Jen - I agree with Eli.  It's best not to use the TM symbol in a URL string  - it will confuse the end user when it's URL encoded and scrambled.  Rather, put the mark on your pages and in images.

If you have gone through the registration process with the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office), you should be using the  symbol next to your mark, and not the TM symbol.

According to the Trademark FAQs on the USPTO site: http://www.uspto.gov/faq/trademarks.jsp#_Toc275426682

Do federal regulations govern the use of the designations "TM" or "SM" or the symbol?

If you claim rights to use a mark, you may use the "TM" (trademark) or "SM" (service mark) designation to alert the public to your claim of a “common-law” mark.  No registration is necessary to use a "TM" or "SM" symbol and you may continue to use these symbols even if the USPTO refuses to register your mark.  Those symbols put people on notice that you claim rights in the mark, although common law doesn't give you all the rights and benefits of federal registration.

You may only use the federal registration symbol "" after the USPTO actually registers a mark, not while an application is pending.  And it may only be used on or in connection with the goods/services listed in the federal trademark registration and while the registration is still alive (you may not continue to use it if you don’t maintain the registration or it expires).  Although there are no specific requirements on where the symbol should be placed relative to the mark, most businesses use the symbol in the upper right corner of the mark.  Note: Because several foreign countries use “” to indicate that a mark is registered in that country, use of the symbol by the holder of a foreign registration may be proper.

From another section_:  There are no specific requirements on where the “” symbol should be placed relative to the mark, but most businesses use the symbol in the upper right corner of the mark._

Hope this helps!
-- Jeff

Without seeing the new and old sites, my first impression is that this might have been caused by having the older site on a different server; the newer site might be on a newer, different Web server.  If this is the case, and the older server is still online, I'd check your DNS zone files to make sure that the older site isn't somehow still accessible?  I've seen cases where there's two A records for the www. version of a domain; not ideal, but it can cause issues.  I'd also set the robot.txt file on the older server / older site to no-index / no-follow.

Hope this helps?

Thanks,

• Jeff

Reed - You should be fine to use the "hide" function in Magento to not have the duplicate

tags show up on the site.  If you want to jump into the code a bit more, you can likely change the way that the titles are displayed, but this might be a deeper dive into the design layer of Magento.

Hope this helps!

-- Jeff

I'd also recommend putting in an IP restriction for any of the demo sites.

So that if anyone visits the demo sites from a non-whitelisted IP address, then you can display an error message, or simply redirect them over to the live site.

That will likely have the search results quickly removed from the search engine.

Hope this helps!

-- Jeff

Larry -

In Pinterest, the little heart button is just like the Facebook "Like" icon.  (But they had to be different, so it's a heart, meaning you love it.  But not in the till-death-do-us-part way.)

Here's a link on how you can like other people's pins:

https://en.help.pinterest.com/entries/22980372-Pins-and-likes#like

From Pinterest:

What's a like?  (The Heart Shaped Thing)

Liking a pin adds the pin to your profile’s likes section rather than a specific board.

To like a pin, hover over the pin and click on the heart icon in the top right corner.

What's a pin?

A pin is an image or video you add to Pinterest that leads back to the site where it was found. You can pin anything you find on Pinterest or around the web.

Having lots and lots of people pin a product on your website, or an image or video on your page adds to it's social media profile, and should help with both consumer engagement and possibly rankings.

Hope this helps!

-- Jeff

If you switch to the "Classic" View of Google Maps, you'll be able to see the Google + page for the Ticket King Inc site:
https://plus.google.com/+TicketKingInc/about?gl=us&hl=en

On this page, I don't see that you have hours listed for your Google Places page.  Other companies often have this listed.

If you have the ability to log into this page and edit it, that might help.  It could be that it was a places page, that was converted into a Google+ page, and now not using the class map function.

When I drill all the way down on the editing of the Google+ page, I do see that you have your hours listed correctly, with just the 1 pm time listed as the closing time for Saturday.  (M-F is listed as 8:30 am - 6:00 pm).

It's also listed correctly on Facebook and Yellow pages.

I might recommend going through this form / system and updating this again, as it might (hopefully) override the 1:00 pm closing time on the Google result:

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Jim-

I'm not a big fan of articles that are broken up onto many pages.

The thinking in the past has been:

• Break up the pages, and you get more page views.  (Great if you are serving advertising.)
• The page will (possibly) load more quickly because you have less content on each page.
• Many marketing agencies want everything above the fold, so shorter pages "look better."

The reality, I think:

• Users hate having to go to the bottom of a page, then to click on the "more" option, and then wait 3-6 seconds for the page to load.  Especially on a mobile device.
• It is more complex to have duplicate page titles.  I'd recommend the rel=next / rel=previous tags, that could help in this case.

My $0.02 is that you should go with the single, long page articles.  I have found that search engines love, love, love pages that have a lot of content (as long as it's well written).  A page with 12,000 words of content will often outrank something with 250 words of marketing fluff.

If in doubt, though, test it out, and convert one or two over and test out how they're ranked.

Thanks!

• Jeff

Chris - I wouldn't worry about duplicate content on the privacy policy.

I have, though, seen where people copy-paste from another site, but forget to remove the other company's name.  (That's a little embarrassing, though.)

Just my $0.02,

-- Jeff