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We agree with Hutch42.

You'll get the most out of your blog if you set it up as: www.domain.com/blog

Happy blogging!

No problem!

Hello!

There's no way to tell Google exactly what to display under Sitelinks. What I'm seeing for the keyword you provided is a mix of meta descriptions and text on the actual pages.

For example, under SEO Packages I'm seeing: "Go through our SEO packages to see what best suits your business.", which is actually part of your meta description. It seems like Google was smart enough to shorten your meta description and take that bit so it fits in the Sitelink description.

Maybe try to construct your meta descriptions in this same fashion if you are really concerned about the Sitelinks descriptions. Seems to have worked for that specific page!

Best of luck

Hey there!

Can you provide the web page URL?

Hello!

From an SEO perspective it shouldn't affect anything.

For users it might be confusing if anything. I would go with .com.

I always found this one great for beginners: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/get-started-using-schema/

Hey there!

I'm assuming that you don't have a static homepage in WordPress, meaning that you can't edit it under 'pages' and add an H1.

You'll have to find the home / index template under Appearance > Editor and add an H1 there.

Hope this steers you in the right direction!

Delete the pages and if they are still showing up in Google's index 301 redirect them to home.

Does he have a strong reason why he is so against displaying his address?

Your conclusion about showing up in the local listings (7-pack, or what have you) is definitely right. Without an address on Google Maps and other citations confirming the address you don't really stand a chance. I think you just have to keep reminding the client that they are a local business and how important citations really are for local SEO.

You may still be able to rank organically (aside from the local listings), but again, if you are optimizing for geo-targeted keywords, it's going to be a challenge.

PPC can sometimes be beneficial in addition to SEO efforts, however, I wouldn't suggest putting all your time / money into it. We have clients in similar industries and the majority of the traffic is organic. This channel simply cannot be ignored.

Hope this info helps a bit!

Hi Gary,

I would go with the exact keyword matches in these scenarios. I don't see a problem with it because it looks like you are optimizing pages for a very specific product. Whatever you think makes more sense for the user usually makes sense to search engines. I also don't think your URLs are too long.

Did you check out this weeks Whiteboard Friday on Information Architecture? It might clear some things up.

Hope that's helpful!

It's not a new feature or anything. They've somehow added that text character directly to the beginning of their title tag. If you look at the source code the character looks like a box, but if you copy paste it somewhere, it shows that it's a green check mark character.

Good catch! Very tricky indeed.

I've pondered that same question and have never found research data that really supports it one way or another. I usually add the location in title tags for the highest authority pages. Our philosophy is that it does help for geo specific queries, which we believe is important, and doesn't necessarily hurt the ability to rank in a location when someone uses a non-geo specific query.

One thing you may have noticed is that the results are not identical for a geo specific term vs searching a term with a geo location set (or Google recognizing your location). You'll often see more national results and directory pages show up for the latter (ie. wikipedia, yelp, etc.) This is why it may appear to be harder to rank for non-geo specific terms, when in reality, Google is showing more national results.

Of course, as Patrick hinted, there are a lot of other local ranking factors that you should focus on. On thing I'll add to that list is to use schema.org HTML markup tags to the location on your website.

Hope this steers you in the right direction!

Best you can do is report the website for 'cloaking' via Webmaster Tools:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform

Hello Parvaneh!

If you are referring to your Moz profile, you cannot add the full URL to add your link to Facebook. Instead, just add **ParvaneFashionAccessories **in the Facebook field. Moz has the link set up to already add the first part, facebook.com/

Hope this was helpful!

As far as I know that iteration would still be considered an 'exact match' domain, however, a lot industry experts have speculated and agree that their effectiveness is diminishing. In other words, ranking for exact match keywords using an exact match domain isn't as effective for getting a ranking boost as it used to be. That's some old school SEO right there.

Hope this helps!

Haha! No problem.

Sounds like you are in a very high competition area.

I believe that reviews play a big part in moving up for Google maps listings. Reviews reinforce credibility and trust to users so Google likes showing companies with these first to provide the best results for their searchers.

Also, keep working on verifying other local listings besides Google. The more credible listings you have set up with consistent Name, Address, Phone Number (and website!), the better you'll be off.

Here's a good start: http://moz.com/learn/local 

Good luck with everything!

You are correct, it is part of the knowledge graph. I believe you are referring specifically to the infamous Google Answer Box.

More info here: http://moz.com/blog/101-google-answer-boxes-a-journey-into-the-knowledge-graph

First situation: for both options, in theory, you will be maintaining the same link power, however, I would choose option two. You won't have to worry about GoogleBot crawling the old URL to find the new one. Depending on the keywords you are targeting, you might lose some ground by changing the URL structure. If the old URL structure fits into your new web navigation model, I think you should stick with it to maintain the same results.

Second situation: if you feel that the pages aren't of valuable on their own I would 301 them to the one URL. If they made sense to keep from a user experience perspective you would want to add "rel=canonical" tags pointing to the one URL instead.

Hopefully that clears things up!

Doesn't have to be identical across all local citations. NAP and categories are more important. It's okay if they are similar but you should really tailor each description to the audiences that are engaging on each platform.

Hope that answers your Q!