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Thanks, Dmitrii for your response! From our research we've seen similar recommendations and it helps to have more evidence to back it up. Hopefully these guys will give in a bit!

Hi All,

We have a web provider who's not willing to remove the wildcard line of code blocking all agents from crawling our client's site (user-agent: *, Disallow: /). They have other lines allowing certain bots to crawl the site but we're wondering if they're missing out on organic traffic by having this main blocking line. It's also a pain because we're unable to set up Moz Pro, potentially because of this first line.

We've researched and haven't found a ton of best practices regarding blocking all bots, then allowing certain ones. What do you think is a best practice for these files?

Thanks!

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: Yahoo-slurp
Disallow: 

User-agent: bingbot
Disallow:

User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 5
Disallow: /new_vehicle_detail.asp
Disallow: /new_vehicle_compare.asp
Disallow: /news_article.asp
Disallow: /new_model_detail_print.asp
Disallow: /used_bikes/
Disallow: /default.asp?page=xCompareModels
Disallow: /fiche_section_detail.asp

Perhaps more of a discussion here than a definite answer, but we are looking at making periodic changes to the priority and recency of our sitemap pages, but would have to repopulate that information each time our plugin updates for our WordPress site. Is this something that is even worth doing or are these updates not impactful enough to merit adding it to our process?

Thanks all!

If we are marking up schema for a company that does services nationally, but has one physical location, should we use LocalBusiness for the organization type? It's an advertising company that is based in North Carolina, but services companies nationally.

Thanks as always friends!

I'm implementing schema across a few Wordpress sites. Most (probably all) WP sites use widgets for their footer, which offer their own editable HTML. Is it damaging (or helpful) to implement the exact same markup in the footer and a specific page, like for instance,  a locations page that has the address and contact info (which are also in the footer)?

So this source code is from a WP site... the script is for a slider banner... is it necessary to implement schema for it? Or will Google simply skip over it? Is it just the analysis tool itself doesn't know what to make of the code? Are there any long term metric issues we may run into if we leave it as is? Thanks again for your input.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3w1smoAsa5EZXJFaVhwMGFCSzA/view?usp=sharing

I was wondering if anyone had a NON-SCHEMA MARK-UP solution for the following... I ran my Wordpress homepage HTML (after I implemented schema mark-up) in the structured data testing tool and received an error parsing the JSON-LD... it came at the beginning of the code and I know it is from the slider banner plugin... We are trying to see if there as an alternative to implementing schema with in the js... also does anyone know if the actual Google search will simply skip over the code and parse the rest of HTML? Thank you for your help.