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You can run a "site:yourwebsite.com" search on google and see what is returned.  Based on the results you can run further "site:" searches along with more parameters to see more URLs in the index. A general "site:yourwebsite.com" idea about how many pages are in the index, but it's not 100% accurate.

No point in repeating. Depending on the city, it could make your URL too long as well. Try to keep a simple structure such as: domain.com/collection-agency/dallas

I agree with Martijn. The idea behind what he's explaining is the pace and how acceleration on getting backlinks. Remember that Google has the most advanced algorithm detecting backlink schemes and tactics, they'd eventually get that your site is creating links against their guidelines. Hope it helps. Best luck. GR

Hello SeobyKP, That's a tough question. It's fairly easy for Google to see the other domains on any given server. It is not uncommon for shared hosting to have sites in all sorts of different industries, and all levels of quality. My thought is that you should probably put your client's site on a different server, especially if you're going to be linking into it from other domains on that server. I would personally not link to your client's sites from the other ones because they all appear to use the exact same template, and do not seem to be of very high quality. See these: https://viewdns.info/reverseip/?host=alliedautotransport.com&t=1 Either way, try to avoid using keyword-rich anchor text. It is perfectly fine to interlink a network of sites. Many eCommerce brands do this. They tend to be linked to in the footer with the domain or brand name only.

Hi There! I want to be sure I'm correctly understanding your scenario. Is your company a digital-only or a local business? In order to appear in Google's local results you must have: A physical location in the city of search. Make face-to-face contact with your customers. If either of these factors is absent, the business is not meant to appear in the local results. Please, feel free to provide further details so the community can envision your specific scenario.

From a product perspective, we tend to need to set guidelines that can be quantified, but I'm afraid the whole truth is never quite that black-and-white. All else being equal, I think keeping your titles to a reasonable length is beneficial. Long titles don't automatically harm you (there's no Capital-P penalty for it), but they tend to create a few problems: (1) Often, long, CMS-generated titles front-load repetitive words (like the site name or category/sub-category), which devalues the unique/important words in Google's eyes and is more likely to make it look like duplicate content. (2) Long titles tend to devalue important words for search visitors as well, which can harm click-through rates. I'm a firm believer that CTR has indirect impact on ranking over time. Even if it had no SEO significance, it's generally bad for engagement and for your site. That said, it depends a lot on what you're dealing with. If a title of a page is, say, a title of a blog post, and it's just a long title, that's probably fine. If you have 5,000 product pages that all start with "Bob's Discount Propane Warehouse | Propane and Propane Accessories | ...", then that's going to be detrimental to your usability and SEO. You mentioned images in your reply to Christy -- could you give a couple of examples of the types of pages and titles you're talking about? In general, image-only pages with no additional content (especially if they have near-duplicate titles) are going to be low-value from a search perspective.

Hi KP There really is no limit but URL's with many hyphens tend to look spammy. Remember the old days of long partial match URLs? www.cheap-car-insurance-for-u.com? and suchlike? They just look really crappy. If you really must use one in the TLD then limit it to one. For Pages & Posts, it's quite common to see more use of hyphens. I'm editor at a music blog and it's quite common to see for example: sitename.com/the-rolling-stones-manchester-live-review It looks natural even though there is a stop word in the URL because 'The' is actually part of the Stones' name You will get a warning in Moz because of the long URL but it will not stop it ranking well, at all! For images, it depends on how descriptive you want it to be. If the image was of Mick Jagger in Manchester then the image URL could easily be sitename**/mick-jagger-manchester-old-trafford** and then the Title or Alt text tag would be 'Mick Jagger - Manchester - Old Trafford, so highly descriptive with a couple of hyphens and great for image SEO. So it's up to you really - the more descriptive the better. Ignore warnings of long URLs unless they are stupidly long and focus on enhancing the ranking of the page rather than worry about minutiae. Now: If you are talking about Meta Titles then it's common to use a variety of separators such as a hyphen (-) or a bar (|). In that case, it's fairly simple as you need Primary Keyword - Secondary Keyword - Sitename so they are often limited to just two. I think the more you use them the less space there is for Keywords and it's important with a limited length (60-70 characters) to get those in as a priority. The hyphen takes up 3 characters so they are largely a waste of space. I hope that helps Regards Nigel