Thank you Miriam!! This article helped and I was able to successfully get that "Products & Services: places.SinglePlatform.com" link removed. You rock!

I manage a GMB account for an HVAC client and noticed in their knowledge graph it shows:

"Products & Services: places.SinglePlatform.com"

I cannot find this anywhere on the backend on GMB. Has anyone experienced this and how did you fix/remove the link? Luckily, the link goes to the clients profile on SinglePlatform, but the info is outdated.

How did this all play out for you guys?

I am late to the party but am just now experiencing this for the first time with an HVAC client. In the clients knowledge graph on Google it shows:

"Products and Services: places.singleplatform.com"

I tried what was explained in the original post but it appears some things have changed in GMB since Aug. 2018. Imagine that

Any help on getting this link removed would be greatly appreciated!

Hey CalicoKitty2000!

Funny story, I actually have a Calico Kitty named "Cali.

I came across your questions and it made me think to share this video with you from Brian dean about zombie pages. Spoooookeyyyyyyy but good stuff! Definitely dump any of your unnecessary pages! Cheers

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

Hey there! I agree with Justen, sitewide links offer little to no value and could potentially do more harm than good. I would find somewhere else to place the link(s).

Not sure if you've already read this but here is an article that can help you learn more about MozTrust & MozRank Score

Although this article is from 2011, Dr. Pete does a great job explaining thin content.

Hope these help!! Cheers

Ha haaa!! No thinkLukeSEO, you aren't trippin'!

Yes, while gaining links by commenting on related blog articles may improve your rankings, they are still just low quality links. Depending on who you are up against in the SERP's and the competitiveness of the keyword you are targeting, this method may or may not move the needle. If this method is working in your scenario, I would be willing to bet that your competition must also have low quality links pointing to their site. Or very few links.

If you want high quality links you just have to dig deep, research and create valuable, high-quality content on your site that your target audience will find valuable. Share it, do outreach and make sure it can be found! Though these type of backlinks are harder to achieve, when you get them they are worth more than a hundred blog comments. At least in my experience this has proven true.

Wouldn't it be nice if we had a spam-free internet to browse and find reputable sources for all of our search queries? Sadly that just isn't the case today. But we can dream, can't we! LOL

Cheers Luke!!

Yes Nikki, great addition about avoiding redirect chains! Redirects are useful and difficult to avoid in most cases but redirecting to a redirect should always be avoided for the sake of Page Speed and common sense Cheers!!

I am going with with FALSE on one this Dylan. Final answer

Sure, having the company contact info (phone & address) up there serves well for your site visitors to reach you (which is GREAT) but does not offer any real value from an SEO standpoint.

Hope this helps!!

I would stay away from this approach! Super spammy. Like David mentioned above, leave comments to engage with the author about the article itself. There are far better ways to get valuable links these days.

Here's a great article from Neil Patel on building links. Maybe you'll find some takeaways from it.

Hope that helps Cheers!

Hey Corp Analytics!

In short...

If you can avoid redirects you will certainly be serving your content faster.

Google recommends avoiding them where possible: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/mobile

"Have you ever asked where a bathroom is and when you go there you are told that this bathroom is closed and you have to go to some other bathroom? It is like that. Redirects cause your pages to load slower because it is a waste of time to go to one place just to be redirected to another."

Makes sense, right?

Here another great article on the topic and the source of that quote: https://varvy.com/pagespeed/minimize-redirects.html

Hope that helps!!

From a UX perspective: This allows the visitor to refer to the linked page/info but be able to continue on with the article/page from your site.

From an SEO perspective, IMO This helps your bounce rate from jumping when people engage the links you have on your site.

Check out this previous Q&A posted by our buddy Max Minzer! Hope this helps with your question!!

http://moz.com/community/q/when-is-it-good-to-use-target-_blank

Hi Scott!

We've experienced situations where we moved a site to a new server, a new IP address was assigned and the rankings dropped for a month or so, then leveled out and we regained all original rankings back. However, like Ryan stated, we did not make any changes to the url structures, page names, etc. in this case. Also using a site like he referenced helps a lot. You can also use this site to find out what other sites are on the server you are hosted on: http://www.ipfingerprints.com/reverseip.php

We have also migrated another site to a new server, keeping the same IP as the previous server and the rankings did not fluctuate at all.

I would think that the answer lies in "HOW" you perform the migration and be sure to "measure twice, cut once". As the move could be very smooth if done properly, however it could turn into an absolute disaster if rushed and done improperly. If you haven't already, check out this website migration guide. Study it. Know it. Implement it. Hope this helps!

Just found this as well:http://raventools.com/blog/ultimate-list-of-relauthor-resources/

Might help..

Yes Nikki, great addition about avoiding redirect chains! Redirects are useful and difficult to avoid in most cases but redirecting to a redirect should always be avoided for the sake of Page Speed and common sense Cheers!!

Hey luckybluebox!

IMO, this is rather important aspect of proper development and we make sure every site we work on is W3C compliant. These are typically easy fixes and should always be cleaned up.

Check out this youtube video from Google Webmasters channel. They say it is NOT a ranking factor but I would always suggest keeping things tidy

Hope this helps you out!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XlKn6I9rSc

Man... That's what I'm talking about George!!

I am going with with FALSE on one this Dylan. Final answer

Sure, having the company contact info (phone & address) up there serves well for your site visitors to reach you (which is GREAT) but does not offer any real value from an SEO standpoint.

Hope this helps!!

Hey Don!

The reason is because Moz keyword tool pulls the SPM (searches per month) data from Bing unfortunately. Google doesn't allow Moz to access this info from their API.

If you notice up at the top of the column it actually states "BING Search Volume". I've added a screenshot to reference. Hope this helps!

LLxYCwX

Unfortunately yeah that's the deal man.

When I first saw what you are seeing I called into Moz and was like HEY!! What is this nonsense? That's when they dropped it on me that Google doesn't provide them that information.

So the only data you get that is actually from Google (even when you select the "Google" drop down option) is the Keyword Difficulty.

Oh no question about that Donna!

To my knowledge there aren't any tools that can/will give exact figures. But in comparison to the Moz Keyword Analysis tool (which provides BING search results), using Google Keyword Planner is about as close as you can get to an "approximate" number.

All these tools do is provide us with an idea of what to focus on. Like Rand mentioned in his post (which is great)...

"THE IMPORTANT LESSON: Running discovery-focused searches in AdWords may not show you all the valuable/high-volume keyword phrases connected to a word/phrase."

And then he goes on to recommend ways to address the challenge. FUN FUN FUN!