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Lost and Founder
Awesome feedback Ed! I have not read it yet personally, but it's on my list of books to get into in the next several months! Definitely a little bit more excited to read it now and appreciate your experience reading and insight on his book.
Moz News | | NickW8162 -
What's the best way for users to upload their images to my wordpress site to promote UGC
YES! WP custom area. That's the one I want. Thanks roman.
Technical SEO Issues | | Smileworks_Liverpool1 -
I want to transfer an old Blogger blog onto my new site
No worries. Likewise, I mostly work with WordPress, so Blogger is definitely not my forte. It hasn't been updated for some time, but something like this plugin may help: https://wordpress.org/plugins/blogger-301-redirect/ Or otherwise, some further digging may be needed Sorry, I can't be of more help. Good luck Ed!
Technical SEO Issues | | Casey_Bryan0 -
Strange backlinks
That's great news.... but it wasn't me. I didn't do anything. It's possible that a competitor complained and they did a deep dive into the images being used by the site. I have a competitor with images similar to mine. Infringers are often taking images from their site and mine. This compeitor is extremely aggressive about fighting infringement and they have solved a lot of my problems. One of the few situations where I have enjoyed having them in my SERPs.
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | EGOL0 -
Wordpress Blog, Schema and Authorship Settings
Thanks EGOL this is precisely what I need. We're all dentists so have all the things you're talking about. Apart from me - I'm a lawyer - and I figure it's like court. You can't just say you're something or someone - they want a certain standard of proof. I'm busy getting all the professional bodies and associations pointing at the right people and pages and trying to get my people (who've all been to uni a few times) to write for their universities and members associations so we can get links from them too. This is how they appear in the SERPS - but I'm working on making it like that for everyone. Dr MJ Rowland-Warmann BSc BDS MSc Aes.Med. MJDF RCS (Eng) <cite class="iUh30">https://www.smileworksliverpool.co.uk/team/mj-rowland-warmann/</cite> Rating: 4.9 - 230 reviewsDr MJ BSc BDS (Manc) MSc Aes.Med. (Lond) MJDF RCS (Eng) is our captain and co-founder She's loved by all and practices with formidable talent. I will look into google scholar. I publish all their papers and studies in an 'academic resources' section too - I want to get google scholar to link to that or get them published. It's only university essays though and not peer reviewed stuff so might be a struggle. I've noticed a bump in search when we use headlines like 'unbiased medical insights into x, y and z' or really play up the qualifications. 'Our orthodontists discuss the best braces treatments' is so much better than just 'buy this and that' Thanks for your help with this. I'm on the right track but will now double down on your suggestions. Smart people will inherit the SERPS. Eventually...
Local Website Optimization | | Smileworks_Liverpool0 -
I have number one positions organically, should I run an additional PPC campaign?
Yeah they really suck though. They are mean to patients and do a bad job and overcharge them. So it's a good thing really. I sound evil but my team do really beautiful work for fair fees and make hundreds of people a week smile and feel better about themselves. So every patient I acquire I see as being saved from potential dental disaster at the hands of some incompetent or greedy practitioner. It's a cool culture. I feel sorry for our competition because I don't ever want to see businesses fail. But some of them don't deserve to be in business. Not in 2018.
Local Strategy | | Smileworks_Liverpool0 -
Is being in position 1-3 without a featured snippet better for conversions?
Yes you are right realises own confirmation bias I love how new this all is, it's so interesting and I feel we're on the cutting edge of something. I'll get some more data together and do my own little study. #alwaysbetesting
Conversion Rate Optimization | | Smileworks_Liverpool0 -
My 'complete guide' is cannibalising my main product page and hurting rankings
Hello! Actually, often having more results can sometimes increase the CTR to either result But either way I wouldn't be concerned about CTR in that sense. I would worry again about if users are enjoying your pages once they land on them. You can, however, still work on improving CTR in general to both pages by making your titles and descriptions better - more clicks = more traffic anyway!
Technical SEO Issues | | evolvingSEO0