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Duplicate content = problems. That's for sure. If website does get penalized, it would be the website, which will be considered scraper by Google. In your case (if your current website is indexed, ranking and don't have any penalties) it would be your partners. So, in theory you can bring a penalization to your partner

Or if sales increase as much as we think they might, would it be worth a penalty as our current rankings aren’t great?

Penalty is never good. It might seem ok in the beginning, but when you get hit, you gonna get screwed.

Now, my suggestion would be to go with partnership and give them a "copy" of your website, but put canonical links to every single page, linking back to your original one. Then it'll be win-win combination. Just make sure it's one of required and clear conditions to your partner.

Cheers.

Hi there.

I'm not sure if it works for Google My Business, but try this: http://www.midigitalagency.com/how-to-merge-multiple-google-pages/

Otherwise, the only way is to delete. For that follow the guidelines here: https://support.google.com/business/answer/4669139?hl=en

Hi there.

As far as I know - no. You'd have to consider using other products for crawl/tech issues (like semrush). But for rankings - yes, you can use moz's rank tracker to check however many times a day.

Hope this helps.

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Well, Google doesn't consider internal links for ranking purposes. However, sometimes it is helpful to use internal linking with exact match anchor text to help understand Google what the page is about. So, no, it won't hurt your rankings if you do what you did, but it won't help it either.

What I'd recommend, actually, instead of using the same anchor text for all of those links, use related keyphrases. So, in one blog it would be "customer success" anchor text, in another blog it would be "success metrics" (or whatever else you are targeting) and so on.

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Yes and no. Look more at DA, rather than PA. PA is awesome, but it's much more valuable to get a link from low PA page on high DA site, rather than don't get link at all. At the same time it rarely happens that there is a really high PA page on very low DA domain, there is a correlation between those. Yes, sometimes PA can be higher than DA of a given domain, but not by much. Basically, you won't be able to have 99 PA on domain with 20 DA.

Now, you're talking about paid do-follow link. You're just asking for trouble, aren't you? Google has been talking for long time that they penalize for paid links. Watch these videos: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=matt+cutts+paid+links&tbm=vid

So, if you do decide to do it - yes, it's gonna be valuable if you don't get penalized

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There is always some drop in rankings when you redirect anything. Usually this drop is temporary and, if these new pages you are talking about really have better quality content, rankings go up. What I'd look at is backlinks. If those subdomains have somewhat valuable backlink profile - here is where you would suffer the most. Even if you use 301 redirect, backlinks are still gonna be pointing to old subdomain, not new page. In perfect world you'd have to reach out to all linking webmasters and get links changed in their original placements.

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Here you go: https://moz.com/researchtools/rank-tracker

Yes, results are real time

I'm not sure I can give you some references, I can Google, I guess, but you can as well. It's type of idea-knowledge you get from being in industry for some time. Read the comment below by EGOL, he has good point about number of internal links to the same page as a logic factor.

Good question, isn't it? I wish somebody knows exact answer, but I'm not friends with Matt Cutts

From what I heard, read etc, my understanding is that Google knows websites, who are selling links, by simply reading the content and links on that website. Example: if website has a page with prices for articles with links or press releases, Google bots can read that content and understand what the page is about. Then they look at how many of outgoing links on website are do-follow, how often they appear, diversity of those links etc. Basically, if 99% of outgoing links are do-follow and they are all to different domains, the picture is pretty clear. If picture is not clear enough, bots would send a request to manual action team.

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Do you actually have different businesses for those different destinations? Or it's the same company, just different "branches"? I'd say that having the same NAP info for different business (if it is indeed different), can be pretty harmful and, more than anything else, confusing to users/customers. Sharing street address is very typical for office buildings, but the same suite #, phone etc is a bit strange to me. Also, as far as I know, you won't be able to submit business with exactly the same NAP info to most directories/listings. They'll say it already exists.

Hope this makes sense

Guten morgen, mein freund.

Well, I have questions about your website's structure, which, indeed, can answer your questions. So, what I see is that there is a page with a link to the gallery without any content. Each of the gallery's images is separate page without any content. Of course it's going to be thin content! Is there a reason the website has been structured this way?

What I recommend is either add content, not just caption, to every image of gallery if you wanna keep the way it's structured now, or rebuild website architecture. I'd do it this way:

Page with slider/gallery with description of the gallery, images are not separate pages, but kinda like a carousel or something. Make sure that all images in the same carousel are united by the same subject/event and each image has it's own unique caption. This way you'll combine the same gallery related pages into one, and this page will be not thin, that's for sure.

Hope this helps.

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So, all the pages, from which those backlinks are coming from are non-existent anymore? have they been redirected? do they return 404s? Also, how did you find them? in Google Search Console or another tool?

So, if you found it in Google Search Console, and the original pages indeed have been removed and properly redirected, then it's just time delay by GSC. Otherwise (if those pages are crawlable), you should fix it.

Hope this makes sense.

Hello, my friend.

Here is a video from Matt Cutts exactly on this question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pnpg00FWJY

Howdy.

Knowledge graph is heavily affected by schema. Here is a help guide from Google - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/enhance-site

Also, of course, it's affected by time and popularity of your websites/companies. If lots of people are driven to those pages, google will update it faster.

Hope this helps

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Make sure that there is the only title and the only meta on each page, also check for other technical errors. If there are none and metas you're talking about is in the source code, do a "fetch as google" from Google webmaster tools. Then wait couple days. It always takes time to update snippets in search results.

If ALL metas are not showing up even then, it means that there is a tech errors somewhere. If some of them showing up, but not others - Google reserves the right to not use provided titles or meta descriptions. Meaning that your meta descriptions are not related enough  to what is on the page.

Don't do that, disallow in robots.txt will NOT resolve indexing issue! What you need to use is meta robots. Noindex, nofollow. Watch this WBF on this subject:

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

No problem.

Consider .nl as main domain as well.

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Are you a reseller? If so, then yeah, there is no way. Especially if you get hundreds or more updates on products a month. If those products are all indeed yours, then I assume it's a large company, and then, yes, you probably should have a whole department working on that.

What I typically recommend in such cases is go by need in product rankings boost. Basically, if there is a product, which you know is not ranking good and it has not optimized description - go ahead and fix it. Sometimes it can be a set or even a category of products. And also, just as you said, do couple a day and hope for the best.

Hope it helps

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Wow! Never heard of such problem ever before. I'm not even sure how that's possible. Are you sure that it's OS, not certain machine/virus etc? Also is it happening in every browser?

As for redirect, as far as I know, there is no way to intercept OS versions. Even if there is, it would be extremely weird and not making sense. I'd look into other SSLs which are "normal".

Nobody would be able to tell why exactly your website is not ranking without proper SEO audit. As we all know, Google uses hundreds of ranking signals in their algorithms, so saying "I checked backlinks and on page seo h1,h2,h3" might be a bit undercut

What I would recommend is to have someone do a professional SEO audit for you guys. There are a lot of awesome pals and gals on this forum, who will be able to help you out, myself included