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Google, Twitter, Foursquare, Yelp - I thought these were mainly for local. GMB for example- isn't that local?

I watched the Whiteboard Friday Video about this, but didn't hear it deal with directories exclusively.

Should an online only store use online directories- and if so, how? Would there be a NAP involved?

I thought I knew what it meant but am finding instances where the value in the column, "Linking Root Domains" is greater than the value in the column, "External Links?"

Thanks!

My dev and I are migrating an existing multi page application to a single page application with prerender.io.

Does anybody have any experience with doing SEO for single page applications? Any other consequences we should take into account? Anything important to expect.

Any insights would be 10/10 appreciated.

Ditto on this answer. Took me a few months (2-3 I believe) before seeing traction on my site, even with incoming links.

If you search 'best games to play for youtube' you get an answer box with answers pulled independently from the article at hand. Here's an image:

http://imgur.com/a/S0j9B

Here are all the games from my article, in the order in which they appear. Google's chosen games for Answer Box are bolded:

• Battlefield 1
• Bloodborne
• GTA V
• FiFA 16
• TrackMania Turbo
• Garry’s Mod
• League of Legends
• Call of Duty: Black Ops III
• Tom Clancy’s The Division
• Overwatch
• Just Cause 3
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Brawlhalla
• Rocket League
• Dark Souls III
• Unravel
• Firewatch
• GoldenEye 007 (this was put in as a joke, but coded as an H2 nonetheless)
• Destiny
• Dead by Daylight
• Fallout 4
• Undertale
• No Man’s Sky
• Minecraft

As you can see, Google is choosing which games to display to its searchers.

My Crazy Egg data shows that these were not picked by click volume (each of these H2s are hyperlinked), which means Google must be using some other popularity metric, such as its own search volume data or external sales data.

I wrote this up in a post on my site, for anybody who's curious.

I like the banner idea. Maybe what I'd do is use a canonical so people could still view the article, but then also put in a banner.

For example: suppose you have a post "The Best Games to Play for YouTube Gamers in 2016" and you want to make this a yearly series.

Should you 301 the 2016 version to the new 2017 one? Should you use the canonical attribute? If 2016 isn't in the URL, should you make the 2017 one the new URL?

Yeah definitely not with a client website lol

I most want to see if buying aged domains with a bunch of backlinks and then repurposing them into blogs still works to create an authority website.

Example:

http://www.stabilitypact.org/

Look at the wayback machine on that.

Thanks Dan. I've figured out that I'm having problems because I'm using a CDN. I'm finding a workaround to this right now.

If you search 'best games to play for youtube' you get an answer box with answers pulled independently from the article at hand. Here's an image:

http://imgur.com/a/S0j9B

Here are all the games from my article, in the order in which they appear. Google's chosen games for Answer Box are bolded:

• Battlefield 1
• Bloodborne
• GTA V
• FiFA 16
• TrackMania Turbo
• Garry’s Mod
• League of Legends
• Call of Duty: Black Ops III
• Tom Clancy’s The Division
• Overwatch
• Just Cause 3
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Brawlhalla
• Rocket League
• Dark Souls III
• Unravel
• Firewatch
• GoldenEye 007 (this was put in as a joke, but coded as an H2 nonetheless)
• Destiny
• Dead by Daylight
• Fallout 4
• Undertale
• No Man’s Sky
• Minecraft

As you can see, Google is choosing which games to display to its searchers.

My Crazy Egg data shows that these were not picked by click volume (each of these H2s are hyperlinked), which means Google must be using some other popularity metric, such as its own search volume data or external sales data.

I wrote this up in a post on my site, for anybody who's curious.

Ditto on this answer. Took me a few months (2-3 I believe) before seeing traction on my site, even with incoming links.

For anybody wondering, the problem is stemming from me using the Photon CDN by the Jetpack plugin. Photon is great, it really enhances UX, and their support is pretty top of the line, but since I put a lot of work into my post images, I'd like them to be indexed.

I'm going to try switching to AWS, because I see that that's what Moz is using.

I thought I knew what it meant but am finding instances where the value in the column, "Linking Root Domains" is greater than the value in the column, "External Links?"

Thanks!

I'm using the Google Structured Data Testing Tool to test: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool

NY Times and Women's Health being two good examples.

These two reputable publishers don't seem to have the microdata they've implemented recognized. Are they doing something wrong or is there a problem with the tool?

I most want to see if buying aged domains with a bunch of backlinks and then repurposing them into blogs still works to create an authority website.

Example:

http://www.stabilitypact.org/

Look at the wayback machine on that.