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I want to clean up my tags and I'm worried I'm going to look in my webmasters the next day with hundreds of errors. Whats the best way of doing this?

Thanks for the response. So to clarify, to use the reviews I must have the actual reviews on the page. They cannot simply be linked to without putting them on the actual page?

I'm trying to go through my site and add microdata with the help of Google's Structured Data Markup Helper. I have a few questions that I have not been able to find an answer for. Here is the URL I am referring to: http://www.howlatthemoon.com/locations/location-chicago

1. My company is a bar/club, with only 4 out of 13 locations serving food. Would you mark this up as a local business or a restaurant?
2. It asks for "URL" above the ratings. Is this supposed to be the URL that ratings are on like Yelp or something? Or is it the URL for the page? Either way, neither of those URLs are on the page so I can't select them. If it is for Yelp should I link to it?
3. How do I add reviews? Do they have to be on the page?
4. If I make a group of days for Day of the Week for Opening hours, such as Mon-Thu, will that work out?
5. I have events on this page. However, when I tried to do the markup for just the event it told me to use  itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event" on the body tag of the page. That is just a small part of the page, I'm not sure why I would put the event tag on the whole body?

Any other tips would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks! Sorry I freaked out, the other day I noindexed archives and some other things and I was worried my settings screwed things up. Phew!

http://www.howlatthemoon.com/dueling_piano_bar/sitemap.xml

It says it was updated last night?

I do have an RSS feed, it just hasn't been displayed. I just added it to my sidebar

Thanks for the response. I'm confused with the sitemap stuff. My root domain has Joomla installed on it and the person managing it before I started working here did the sitemap.. I'm not sure what they did.

My blog, /dueling_piano_bar, is run off of Wordpress. I'm using Yoast SEO and I see it has sitemap options in there. I checked the box to enable XML sitemap functionality because I didn't notice I already had the sitemap in the settings until just now. Also, the XML-Sitemap in the settings has "Rebuild sitemap if you change the content of your blog" checked so I don't know why it wouldn't be up to date unless this SEO plugin is interfering?

I thought I just needed one sitemap for the whole site, located at www.howlatthemoon.com/sitemap.xml . Is that incorrect? And how can I keep this updated. We have Joomla 1.5 (which I hate but we don't have the budget and I don't have the time to switch it over to another CMS) so I don't think there's a way to just rebuild the sitemap with Joomla.

Sorry if this is confusing, I'm confusing myself trying to write it out. I really appreciate your help.

Yes but normally it only takes an hour or so. And I can't even find it with the URL which is strange for sure

http://www.howlatthemoon.com/dueling_piano_bar/kids-activities-denver/

Even if I put the URL into Google it doesn't show up....

I still don't understand... I read this on Managewp.com:

Google (and other major search engines) will never penalize a WordPress site for having archive pages that publish and point to the same content. They confirmed this way back in 2008.

So.... can I still have all my tags? Is there anything wrong with having a lot of tags if I just show the excerpt? Or am I going to be penalized for duplicate content?

I don't want to lose the rankings I already have because of my tags by noindexing them, and I don't want to prevent getting future rankings because they're not indexed. But I also don't want to be penalized. Help!

Ok so it's possible to set the rel=canonical on each tag page to point to the main post. Will I still rank for the tags and it won't be considered duplicate content?

In my Google Analytics, I have different stats for what I think is the same page, win-a-party and win-a-party/

I searched all over for the win-a-party/ page and I couldn't find it anywhere. Why would it be tracking these differently? Should I set a 301 from win-a-party/ to win-a-party?

I've seen a few other Q&A posts on this but I haven't found a complete answer. I read somewhere a while ago that you can use as many tags as you would like. I found that I rank for each tag I used. For example, I could rank for best night clubs in san antonio, good best night clubs in san antonio, great best night clubs in san antonio, top best night clubs in san antonio, etc. However, I now see that I'm creating a ton of duplicate content.

Is there any way to set a canonical tag on the tag pages to link back to the original post so that I still keep my rankings? Would future tags be ignored if I did this?

We're a bar chain. So I guess it's like Coke, we don't have too many conversions happening on our site, but when people come into our bar. But I just don't like that we have a higher CPC than before we raised our budgets. I thought that we would be getting more clicks as well as more impressions

In a lot of my campaigns, the keyword with the highest CTR also has the highest average CPC. I'm not sure if I should lower or raise my bid. For example, right now the Adgroup Max CPC is $0.50 and the keyword with the highest CTR/CPC is at $1.60 with a QS of 7. I'm not sure whether to lower or raise this bid? It actually has the lowest amount of impressions as well. I'm not sure what to do

I found that the problem is coming from the display ads. The CPC has gone way up, but the CPM is the same. We are bidding by CPM. I have 3 ad groups in each, each at the same Max CPM, $3. So should I raise the Max CPM for the Ad Groups with lower CPCs and and lower the Max CPM for the Ad Groups with lower CPCs?

Thanks!

I recently raised my budget and my Avg. CPC has gone way up on many of my campaigns. I have 3 ad groups in each, each at the same Max CPM, $3.Let's take one campaign. The average CPC for each ad group over a 14 day period since I made the budget change is $6.95, $3.19, and $8.06. So should I raise the Max CPM for the $3.19 and lower the $8.06? And if so, by how much?

I recently took over our PPC campaign from our agency. At the end of the month (April) before they handed it over to me, they raised all of our bids. Since then, the spend has gone up and the clicks have gone down. Why???

That's why I was going to name them dueling-pianos and dueling-pianos-1. They both like like the first version. Thanks for the tip!

I'm reorganizing our categories (we had never used them) and some of them are the same as old tags. So one of them is going to have to have -1 at the end of the permalink (dueling-pianos vs dueling-pianos-1). Does this matter SEO-wise? Is the permalink less powerful to the search engines if it has a number at the end of it? Should I change our tags from dueling-pianos to dueilng-pianos-1? Or should I make the category dueling-piano-1?