"moving the blog to a sub-domain or separate URL"
Don't do that part, put it in a subfolder maybe.
Will you be switching the entire site over to wordpress or just the blog, it doesn't make much sense to be running 2 CMS.
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"moving the blog to a sub-domain or separate URL"
Don't do that part, put it in a subfolder maybe.
Will you be switching the entire site over to wordpress or just the blog, it doesn't make much sense to be running 2 CMS.
Are there any links pointing to the page or domain containing homeless or is there word homeless on the page getting traffic?
I'm a strong fan of Wordpress, install Yoast plugin and make sure you put links in your blogs. Even a related posts plugin like YARPP will help with more internal links to other blogs. Wordpress usually needs a few SEO tweaks, but is a great CMS for being SEO friendly.
I don't see why not, I can think of many examples where the business name does not match the website address.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+sell+anything
I mean this article has 47,000+ views. I looked at some other articles and it appears the links are followed as well. They do rank and can apparently get a lot of eyes on them.
If you hover over the tab in Chrome it will show you the full title.
I would want to have as few as possible. You have to ask yourself whether or not all those folders are actually needed. As far as indexing, it's more about the hops than the number of backslashes. For instance if a crawler has to go to /denim-jeans then to /py then /c then /c109 then /np then /108 then /p then /3834.html it will likely have some indexing issues, but if the next hop after /denim-jeans is from a link that goes to /py/c/109/np/108/p/3834.html then it likely wouldn't cause any issues for the crawler, but again it's a nasty structure and you have to ask yourself if it is all really necessary.
It's just a naming convention, so for strictly navigational purposes it doesn't matter what you call them as anything will work.
You won't get a penalty from changing them, however a rankings drop is entirely possible. Try to keep your main keywords in each title and you should be fine.
As Gary said there are many factors included in local search such as the optimization of that page, natural ranking, local citations, etc. If you want to see how you are doing, click the "Map results for solicitor london" link under the 7 pack and go to "list all results." This should be your rankings for local.
Check out the page cached in Google and go to text view.
Fetch as Googlebot in Webmaster Tools
Web Developer Toolbar with cookies and javascripts disabled.
User agent switcher with your string set as Googlebot so you can determine if different content is being shown to users than bots.
I would hope that you have enough unique content on the page for it not to be considered duplicate, but yes this is a best practice. Other items that might help would be just take as much of the quote as you need, as in don't blockquote a whole wiki article, add your own original content as well, and don't forget to link back as well.
Do the pages really need to be indexed? I would say in your case it makes sense just to no-index them. At worst, Google will probably just hide some of the pages in the search result anyway, so save them a step.
Did a search for site:thinkstrategy.com prescription, check out the meta descriptions. Look at the cached version of the page, links and everything are there. Looks like whatever is infecting you is showing users one thing and crawlers another.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35255?hl=en
The Content Keywords page lists the most significant keywords and their variants Google found when crawling your site. When reviewed along with the Search Queries report and your site's listing in actual search results for your targeted keywords, it provides insight into how Google is interpreting the content of your site.
The significance of each keyword reflects how often it's found on your site's pages. Click each keyword to see a sampling of pages on which it appears. Both keywords and their variants are listed in order of frequency of appearance.
If unexpected keywords, such as "Viagra", appear on this page, this could be a sign that your site has been hacked.
Do you want to provide a URL? Google search a page and view the cached version, it definitely sounds like something is injecting these words and likely links as well.
It's just going to depend on what keywords you are bidding on and how high you want to place on the results. If you already have your budgets set, then your campaigns will run until you are out of funds. Since they have a restrictive budget, you may want to setup an additional rule under automate to pause the campaign when monthly spend is >250 to prevent Adwords from going over.
2 columns you may want to show under your keywords tab are estimated first page bid and estimated top of page bid, this should give you some idea of the bid you need for your ads to show, from there monitor your average position and determine which keywords are more important for your goals to determine where you will spend more.
To answer your question, it's fine do queries for "digital marketing manchester" and "website design manchester" in whitespark to see if you get different citation options for each category.
As David mentioned, I would not do multiple listings within each citation that's a bit spammy and overkill, plus it might send an alarm to the citation you're building.