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I haven't personally used it, but I've seen places that utilize it (https://www.shopify.com/facebook). I don't know how many people actually buy things directly from social media, since the whole point of social media is to establish connections and have conversations. It could be worth checking out depending on the niche your client is in, but I have my doubts these stores within social platforms are actually profitable.

It looks like it's not too hard to set up within Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/business/news/shopping-on-facebook - so why not explore setting this up in conjunction with a FB ads package for your client instead of having another company run it? Also according to Buzzfeed this seems to be Facebook's next big push - http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/facebook-takes-big-step-forward-on-commerce-builds-shops-int#.pt12yovez

I'm interested to see if anyone has seen any success with this yet.

Definitely use rel=canonical for situations like that. If there's a solid business case to keep the pages live (A/B testing layout?), then yeah definitely make sure both pages are canonicalized to one main page for search engines. That will also help keep the other variation out of the index as Google (and other bots) recognize that you have multiple variations, but only one page they should be paying attention to.

I can't see the images you're referencing (maybe the links aren't working?), but it's possible that Google hasn't visited those pages in a while or not as frequently as the cached pages. Load time was slow for the homepage (10.37s on pingdom), so it's possible Google isn't crawling or caching the site as often. If it's a smaller site that's changed less frequently, that might be a cause. As long as the site is indexed properly I wouldn't worry too much about the caching though.

I'd recommend setting up a sitemap, and double checking all the important pages are indexed.

Is it possible to use a script to write? Alternative option is to run a screaming frog crawl looking for all images, download into excel, and use the image file name to help create a tag. That's assuming you've named the image with something specific instead of leaving it default (eg: image4893054893.jpg). Ideally you would want to include image alt tags, and many platforms can help make it easy. Could you give a little more information about your situation? There might be a pattern you can use to update on a large scale. I would not have the same tag applied to all images, because that really doesn't help search engines understand the photo and wouldn't be useful to users who have vision impairments. If you don't have the time to do it, then hire someone to assign alt tags (virtual assistant). Screaming Frog will make it really easy to find all the image files.

You most likely won't see any new links from Yext because they use a URL redirect on all sites they control. Check the live listings an confirm. If you're using Yext for link building/gaining do-follow links on directories... It's probably best to consider alternative options. Most of the links to your website from those directories will actually pass through a redirect set up by Yext, then land you at the final destination (your website). One benefit of that redirect is so they can track click data in your Yext dashboard.

I could be wrong, but you should check and see if you're seeing any new links from a Yext subdomain. I haven't used Yext in a while, but I remember seeing a redirect for past clients (when I was working in an agency. That might be worth checking out.

Either way, you should have reporting in your Yext dashboard on all the listings that are live. Once again I'll stress that you should not be using Yext simply for building links.

Search Console is a sample set of your links, much like OSE is a sampling of your overall link profile. Google won't show you all your links, so its best to use multiple sources to try and piece together the puzzle.

It seems like you're saying the reported links are pointing to the wrong subdirectory but when checked manually they are correct "after redirects" to the appropriate page. Can you explain that a little more? Have you redirected URLs on your site to new pages? Curious to know what kind of redirects you're seeing.

Best place to start is in the "learn and Connect" section (in the top nav), and check out the Beginner's Guide to SEO. That should be your foundation to starting to learn how to improve your website. That section has a ton of great guides and resources you should really dive into. Hope that helps point you in the right direction

Googles guidelines on link schemes covers this:

"Additionally, creating links that weren’t editorially placed or vouched for by the site’s owner on a page, otherwise known as unnatural links, can be considered a violation of our guidelines. Here are a few common examples of unnatural links that may violate our guidelines:

(scroll down the page a little bit)......

• Widely distributed links in the footers or templates of various sites"

In addition to Don's suggestion to review Cyrus' video, I would strongly recommend reviewing Google's guidelines on the subject. They aren't specifically saying links from a client site to yours, but it's pretty clear if you're putting a do-follow link to your site from a site you built for a client... that's a no-go since it was placed there by you and not editorially placed by your client.

What you'd want to do in this situation is to create local landing pages for each market you're in. So in your situation you would have a page for New York, and a page for Washington, then branch out into more services/offerings from those two focal points. Each page should be unique to the city you're targeting (unique content, hours of operation, address, phone, about us info, etc...). I would recommend embedding a Google Map for each office in the different cities as well.

From what you've described, it sounds like you want to be a national provider so are you targeting national keywords? If you're focusing on local SEO you might see better results by targeting the city you're currently in, then slowly expanding out into nearby regions. Targeting national is fine, but you'll need to make sure you really understand the market landscape. Doing solid link building, and paying attention to your internal link structure will help boost the PA of those local landing pages. In my tests/observations I've been able to get local landing pages to rank on the first page easier than the homepage due to the regional/local focus of those pages.

This strategy definitely works (and has been confirmed by others in the industry), but it will only work in the strategy is right from the beginning. Relevant local links and good onsite optimization is key.

If the content was on your site to begin with (and was already crawled by Googlebot), then you would get credit for the content. If you're the manufacturer, I would think the eComm site would want to rewrite so they could drive sales and stand out from the crowd a bit. I also know it's a challenge in many cases to rewrite content due to vendor restrictions or staffing constraints.

That being said... Unique is always better because it will help the site rank within the same target market as their competitors, and will differentiate from the competition. I wouldn't worry too much about someone using your descriptions, since you should ultimately get authoring credit for the content (in Google's eyes) if it came from you first. All factors being equal, your site would prevail. It's possible you may be outranked for a product term if the other sites are stronger, but that evidence will come with time.

I would recommend asking the eComm site to rewrite/make the content unique, since that would do better for both parties. You're gambling with the same content on multiple sites, so its possible you could be outranked by a distributor. If you don't have restrictions around the content, I would either update your content or ask them to update theirs. Hopefully Google will see your site (the manufacturer) as a more relevant source, but I've seen some pretty funky things in the past so I wouldn't guarantee it.

Couple things I noticed...

1st - Is the business name "Properties For Sale Mallorca" or is that the keyword you're trying for? It looks like it's on dozens of pages on your site, which isn't ideal. If that's a target keyword, then it should be focused down to one page to make sure you're not confusing Googlebot. That could be diluting your ranking potential.

2nd - Some of the wording on your website seems a little wonky... "Not just your Estate Agents Mallorca, but property finder for Mallorca, search today on our vast database." To me that is an indication that your site may be over-optimized. I would check to make sure the site content is natural and not keyword stuffed, since that could be contributing to your ranking problems.

What else have you done on the site (either onsite or offsite)?

If the only option is to disallow via the robots.txt, then I would agree with your setup - disallow the slugs specific to the tags you don't want indexed. I've heard shopify is a little rough to work with sometimes because of the limitations, so whatever you can do I think is better than nothing. Remember that the robots exclusion is treated as a suggestion and not a command, so if it's possible to assign a no-index meta tag to those URL types that would be best case.

Looks like you're on the right track with the post below:

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The one suggestion I would make is that you use noindex,follow so the content will still be crawled, but the duplicate tag won't get indexed. That would create multiple paths to the content on your site, but not create an index bloat issue with multiple tags.

Yoast is a WordPress plugin, not Shopify so that option isn't available with the current CMS. Just wanted to chime in to make sure others aren't looking for Yoast SEO in the Shopify app store.

I wasn't going to throw out re-branding quite yet, but yeah that would make sense from a couple angles. With that special character how do I say the name? Is it spoken like "NO. 1" or is it "N Degree 1" or is it "N - 1"? I actually wasn't sure how to say it. This is definitely going to be a tough one to get a handle on citation-wise.

What you need to do is flag each image that isn't applicable to your business, then Google will take them down. When you click into each image there is a link at the bottom right hand corner of the screen that says "Report a Problem" which will take you to another screen. In that screen you'll see radio buttons next to "Why are you reporting this photo?" where you can select, "This photo is irrelevant to this business." You'll need to put in your email address and enter a reCAPTCHA code, but in time it should get taken down. It's not automatic, and it may take a little back and forth with a Google rep but that's your first step. If that really doesn't work, then you could try and contact Google Places Support but I think they'll tell you to do exactly what I just described above.

Consistency matters for citations, and this is definitely a case I haven't dealt with before. Since the name is so unique and many sites won't allow for special characters I would pick one format to use across local citations. I guess the big question is how sites see the special character. If they see "No1" as "NO-1" that might work against you from a branding/dupe listing standpoint. If the rest of the information is the same across the citation sources, then it's possible the name variations could get aggregated together. In that case No1 and N°1 could become synonymous and acknowledged as one and the same.

I see a lot of sites are respecting the special character, so the best advice is to try and make it as consistent as possible. If you have a minority not respecting the character I wouldn't worry too much about it. You're playing a numbers game, so the more sites (quality sites) that have the special character will help you. The ones without may count for slightly less, but might not hurt you too much.

It's not necessarily bad for SEO, and in fact could be useful to the user. What you need to do is make sure you're marking them all up in schema.org markup to make sure the bots can understand the information a little easier. The best scenario is to create a landing page for each location - that way you can have a better shot at ranking for each market.

Write unique copy, add a map (embed a Google Map), make sure you have complete contact information (name, address, phone, hours of operation, etc), and list unique products/services for each location.

The better way to go is revise the redirect to point abc.com to ert.com. The more jumps that someone (whether it's a bot or a user) needs to take, the longer it will take the page to load. Limit the redirects and make sure the jump lands at the final destination instead of many detours.

In this case I wonder whether it would be appropriate to make separate sections of the site targeting the US and UK. You could then set different hreflang tags on the site to signal you're targeting different regions of the world - see this help guide.

Also check out the international SEO resource from Moz. How's the site currently set up?

Could you provide a little more information? Website URLs or business information would be helpful to give a more accurate response to this problem. Typically you really shouldn't have two separate businesses at the same address - that could cause merging issues with the pages. The most common solution is using a suite number, but it some cases that's not possible. This address wouldn't happen to be in a shared office suite (eg, regus suite), would it?