Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Option B is fine for your locations that are urgent care, and for non-urgent care use option A. Don't add geos to business names in G+, they don't like it, it's against guidelines and they can unverify your listing or change the listing name themselves.

How long has it been since the change? Google will need weeks and week to recrawl and reindex all the stuff.

If it's been a while, this is one of those issues where we kind of need the URL. It can be a lot of different things, and sometimes it's a lot faster and easier if someone just gets in there and digs around.

Yours is a little overcomplicated. Give this one a go:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com$1 [R=301,L]

Also, when you're writing horrid htaccess rules like this, this tool can be helpful: http://www.regexr.com/

I'm referring to inbound links to your website. That's what Open Site Explorer shows you, but since your domain doesn't have much yet and it's all pretty new, it's not displaying yet.

The website is not even a month old. This doesn't give a lot of time to collect data on links, or for links to be created to the website.

From the looks of things, it looks like this domain has very very few links. Data collectors like Moz will eventually find these when they refresh their data, but these kinds of tools are not real-time, and won't find every single link to your domain. So if there is like one link pointing to this domain, it's possible it'll take a while for bots to discover it.

You don't engage in content distribution like that for the value of the direct links of your ads. A content distribution strategy has to start with extremely high quality, engaging content. Content that is so good, people consume it and want to share it. Services like Outbrain allow you to distribute your super awesome content to your demographics, and then your demographics will naturally build links to your content by sharing around the web.

If your strategy isn't working, it's most likely either your content isn't good enough or you're not targeting the correct demographics with it.

It's pretty current. They released it a couple of months ago. It's a great learning tool and is still applicable.

Consider it this way:

H tags, in a perfect world, would always descend sequentially as content became more specific. So, the H1 and H2 would be more general than an H3 or H4. Also, those H3s and H4s should be inside of the H2s and H1s. This set up allows for more general "head" keywords in the larger H tags, and more specific information that supports the larger H tags to go in the lower H tags. This means you're target area should be in the largest H tag possible, with all subsequent H tags in the list supporting your main headline with proper content. I hope that makes sense.

So, yes. H2 > H4.

Sorry, Google treats them as different URLs: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html

Play it safe and redirect. You probably don't need to do hundreds of individual redirects though. Try using Regex in the .htaccess file to solve your issue. Might end up being 2 lines of code in a rewrite rule.

You could also implement rel=canonical tags as an alternative.

No problem, glad I could help.

Once the file is downloaded, open it with a txt editor. You should see your company's information and coordinates.

Usually it's at /locations.kml

The actual URL to the KML file is in the geositemap. You may not notice when you go to the URL, it's not an actual web page, it's a file that is downloaded when you enter the URL.

You can alter your titles and see if that helps, but in the end it's a matter of seeing how Google is changing your titles and then creating a title that's a compromise between what you want and what Google wants. And even in the that case, Google might not listen.

Matt Cutts covered this a couple months ago. Depending on the query you used, Google reserves the right to change the title based on what they believe would be better for users. Is it actually better for users? We may never know, but that's how things are right now. I linked the Cutts video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HX_8BAhB4

My suggestion is to not add the geos. It's all well and good that the offline world might refer to it with the geo and you might not technically be going against guidelines, but it's still not something you want to risk getting flagged for, or have reps change without your knowledge, screwing up your citations. Then you'll find yourself on with the phone reps all the time trying to tell them how your situation is an exception.

Nope, you're good. This is the style I use, and I've had good success with it. As long as your KML file is on-point, this should be fine. You're just telling the bots where the KML file is.

I still find PRWeb safe to use and haven't experience any noticeable penalties.

Press releases are still safe to use, just not as link-building technique. You can still utilize them to get newsworthy information about the company out to the public. Distributing it on your website, some online place like PRWeb, and also sending it manually to larger publications that your information is relevant to can be very valuable.

This should work out just fine. If you want to confirm that it is effective, you can backup the old htaccess, upload the new one, go to one of the previously 302'd pages and see if it 301s now. You can check this using the network tab in Chrome's developer tools.

Yeah, your robot.txt seems fine, but the answer sounded like the error code could be misleading, so maybe you're looking in the wrong area for the root of the problem due to that reason.  Wish I could be of more help.

This was brought up a little while ago, hopefully Chiaryn's answer here can help: http://moz.com/community/q/without-robots-txt-no-crawling