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 Luckily, the link goes to the clients profile on SinglePlatform, but the info is outdated.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!!