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Be forewarned, you stop paying Yext, and all of those changes and accuracies made sure of, are kaput.

Do this math: Do what yext does, manually yourself or outsourced, ONCE, AND CORRECTLY. and you are pretty much set for life. else, you pay $300 a year to Yext and in return, they give you a whole lot of free listings and a few unique and paid ones, the value of which is really not that much more than the free listings you can manually create on a good 95% of yext partners. Also, there are a lot more legit local directory sites to use on top of what yext has to offer which will be missed if one pressed the button, pays, and forgets. just my 2 cents on Yext.

Also, does your client happen to have a real actual physical location they operate out of, or are they out of some virtual office / ups store type address. Because Google has gotten somewhat smart with this stuff lately and also your competition can flag you and report you for violation of terms of Google service.

We have seen perfectly performing business on the graph, suddenly disappear due to very likely this very reason.

if you see "We currently do not support the location" in your dashboard, this is the case.

http://moz.com/community/q/google-places-we-currently-do-not-support-the-location-2

Sounds like someone is messing with you and your site. A shady competitor that is.

Google has said to use the disavow tool like a machete when you do use it. so read up a bit more on the below links and decide whether you should use it or not. I'd probably use it if this is the case of someone screwing around and I can ascertain about that, and I'd do so with extreme prejudice and no mercy on any domain/link I do not want nor had done anything to get anything back from. things that can now potentially throw off my other concerted efforts by diluting the anchor texts and making my link profile utterly spammy. Think C-blocks and IPs too...

Negative results and implications of these links may not YET be visible to you but by the time they are, it may be enough damage to affect your ranking and exposure on SERPs. Depends hugely on who is your nearest competition and what industry it is and how many competitors are out there to get you.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2271695/Disavowing-Links-Google-Says-Use-a-Machete-Not-a-Scalpel

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-disavow-tool-harm-17327.html

"However, if you see a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low-quality links point to your site, and you're confident that the links are causing issues for your site, you can use the disavow tool to disavow those links. In most cases, Google can assess which links to trust without additional guidance, so most normal or typical sites will not need to use this tool."

Good luck

Roger is plain smart. Not wise.

You want Gold, you must get your hands dirty.

Track one of these guys down http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/30/tech/web/first-website-cern/index.html

What they are involved with right now, imho is an utter waste of their precious and otherwise productive time and talent... That is like NASA getting its best people to do of all things, a rebuild of Shuttle in a decade or two...

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Also, if you are asking all of these things from your "web developer", I would say, you are asking WAAAYYY too much from them. I personally know quite a few brilliant ones right here in Houston who are all the way booked in their professional time, and I would bet you a drink that not a single one of them would fit the criteria of your massive demands fully! It's almost impractical to ask for an experienced, well established developer who is also amazingly good at technical, local, and on-site SEO AND PPC, and be a good content writer too. not to mention the creative part of design which many "developers" do not really come up with themselves and collaborate with designers in their firms or networks to do. Most of them will meet a few criteria points but not all of those very diverse roles!

I am just saying, you could increase the chances of success here by dividing the roles a bit.

you may also want to mention the rewards and pay as well. there is all of this and no mention of what is in it for them. Maybe, just maybe, this alone can help attract more leads. You know, high almighty developers you are looking for do not often go job hunting... quite the opposite they are looking to offload workload to someone else DESPITE the pay, that is just my experience with almost every well-established developer I have dealt with locally.

Tried over Chrome on desktop and mobile. On desktop, I find the new size better and much more inviting to be read.

but on mobile, i find both of them highly not friendly. Overall you need to optimize this page better for mobile, i really must be desperately in need of what you have to say to try and zoom in on a wide text page like this on a tiny screen while on the go. But i guess that would depend if you rely on or get heavy mobile traffic. takes more than a font size change on this one.

my 2 cents, hope it helps

I just noticed this today that some websites and brands look like this on firefox only, and others while still being number one result for their brand name, do not appear like this at all.

also, this does not happen over chrome at all.

both images provided for comparison are using the same google apps account logged in.

It would be nice if someone could shed some light on as to why this happens sporadically and what does it take to be distinguished like this for your own brand if you own the identical domain.com or whatever.

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use 301 redirects

no matter how legitimate, google does not know you, and if you sound and smell like a link scheme to them, they will penalize you unless proven innocent.

one suggestion would be to host these domains on different servers and host providers to diversify your c-block IP profile. if it is all from 255.766.899.xxx family, you can bet that chances are given the topic of your site, google will probably consider you topically web spam on top of the link scheme feel it gets from your properties.

and not using 301 redirects could be another flag to google that something funny may be taking place.

I just did quick search on OSE and guess what?

.co.uk has DA of 6

.fr has DA of 18

.es has DA of 13 and is detected to redirect to .com/es/

none of this is ok, as it indicates you are not properly redirecting traffic to your site or OSE cant understand the redirect, otherwise they should all be showing me something like this

The URL you've entered redirects to another URL. We're showing results for www.xxxxxxxxx.com/ since it is likely to have more accurate link metrics. See data for xxxxxxxxx.com instead?

see how your sites are connected, check your c-block ip stats and find a way not to "appear" like a link scheme. that is about the fastest cure you can achieve.

Is your on-site SEO tags for Google news setup? Are you in Google news program?

I don't know why exactly Google's crawl rate changes, but that is something mostly out of your control or anyone else's. But I have seen this happen with site switches where before on a php site the blog post would be indexed within minutes to hours and now, a lot of changes take a lot longer to be reflected. mind you this is a #1 ranking site too for its niche.

have a look at these, make sure your on-site tags are all good and apply to google news.

http://searchengineland.com/library/google/google-news-keywords-tag

also, have you submitted a new sitemap to GWT since the update to site?

other things to consider:

blogger is a google service, they get priority clearance anyway

blogger ha a huge domain authority, your site doesn't

blogger gets millions of visits a day, your website will never

perhaps you can come up with a way to use the above 3 points to your advantage. run a canonical version of the site on a blog, get it indexed, get your links exposed and overtime, google will figure out that it needs to crawl your site rather fast.

When I try to filter your links to internal it appears your have no internal links period. not sure why, but I do know that OSE spider works a little different than roger bot for moz campaigns per experience with some template and AJax/javascript sites.

I also do know this is the case between google and OSE. OSE does not equal google. not even close. trust your GWT data unless someone from moz can calrify why is this happening

also, i just randomly clicked an image on homepage and checked the source code, i see quite a number of no follow tags

use CTRL+F yourself to see what I mean, search for the word follow and highlight all to see them

also i see this which is a bit odd and may be part of the reason your internal links are not being read as well <a class="attribute-value">http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb</a> ???

i can endorse rsseo as well. but joomla may not always be the best option, however it will get the job done.

it depends. that Option can often help a little bit with scrapers if you are going to run a blog (scraping WILL happen if you have worthy content). otherwise, there is not a real need to that.

see this thread for more info. this other link is mentioned in there for modifications to this theme's metadata and settings.

What is your google webmaster tools data showing you. which keywords among your list of researched kws are getting the best stats (clicks, bounce rate and CTR)

this can give you a good insight as to what is that users are searching for and clicking you for.

Furthermore, after doing this and seeing what kws are actually bringing any impressions/traffic to site, I would revisit my keyword research using all the tools and tactics suggested in this guide When dealing with adwords kw tool, i would ensure I get the google "search trends" of my list too in the export (enabled this from columns drop down - you do not need to have an adwords campaign). often times, targeting larger numbers of right keywords (longer tail, less popular, less competitive) is a sure way of gaining a good ranking faster while it can also bring the needed traffic as you wait for your major kws to rank in the longer run. you can also definitely utilize google trends tool for "forecasts" of future trends.

for example if you are aiming to rank high for 20 kws that are each getting 100-300 queries a month via adwords data, it is much better often than attempting to rank high for 2 very competitive and popular kws with thousands of searches per month. your competition is a huge factor in how fast and how well you rank. Especially if you are set against big dawgs (big corps, govts sites, authority sites, wikipedia, etc), it could even be impossible to rank higher than them if they know what they are doing SEO wise- not to mention big dawg DA is always naturally high.

btw have you checked your top competitors for your desired keywords, have you ran a on-page grading for their top ranking pages? have you seen those ranking pages "equity" backlink profile? social shares? all of these count and all it takes for you not to rank is others doing as much of it as possible through approved and organic methods and you may not even be aware of half of them!!!! this is very common for those new and experienced in SEO, that is how vast this thing is and even with a couple of years of experience under your belt you can still find yourself uneducated, outdated or out of the know in a lot of circumstances.

one last note: i would also exclusively use the rank checker tool to analyze rankings for keywords with entire subdomain selected. avoid doing regular searches or incognito ones via the browser as that will actually still take into account your locality regardless of being signed in our out of google.

competitors can easily benefit from that however... as well as few dumb search engines that still hover in the pits of 90s

I would generally stay away from pop ups as much as possible. Consider user experience. Do you like pop ups? even if its a totally legit chat or form window. How about the guy on mobile or with a slower mobile?

from a conversion rate and bounce rate stand point, pop ups typically work against you, regardless of their use.

HOWEVER, obviously the more popular and unique that particular resource on the net, the less this negative impact. ie Yahoo or Google using a pop up is one thing, vs. your small biz site. user reactions do differ based on who it is, and what is being pop up.

if you want to do a test, i suggest using optimizely for A/B testing and seeing how the two compare instead of risking ruining your live stats big time for a test that may end up not being worth all the damage it may cause.

I would like to report that it is now accessible via http://ranktracker.moz.com/, my bad for the panic mode, I am under gun here with a major contract and report I need to compile and this was just so unexpected as I have very little office time left to wrap it up but thanks so much for a rapid response and clarification, hope I can get the most of this remaining hour or so.

iT IS GONE

I GOOGLE IT, IN A FRESH CACHE, IT SHOWS UP AS moz.com/tools/rank-tracker

i GO TO IT, IT SHOWS the proper page, and then when i login it goes to http://moz.com/researchtools/rank-tracker

OR

http://moz.com/tools/rank-tracker‎

even if i copy the address and try typing in directly, it redirects over there.

this must have happened very recently, i was just conducting research there and had over 100 kw left to use for the day. it is now a 404 no matter what browser i use

PLEASE HELP MOZ!

Hi Christopher

I am not aware of any specific tests, but In my experience I would say that it will depend. Sometimes you may not want a too long of a url string, while your title could technically be long and yet visually fit nicely on page.

But for SEO purposes and for ranking, it definitely helps in my opinion to include the proper long tail kw string of focus in both url and page title tag. Those are among the most worth on-page cues one can utilize for best results.

also ensure they dont steal your content and create duplicate content issues for you.

not identical text. best is not to do that. however, you should and are encouraged to use the same targeted keywords in meta description and post excerpt and if fitting ,post url and title. try to avoid identical strings of words, no identical sentences, stay unique in each readable text section as much as possible, while holding on to your desire kw.

title and url being the same is perfectly ok.