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Pick one of them. Probably the non-www version as that's the indexed one in Google

Next, 301 the www to non-www.

Wordpress handles that flawlessly so Im not sure why its not redirecting you correctly. Maybe check your Settings->General or check your htaccess if something changed.

It should always redirect.

That should fix your issue so you can continue with the other important stuff that you are doing.

There's really no recommended number but yes, they are pretty important.

You can check out the Zappos site and look at how they interlink. It's not excessive but still adds to what the user needs or wants to see during their stay on the site.

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As long as they arent live anymore on your site, just mark them as fixed in search console.

Just double check/crawl your site to make sure non of them really exist anywhere

I push for it as much a possible. I always prefer it but if it's just too much trouble (if it affects other things, causes down time etc) then I skip it.

In terms of improvements, I have personally seen some good improvements because of that and cleaner code.

Hi Cesar!

I dont think it's a problem unless you were blatantly over optimizing the site or maybe just stopped working on it if it's dropping in the rankings.

I love my EMD's. It's not as favoured as before from my POV but its still pretty effective.

I dont see any problem with internal linking.

Just keep it natural and dont go crazy with it.

I dont look at it with ratios. It's impossible to have too much phrases to have the possibility to link to other relevant content on your site unless you force the keyword phrases in.

Just link to what can help your readers. Not just to force it.

Is their Google+ My Business page verified? Just to clarify it.

IT does help to have the keywords in the domain but if it's too long, it's going to be harder to recall.

Stick with a domain name that people can recall and if possible, easy to spell as that helps a lot for local businesses.

My gut instinct tells me to stay away from 3 letter domains but I'd do a survey just to test it out with your target audience.

Hi Gavo,

There are others out there but I like Latergram.me for scheduling posts.

For research, Iconosquare. You can also follow and unfollow there.

For actually using the profiles, we do it the old school way, buy cheap smart phones for each one. LOL. I haven't heard of any app that can handle all the functions of instagrams.

I've seen and tried everything. From bots to custom software. Haven't seen a good one yet

Currently working on one http://schemaplugin.com

That functionality will come later but currently, it's great for local businesses and personal branding business sites

Just wait for it and clear your cache. It'll work

I have never seen that happen in terms of Google showing that in the SERPs. You can hide data in the back using JSON and stuff but I have never seen Google put text as the description if it's not visible in the body...at least from my experience

Joe put in some really good resources, so is Matt's

I put together something as well https://www.leapfroggr.com/seo-checklist/ you might like it.

Good luck!

Looks good Jonathan! You can make the sidebar more specific with the category if you want to really target your audience

Add in some breadcrumbs/schema, shorten your meta description a bit as the result in google is cut off for me.

Besides those, it looks great!

That's pretty much it. Wordpress is pretty easy to setup with https.

As for the question of this thread. You already did it since you inserted all versions to GWT.Google will do the rest as long as you've properly set all to direct to https.

Youll see your webmaster stats for http drop like a fly to https and youll see an (almost) instant upwards with your line in your https impressions.

I dont think it's the cause for the drop (probably some other things caused by the redesign, like structural changes) nor do I think it will affect you negatively if you have for-sale in the URL or not.

Though it is still important, I would look at the Meta tags and page content more than the URL.

For me, the shorter url is my personal preference because of practical reasons.

IF that's what they really want to do, then you cant really do much about it.

Just bring it back and see what happens and adjust your strategy from there.

They just calculate that based on 17 unique factors. Having 1 there is just a score, it doesnt mean you have 1 spam link.

You can read more here

http://moz.com/blog/spam-score-mozs-new-metric-to-measure-penalization-risk

If you are the one doing this and this is your own site, I would use a Physician as itemtype then medicalspecialty then additionaltype (which you did right)

I would use usertesting.com

try out a free version on peek.usertesting.com but it's not customizable.

You can also use survey forms from qualaroo.

Id even pick some on my email list, send them a survey form using survey monkey or something else and give them something in return for the feedback

I've actually gotten google to recognize scenarios like that for pages like that so it's possible.

I've experimented on doing some internal linking (if possible) and get a few links to come in with the $ sign.

Mention the $ sign in the body and eventually, I've gotten it to work.

Sometimes, location does affect that kind of search term though so that's another variable.

It shouldn't affect them but I would look into switching hosts to better deliver your website

They will do whatever it is that they already do and their system handles the rest.

Emailing them might work. Sometimes it can change but dont get your hopes up. You can try, then follow up on it. It is yours after all.

If they dont, then be happy with a nofollow link.

Referrals wont hurt

Hi!

Since you are just pointing to the same page then there's really nothing there to lose

Google has stated that it's going to impact a large significant amount of results but it's definitely going to be for mobile only so you should check your traffic sources to see if you get a good chunk of mobile traffic.

Dirk is right so you should look at your pages that have good mobile traffic and push out a temporary solution for that until you get a good mobile end for your website.

Good luck!

This is a hard thing to answer as I've done both ways lol. For smaller sites, I wouldn't really mind but for bigger ones, manual is better. Manual interlinking is definitely better because you can do it using different phrases that can be related to another post rather than automatically showing the same words. It's just more organic that way and better for user experience which Google is keen on.

I've actually done this auto linking to category pages instead of posts on my older sites so I've played/experimented with this function. I still would recommend the old fashioned manual way as it makes more sense.

No problem on Google's end. Just be sure you can handle both in terms of  SEO work. It usually boils down to that.

Some businesses eventually consolidate into a single site because of the amount of work involved for just 1 site...and some of them have 5-20+ sites

On the bright side, you can do a 301 eventually.

A bit late to answering but yeah, they are right with the 303. Stick with a 301 for seo purposes.

I actually would just use it.

Maybe use the chance for a website redesign but retaining the content has been fine from what Ive worked on.

I might also consider a server change depending on how grave the spam attack was.

Just be sure you dont redirect the old domain

Good luck!

Hi!

OSE doesn't show them because it hasn't indexed those yet for your site. You can check them in your webmaster tools. They are probably there.

They dont have to show in OSE to mean that the link is there so dont worry about it.

Anyway, you still need to check the quality of the link. It doesnt always mean that if your competitor has it, then you need to have it as well so do take care with those links.

It just means that you have those things on separate pages. Google indexed them so like Laura said, you need to put a noindex tag so Google can stop indexin those page

After that, wait for it to disappear. It's not that critical if you feel like you need to remove it from the index asap.

Option A. I wont even worry about it after that.

Your time is more important so putting it to work for the other more important parts of your SEO campaign is better.

I would worry about/focus on the content of that category page instead.

As long as it's 301'ing the important ones then that's ok. The 404's will regularly pop up in this scenario as long as it crawls something that it encounters a page with the link or from the index and follows it to a 404. Just mark them as fixed.

Hi Jamie,

I havent seen a tool that could do this. It would be interesting to know.

The closest thing I can think of is buzzsumo but it doesnt specifically show linkedin sharers.

2nd option. But you can increase the reach by syndicating your guest posts, using linkedin and if you eventually get contacts or build a relationship with big publisher sites, they are also willing to republish the same article for you though there are some limits to that. Good luck!

This is one of my posts on Linkedin about doing SEO for new sites.

Dont overthink it. Just get started with your site, then work your way towards building links.

Definitely. Trackbacks wont really be a problem unless it's just flat out spam.

Itll always be the case. Youll hit a plateau eventually.

There will be some things you need to do, from A/B testing design tweaks (and extra features to push them to other pages)

or you can compile a list of keywords you are already ranking for but below #5 and work on those to move them to the top 3

or you can utilize other traffic channels such as social to push them to category pages so they can look at other news.

You've done pretty well with it so far. The main thing is, do videos actually show up in the search results? If not, then sometimes, itll take a longer time to actually get it to show up even if it's for a brand name. Sometimes, it just wont show at all.

Personally, I dont really mind! Ive done experiments with worse keyword "stuffing" in the URL and they have performed well.

As long as the content is legit and the backlinks are good then I wouldn't really mind that.

I've had equally good results with just something like /suits - when the page is properly optimized for that, it basically does the same thing. Good luck!

It's not really holding them back. I would start with the usual, NAP markups on each page of the site since its a local business. Plus the maps markup.

Then dedicate the time to checking what the competitors are doing vs what your client has right now (more citations? etc)

That should stop them from worrying about schema at this point so you can focus on making them improve in rankings.

Hyphens have worked for me in the past in terms of rankings so I dont doubt the "ranking potential" but i stopped using them as much as possible for my users sakes mainly.

It does affect the SEO, like it gets broken links since people misplace the hyphen or the link is without a hyphen so another site benefits.

That URL length of yours is ok already. Obviously, I would again prefer an easy-to-remember URL so the shorter and more targeted, the better for me. It's a preference thing.

All they will ever say is it's self inflicted/internal. Google+ and North Korea probably teamed up to hack them and Tinder. LOL!

I have some archived campaigns and they dont seem to be affecting my keyword count. Hope that helps.

Id still change it either way. Your own domain is still better. You wouldn't be having this problem if you fully controlled it so eventually, if you dont move, it will lead to other problems for you (probably)

301 each of the old pages (if that's possible) to the new page urls so the content is with you. Add a canonical tag on the old content (if they aren't cooperative) and link to the new url of the content.

Adding that will help little to nothing at this point but it doesnt hurt because youll do it eventually.

When you do, make sure you do the other things like adding and verifying in google places, putting your organization in freebase/wikidata and others. Those will solidify your organizations entity online.

If  you are already with MozPro then just grab all their anchor texts, then plug that in a rank tracker

Aside from that, SEMrush.

I would advice to put everything on one page. (This is also great for a broad keyword)

Then have short descriptions in there the a link to a specific page for each service. (Specific targeted keywords)