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@sarahwalsh Hi Sarah, Is this something you could assist with? Please let me know.

I would like to hire an SEO contractor to assist with some technical/SEO issues on our site (Schema, etc). Can anyone make a recommendation? I am looking to work with a small company. Thank you in advance for any referrals!

Thank you Jeff, great suggestions!  I just sent you an e-mail and look forward to your feedback!

Julie

We have 2 main issues:  Web page speed and re-directs from an old URL.

**#1 Web page speed: ** Our website speed (for acclaimlegalservices.com) according to https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/feature/testmysite/ is 2.9 seconds, which is considered slow and has gotten .3 seconds slower over the past month.  We need technical help to fix some issues that are causing site slowness.

**#2  Re-directs: ** We are getting notices from MOZ on re-direct issues.  We have an old website (acclaimls.com) that we closed down several years ago as we had 2 competing sites with similar content.  We mapped each of the pages on the old site to similar pages on the current site and redirected those pages.  I would like a POV as to whether it is still beneficial to keep those links or if we are better off from an SEO perspective to discontinue the re-directs.

Thank you in advance for any help!  Julie

I am looking for a company or person to assist me on the technical aspect of improving our site speed and resolving so errors that MOZ is reporting.  For instance, we have an old URL domain that we retired when we consolidated 2 websites.  We pointed (mapped) the old site pages to the current website, is this redirect helping (links) or hurting us?  Can anyone recommend someone I can hire to help me with this project?

We are a bankruptcy law firm and therefore getting clients to post a public review is challenging, as they don't wish to disclose the fact that they filed for bankruptcy.

I recently audited our local competitors.  Most just have one or two reviews.  But 2 firms in particular have 6- 10x the amount of what is "normal" for our practice area, and in addition they are 1.)  all 5-star reviews  2.) the only review they had ever posted by that person (seems unnatural that your first and only review is of a bankruptcy attorney).  This is the exact same fact pattern for both attorneys, so I am wondering if they are using a special tool or some how incentivizing clients to leave a 5 star review...is there any way to know if they are using unethical practices?

So my question:  how do we motivate happy clients to leave a public review when they the nature of our practice is a private matter?  Is there a helpful tool or method people have found good success with?  Is there a way to leave anonymous or first name only reviews on Google Plus?  We have a lot of review on the testimonials section of our website, but clients who submit ask us to change their name for privacy.  Could we somehow post these on Google Plus for the clients, while still keeping within the regulations of Google?

Thanks in advance for your insights!

We are a law firm and have another law firm merging into ours.  Our branding will remain the same, but I am trying to figure out how to best handle their website transition.  Should we link it to ours (although their PR & page authority are not significant) or should I map each page to ours with similar content with a redirect?  MY main concerns are not damaging our website's SEO by doing something search engine's would frown on and also to try to take advantage of any organic traffic or referral traffic.  Or maybe some combination - link homepage with added verbage that attorney is now with our firm and a link and redirect the sub-pages?  I look forward to thoughts from anyone who might have experience with this type to issue.  Thanks in advance! JulieHow t

We have a 100 page website, but Google is only indexing a handful of pages for organic rankings.  Is there a way to submit to have more pages considered?  I have optimized meta data and get good Moz "on-page graders" or the pages & terms that I am trying to connect....but Google doesn't seem to pick them up for ranking.  Any insight would be appreciated!