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Thank you for the great answer Miriam!

They're positive for both. I don't think he's well known.

There may be a few more searches for the partner's name because there are other attorneys, in other states, with the same name but according to ahrefs it's not a huge number.

If a person searched for the partner, it would be nice if they saw his one box, but our main goal is to get the firm on the map.

A Senior, named partner of the firm.

I've been working on local for a client, and it looks like the partner's name and one review is outranking the firm name and it's 20 reviews. The firm's GMB profile is better, but they're still buried.

Any advice?

In my Google Search Console today, I saw a link from Creative Market. In Moz last week I saw a link from Instructables. In Moz, they have high numbers. DO you think these type of profiles have a big impact?

https://artists.spotify.com/c/artist/3N1BM4dOORzK8BF6DrkEDU/profile#about (Moz-50, ahrefs-14)

https://creativemarket.com/julie.gallaher (Moz-36, Ahrefs-12)

https://www.instructables.com/member/jazzmansac (Moz-42, Ahrefs-13)

https://moz.com/community/users/907261 (Moz-50, Ahrefs-25)

https://www.are.na/julie-gallaher (Moz-25, Ahrefs-11)

They all look to be do follow links

They don't look junkie to me. On Ahrefs, Inman has a UR 80, DR 82.

Thank you so much!  I suspected this, but wanted to make sure by asking the Big Brains at Moz. You always come thru!

I am using a directory plug-in that doesn't have separate urls for each profile. Is there any way to set up a link to go directly to a particular business?

https://www.sacramentotop10.com/business/chamber-of-commerce/

Thank you both!  You saved me a ton of work!

I have remodeled an old html site using wordpress.

I see some instructions in wordpress that says I can add an .html extension to some of the pages, but it looks pretty complicated. Is there any benefit in going through that hassle? or should I just ask my web guy to rewrite via htaccess

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https://sacramentotop10.com/Weddings/Dresses.html

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https://sacramentotop10.com/Weddings/Dresses.html

becomes

https://sacramentotop10.com/weddings/dresses

Thank you both. The site is coming along very nicely, if I do say so myself.

https://www.sacramentotop10.com/weddings/locations

I'd like some expert guidance. I've searched for a theme that does what I want and finally found something I like, but I'm wondering what you all think I should do to increase it's searchability.

The plugin has all the listings and styling. All I need to do is past the code into the wordpress site ad voila! I have a page. Using the widget lets me allow upvotes and provide map etc. But it means the content is inside the widget instead of on the page.

What would you modify if you wanted to keep the theme & widget to get the best results.

http://best-of-sacramento.com/dentists

This is my staging site.

Thanks Miriam,

I got one of these recently, but I think a 4.8 looks more realistic than a 5.0 so I don't mind. Do you think they're doing it just to get Google points? The person who wrote mine is clearly not a client or prospect. She wrote a review about Starbucks being too expensive, so she certainly isn't going to be hiring a marketing consultant.

Are you sure? About five years ago I thought Tumblr went to no-follow links in the posts, with only bio links as do follow.  Did they change back?

I have several Tumblr blogs. Created when Tumblr links were worth more, and now primarily for my amusement.

But, I'd like to get whatever link juice I can out of them.

I thought only the footer links were do follow, but when I check Moz it's showing all links as do follow. Any idea which is true?

WooHoo

I got it!

I installed the custom post type plug in.

Made a custom post type of personal injury

Changed the custom post type slug to have dashes instead of underscores

made a dummy post with the name whip its nitrous oxide

Good news is that after I did the same tedious process myself, my SEO results went up!

I've just overhauled a website, leaving lots of former posts in the dust.

I've set up a 404 redirect to the home page so that if anyone goes to one of those old pages they land on the home page instead of a dead 404.

But, there's a couple urls from the old site I'd prefer to redirect to similar pages. These urls have forward slashes and I don't know how to get the slashes in when I copy it over to the new site.  This is probably something easy, but I'm baffled.

This

www.lawbarron.com/personal-injury/whip-its-nitrous-oxide/

becomes this when I copy it

www.lawbarron.com/personal-injury-whip-its-nitrous-oxide

Can someone help me out?

We're tracking 5 phrases. Two have improved and two are static, but this free-falling one is our most important.

They are very deficient in backlinks. The competition started years ago, and even the previous SEO guy, according to ahrefs, got only 36 links in a whole year.  We can't beat the competition on total links, but I can beat them on higher quality. I'm a part of the local blogging community and have done a ton of work with local non-profits.

Even so, it seems more volatile than it should. A competitor jumped 8 positions whose top link is from a parked domain page advertising porn sites. Not a single quality link according to ahrefs.

Then I saw this thread in webmaster world talking about some glitchiness and wondered if anyone else had seen it. https://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4880306.htm

I have a new client whose rank is jumping around a lot.  I took over the account 7 weeks ago, but they'd been doing SEO with a decent provider. They switched to me because they thought he wasn't working very hard and he's not very nice.

I just took them on in December and they started out at #18. On Dec 24 they were at 9, Jan 1 at 12, Jan 2 at 14, Jan 3 at 24, Jan 12 at 19, Jan 15 at 28, Jan 16 at 25, Jan 19 at 28 and today at 24.

Some of the really bad black hattish providers have bounced up to the top. Any idea what's going on?