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Awesome! I know how clients can be. Good thing they had someone like you! Have a good one

I haven't got experience with any plugins to help users login before posting but I definitely have experience with WP Blog comments and spammers, so hopefully, I could offer some helpful advice. I've been accepting blog comments on our companies WP sites and one of the sites has received 6500+ comments, all from genuine readers. We did see a lot of spam at the beginning but I didn't want to make my readers jump through hoops to leave a comment. I disabled the URL field and if you go to Settings > Discussions in the admin panel, you can list all the words that you would like flagged as spam. I'm currently approving 20+ comments daily and I see no spam in the pending section, all the spam is filtered into spam box and I empty it weekly.

Rand, Thank you for responding to my question. That's awesome...I'll make sure that's exactly what we do. I'm looking forward to see more about this from the link you provided. Thanks again.

Great question Swendt! Linking from your blog to your product page or other blog post is a great SEO practice, as long as it is in moderation. People tend to disagree on what that is, but I've seen having 2-3 internal links, as well as 2-3 external links in a 500-1000 word blog post be a great SEO benefit. Internal linking is an often overlooked SEO strategy that can help distribute authority to page's you want to rank on Google and be visited when someone is on your website, just make sure the links are relevant, helpful, and that you don't have so many that it hurts the user's perception of your blog quality.

Always is pleasure to help

Screaming Frog can also do image sitemaps. Screaming Frog does have an annual cost of about £149, but it has other great tools besides image sitemaps so I think it is well worth the cost. I use Screaming Frog to get a "heartbeat" of what is going on with a site. It will show you any broken pages or pages missing h1s, page titles, etc.

You probably want the new date to show up. Make sure you're using a WordPress plugin to handle all the SEO aspects of this, Yoast will probably save you most of the time.

Hey there, absolutely, let's have less than 10% duplicated. If the products are similar (just different color, size...), use the canonical tag. If the products are different, there shouldn't be a problem to write original content for each of them. Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

It's being pulled from their Wikipedia page. Google will generally attribute things like this to larger brands with significant search volume. You could try to fill out a comprehensive Wikipedia page for your business to see if you can get a similar card, but you'd have to generate a certain amount of search volume for G to add something like that. Surprisingly, I couldn't find any schema markup on Walgreens website. In a nutshell; you have to be a big enough powerhouse to get meta cards like this, or drive significant traffic.

Thanks everyone. That's good to hear they will be replaced the link - based on what Google suggests. I appreciate the answers.

Thank you for the information. I appreciate breaking it down in a simple way.

Dirk, Thanks for the links. This was very helpful and exactly what I was looking for. Spot on! Steven

Hi Miriam, Thanks for checking back in. Yes, the businesses are different and the phone number, name and websites are different. Thanks for your help.

So glad it helped, Steven!

Thanks Calin - yes, these bulletpoints are fantastic to consider, thanks for adding this!

Hi Swendt, Personally I would stick to what fits your overall branding strategy best. this means I wouldn't change anything about how your business name is displayed just because it's in the meta description. A few things I would consider when making this decision: 1. Is your business name merged or separated in your logo? 2. If your a existing brand, do people search for your brandname merged or separated? This gives you more insight in your customers perspective. (you can check this through Google Keyword Planner in Adwords) 3. If your business name tells potential customers something about what you do I would definitly consider readability aswell. If your business name contains two worlds I would, in most cases, separate them. Also, I'm not a huge fan of TM aswell, but I'm from Europe so I'm not sure if it's more common in other parts of the world. Good Luck!

Short answer - Yes slightly less short answer -  just like most people add www. and none www. to webmasters its good to do the same for secure sites while not essential its good to make sure you've got all bases covered also means you don't miss any communications from Google that may come through that site. Let me know if you want more info and ill do my best to get it to you.

Hiya, It really depends on what you want, personally I favor having on the site (option1) that way any SEO work you do helps build up the whole domain. Here are some options to help you (only rough) Option 1. -  Create the product onsite Pro's - helps build up whole domain, less work needed between two sites. Already existing site can help rankings. cons - can clutter site, can backfire with any badly done SEO on the whole domain option 2. - Create a sub domain (e..g sub-domain.example.com) Pros - Can still help build you brand and gain association of site Cons - link juice doesn't tend to flow between subdomains meaning more work Option 3. - Completely separate domain Pros - Can keep it separate from main domain (different link strategies etc.) Cons - Absolutely no link juice flowed between it and main domain could double the effort to maintain two domains  Fresh sites can be harder to rank This is what I came up with in a couple of min and one else feel free to add to my pro's & con's as i'm sure i missed some bits and pieces.

It's absolutely ridiculous that our industry lays down and accepts stuff like this from Google. It is unacceptable for them to not be able to determine who originally created the content. They have the data to do it.