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And that will transfer the link authority (or whatever is making that page rank) to the other page, as well?

• Ruben

P.S. Super Thank You!

Quick background: I have a page that is absolutely terrible, but it has links and it's a category page so it ranks. I have a landing page which is significantly - a bizillion times - better, but it is omitted in the search results for the most important query we need.

I'm considering switching the content of the two pages, but I have no idea what they will do. I'm not sure if it will cause duplicate content issues or what will happen.

Here are the two urls:

Terrible page that ranks (not well but it's what comes up eventually)

https://kemprugegreen.com/personal-injury/

Far better page that keeps getting omitted:

https://kemprugegreen.com/location/tampa/tampa-personal-injury-attorney/

Any suggestions (other than just wait on google to stop omitting the page, because that's just not going to happen) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ruben

For example, I'd like to type in a zipcode and get the highest ranking websites by DA/whatever metric the software uses, within a 25 mile radius?

Does that type of service exist?

I'm looking to build up our local links, but most of the websites have extremely low authority. I'm trying to find some good ones without having to manually check each one.

Thanks,

Ruben

Awesome, Croy. That was extremely helpful.

Thanks,

Ruben

I created a custom map using google maps creator and I embedded it on our site. However, when I ran the fetch and render through Search Console, it said it was blocked by our robots.txt file. I read in the Search Console Help section that: 'For resources blocked by robots.txt files that you don't own, reach out to the resource site owners and ask them to unblock those resources to Googlebot."

I did not setup our robtos.txt file. However, I can't imagine it would be setup to block google from crawling a map. i will look into that, but before I go messing with it (since I'm not familiar with it) does google automatically block their maps from their own googlebot? Has anyone encountered this before?

Here is what the robot.txt file says in Search Console:

User-agent: *
Allow: /maps/api/js?
Allow: /maps/api/js/DirectionsService.Route
Allow: /maps/api/js/DistanceMatrixService.GetDistanceMatrix
Allow: /maps/api/js/ElevationService.GetElevationForLine
Allow: /maps/api/js/GeocodeService.Search
Allow: /maps/api/js/KmlOverlayService.GetFeature
Allow: /maps/api/js/KmlOverlayService.GetOverlays
Allow: /maps/api/js/LayersService.GetFeature
Disallow: /

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ruben

I read all the time about how directories have very little weight in SEO anymore, but in my field, a lot of our competitors are propped up by paying for "profiles" aka links from places like martindale-hubbard, superlawyers, findlaw, nolo, Avvo, etc (which are essentially directories IMO) yet all those sites have very high DAs of 80 and above.

So, are links from these sites worth it? I know that's a vague questions, but if Moz's algo seems to rank them so highly, I'm guessing that's reasonably close to what google thinks as well...maybe?

Thanks for any insight,

• Ruben

For my most competitive term, the wrong page ranks (and not well either). The landing page I built for it has never shown up for that term except after I include the omitted results. The page that does rank is category page page above it. All that's fine, because neither page was all that great...BUT, I have completely re-written the content for the landing page, got local area pictures, local testimonials and a video. So here's my question:

Should I put all that content on the landing page that's been omitted or tweak the page that ranks and put it there? To me it makes the most sense to put the content on the page that has been omitted, but I don't know how google treats pages that have been omitted in the past. Is it going to have some sort of bias against the page, because it was omitted so many times earlier for that keyword? Or, will it be treated just like any other page, and if the content is good enough, then it  will rank just fine.

If anyone's dealt with this, then I'd love to hear all about it!

Thanks,

Ruben

I didn't provide the query, but I'm glad I didn't. If I had, then you wouldn't have guessed, and we both wouldn't have noticed how the other phrasing changed the meta length. Not sure how relevant it is to overall SEO strategy, but makes me curious as to why.

• Ruben

Check it out, that's NOT the query, but you're right about "tampa auto accident lawyer." When you type in "Tampa car accident attorney" it triggers the long meta description in unpersonalized search. That's interesting. I'd think it'd be the same, since they are such similar words.

Thanks Dimitrii, that was helpful. Depressing that there's nothing I can really do about it, but helpful nonetheless.

• Ruben

I was looking at some SERPs, and I saw one of our competitors had 279 characters displaying in their meta-description. Everyone else (including the people ranking higher than this person) were displaying the usual number. How is that possible? I didn't think google every displayed that much. Screenshot attached.

• Ruben

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Okay, thanks guys. I really couldn't seem to find it, when I was going through it.

I appreciate it.

Ruben

Hi,

Moz OSE does not recognize this site as linking to  our site, but I feel like it has to be. Here is the code and the link to the site:

http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/34655-fl-stacy-kemp-1843513.html#contact

[https://kemprugegreen.com/location/tampa/tampa-car-auto-accident-attorney/](<a class=)" target="_blank">https://kemprugegreen.com/location/tampa/tampa-car-auto-accident-attorney/

So are they linking to us? If so, how come OSE cant find it? It lists it for our competitors.

Thanks,

Ruben

I found a site that was very easy for me to upload my pictures, add the coordinates, download it and put it on my site. The site is GeoImgr.com, but it's not nearly as popular as some of the other's out there. Does that matter?

I'm under the impression that as long as the GPS coordinates show up in the XIF Viewer, then I've gotten whatever benefit (albeit slight) there is to get. Is that correct? Or is there something about tagging them from the more popular sites like Flickr or Panaramio?

Thanks,

Ruben

Thanks Cyrus. I appreciate the the multi-faceted answer along with the links. I'll see what I can do with this.

• Ruben

I don't think I would have transcribed it on different pages, but still, it's good to keep in mind. Thanks for looking out.

• Ruben

Good point. Thanks!

• Ruben

Thanks!

• Ruben

Just so I'm super sure, you meant to write "it will be considered" correct?

Thanks,

Ruben

If we have a "why hire us" video, and we place it on multiple landing pages will that be considered duplicate content? All the texts and images are different, it would just be the video.

Thanks,

Ruben