Sounds like you might have a problem with multiple instances of Google's Google Analytics tracking code on your site. Check that first.

Just FYI, someone specifically asked if canonicalizing a page will prevent it from being indexed last year on Moz. It's was a good discussion. Pay particular attention to what Dr Pete has to say on the matter.

Sounds like you have a plan! Great.

What pages are folks landing on when they do a local search? If it's the services page, you'll lose the ability to rank for those pages locally if you do a canonical. Are you showing up for local search terms in organic search results or local search results? If you go with a single site and dedicated local pages with local phone numbers, you'll be able to rank in both organic and local search results.

If your facility pages "tend to perform about the same as other local companies that are our biggest competition" and your goal is to gain an advantage, I'm thinking your best bet might be to grow your citations and reviews. I'm usually a big fan of consolidation so you can maximize the value derived from your SEO efforts, but it would be very disruptive to transition to a single site. Is management prepared and willing to shoulder that?

If you're not ready to rock the just boat yet, perhaps you should do an apples to apples comparison of your local facility sites to your competitors to see if a boost in citations or reviews could help bump you higher.

I'm just not hearing a pressing need from you...

Hi KH,

What are your analytics telling you? Which site or sites are performing well? Were there overriding reasons to take that direction a few years ago and now the business has changed? Are most of your customers local? Is proximity important to them?

Logically I would expect results to be not as good as they could be if your efforts were consolidated into a single domain with dedicated local pages but am curious to hear answers to those questions first.

That was supposed to have been "great question". Wonder how that happened!

I find the Moz interface doesn't play well with my iPad. Course my brain and fingers might not have been coordinating well after midnight either.

Your idea is an excellent one. Especially if it embraces the TAGFEE or a similar code that facilitates and encourages openness and sharing.

Perfect video to answer my last question.

Thank you.

Hi Anders.

You've put some thought and research into this and I really appreciate it. Thank you!

The duplicate bookmarks article is interesting and a possible root cause. I can't see what host or pages are linking to my client's site at all. I just know there are 90,160 inbound links from a single source (at 1194.196.0.36) to the home page. But the second discussion you posted seems like it might be a feasible explanation as well. Just no way to know for sure...

I'm wondering if I should ignore or disavow these links. I don't see any drastic change in visitor behavior recently, but given the client is fairly new, I  have no idea how long these links have been around. What do people think? Should I ignore or disavow?

Thanks again Anders!

Donna

Please share if you identify any good ones. I know I'm interested and expect others would be as well. Brest question!

Hi Anders.

Thanks for helping. I notice that too, yet can't seem to find any evidence of Apple linking to my client.

I also used the link DTOX tool to see if they had a record of 90k incoming links from a single source. No luck.

I emailed at&t global network to see if they could help, and they want to see server logs of abusive links. I don't have that. All I have is an entry in Google webmaster tools saying we have 90,000 incoming links from 194.196.0.36.

I'm feeling stuck if you have any other suggestions. You or anyone else viewing this post....

The links are logged in Google Webmaster Tools.

I have a client that has over 90,000 incoming links from a single IP address. I can't figure out who's linking to them.

I've used several different reverse IP lookup tools and can tell that the server is in Europe and ISP is AT&T Global Network Services Nederland B.V.. (http://www.ip-adress.com/reverse_ip/194.196.0.36) Says there's 0 hosts on that IP.

Any suggestions?