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My client's website does fairly well on mobile in a Google Search. So one day, my client is in a staff meeting and everyone does on search on their phones. The client’s website is nowhere on the 1st three pages. I get a call asking why.  I tell the client that Google has maybe as high as 90% market share on mobile. Of course, their phones have the factory installed Safari and IE.  Client says lots of people don’t change the factory settings on mobile . Question: How do we rate higher on lesser search engines?

I have a client who wants us to use StatCounter rather than Google Analytics to measure the traffic to their website. I realize that GA needs cookies to work that misses 15%+ visitors. StatCounter showed that my client's website had 150% more traffic than GA showed. Looking for an opinion.  thanks!

Does Google ding a site that uses the Yoast News Plug-in when it is not a news site?  Are there any other precautions to take in using this plug-in?  Like not posting too many stories as "news'?  One of our competitor's uses Facebook as their publisher.

I have followed some of the discussions about Yoast and the news plug-in, but have not found specific information about the use of meta properties. One of our competitors is successfully using about 15 meta properties to gain news ranking. They list the publisher as Facebook. Is this coding part of the Yoast package or hard coding? As an example:

We are developing a website for a school that has 19 campuses divided into 8 districts. Ideally, we would like to have one search page that dynamically populates when people search WHILE on the site.  The question is what happens when someone does an organic search, will the search engine populate with the schools in that district.  For instance, if i search on Google "Austin Schools", will the Austin district-that does not have a unique URL- show up in a Google search?  What the generated page looks like is on this link http://imgur.com/stCQcP6. If yes, any special type of coding we need to add to the backend?

Sorry, I meant 'disabled' not 'enabled' which is the default

We did find the answer.  It was not re-verification (which I still wonder about) or Google 'rights'.  It was part of the All-in-one-SEO plug-in. We use Yoast on most of our sites so did not know about this intricacy of all-in-one.  There is a 'general" settings tab.  For the home page only, the plug-in has to be 'enabled'.  See attached. http://imgur.com/1RWnmfk .

On the 'fetch as google' webmaster tool https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/googlebot-fetch.  It gives a verification code to put in the html.  We did this a number of years ago. That's the code i referred to.

We already have a verification code on the page. Should i replace it with a new one via 'fetch as google'?

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