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Thanks GR!

I asked a friend on the west coast to confirm the placement (i'm in Boston) and he did not see it on Google page#2 which is where Moz has it. GWT has it on page #3. this is odd

one of my international clients from China does not believe that his site is now on page #2 for a national search term. He said he had a colleague search from a location in the United States and his site did not come up in any of the top 10 Google search page results.

Suggest any ways to back ranking up? Maybe use an additional rank report?

appreciate any/all suggestions. THanks!

Chris

i totally agree and understand this, but this blog funny enough ranks for areas/keywords. It's kinda like having 2 high ranking sites. I have been building posts on this blog since 2010. I am sure that if i combine the two it will help my main domain, but i am worried about the loss of traffic and it simply ranks quite well. It's kind of a tough call. It was built this way as back in 2009/10 this was still somewhat of an old seo trick to increase links to your site by having your blog separate. I am wondering if perhaps i should start building another blog on my site as well and perhaps slowly transition and perhaps just keep both? Interesting dilemma and i completely understand as an seo how combining the two ultimately makes the most sense.

Thank you!

C

I realize that I am building essentially 2 different sites even though they are connected, but on some local town pages i have 2-3 results on Page #1. Nice problem to have eh? But i am worried as for a lot of my surrounding towns my competitor has the top listing or definitely ahead of me, so i am wondering if i combine or convert my blog into the same domain as my site, then all of that content + links should hopefully propel my site to #1. Anyone have an experience like this? thanks, Chris

Thx again!!

each of the lower posts does have its own URL. As you noted above, that unique URL does show up as the user scrolls lower, but there are links to these URLs from main nav too.

Thanks Ruth! Greatly appreciate your help.

So if I understand correctly then Google will index just the 1st post then? Since the lower posts all have their own unique urls then Google will just index those as it crawls I assume (of course it's always wise to have a site map).

Check pymnts.com

I was on a site today and as i scrolled down and viewed the other posts that were below the top one i read, i noticed that each post below the top one had its own unique URL. I have not seen this and was curious if this method of infinite scrolling is SEO friendly. Will Google's spiders scroll down and index these posts below the top one and index them? The URLs of these lower posts by the way were the same URLs that would be seen if i clicked on each of these posts. Looking at Google's preferred method for Infinite scrolling they recommend something different - https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/02/infinite-scroll-search-friendly.html .

Welcome all insight. Thanks!

Christian

Great advice, love it. Thx!

Thanks for the info, appreciate it and totally get it. Just seems like very low priority if you will when these links are on old posts (2014/13) that very few at most visit. Additionally, i read that the Google bot simply moves on. I just view this as a minor issue, where as broken links on main pages where there is a lot of traffic is much more alarming or pressing. Thx

Please note that these old posts hardly get any traffic.  Ive heard both sides on this.

thanks,

Chris

Let's just say that they want to target the US market.  Should they add a US based IP address? Would love to hear insight from people who have managed this, experienced this or have expertise. Obviously, a US based physical address would help.  Thanks!!

Chris

You just might be that good:)

Do you have any Intl/global clients?

Hmm, that does seem a bit odd.  I am surprised that your % of traffic from the UK is not higher.

Few Q's-

1. is your IP address located in the UK?
2. also, you might want to run an audit to find out where this traffic is actually coming from (legit traffic or spam).
3. is your site a service or e-commerce?

my initial 2 cents and hope this helps.

Christian

Thank you very much!  Is sharing a Facebook account ok?

Thanks Steven! Curious, do you have separate addresses for each as well as phone #'s?  and what about social media?

THanks!

Chris

Thanks for the reply and good questions.

The phone numbers are the same (street addresses different) and the wedding site is flushed out with rich info & multiple pages.  In regards to the blog, it is somewhat recent and hosted on the wedding site and mainly focused on weddings.  Currently implementing a blog for the other site (corporate one) which used to link directly to the wedding site's blog.   Basically the blog link in the menu bar on the homepage of the corp site links directly to the wedding site's blog.

In regards to the site's rankings-  The wedding site actually ranks very well considering its just shy of a year old (for wedding words) and lot of this is due to lots of fresh content.  The corporate site is very static on the other hand but the corporate site has the advantage of being around for many years.  The odd thing in regards to the local places rankings is that when users type in a query for say "wedding planner atlanta", their wedding site appears on page #1 but their corporate site actually appears in the local map results.

thanks,

Chris

Thanks for your insight and i agree.  So basically you are saying that since all of the rank issues commenced with the recent addition of the wedding site, just simply retire it?  also, can you provide an example of a directory style url.

thx

I am working with a client now that has two sites that serve two segments of a particular market segment.  They have two different URLs which cater to these different target markets BUT the company is known in its local market as a their brand name (of course) which is different than their 2 domain names used on these 2 sites.  Confusing eh?  This has resulted in confusing Google and their rank has suffered a bit.

To provide more color + insight-

Let's just say this company is called AtlantaEventsInc and they offer event services for corporate events and let's say weddings.  So let's say they have had atlantaeventscorporate.com for 20 years and then they add atlantaeventweddings.com about a year ago since their wedding business is expanding.  So they promote their corporate events on one site and their wedding events on another.  These 2 sites also currently share one blog, share one Facebook page, one Twitter and have two Google+ pages.

Should we keep these two sites totally separate? and even have separate blogs and separate social media accounts? OR since our rank has only suffered with the new wedding site (just a year old) should we retire that site? (i suppose we could still keep separate blogs though for each target market.

WOULD LOVE INSIGHT ON THIS!  Thanks,

Chris