggers, and he is right on that one. I would take it a step further and "pay" (sensitive area here on moz but these guys are like mom bloggers and will want compensation) these guys to write consistently about your brand, linking to cities that they cover. So that scales on it's own, just keep track of publish dates and try to have a read of their content before it gets published to make the most of each one.

You'd still want the other pages of the site to show up on Google so it defeats the purpose of just having the homepage show that, either way, it will be complicated if I pushed for that and forced redirects, so I would just make it simple and introduce an unblockable popup that logs IPs for that instead of making that verification page the actual home page. That way, I get to keep my optimized homepage and you can make the most of popups like introducing sharing/signups etc.

For easy niches, Ive made these things rank in the past but it's been a long time since I've worked on a site that still use verifications that way. It might be harder this time, but if it's easy enough, optimizing that page with some more content and targeted meta details should still work like a charm.

Not really a big deal but their tool is pretty useful. If you dont have to spend more than 2 minutes, just do it.

Terapeak is still my choice, I've tried trendsamazon early january this year, it was good, but Im not so sure how it has improved over the months.

Definitely possible. It used to be much easier. You can rank for 5 pages, all your stuff LOL. good old days

Anyway, try to look at the social pages/forums, etc already ranking there where you can put your content. Those are great signals that tell you that you can create content on those and rank those pages (link to them to make the % higher)

If high trust domains like what you mentioned aren't ranking there, you need to test it. And if you said that the keywords are easy enough, then your chances for those to show up is really good.

There are like 16 external links on that page. Did you have more back then?

Why are you aiming for a lot of external links?

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From my transitions, pointing to it hasn't had any negative effects. So from my own experience, my answer is that it doesnt really matter much.

I dont think that is available at the moment John.

That would be really handy though

Totally understand where you are coming from. It's always a challenge.

Those charities are also goldmines, local groups, events.

If you can find an author in the local online magazine scene, then that would be gold as well.

Try looking at brands (same niche) outside your area. See where they get their links from.

Look for other companies your company works with, they probably have something to link to you.

Personally, I would stay away from Cloudflare (dont hate me LOL)

W3 Cache is good. I love WP Rocket though.

MaxCDN (find a coupon for a discount)

Then any host that you can find that passes your standard. This one is subjective. People think mediatemple is really fast, I've experienced both sides of the coin. Inmotion, heck even hostgator is good. The only advice i could give is to try and test them. Rackspace has been great for me if you like a cloud host but I find digital ocean to be acceptable for me as well as Im not going for ultra fast.

My take, it's actually great to have more pages on the results. You get more traffic like that.

Your idea is correct, that you need to focus on that converting page and improving it but is it work the risk of losing the effects of a double index? People will be more inclined to click other links instead of choosing from the top 3, and you already have 2 which tells them you are the authority.

I would suggest to find a way to grab the traffic from the review page and convert them in another way, like an email list/a funnel lead to the next page or even using an affiliate product instead of adsense, while you improve the information page