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That's always a challenging scenario.

You need to find ways to drive traffic to the site so you can start with their social pages or 3rd party blogs/your own set of domains/local magazine/forum posts/etc and put content and links to those.

Oh, that's been a long time problem. I personally haven't seen much action even after reporting them over and over.

Simply a lot of spam on Maps. I certainly hope they improve the  overly simplified reporting system soon.

I'm not sure what you mean Olivier. Can you elaborate your point further? Are you talking about building a link network of websites?

It depends on the algorithm. Some algorithms are global, some are just for the US or other specific countries. Here in the Philippines, it used to take a year until we get some sort of change from an update. Now, they don't really announce the update. Sometimes we see it the day right after the release, sometimes, it's 3 months behind.

It's not a problem, just fix those as soon as you can. And yes, it does affect crawl rate from what I've seen.

I haven't gotten it to load myself.

I would just rely on circlecount, circlescope or other tools for Google+.

They are probably working on it, maybe they'll enable API for Google+ in the future or something.

Oh that certainly is tedious

It took us months, one of them took over a year, just to remove panda. All I can say is that you need to be patient and keep up the improvements. There's also a new update so keep an eye on that.

You can also setup a separate site or focus on paid/content marketing while you wait for the recovery for the mean time.

Moz's competitive link finder can do that

LinkResearch Tools has this feature as well and you can include other links you get from AHrefs/majestic/ose etc.

LRT can identify if it's a blog or directory but not like that. You can edit them though. You could check their trial out, see if it fits your needs.

I actually would do both but for time issues, Noindex is already fine.

• Fix broken internal and external links, like the Yoy-search url. That should solve one area of your 404 problems
• Identify why you have 404's in the first place. Find the root of the problem. Are these dead product pages? Definitely 301 them to the correct URL. If the product isn't there, consider redirecting to the homepage (or asking the linking site to change the URL to a relevant page) or showing a custom 404 page to show their other relevant offers.

Have you checked your Google Places? See anything wrong there like warnings?

I've seen this take over 3 months just to show up. Sometimes, it's just a couple of weeks.

It will just show up, sometimes, I just completely leave it until a few months later and check it again. It's usually there by then.

I would put the blog on the domain of the company.

Since the blog is on Wordpress.com, I would just move it even if it has little traffic. The PA 30 is generic wordpress.com blog PA. Nothing really important with that. Keeps things simple and you'll have more freedom. Overthinking this will just make things harder and since you are new, itll just make your learning curve longer.

Tell them what to do, don't give them options and hope they aren't sentimental for a wordpress.com blog. Move on and market their site. Boom!

First of all, youll need a lot of help.

A go to strategy for scaling this for me is using an infographic.

Find a common topic of interest that can be changed per city. So you have this interesting, informational infographic that you can scale per city and promote in different channels there.

Sachin mentioned travel bloggers, and he is right on that one. I would take it a step further and "pay" (sensitive area here on moz but these guys are like mom bloggers and will want compensation) these guys to write consistently about your brand, linking to cities that they cover. So that scales on it's own, just keep track of publish dates and try to have a read of their content before it gets published to make the most of each one.

You'd still want the other pages of the site to show up on Google so it defeats the purpose of just having the homepage show that, either way, it will be complicated if I pushed for that and forced redirects, so I would just make it simple and introduce an unblockable popup that logs IPs for that instead of making that verification page the actual home page. That way, I get to keep my optimized homepage and you can make the most of popups like introducing sharing/signups etc.

For easy niches, Ive made these things rank in the past but it's been a long time since I've worked on a site that still use verifications that way. It might be harder this time, but if it's easy enough, optimizing that page with some more content and targeted meta details should still work like a charm.

Not really a big deal but their tool is pretty useful. If you dont have to spend more than 2 minutes, just do it.

Terapeak is still my choice, I've tried trendsamazon early january this year, it was good, but Im not so sure how it has improved over the months.

Definitely possible. It used to be much easier. You can rank for 5 pages, all your stuff LOL. good old days

Anyway, try to look at the social pages/forums, etc already ranking there where you can put your content. Those are great signals that tell you that you can create content on those and rank those pages (link to them to make the % higher)

If high trust domains like what you mentioned aren't ranking there, you need to test it. And if you said that the keywords are easy enough, then your chances for those to show up is really good.

There are like 16 external links on that page. Did you have more back then?

Why are you aiming for a lot of external links?

Hi!

From my transitions, pointing to it hasn't had any negative effects. So from my own experience, my answer is that it doesnt really matter much.

I dont think that is available at the moment John.

That would be really handy though

Totally understand where you are coming from. It's always a challenge.

Those charities are also goldmines, local groups, events.

If you can find an author in the local online magazine scene, then that would be gold as well.

Try looking at brands (same niche) outside your area. See where they get their links from.

Look for other companies your company works with, they probably have something to link to you.

Personally, I would stay away from Cloudflare (dont hate me LOL)

W3 Cache is good. I love WP Rocket though.

MaxCDN (find a coupon for a discount)

Then any host that you can find that passes your standard. This one is subjective. People think mediatemple is really fast, I've experienced both sides of the coin. Inmotion, heck even hostgator is good. The only advice i could give is to try and test them. Rackspace has been great for me if you like a cloud host but I find digital ocean to be acceptable for me as well as Im not going for ultra fast.

My take, it's actually great to have more pages on the results. You get more traffic like that.

Your idea is correct, that you need to focus on that converting page and improving it but is it work the risk of losing the effects of a double index? People will be more inclined to click other links instead of choosing from the top 3, and you already have 2 which tells them you are the authority.

I would suggest to find a way to grab the traffic from the review page and convert them in another way, like an email list/a funnel lead to the next page or even using an affiliate product instead of adsense, while you improve the information page

That is a tricky one.

I would definitely have pages up for each at the start, but with different content, even if Im forced to invest further to make it more unique.

Once the traffic for that brand name dwindles down, I would redirect it to the latest name.

Depending on the competition level, if it's not too hard, I would just stick with 1 page but make sure to mention the old name on the body (and even on the meta details if possible) It can rank just as well.

These are all assumptions. It's really a tricky position that needs to be analysed further.

Hey Tanveer

There are a lot of guides out there for link building.

This one is a good one http://backlinko.com/link-building

That should be enough to get you ranking

Look at Google Trends, Quora, Yahoo Answers, keyword tools that get from Google Instant are also good.

Find forums. Look at Reddit (add /top/?t=all at the end to check out the most popular posts)

Wordpress based will always be more flexible. I havent used SS for a year though. I've seen all their recent changes and how they've taken the right steps to better SEO but I would still lean on Wordpress/Magento. If you have a few products, then you might want to try out SS. If you have experience with Wordpress in the past, then jump on to that but be sure you have a fast server. If you have a LOT of products, go with magento

Hi Denis

I would definitely go the whitepaper or infographic route here.

Even the most boring of niches can find ways.

Aside from that, I would look at the existing links of your competitors to further drill down other opportunities. You won't really run out of places to put links to. Broken link building has worked wonders for the eng niches Ive worked on.

Share on different times of the month. You'll have a hell of a time with that so either keep track of it or assign/outsource it.

A lot of people are using that on LinkedIN... so try to check the groups first. Groups that only have group members that share their own links arent that ideal in most cases as the members dont even bother to read the content.

You can ask them to change it or just find a way to redirect http://www.mydomain.com/  back to the correct page. Whichever is easier.

That's pretty much the only options I'd have if I were in the situation.

You need to test it and see what happens. Most of the times I've done this, nothing really happened. As long as everything is pretty much intact and the URL didnt change

It does get counted. You might even see the bit.ly link show. Bots can crawl and follow these shorteners.

I haven't successfully outranked it to be honest. I've never seen it done...

If it's for a phrase/questions, and you want to outrank the answer generated by google, try to be the one that is linked in the answer by analysing how the current one got there. That's the fastest (but still hard) way.

Link Research tools or URL Profiler

Heck, even scrapebox can do a bit of the analysis

I have seen both sides of the coin, some get affected, most don't.

I prefer to clean it up though and make sure those can't get indexed. I do this as part of our onpage SEO standards. We dont proceed until it's dealt with so it's a high priority.

It's cleaner, gets crawled easily and more efficient. Doesn't hurt

Well that is that trend but it's just like back then when they said niche sites are dead and everyone should build "authority sites" - it's the same thing, just with faster and more aggressive marketing/content team.

So yeah, the trend will continue as social gets more popular until it gets really, really overboard and social sites will just launch another algorithm to clear out the lower quality ones. Either way, getting links from them = win. Imagine all the new users you can sign up from the referral traffic alone. The links you will get from being featured again is a bonus.

Good luck!

Hi Mason,

You can use call to actions on your page, even use hellobar.com, etc - then locate all these engagers using circloscope and ask them if it be ok to give you a +1 for the link you will mention in the message.

I'm not sure if that is what you meant but I hope it helps.

try this one (http://www.microdatagenerator.com/hotel-schema/)

can you load the pages? It might be the server speed (developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ should estimate if you are loading a slow page) which makes MA think they timed out

Or....it might just be a bug at that time. Try it again maybe?

1. Since they barely have any power, it wouldn't be much.

2. I remember reading about one of Bing's top guys talking about how it has evolved now to searchers wanting to see the answers right after they search it using the SE (hence why google is showing answers directly in the search results page now for a lot of queries) - Apologies, I can't seem to find the link.

1. It sounds like the site already has the www right now. You don't really need to change it, but since you want to, then go ahead and forward it. I have never experienced any bad coming from this personally. I does take a while to get ALL the urls that are indexed to show the right one but aside from that, none really.

2. Is it going to be an easily spammable, unmoderated platform? Then I'd go with user.domain.com.

But in most cases, use the /folder.

Hi!

I have to be honest and not sugar coat this, I have never seen any direct SEO benefit from using site search...

You can use the data you get from it, but it's probably not the tangible benefit you are looking for.

Hi Robert,

It looks like so. Directories are ranking higher than the actual official sites for many keywords which further forces us to diversify our marketing to different platforms. Let's see what happens this month. They might add a few tweaks.

Noticed that the 7packs are also gone. More 3packs now.

Much like for Facebook, we usually recommend to do so. A main one is probably needed. It's for the general audience, to send out company wide promotions and stuff.

that's a pretty cool tool Daniel

Those you mentioned have worked for me along with adding schema to show the description.

Hi Dylan,

This is from my own experience:

1. If your local is a priority, then you have to do this

2. It won't, really. Since (I presume) that your company is primarily a local-first company, then you can just create other landing pages that can target those that are non-local. You can actually create a more targeted copy like that and promote it in more targeted channels.

It can also work the other way around but I'm just looking at your advantages by optimizing for local, especially with the new update.

Bottom line, check their priority and optimize for that first.

Hi

It's true that there is nothing really wrong with it and that it will be hard to remember but she can always use other emails and forward to another email address.

I think using another domain is somewhat of a waste if it's "just" for email.

If she has the time, then she can use that extra domain as a separate lead generator, maybe as a blog/landing page (and can also be used for links to the main site) - At least it's not just for emails.

If you meant to ask about which domain to use primarily, nowadays, keyword domains like BikramYogaSantaClarita.com are usually "frowned" upon due to one of Google's recent updates so they normally recommend using the brand name... but it actually still works great.

Slap on some good content, send it some good links and it'll rank easily.