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Hi,

Try Gorkana if it's PR and social media http://www.gorkana.com/pr-products/media-monitoring/ and this one may be worth trying too https://mention.com/en/

Hi,

A few reciprocal links shouldn't be a problem but I'd only do them if it makes sense from a human point of view and if it adds something for the users of your site. Put them in the place on your site that makes the most sense. A fishing gear shop may well link to fishing books and that would make sense.

It's nice to be able to send traffic to another site that also send relevant traffic to you.

Lots of reciprocal links and links that are done for perceived SEO purposes (and not for the users of your site) should be avoided.

A link to another site could come across as endorsing it so make sure you are hooking up with reputable companies that you know and trust, not just ones that rank well.

Hi,

Do you have a Google Plus? It's not a recent post but it sounds like it has worked before http://www.fiveblocks.com/changing-your-company-logo-in-google-knowlegde-graph-2/. Might be worth a go if nothing else has worked so far.

Hi,

As Zee said, GTM is great once set up.

<address>This video was useful when I was setting up auto event tracking in GTM  Auto-Event Tracking with Google Tag Manager | Lesson 5 - GTM for Beginners  and his other posts are good for learning other bits of GTM if you are new to it.</address>

Hi,

I'd use social media - Twitter, Facebook. If you have good images you could also use Instagram and in the accompanying text say that there's a post about it over on your site.

I'd look at what others have done by searching the keywords on that social media platform and seeing what comes up. if they used a good hook or hashtag then use that in your post too.

You could post a few times on your chosen platforms with different text each time and see what works best - don't overdo the posting though as people will get annoyed.

If your topic ties in with something upcoming eg a national awareness day or big event, make sure you post during that period and use the relevant hashtags (which you can usually research before).

Hi,

Twitter says:

• Top Tweet: Tweet that received the highest number of impressions
• Top media Tweet: Tweet with photo, video, or Vine that received the highest number of impressions

It's impressions that count and the only difference is whether or not media is attached.

If my top tweet for a month has the most impressions but no media it is the top tweet. Another tweet that has media is then the top media tweet. That makes sense and I've seen it in my Twitter analytics.

I'm confused when my top tweet is one with media but it is somehow not also showing as the top media tweet. Surely it should be? how can another tweet with media and a lower impressions count be the top media tweet when the top tweet is one with media and a higher impressions count.

Thanks

Hi,

Using http://www.redirect-checker.org/index.php shows:

https://www.yoursite.ro/contact-us
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact/
200 OK

http://www.yoursite.ro/contact-us
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact/
200 OK

http://yoursite.ro/contact
301 Moved Permanently
 https://yoursite.ro/contact
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact/
200 OK

https://yoursite.ro/contact
301 Moved Permanently
 https://www.yoursite.ro/contact/
200 OK

Thanks, I had wondered if it was location based but it wasn't making much sense - the computers used to check were all much nearer the head office than the satellite office that showed up top - in fact the satellite office is a long way away. We used three different machines and each time we got the same result. The smaller office is in Leicester (UK) and the head office in in Christchurch which is where where 2 checks were done, and another was done in Blandford, all getting Leicester come up top.

Our head office address is the only one listed on Facebook etc so it's a bit odd.

I've just tried it again and got a more local office showing, but it's still not head office.

Thanks for the links to other posts and thanks for the suggestions:

1. Verify all info is correct and the same business name is being used on major data providers such as Yellow Pages, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Yahoo Local, etc. And be sure they are linking to your website. Here is the full list:
   https://moz.com/learn/local/local-search-data-us - **all the info on Google places is correct and the head office. Will see if there are other places we can list it though **
2. Make sure your full address is mentioned on your website contact page. - this is already the case
3. Get quality backlinks from related websites and include the city(s) name in the anchor text.- will try this
4. Use a local phone number area code and keep it consistent - we use a central call centre for most places although the local Leicester office that was showing above head offce uses a local number so even more strange that is should show as it's miles away
5. Possibly have your smaller offices identify themselves with a specific location in their name - will look into
6. Get more positive Google reviews for your office - will look in to but Leicester has no reviews so bit odd
7. Include location and business keywords in your Google Maps description - already doing

Thanks both

Hi,

We have Google Maps listings for all of our offices but a small office often shows up instead of our head office.

Is there any way to get head office showing instead?

Thanks

Hi Jamie,

That's what I though too.

Yossi, where did you get the info that GTM can go in the head? I'd be worried to move it from the body as I'm not sure what difference it would make.

Thanks

How do you mean 'is this bad' - what aspect?

It's not great that your meta description is the same on each page. It should describe the page, not be generic to the whole site.

Got to agree with Patrick - the first URL's look normal and the others look simply odd.

Remember your site is for humans as well as search engines.

Hi,

Paid positive reviews are definitely not what they want to see but it's a bit less clear about paid impartial reviews as you aren't trying to influence what to write. I'd still steer clear though and find ways to encourage genuine reviews with the money saved. Given that you may end up paying for a bad or neutral review I don't see the point.

Hi,

If there's a reason to have both sites live then instead of a 301 (which would only show the content from one site) you could use a canonical (if the content can't be updated to something different enough) and chose the main of the two sites

I would work on the assumption that it will affect the rankings on desktop too and if you have time to make your site responsive in time then I would - it covers all bases then.

Also, as mobile searches are increasing it makes sense to go responsive as soon as you can.

Hi

Check out this http://moz.com/learn/seo/internal-link

Why will it be two blogs if it's all about the same product? It may be worth looking at just one blog but tagging topics so people can find what they are after quickly

Hi,

Don't know what site you have but I get <cite>oasis-land.com </cite>at 4.

Your spot check Google results might be skewed by personalisation. Try adding &pws=0 at the end of the URL and see if results change

Sorry, Just come back to do that and seen your comment.

Hi Matt and Bridget,

Thanks for your help.

I have re-looked at the problem and spoken to one of our IT guys. Think we have collectively got to the bottom of it!

Spectrum-online seems to have two sorts of page - those with keyfax32 and those without. The ones I had checked for code had been the Keyfax pages and I hadn't known about the other type. The other type is the one with the UA-7828548-3 code e.g https://www.spectrum-online.co.uk/services/tenants/register.aspx. Our IT guy is going to see if it is possible to add the code to the other Keyfax32 pages.

The reason they appeared under the GA property with the domain set as Western Challenge was because historically, the Western Challenge domain would have had had that code on it and the Spectrum Online code (set up before I started). When Western Challenge was redirected, the Spectrum Online part was left.

I think the reason I kept getting redirected when trying to see the top pages under the UA-7828548-3 Western Challenge property is because the Western Challenge domain has a redirect on it and the domain hasn't been changed in the analytics property. I can't change it to spectrum-online.co.uk because no site is set up. As we are changing to a new system in a few months though I think I won't fiddle for now and will make sure the UA-7828548-3 code is transferred to the new system.

Hope that makes sense and thanks again.

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