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Hi there,

Recently, there was a bug with indexing. You can find more info about this here https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ranking-index-drop-30192.html .

Ross

Hi there,

I would change the URL of the existing page and then redirect the old URL to the new URL via 301 redirect.

Ross

Hi,

You can add some keyword to the name of your GMB, but you have to be very careful.  Google will consider this technique as spam and your listing might get suspended.

Ross

What is your domain name?

Well, the only free short cut you need to wait to establish your business and domain, but it takes time.

Ross

Hi there,

There are two ways to accomplished this:

1. You need to search your company name via Google Search on daily basis but using different IPs and devices. Your goal is to get branded searches and clicks to your site from unique devices and IPs.  After some time Google will stop offering you "instead" queries. ( artificial way )

2. Do some outdoor Ads that would require people to search your company brand name. ( natural way)

Ross

Hi there,

That's correct. You should be using google.com.au to see your competitors that rank for that keyword.

Ross

Hi there,

I just want to be clear here. Do you mean that some of the categories were deindexed by Google?

Ross

As far as I know, they do not have an Agency account.

Hi there,

You need to wait some time since most of your links are not no-follow.

Ross

Hi Lindsey,

They are not the same, but the contractors from Bing that were behind the quality check at that time could have marked that page as duplicative. I saw that happened on Google. Also, I think the issue could be that these two pages look alike in terms of design, and folks from Bing might think there is no reason to have these two pages in the SERPS because they look very similar. They cannot tell the exact issue because you will reverse engineer the problem.

Ross

Hi there,

I believe they think that your website is impersonating this website https://www.pardeehospitalfoundation.org 

To be honest they look quite similar.  Are those two businesses are own by the same company?

Ross

Hi there,

To the best of my knowledge, the DA metric is being updated quite often, but it depends on the number of factors.

For example:

Are you getting do-follow links or no-follow links?

How many links are acquiring on monthly basis?

Did those links get index by Moz?

I know that 301 redirect to your money site might help you to bring your DA up fast, but the domain has to be very relevant and you need to know what are you doing.

Ross

Hi Katarina,

You need to set up two GMB locations. One location has to be in the USA and another one has to be in the UK. Also, you have to have a physical location in both countries in order to receive the postcards from Google and verify your listings.

You can add www.example.com/us/ version of the site to the "website field "in the GMB, and you add a regular version of the site to another GMB( UK Version).

Ross

Hi there,

If the questions and answers are related to your company then you should be fine since you are trying to improve customer experience. Google should not consider that spammy.

Ross

Hi there,

I assume you serve local clients. You should keep making posts on GMB, so people can see that you are still in business. By making GMB posts you will have a higher CTR which will lead to more clicks on your GMB. You should collect the email addresses of your clients because you will be able to notify them that your business is open now.

Ross

Hi there,

If you want to improve your spam score I would recommend reading this guide https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/spam-score. It explains the 27 factors that MOZ is using to make up this spam score.

Ross

If they are not planning to do any link building then you should be fine with setting up everything on the subdomain.

Ross

It is a pretty common issue with sites that have articles, users or products. Unfortunately, I am not sure if you can get rid off this. Moz.com has this as well if you type this in google search site:https://moz.com/community/q

Ross

Hi there,

I think it is a bad idea if you are planning to rank category pages or products on that subdomain. The best option is to set up everything on WordPress with the Woocomerce plugin. The WordPress CMS is very flexible, SEO friendly and you have an access to your server if you need to pull server logs from it.

Ross