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According to Google
There is No SEO Benefit To Adding Trust Seals To Your Site

Google's Gary Illyes confirmed on Twitter that Google doesn't have a ranking signal that looks to see if a site has a trust seal on it and then gives the site a ranking benefit for having one.

In simple words:

• Badges will not improve your rank
• Badges will not give you more traffic

But this just from the SEO perspective, from the CRO perspective is another history.

Studies have shown that people trust more in the websites, which show up badges (known or not know) to sort of show how trusted or big they are. This is especially common when it comes to e-commerce websites, where this constant demand of trust as an urge to buy is very important. Therefore these trust badges have a direct role in raising the conversion rates – meaning that more website visitors would turn actual customers after visiting the website. This method is vital for many websites: there are tons of online frauds on a daily basis. Landing and Checkout pages are the most prone to feature all these badges in order to plant trust in the souls of the shoppers

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So don't let people sell you trust seals to improve your SEO. It may improve your conversion rates and user's perceived feeling of online safety but for SEO, no, it does not help.

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According to Moz the Optimal Format for a URL
http://www.example.com/category-keyword/subcategory-keyword/primary-keyword.html

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URLs - SEO Best Practices

This is another good source
15 SEO Best Practices for Structuring URLs by Rand Fishkin

In your case, if this new structure will help to improve the user experience and visibility of your site, then you are in the right way.

When I was starting in the world of Seo I was really obsessed, with snipped optimization and keyword optimization and so on.

Now I prefer to focus on the content and the user needs.

As I see and understand Google is just trying to give to the user's more specific search results.

If someone asks a question to Google, it will try to give the best answer possible at the first time. If any page, site, fan page or whatever meets those criteria, then Google will put it in the first place. On the other hand, if that page does not meet the search query intent "answer the question" then that page will not be in the first place.

No matter the description, or the on-page optimization, or the schemas.

So I think is very simple, don't waste your time leave your meta description alone and create a good content.

Base on my experience can increase the trust and confidence of any some clients increasing your Conversion Rate, The BBB can help you with the backlink pointing to your site coming from your public profile on BBB. Can reduce your bounce rate

But from the SEO perspective, there are no big changes. I mean those badges will not create traffic to your site.

Yes, I have the Pro Subscription andI have access to both, this are some features available in my plan

• Full access to MozBar
• Unlimited backlink reports in Open Site Explorer and up to 10,000 results per report
• 10 Campaigns
• 750 Keyword Rankings
• Can manage up to 30 keyword list

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I had a problem like that in the past, I needed to verify a location but I was in another city, so I request an alternative verification I filled up a form, 2 or 3 days later someone from Google called me to notify me that my request has been approved.

In that case, it was a hostel with several public profiles such as Booking.com and Tripadvisor so they easily were able to verify the information and location

1.) If the business is brand new, and there is no record of it on the Internet as of yet, then I would only recommend creating practitioner listings if it is necessary to point out an area of specialization. So, for example if a medical practice has 5 MDs, the listing for the practice covers that, with no added listings needed. But, if a medical practice has 5 MDs and an Otolaryngologist, it may be good marketing to give the specialist his own listing, because it has its own GMB category and won’t be competing with the practice for rankings. *However, read on to understand the challenges being undertaken any time a multi-practitioner listing is created

2.) If the multi-practitioner business is not new, chances are very good that there are listings out there for present, past, and even deceased practitioners.

• If a partner is current, be sure you point his listing at a landing page on the practice’s website, instead of at the homepage, see if you can differentiate categories, and do your utmost to optimize the practice’s own listing — the point here is to prevent practitioners from outranking the practice. What do I mean by optimization? Be sure the practice’s GMB listing is fully filled out, you’ve got amazing photos, you’re actively earning and responding to reviews, you’re publishing a Google Post at least once a week, and your citations across the web are consistent. These things should all strengthen the listing for the practice.
• If a partner is no longer with the practice, it’s ideal to unverify the listing and ask Google to market it as moved to the practice — not to the practitioner’s new location. Sound goofy? Read Joy Hawkins’ smart explanation of this convoluted issue.
• If, sadly, a practitioner has passed away, contact Google to show them an obituary so that the listing can be removed.
• If a listing represents what is actually a solo practitioner (instead of a partner in a multi-practitioner business model) and his GMB listing is now competing with the listing for his business, you can ask Google to merge the two listings.

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Not-Actually-the-Best Local SEO Practices

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If I could, I would give you the answer to your question but unfortunately, I can't and as I see nobody is helping you, maybe the right place to look help is on Google Advertiser Community.

My advice :

Close the old account then open a new one in the using the same location, if the dashboard does not allow you to mark the new location, then you can request a call to verify manually, someone from Google will call you and then you can explain your case to them. Normally you don't too many problems, they will ask you for your legal documents or any other method to verify you are telling the truth.

Hi Kingalan1 I think this post if for you

A Step-by-Step Guide to Updating Your Website Without Destroying Your SEO

According to Moz the Optimal Format for a URL
http://www.example.com/category-keyword/subcategory-keyword/primary-keyword.html

Source
URLs - SEO Best Practices

This is another good source
15 SEO Best Practices for Structuring URLs by Rand Fishkin

An SEO-friendly URL structure is the following things:

• **Easy to read: **Users and search engines should be able to understand what is on each page just by looking at the URL.
• **Keyword-rich: **Keywords still matter and your target queries should be within URLs. Just be wary of overkill; extending URLs just to include more keywords is a bad idea.
• **Consistent: **There are multiple ways to create an SEO-friendly URL structure on any site. It’s essential that, whatever logic you choose to follow, it is applied consistently across the site.
• ** Static: **Dynamic parameters are rarely an SEO’s best friend, but they are quite common. Where possible, find a solution that allows your site to render static URLs instead.
• **Future-proof: **Think ahead when planning your site structure. You should minimize the number of redirects on your domain, and it’s easier to do this if you don’t require wholesale changes to URLs.
• **Comprehensive: **Use the concepts of main content and supplementary content to ensure you have adequate coverage for all relevant topics. This will maximize your site’s visibility.
• **Supported by data: **It normally requires buy-in from a lot of stakeholders to launch or update a particular site structure. Numbers talk, so make use of search and analytics data to support your case.
• **Submitted to search engines: **Finally, create an XML sitemap containing all of the URLs that you want to rank via SEO and submit it to search engines. That will ensure all your hard work gets the reward it deserves.

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In my opinion, the best option is to use a single account for business and then you can set the different members of that business.

Every user can have a single account for their own use, but everyone will be a member of the same clinic.

Just try to imagine the work and effort involved in rank a single website, on-page optimization, off-page optimization, pay for ads, email and so on.

ok now multiply by for every member....does not make sense.

On the other hand, if you have

• member-a
• member-b
• member-c
• member-d
• member-e

Which of them will have priority?
Which of them will be the brand?
What happen if some leave the others?

If they going to share the same space
as a coworkers, is the same you need to verify just one place in Google Business

In summary: Create a main brand such as "Los Angeles Chiropractic Buro" with several members such as A, B, and C you can even create a single page for every member like a profile page.

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As seoman10 mentioned, you or your client don't have to worry as long you set up the Robot.txt file properly

For years, Google used to limit the length of snippet texts, are short text previews of the search results, to two rows. Over the last couple of days, Google eased up on this rule and will now also show longer snippets in the search results.

In some cases, Google shows longer snippets for search results if the pages provide simple answers to your query. Google previously tested a sidebar that allowed you to increase the size of the snippets and highlight extracted facts like dates and locations, but the tests probably showed that people didn't use the advanced options and that it's a better idea to automatically increase the length of a snippet if there's a high density of information related to your query.

Search Engine Roundtable suspects that "the longer your search query, the longer the snippet might get", but this is not always the case. Google tries to be smart and not overwhelm users with irrelevant information, that's why snippets are usually concise.

Some webmasters and SEOs may consider updating their meta descriptions, but I don’t believe Google would recommend doing so. The snippets are more often dynamically generated based on the user query and content found in both the meta description and the content visible on the page. If Google is going to go with a longer snippet, it likely will pull that content from the page.

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I think the update is focused on the user intent so if you ask Google some specific question such as a specific definition, well in that case the longer snippets make sense and will be generated base on the content of a website.

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