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Miriam,

I had trouble getting a client verified. I got google on the phone, they did ask me specific questions about what was across and down the street. After answering, they verified my clients business right on the phone. I asked if they were using google street view to verify my answers, the google representative said he could not answer that question. The final verification was they called my client to make sure the number was legit.

With that said, I never had them call me directly for verification purposes. Any call I get claiming to be google representatives has always been spam.

Thanks,

Don

Hi AnnabelH

You could use Open Site Explorer OSE

Just insert your domain or url and see what links come up that are pointed back at your site. You could also use it on the suspected domain as well.

You could also utilize SEMRush

Thanks,

Don

Ricky,

Amp on WordPress is real easy. Just install this plugin that is being developed by automatic themselves. https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/.

You can also use the page frog plugin here https://wordpress.org/plugins/pagefrog/ 

This will also help you set up instant articles and give you a visual preview of what your amp and instant articles pages will look like.

Let me know if you need more help

Thanks,

Don

Hi wozniak65,

They are breadcrumbs. It is showing the path of where the content is found on the website. It is only seems like its pulling categories but it is just following the path of the content.

Thanks,

Don

Roy,

Did you optimize images (make them smaller in size)? Is the traffic real? Spam hits will not utilize data like a real person on your site. Also google could be serving cached pages so the information is not as large as downloading your actual assets from your site.

Thanks,

Don

Llanero,

It is going to be required. So you may want to implement it. If people are coming to your site but getting a browser security warning, you are gonna drop as well. At least going through the transition now will make sure your ready for the future.

I have done a few http: conversions and I have not identified and traffic drops.

Thanks,

Don

Kadut,

Are you seeing less traffic or maybe the pages being visited have less content to download. Need more information to give you specific answers.

Thanks,

Don

Will,

Write amazing content!!!

So start with what your competitors are doing (market research) see what type of content ranks locally. Then produce a content campaign that exceeds usability, engagement and information that your competitors are producing.

I don't think it is as necessary to do exact match domains these days. If you want to dominate the local space you have to do the technical local objectives, such as listing and google my business verification, Facebook page and Moz Local.

Thanks,

Don

Roy,

Are you trying to get the several pages of each tag indexed?

BigChad2,

In my experience, I have not seen embedding a google map make much of a difference in rankings. What it does do however, is increase the user experience on your site. Especially if you have a location people travel to.

Thanks,

Don

Hi William,

This is an interesting questions as I have seen both scenarios. I think quality of content and how evergreen the content is may play apart in whether the rankings/organic start to drop or stay steady. Also content that is not performing can be repurposed or tweaked to keep the rankings rolling. Its a back and forth game that you will need to monitor your data to diagnose the situation you are experiencing.

In my opinion good informative evergreen content will always rank unless a competitor drops a bomb and produces a similar piece that is much better then your own.

Frequency is also an interesting concept. 5 days a week is like a news site or a site where people are going to consume content daily. If you drop the frequency you may loose these types of content connoisseurs. However, generally if the content is good informative and engaging it should last.

Thanks,

Don

kadut,

Eventually Google will cache all indexed urls, however it does not always cache them right away.

Thanks,

Don

Wozniak65,

I believe your ultimate goal is to drive sales of these dresses. Maybe reach out to high profile fashion bloggers. Possible give some samples of your goods to get a review and post on their websites. If they are influencers this could drive extra traffic to your pages. You will have to partner up and build some relationships to be able to get these category links on relevant sites.

Thanks,

Don

Hi SoulSurfer,

Read This http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascript-heres-learned-220157

The google bot was able to read rel=nofollow and links were not followed. So I would think the same for rel=canonical as well.

Thanks,

Don

The problem you are experiencing is due to archives pages that are created every time you create a new tag, category, author, or other types of archive pages. The issue occurs when you tag or categorize the post or page. For instance, "Why Do We Need SEO" is your first ever post on your website and you tag it with SEO Best Practices, and you categorize it has SEO. You will have 3 archive pages with duplicate content. The author page, the SEO Best Practices page and the SEO page. This is because each archive page only consists of the same post "Why Do We Need SEO". So as you write more posts the duplicate pages may disappear depending on how you organize your content. If you create lots of tags and tag everything chances are you will always have duplicate content.

To not get a penalty you should no index these archive pages. But if you are disciplined with your organization of tags and categories. You will not have a problem.

Thanks,

Don

Hi Dave,

This very well could. However it seems to be a standard practice of distributers, and even wholesalers welcome the practice at times. The over all objective is to provide the best content to the end user as possible. In this case the use of your clients content may drive more sales which is good for both parties but not necessarily good for seo.

Possibly talk to the distributor about using rel=canonical on their content so google knows where it originated.

Hi Kadut,

Maybe not remove the pages but diagnose and find out why they are not ranking. Some things to consider. Is the content on these pages thin? Are there backlinks for these pages. Are they easily accessible from your navigation? Are they linked form within your website? Are you following basic SEO practices, is your on page technical seo tight.

Thanks,

Don

Its too risky to try and produce rankings from this. Its not really valuable content. So no follow no index

I agree with Nigel on this. It is easier then creating different content for each variation.

Andy,

I think these pages should be no follow no index. Even though they ranked at one point, there could be issues of duplicate content on other sites that you would not be able to control. Is it possible for people to post these emails onto their sites or embed them some way?

Do these pages eventually get deleted or should be eventually deleted? If so then definitely keep them no index no follow. The issue is if they get index then deleted, there will be rampant 404 errors too.

Thanks,

Don