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Thanks Tyman, I just connected Google Analytics to Adwords. Once the data pulls, I will dive in and see what I can find. Thanks for the info! - Will H.

Yup.. also don't forget that robots.txt is just a "recommendation" for robots. they do not obey it Basically Google does what ever it wants to Also if you want to block a folder so its inner content wont be "accessed", in case anylink will point to this page, even if its coming from outside of your domain, it will be indexed.. Although the content of it wont be shown on search results but it will show up with a notice stating that the site content is blocked due to the sites robots.txt.. best of luck!

Thanks Martijn. That makes a lot of sense. I'm working with small websites, but hopefully I will be moving on to bigger fish

I would check to see if you've uploaded the file to the right folder on the server. Some servers have a public_html folder and that's where you'd want to upload it to. If you are able to access other pages on the site but not this page in particular, then it might be a caching issue. Oftentimes ISPs will cache pages and you won't be able to see the latest version. You might try accessing it from another browser, or use something like Rex Swain's HTTP viewer (http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html) to see if it loads there.

I use JSON-LD and have had no issues since implementing it. It's easier and is a

Thanks Kevin & Don! Your insights are very helpful. I was asking myself how much traffic would some of these "off the beaten path" directories generate, even if they had a high page rank, and if the effort was worth the reward. I think I will just list them on DMOZ and any niche specific directory my clients recommend. Thanks Again! B/R Will H.

Hi Will, It'd be impossible to find a solution to the problem without having the domain. If you want to message me the URL, I can take a quick look for ya. A lack of either of those files shouldn't create any crawl issues. Setting up those files won't fix your problem, but you should add them both anyway.

AHA! I had a feeling is was something like that. Glad to help!

Hello Dmitrli, This does make sense. Just wasn't sure if you could "over optimize" for the Schema. Thank You for your response. B/R Will

Here you go Kristen, https://www.jamesdflynn.com/development/json-ld-markup-generator/. Enjoy!

Hi there Will, Did you end up becoming a NearbyNow customer? Just curious. I am a customer and I think they do have a winning business idea. That said, I have found their systems to be a bit problematic and their help files to be weak. In addition, they just recently made a key feature only available for a daftly named "SEO Pro Master" plan; I am predicting a future SEO Pro Master Guru plan ;-). This was a feature I relied on in the SEO Pro plan to allow my clients to update their questions to make them more relevant to their businesses and change verbiage to say "patient" versus "client" or "customer". These may be irrelevant issues to your application - but I thought you and anyone else seeing this thread would like to know. Cheers, Ross

That's great, Will. Wishing you very good luck ahead!

Will, I'm not familiar with the CMS you're using, but to answer your question about rel=canonical, no, that is not an instance of when to use that tag. Canonical tags are used for times when duplicate content is unavoidable, such as sorting a product category page and having different URL parameters based on the sort type.

Hello Dirk, Thanks again for all of your help. So, I ended up not having the redirect setup correctly (I'm a noob!). For whatever reason, I could not setup the redirect using the redirect icon through the panel. I ended up accessing the .htaccess file (which was tough to find because it was hidden!). and I added this code. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.YourDomain.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://YourDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] All of my redirects are now redirecting from www. To non-www. I'll have to wait for my next crawl to verify that the duplicate content has cleared, however, the redirect is indicating on httpstatus.io. Thanks for your assistance Dirk! B/R Will