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Hi,

Try Gorkana if it's PR and social media http://www.gorkana.com/pr-products/media-monitoring/ and this one may be worth trying too https://mention.com/en/

Hi,

A few reciprocal links shouldn't be a problem but I'd only do them if it makes sense from a human point of view and if it adds something for the users of your site. Put them in the place on your site that makes the most sense. A fishing gear shop may well link to fishing books and that would make sense.

It's nice to be able to send traffic to another site that also send relevant traffic to you.

Lots of reciprocal links and links that are done for perceived SEO purposes (and not for the users of your site) should be avoided.

A link to another site could come across as endorsing it so make sure you are hooking up with reputable companies that you know and trust, not just ones that rank well.

Hi,

Do you have a Google Plus? It's not a recent post but it sounds like it has worked before http://www.fiveblocks.com/changing-your-company-logo-in-google-knowlegde-graph-2/. Might be worth a go if nothing else has worked so far.

Hi,

I'd use social media - Twitter, Facebook. If you have good images you could also use Instagram and in the accompanying text say that there's a post about it over on your site.

I'd look at what others have done by searching the keywords on that social media platform and seeing what comes up. if they used a good hook or hashtag then use that in your post too.

You could post a few times on your chosen platforms with different text each time and see what works best - don't overdo the posting though as people will get annoyed.

If your topic ties in with something upcoming eg a national awareness day or big event, make sure you post during that period and use the relevant hashtags (which you can usually research before).

Hi,

Twitter says:

• Top Tweet: Tweet that received the highest number of impressions
• Top media Tweet: Tweet with photo, video, or Vine that received the highest number of impressions

It's impressions that count and the only difference is whether or not media is attached.

If my top tweet for a month has the most impressions but no media it is the top tweet. Another tweet that has media is then the top media tweet. That makes sense and I've seen it in my Twitter analytics.

I'm confused when my top tweet is one with media but it is somehow not also showing as the top media tweet. Surely it should be? how can another tweet with media and a lower impressions count be the top media tweet when the top tweet is one with media and a higher impressions count.

Thanks

Hi,

Using http://www.redirect-checker.org/index.php shows:

https://www.yoursite.ro/contact-us
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact/
200 OK

http://www.yoursite.ro/contact-us
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact/
200 OK

http://yoursite.ro/contact
301 Moved Permanently
 https://yoursite.ro/contact
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact/
200 OK

https://yoursite.ro/contact
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact/
200 OK

Thanks, I had wondered if it was location based but it wasn't making much sense - the computers used to check were all much nearer the head office than the satellite office that showed up top - in fact the satellite office is a long way away. We used three different machines and each time we got the same result. The smaller office is in Leicester (UK) and the head office in in Christchurch which is where where 2 checks were done, and another was done in Blandford, all getting Leicester come up top.

Our head office address is the only one listed on Facebook etc so it's a bit odd.

I've just tried it again and got a more local office showing, but it's still not head office.

Thanks for the links to other posts and thanks for the suggestions:

1. Verify all info is correct and the same business name is being used on major data providers such as Yellow Pages, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Yahoo Local, etc. And be sure they are linking to your website. Here is the full list:
   https://moz.com/learn/local/local-search-data-us - **all the info on Google places is correct and the head office. Will see if there are other places we can list it though **
2. Make sure your full address is mentioned on your website contact page. - this is already the case
3. Get quality backlinks from related websites and include the city(s) name in the anchor text.- will try this
4. Use a local phone number area code and keep it consistent - we use a central call centre for most places although the local Leicester office that was showing above head offce uses a local number so even more strange that is should show as it's miles away
5. Possibly have your smaller offices identify themselves with a specific location in their name - will look into
6. Get more positive Google reviews for your office - will look in to but Leicester has no reviews so bit odd
7. Include location and business keywords in your Google Maps description - already doing

Thanks both

Hi,

We have Google Maps listings for all of our offices but a small office often shows up instead of our head office.

Is there any way to get head office showing instead?

Thanks

Hi Jamie,

That's what I though too.

Yossi, where did you get the info that GTM can go in the head? I'd be worried to move it from the body as I'm not sure what difference it would make.

Thanks

Hi,

I think your H1 idea is fine.

For the meta descriptions I'd write a new one for each page and make it so that it compels searchers to click your page. That may or may not be the first few words on your page. If the words do not capture interest you may lose a searcher to another search result. The meta description is important for click through.

As you identified, just a product name or half a sentence will not serve you well.

Hi,

Can I add Twitter cards code using Google Tag Manager?

Thanks

When I worked in the newspaper industry and they started to use video, we were always told to keep it to under a minute and a half - I think if you go beyond that then people lose interest. Even so, if you go to the full time it has to be interesting throughout. The shorter the better really and don't do it for the sake of it - it has to add something for the viewer.

I'd agree that it takes hard work.

Make sure your site is as good content-wise as it can be and make sure you only use ethical ways to promote it - trying to take short cuts won't pay off in the long run.

You're in the right place to learn how to make your site great - there's plenty on moz and on the site of partners Distilled.

Also, try watching the regular Whiteboard Fridays https://moz.com/blog/category/whiteboard-friday

Good luck

Hi,

This page might help http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html

Why will it be two blogs if it's all about the same product? It may be worth looking at just one blog but tagging topics so people can find what they are after quickly

Hi,

If there's a reason to have both sites live then instead of a 301 (which would only show the content from one site) you could use a canonical (if the content can't be updated to something different enough) and chose the main of the two sites

Got to agree with Patrick - the first URL's look normal and the others look simply odd.

Remember your site is for humans as well as search engines.

Hi,

Are they products that will come back in stock again soon? If so I would have a page that says it is temporarily out of stock but why not sign up to newsletter that will tell you when it's back in. That way they may still buy the product from you.

I'd also add 'you may also be interested in' products on the page to see if people want to buy something else from you in the meantime.

Hi,

It makes sense to have a Facebook page for every country you operate in because you can then talk in the right language to your fans and post content that would be of regional interest to them.

Hope that helps

I'd look at which has the most traffic then and which makes them the most money.

The primary site will need to cater for the people who would have landed on the secondary site equally as well as if they had landed direct onto the secondary site though.You don't want to put off people who are already happily using the secondary site.