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I am not sure, if i have a valid question to ask, but i am a bit stuck.
We just got a campaign from one client. Its automotive brand offering the same (classified) services to buy and sell used car on their sites.

The issue is the have different domains, which is obvious based on which country they are however issue is those domains are not consistent match as a brand. ie

www.mtmotorslab.co.uk
www.mtmotors.co.za
www.motortrader.com.pk
www.motortrader.in
www.mtmotors.com.au

my question is here, how could it impact our seo efforts or any such effort to establish a strong brand with this sort situation of different tld as well as different domain under same umbrella.

Many Thanks

Hi

I just explain the possibel reason of this issue under another question raised by other community fellow: please check the following URL

https://moz.com/community/q/one-of-your-listings-managed-by-moz-local-appears-to-no-longer-have-data-on-either-google-or-facebook

This usually happen when you have more than one register business at the same place. Google and many other local business listing sites along with Facebook consider them to unauthorised entries. This is mostly happen with businesses using service offices.

If Google find two or more businesses with one link address, Google disable almost all of those even you have been a verfied user. To get back to track you need to add full complete address including suit or office number along with main address.

This will brng you back to your local listing back to normal.

Just to let you know, this has happen with us as well. So thats why i am so sure about it.

I hope this will help.

Yes, you're right but when you say short are they just based on few words. I am sure Google would also consider the proporation of each side thin and the details ones.
If most of reviews are just few words, off course you dont want to publish them before even it reach to google not only for Google but for your impression. As these mostly be consider as self created reviews.
I would say be a selective in this regards. Mixture can work

Hi

I think, it does not matter as long as reviews are from customer and genuine ones. I reckon do not publish by yourself, ask your customer if they are happy with your service to leave reviews for yourselves. 
In the case of reviews posting from same IP can or system can potentially raise red flag for your business and Google may can remove your reviews.
Read the here for further guidelines

Hi
I totally agree with Logan, the site is relstively new and its require more work along with good and strong stradgy. I don't see any point of being hit by Google with penalty.
You may also want to consider to check title and tags of your site. have a details technical audit along with on page audit as well.
It will start picking up. Any more question happy to help.

There quite few you can use for this purposes.

I use Seranking.com and their site audit

here is a list of 100 free SEO tools

Hi
its hard to say without having look into search engine console and analtyics. In addition, there could be many reason for the drop.

But if i see recent month, then some sort of fash come to my mind and that is Google recent update on unnatural outbound linking.  I am not sure how it is relavent to you. But you can certainly check that.

here is the link for your assistance:

Just watched it. Great guide and help. Thanks for sharing

In that case you , you really want do the canonical tag to avaid as such potential harm.

Hi Paul,
it depend where you want to transfer your benefit from old site, However, if i would be in your position, i would consider importance of French Polishing service and page to company and site accordingly. Based on that i would decide, If it’s one of you main service then do redirect to landing page. Otherwise, to the main site. I am sure it will help.

In my opinion this could be address by using canonical tags however, 302 redirection is never been advice for this purposes.

Here is Google guide for your batter understanding. : https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

In addition to Harry,
I would say, Just simply use 301 redirect to your new domain; this will bring you not only the traffic of your existing site as well as old site backlinks along with juice of those back links to your site.
In regards to your landing page, if you want to deliver all goodness of old domain to your landing page, that can work as well this can have significant impact on your landing page in relation to SEO and performence of your landing page.

Another, thing to consider, prepare a list of all URLs from old site and add redirect url which you think is relvant for old page, this way it will be easy for you to redirect all your old URLs to new site without suffering any harm.

Just make sure you follow the guidelines and you do it properly.

Yes it does provide search volume based on your selection( country wise) however, it dose not mean that the accuracy is 100%.
It can differ from slightly to a quite decent numbers. And you will have the same issue with almost every keyword tools available.
A good practice would be to get an idea from different tools ie SemRush.com, Google keyword planner.

Yes..it is domain level redirect you can achieve this through htacess file.

Hi

Just simply use 301 redirect to your new domain; this will bring you not only the traffic of your existing site as well as the backlinks and juice of those back links to your site.
I believe, this will behave in the same manner with plugins based links as well.

Just make sure you follow the guidelines and you do it properly.

The naked domain gives an extra room for your permalink to be more visible on SERPs thus making some extra keywords visible instead of being chopped off. So it has an SEO benefit for people who are habitual with creating long-tailed keywords inside permalinks.

If you think shorter is better, then the non-WWW approach will make you feel better. There are apparently no “technical” benefits to using the non-WWW approach, only that it reduces redundancy and is no longer needed. To be practical, it makes no drastic change whether to use a naked domain or domain with www as the sub-domain. A domain which is hosted at the root directory like www, is better remembered by people as a brand. People are habitual to recognizing websites with www extension and are observed browsing sites in address bar using the www extension most frequently.
The following advanatages you may get from it

1. Ability to restrict cookies when using multiple subdomains.

2. Using the WWW hostname allows for easy segregation in the file tructure of your website.

3. More flexibility with DNS.

   However, my preferrence is always to use WWW

You can ready further guide on this page: http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/www-vs-non-www-for-your-canonical-domain-url-which-is-best-and-why/

In addition to Andy, I would say, if you're using same content for both stores. I would urge you to use ifram or no-index tags to the relevant page or copy of the site in order to eliminate the duplication issue.

Here is complete guide for you. Choose which suits you the best. I hope it helps.

The reason is Moz index data is relatively small than any tools. This could be the reason. However, Moz index is getting there as they running quite big chunk of index now. Hopefully, it will not be long now

HI
this could be potenailly your server. When you server returns the response code 200 on those pages.

Soft 404s can limit a site’s crawl coverage by search engines because these duplicate URLs may be crawled instead of pages with unique content.” Google added tips for 404 pages

Here you can get complete guide for this issue: http://searchengineland.com/google-webmaster-tools-adds-soft-404-pages-43748