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Yes, Google has called our main line asking for information across the street, down the block, etc. We had to prove we occupied our address, which is our sales office in DC. We currently have 6 addresses, with 4 physical locations,1 sales office and another obtained in the acquisition of another business.

Hi Becky,

I have tried it both ways with positive results. I prefer the Title to "flow" and not appear as KW stuffed. From day 1, my mentor taught me "The Click is more important than the Rank" but we all know we must have rank to get click...

I always try to write Titles, Desc and content in a reader friendly informative manner, which sometimes means going against popular recommendations.

Hope this helps

KJr

It works for us, we're a custom sign shop and commercial printer. I believe managing your NAP is always important an ML helps me this that. We recently upgraded!

Thank you, I'm off to build a spreadsheet of my competitors PA/DA scores

Joe

Thanks Rand for the update.  We have hired a full time marketing manager  and he has been working hard the past month, I know he's excited to see the new results.  "Putty & Paint does not a NEW Boat make"  Fixing is a painstaking reality compared to building.  Moz is great, so we will wait

it was 2015 and they were questioning the DC office only

TY William,

All the pages have been optimized for the target terms, an I can confirm there are 0 no-follow's on our site. I check our site against the top 10 competitors monthly, we consistently stay very stable or better than our competition. Our rankings have not dropped, we rank top 3 for 125+ of our 175+ kw's. Lastly, I add, edit and improve content weekly, that is kw rich.

I appreciate your reply, lots of great advice, we have followed that for over 2 years, That' why we're so perplexed.

KJr

IF you mean delete from your Google account and allow your employer's business account to manage the listing, it's OK I've done that many times. Set up the new admin prior to removing yourself, I know that sounds elementary, but it's worth mentioning.

KJr

Sounds like you've found the issue, or at least the main one. I would wait on the dev site to be removed before starting over with a new domain.

KJr

My largest obstacle occurred 2 years ago when the server we were on got blacklisted by Google. We hosted through my close friend - ally, he had leased a "less than secure server" and after a year something got hacked on his server and we (along w/ everyone on that server) were blacklisted. To add to the complication, my friend suddenly fell ill and was admitted to the hospital (he was down for 14 days) and I had no clue how to manage his server nor communicate with the server company.

Numerous long days and nights on calls, chats and emails, we (our new host & myself) were able to move our 2 sites to a secure server, and submit to Google and get re-listed. We were "Off-SERP" for 10 consecutive days, 8 of which were business days, our owner said sales went down $20,000 during that period!

Take-Away: If it's important, never just take someone's word it is right. Do the follow-up and confirm your status.

KJr

Hi Lee,

I've been with Heritage for 18 months, SEO is my full-time job. I have been gaining our Search Visibility for over a year. We were at 38.29% on 2-5-17, today we are at 30.79%. We've not been that low since 2015. I am also curious to this issue.

If anyone has input, I too will be appreciative.

KJr

However, is this overkill? I personally think not... but would a domain level 301 redirect work just as well from preserving / passing on any authority to the new URL.

Not overkill in my opinion.

We have acquired several businesses, but never merged them into a new domain, so my process was to utilize the acquired domains as long as they held value. With the last competitor we acquired, I actually built out his site and it has shown immense value.

I know this is slightly off your situation topic, but it may help.

KJr

Logan,

Thx for the feedback

Edited all our pages and tested and passed!

TY,

KJr

Consider being as descriptive as possible for the primary "Rope" page. On the "Other Options" for rope, use the rec-con tag back to the primary and describe why this rope is unique to the primary.

Hope this helps.

KJr

Ira.

Yes, YP and several other directory sites are very difficult to work with. Since your reviews come from Citysearch, I would start over.

KJr

I agree, our main page ranks for our #1 term and we have /products/ pages that do as well.

We received Google Beacons for each of our physical locations, the info from Google is:

• It transmits a signal via BLE to smartphones within 11 meters
• It will provide information to visitors and offer opportunities to see products and add reviews
• It's connected to your Google Ads account somehow
• It is "on" as soon as it's removed form it's box
• It has to be activated via a provided code

My question:

1. Where does the data transmitted by the Beacon come from?
2. How can I control that data?
3. Is it pulled from our GMB account?

THX for reading and responding, I'll add more to this as I learn more about Beacons.

KJr

PS: See ya @ MozCon

Dmitrii

Yes it helps a lot, your opinion is valued. My designer has evolved with technology and he offered both custom with minify abilities as well as WordPress (which I'm not in favor of). He makes good points about both, but really want to hear from my Moz Community before we make the plunge later this year, early next.

Thx

I have the same issue, I have stopped using tags because of all the irrelevant links they cause. Looking forward to reading the comments on this thread.

KJr

Hi Everett,

Yes on all accounts, I am the in-house marketing manager for Heritage Custom Signs. All suggestions are appreciated