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Excellent point Dirk there can't be a direct relationship between Google Disavow and Moz's index.

Haven't had my coffee yet this morning.

You disavowed 6-7 weeks ago, is that when you submitted the disavow file or when you receive the notification in webmaster tools that the links were disavowed?

Hi Tom,

The first flag to me is the markup for Webpage/mainContentOfPage/WebPageElement/Name is literally all of the text content of the page. I would change that to the name of the page.

You also use the markup for https://schema.org/CreativeWork which is meant for creative works, I would not consider Travel Insurance as creative work. Again, you are cramming all of the pages content into the text, so another flag to me.

And the duplicate Local Business Schema that offers no other information except the name (but actually the website) and the Aggregated review data. Local Business Schema is reserved for business that have a physical location (see: https://schema.org/LocalBusiness) which it appears you are based on your footer, but you do not markup in the Schema. I would suggest marking up the address info in the footer for Local Business.

I hope that points you in the right direction.

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Hi Sander,

If you just recently disavowed these links you are going to have to wait for Moz to reindex in order to see your results change. The next crawl is scheduled to be completed for Sept 9th.

See: https://moz.com/products/api/updates If you don't see a change in your Spam Score at that point I would dig deeper at that point.

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I agree with Martijn, but I also feel you are not using the Q&A as it was intended. You ask a question in your subject line and instead of elaborating on the question in the body, you post your own answer twice. How are you proving this info?

If you are looking to start a conversation about this topic I would suggest writing the body as if it was your opinion and see what others have to say. You might find some research/opinions that you haven't considered.

Your Google Maps profile does have a link to your site (without the www, but it properly redirects to the www version, so no issue there) if you update the URL for your website in Google My Business to the www. version, it will take 24-48 hours for the change to reflect.

BTW, if you are looking for more high DA authority pages to add links back to your site on, I found this article which lays out some additional options: https://www.serpwoo.com/blog/experts/increasing-your-domains-trust/ They might not all be applicable, but worth checking out.

https://www.serpwoo.com/blog/experts/increasing-your-domains-trust/

Hi Tymen,

The first thing I notice is that you have very few backlinks. So to start I would claim and verify your Google My Business profile (see: https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Eppinga+hout+%26+bouwmaterialen/@53.111369,6.143882,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x47c84e457e3c04ad:0x237e27544c5c0614) After that I would set up profiles on some of the major social media platforms.  (I see you have a Facebook profile, look into Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.) this will give you a backlink and also platforms to promote the business. A local listing campaign would help too, claim and verify your Yelp listing for an example.

I hope that points you in the right direction, Good luck!

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Eppinga+hout+%26+bouwmaterialen/@53.111369,6.143882,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x47c84e457e3c04ad:0x237e27544c5c0614

I am curious if anyone can share some advice. I am working on planning architecture for a tour company. The key piece of the content strategy will be providing details on each of the tour destinations, with associated profiles for each city within those destinations. Lots of content, which should be great for the SEO strategy.

With regards to the architecture, I have a ‘destinations’ section on the Website where users can access each of the key destinations served by the tour company. My question is – from a planning perspective I can organize my folder structure in a few different ways.

http://www.companyurl.com/destinations/touring-regions/cities/

or

http://www.companyurl.com/destinations/

http://www.companyurl.com/touring-regionA/

http://www.companyurl.com/touring-regionB/cities-profile/

I am curious if anyone has an opinion on what might perform best in terms of the site structure from an SEO perspective. My fear is taking all of this rich content and placing it so many tiers down in the architecture of the site. Any advice that could be offered would be appreciated. Thanks.

I submitted my site map to Bing Webmaster tools yesterday and it's still flagged as 'pending'. Does it normally take that long?

I currently have a Website that is ranking #1 or #2 for almost every keyword we are targeting in Google; however, when I go to Yahoo or Bing the site doesn’t appear at all. In fact, even when I search for the domain using these engines I don’t appear – only a sub-domain that’s hosted on the site does and at the bottom of page 1 for the domain search.

Any insight as to what might be causing this or where I should start looking?

I've always been under the assumption that when building a micro-site it was better to use a true path (e.g. yourcompany.com/microsite) URL as opposed to a sub domain (microsite.yourcompany.com) from an SEO perspective. Can you still generate significant SEO gains from a sub domain if you were forced to use it providing the primary (e.g. yourcompany.com) had a lot of link clout/authority?

Meaning, if I had to go the sub domain route would it be the end of the world?

Yes, what you're describing is what I am doing. Thanks and sorry for the confusion around the terminology.

Doy ou think there would be a benefit to repeating the region name in the folder structure www.REGION.com/REGION-topic?

Using your example, I currently do rank #1 for "Chocolate", but I want to rank for a number of words related to chocolate now. So the content silo on my site related to "Chocolate Fudge" (as an example) is a micro-site built out specifically around the topic of Fudge. (my example is Region Golf, Region Dining, Region Events).

Really, the 'micro-sites' as I call them are all built in their own CMS as they have different stakeholder groups. It's all mapped off of the primary domain through as it relates specifically to the region with the theme modifier.

My question is - does the primary domain site map get submitted to Google with al of the site URLs (Primary and themed micro-sites) included since they are all off of the same domain?

I have TLD that has authority and a number of micro-sites built off of the primary domain. All sites relate to the same topic, as I am promoting a destination. The primary site and each micro-site have their own CMS installation, but the domains are mapped accordingly.

www.regionalsite.com/ <- primary
www.regioanlsite.com/theme1/ <- theme 1
www.regioanlsite.com/theme2/ <- theme 2
www.regionalsite.com/theme3/ <- theme 3

Question: Should my XML site map for Webmaster Tools feed all sites off of the primary domain site map or are there penalties for this?

Thanks.

I have encountered something odd with Google indexing. According to the Google cache my site was last updated on April 6. I had been making a series of changes on April 7th and none of them show up in the cached version of the site (naturally). Then, on the 8th, my rankings seem to have dropped about 6 places and the main SERP is showing a text that isn't even on the Web site. The cached version has the correct page title from the page that was indexed on the 6th.

How do I learn where Google is picking this up from? There is a clean page title tag on my Web site. I've checked the server, etc to see what's going on. The text isn't completely unrelated, but it definitely impacted my ranking.

Does Google ever have these hiccups when indexing?