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Howdy.

As you said, it will depend on the industry. But not only. It will depend on type of service/product you offer. Example: direct purchase of simple thing like a tshirt or mug or whatever, when people wouldn't have any questions, phone conversion will be really low, since the only people calling will be somewhat unqualified buyers.

Here is how we do it. So, on a landing page we have landing page specific phone number with tracking (use Twilio). And all sales are tracked in the admin. So, if someone calls, using this phone number, and makes a purchase, we have a logged time of that call and time of the purchase, placed by representative. All we have to do is match it. You can do it manually or with some script.

In terms of ballpark of conversion rate, it's typically 30% from landing page. Depending on the industry of course. So, that's average rate. Therefore if you know rate for the form, you'll be able to calculate avg conversion rate for calls.

Hope this makes sense

Hi.

Make sure your Business G+ is optimized, all info is consistent through different local listings and the website. Also, it won't hurt to link G+ and website contact page. Do use structured data to help Google understand who and what you are.

I do believe that organic search rankings have a positive effect too. If you're ranking in first three spots and you have G+ optimized, you'll most definitely be in local results as well.

Cheers.

Hi there.

On September 16th of this year Google stopped providing organic keyword traffic data. That's why you can't find what you're looking for. I think. https://plus.google.com/+ZinebAitBahajji/posts/b2zPb4B2aBU

That's why in your MOZ campaign traffic share per landing page is now estimated by using SERPs. https://moz.com/help/guides/search-overview/traffic-from-search#more-help

Hi there.

Exactly same IP? or same C-Block?

I would recommend having different IPs if possible, also do keep your and client's websites on several different hosting servers so if one of them goes down, all of your websites are dead at the same time - you'll save yourself lots of pain.

As for how valuable those backlinks are - I'd say as long as you're not using spammy techniques (lots of footer links, all of them are follow, to the same page, with the same anchor text etc), you will be fine. Of course, it would be nice to have every single client website with different C-block, but in real world it's close to impossible.

Hope this helps.

Hi.

Super weird client - that's for sure.

User-agent: * Disallow: /

Every bot will be blocked off! how in the world are they ranking?

https://moz.com/blog/controlling-search-engine-crawlers-for-better-indexation-and-rankings-whiteboard-friday

watch that video, there are good ideas of bot and crawlers controlling. As well as you can consider that as best practices. And yes, what they have now is ridiculous.

https://moz.com/community/q/should-we-use-google-s-crawl-delay-setting

Here is a q/a about crawler delays. As far as I know Google ignores delays anyway, plus there is nothing good about it anyway.

Hope this helps.

Ok, the easiest way is to go to google maps and type in your company name. Then click on it on a map, the knowledge graph will appear on a left side. at the bottom there is suggest an edit. click on it, there is that checkbox.

Hi there.

I'm a little confused - are you simply asking if you should disavow links from websites, which are not live (return 404s, not working)?

If so, I'd say still disavow. The reason would be that if for whatever reason that website come back to life, then you gonna end up with live spammy link. Also, in case of 404s or temporary redirects, Google still "keeps" those links in "mind". Meaning that they wouldn't completely ignore those links, they will check on them once in a while, which could mean that those links are being kept "in mind" as backlinks as well.

So, in general, better safe than sorry

Cheers.

Hi.

Is it ok? - Sure. Is it helpful - that's the question. From my experience - if it's not newsworthy and people(news portals) won't pick it up on their own - it's quite pointless.

Read these Q&As:

https://moz.com/community/q/using-press-release-for-promotion-prweb

https://moz.com/community/q/pr-web-vs-pr-newswire-which-is-best-for-pr-optimization-distribution

Here is another video from Matt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2giR-WKUfY

Lots of good points there too.

Hi there.

It surely would look strange and maybe even suspicious in eyes of google. What about simple call forwarding? Just forward all calls from all of those numbers to your main one. Win-win situation.

I mean domain name. I really doubt there is a way to have not spammy domain, but spammy page.

So, for example, you have a backlink from this page: site.com/page.php

Use MOZ OSE for the whole domain and see what spam score it has. If it's not bad (i say lower than 4) - don't disavow link.

Hi there.

Can you specify what exactly you mean by "consolidate link prospects", please?

First try to contact the web development people over at that place and ask to remove that link (they might have been hacked or something). If there is no response, than yes - disavow. If it continues - then you can report them through Google.

Hi there.

_ I don't feel comfortable doing it this way as it goes against what I believe is good SEO_

Not true at all. Good SEO is exactly about this - good related content. In your case it's a little difficult, since it's international company and all. But the thing is that simply having local listings will not make you rank for local results, unless your brand is directly associated with the keyphrase you're trying to rank for.

I would recommend to have not just 1 contact page per location and that's it, but have somewhat unique content for each location (or at least each major area).

Hi there.

There is no such thing as programmatic optimization, even in spite of that beautiful page you linked to. DON'T try to trick the system, work with it.

Well, if you can improve the quality of backlink somehow - move it to higher DA domain or higher PA page, then sure - go ahead. Just make sure that your efforts would be worth it, cause if you gonna spend 4 hours on it to increase DA by 1, there is no point in it. It'd better to get another link.

Hello, Bob.

Well, links are far not the only one factor, which affects rankings and traffic (which is how well page is doing). So, I'd look at the differences in content, ease of navigation, metas and so on. Basically, everything else, but links.

Now, in regards to your question. Assuming that all non-links factors are the same and the situation you've described still happening, let's look at the correlation study by MOZ.

Scroll to Anchor Text Features and you can see that #of linking domains with exact match is 0.28. If you scroll to Domain-Level Link-Authority Features, then you can see that DA correlation is 0.26, which is lower.

Additionally, it's known that Google does use anchor text heavily (at least for understanding what's on page and at least for natural anchor texts). Also I remember Matt Cutts saying something in a spirit of using anchor texts is very string signal. Can't find that video now though.

So, to sum up, I think there is much more than just links, and yes, anchor text matters.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

As far as I know - no, Google doesn't separate it. If you go to your google analytics account and got to real-time view, and then go to google and find your company in maps and click on website's url, you will see that in real-time traffic sources in still displays as Google/organic source/medium.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

"Why can't I change my website? Moz Analytics provides data and insights over time related to a specific URL. If you are moving your website, rebranding, or changing your domain, we recommend creating a new campaign."

Yes, you do have to create campaign.

Hi there.

Usually as soon as link is indexed by a search engine, it has an effect on rankings. Don't confuse with appearance in GWT, since it takes longer and stays there longer than in reality. There are many-many examples of rankings go up dramatically after successful link building campaign (like skyscraping or something).

Hope this helps.