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Maybe so. I'll have to find out from our web team. Thanks!

Hi there,

When you add pages to a site, do you need to re-generate an XML site map and re-submit to Google/Bing? I see the option in Google Webmaster Tools under the "fetch as Google tool" to submit individual pages for indexing, which I am doing right now.

Thanks,
Sarah

Thank you so much. I'm a content gal, so I'm still learning all this coding stuff as fast as I can. Really appreciate the help.

Yes! Thank you! Going to fetch as Google and see if that sheds any light.

Hi all,

I have a few pages that - despite having a robots meta tag and no follow, no index, they are showing up in Google SERPs. In troubleshooting this with my team, it was brought up that another page could be linking to these pages and causing this. Is that plausible? How could I confirm that?

Thanks,
Sarah

Thanks Chris. I plan to move forward. God I hope I don't ever have to do this again.

Yes it does - thank you!

This is probably going to sound like the silliest question ever, but I have to ask. Does an article that requires a subscription to read count as a backlink? Is there any difference in that type of backlink as opposed to one that doesn't require a subscription?

Thanks.

Breakout from an earlier question today ...

G+ versus Google My Business:

Looks like I lost descriptions and cover pictures on my Google Places locations during the dashboard switchover. I have 70 locations - is it worth cleaning up at this time? I would hate to invest all of that, only to learn later I  need to migrate to Google My Business (and potentially - likely? - face similar issues).

Thanks,
Sarah

Thanks Keri - right on!

Hi Miriam,

Looks like I lost descriptions and cover pictures on my locations during the dashboard switchover. I have 70 locations - is it worth cleaning up. I would hate to invest all of that, only to learn later I should migrate to this new thing.

Thanks,
Sarah

That really was helpful actually. In the business section, Miriam distinctly says don't try to merge at this time since the new shiny thing is buggy. So it would follow, from my understanding, that it would be too buggy to migrate it.

Your last sentence sounds right on-point, and it makes no sense why they have to keep reinventing the wheel. I don't even know what this new wheel is. Thanks for that link, and I really like your page by the way.

Here's hoping ...

Hoping a local biz expert can help ...

So all these Google business listing solutions are confusing me. I have Google Places and had been told for several months I would have a new dashboard. I assume I have it now because the interface is different now when I log in. I've noticed missing pictures, descriptions from some of our 70 locations, but so far that's it.

But I also see a recommendation for Google My Business. Am I supposed to migrate over there or am I fine where I am. I just want a place to manage my G+ business pages.

Thanks!
Sarah

Agreed. Besides, maybe someone (a newbie like me!) with the same question could see how I figured it out, then try it on their own. Or someone can see what I did and say "wait, that's not right ... ".

I think it comes from my mentality of not to wanting waste people's time on questions I found the answer to - but, yes, we wouldn't want to punish the people putting time into answering, especially when it can help someone else. Thanks for bringing that up, Keri!

Thanks Miriam! We don't have a company managing our listings, just myself manually. I'm assuming there is bandwidth for 70 locations? We have G+ and FB pages for each one, so that's not a problem.

Yep, I looked in Yext. The package we would need to get just wasn't at the right price point.

Thanks! I had mistaken the branding page for our HQ page, so I really feel like I messed up. Oh welp, time to research how to do it and get started! Many thanks.

Hello,

Before Moz Local was released, I had worked with a 3rd party vendor and established citations throughout several, several domains. There may had been some directories, such as the databases, that we were unsuccessful at because we're 70 locations and they wanted to charge high fees for bulk. We also were unsuccessful with Yahoo, Yellow Pages and Citysearch (for various reasons that are too complex to get into here).

1. Would it be beneficial to also use Moz Local for good measure and to cover some, if not all, domains we had difficulties with?

2. Would that be duplicating our efforts and/or cause duplicate listings?

3. Can we cherry-pick which domains we want?

Thanks.

My company has a G+ page for each of our 60 locations. Do we need a branding page as well?

Thanks guys! Trying to get to the next level, and this looks like a fantastic tool.