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Hi there! Can you expand on what you mean by Knowledge graph box? Thanks! John

That's good to know! Thanks!

Thanks so much for taking the time to respond. Our website still has a small amount of SEO authority and I think too much internal links is spreading our equity thin. Having a look at our pages, the blog and product categories are inflating our internal links. I'll see if I can remove these.

Hi Miriam, Yes, these are very helpful! Thanks for the advice on doing a competitive audit. I will certainly do this for both clients!

Yes, thank you very much!

Thanks! We probably should have combined JS with CSS and not built a site fully reliant on JS. This looks like what our competitors have done.

Nikki–if you feel comfortable sharing one of the sites, that would be helpful for further investigation! It seems like there's a lot you're blocking in your robots.txt that you might need (though that's hard to suss out without knowing your site): Disallow: /blogs/+, Disallow: /blogs/%2B, Disallow: /blogs/%2b assuming /blogs is the primary page path for any other blog content (e.g. /blogs/blog-title-goes-here) Disallow: /design_theme_id assuming this is one of your stylesheets, you should probably remove this. Disallow: /gift_cards/* no idea what comes after /gift_cards/[here], but this may be unnecessary There may be other reasons Google doesn't reliably see your site as mobile friendly–if you can provide an example site, then we can dig deeper

That plugin is great, it shows search volumes even on predictive search. I figured how to add a list to SEMRush too - thank you!!

Thanks, Paul! We'll try disabling RocketLoader.

Perfect, thanks for sharing the link!

They are indeed separated, to get your G+ page for your local listing to display in brandaccounts, create a new G+ page and use the exact URL you use for GMB. This will let Google know they are tied together.

Thank you, I think that having only 1 backlink on the homepage footer is the best approach.

Thanks, everyone! We'll consider adding these canonical tags in the future, but won't flag it as urgent at the moment

Thank you! Yes, we have a feeling the phone number came from a hidden code somewhere. We asked our client if their website was built by the same developer that built the site of the business where the phone number goes to. If this is the case, then that solves the mystery.

Hi Martin, thanks for sharing the article and for the tips on what to check! I need that article right now to help me calm down

Correct!

Hello, I've noticed that some of our storefront locations with verified GMB listings do not have an associated brand account. Has anyone else seen this, and how can we create a linked G+ page when no brand account exists for a listing? Thanks!

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