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Hi i'm Meier

Let's Say I have just one local business owner that called me and said "hey bud! I really enjoyed your locksmith service yesterday, I have an awesome pressure washing business, do you mind if I write a quick article for you guys?"

And Im all like WAIT don't do it yet, lemme talk to my MOZ squad and make sure all my sites will benefit from the mention.

**I have never used questionable links - never will. Everything I have is real. **

Does anyone want to comment on the interlinking strategy? I don't have fake websites, I have real clients with ok DA that are willing to link to the site naturally. How to I pass that juice right?

T.h.a.n.k.y.o.u.!!!!! That was some original content you wrote right there!

Hey Gang,

Thank you in advance for taking some time out of your day to read/comment on this. I really am thankful for this awesome community.

SO, I just took over a locksmith client with over 20 different locations all up and down the west coast. They have some of their Google My Businesses ranking in the snap three. But most of them are not even close. The SEO that they had done was very 2012 and very messy. They have the name of the cities in their GMB profiles which is against google policy (although we haven't got taken down)

Example: Instead of Locksmith plus they have Locksmith Plus Portland or Locksmith Plus Seattle.

So their Citations are all over the place. Some locations have a bunch, and some locations I haven't even been able to put them on Yelp or Super pages (because they do not accommodate well at all for multi location business it's kind of been a nightmare)

And Besides mediocre citations their websites are all over the place to. None of them are Linked to each other they each look like a separate brand.

So here's my question(s)

1. I have a pretty good PBN network of my own real websites for clients that I have ranked to page one. I want to start Backlinking to just our one Main locksmith site (that ranks for no city) an have that juice flow into all the other sites but I am afraid I wont interlink them correctly and the juice will get wasted. Should I have like all the links to every cities website on the front page and point all my pbn at the front page? How to I link these bad boys correctly? Or should I... (next question)

2. Ok I know the Google my business does not care about how many citations we have but rather the quality of those citations. I already know we are having a brand crisis. We need to change all these listings to the same brand name but I am afraid google will spank us once we change and take down our number ones (so be it?)

But My question is how much should I focus on back linking some of these page listings. Like should I be posting the naked Yelp URL on some of my web 2.0s (that link back to my main website)? Or what if i just had the main citations on the cities website so they could get some juice too? Confusing!

Overall I know that Google wants clean consistent branding and that what we want to do.I just want to make sure everything is hooked up right so when I do make some Bad a** big content that every location can benefit from it.

Guys thank you again. Much Loves and I hope every body had a great new year. Here's to a strong 2016

thank you very much! what is the easiest way to do redirects?

About two months ago, we deleted some unnecessary pages on our website that were no longer relevant. However, MOZ is still saying that these deleted pages are returning 404 errors when a crawl test is done. The page is no longer there, at least that I can see. What is the best solution for this? I have a page that similar to the older page, so is it a good choice to just redirect the bad page to my good page? If so, what's the best way to do this.

I found some useful information searching but none of it truly pertained to me. I went around my site to make sure there were no old links that directed traffic to the non existent page, and there are none.

Thank you guys for the feedback, and I apologize it took so long for me to reply.  Every bit helps

When you say the domain has very very few links, what exactly do you mean.  In bound or out bound?  Im very new to SEO, and trying to do everything I can to make this site better.  I know this is a big job, but every bit of advice helps!

Basically, whenever i type in my URL, http://www.locksmithplusincportlandor.com, I am presented with the following message:

"It looks like we haven't discovered established link data for this URL yet."

I have gone through all of the reasons why this could be, and none of them apply to my current situation.  Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

Whoops, I meant to say i received an A for the website that I built.  To clarify, for keyword "XX", my website receives an A, and a different website receives an F.  However the one with the F ranks much higher.  Why is this?

Basically, I am new to this..very new.  In fact, my field was neuroscience, and now I work in marketing..

I just started using seomoz, and for one website that I build. I followed all of the guidelines moz has to offer. On the grade section, I got an for a specific keyword.  However, when I rate my site for that keyword, it does not even rank in the top 50.  The keyword is even in the domain!

Also, some sites that rank in the top 25 have an F rating for the same keyword.  Why do they rank higher?