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Kevin,

I wanted to give you an update. The client requested a Google review and it was accepted. Thank you for your input and advice.

Thanks, Kevin.

I'll recommend them to remove the 301 to the new site. Once that has been done, I'll have them send a review. Good to know, that the 301 can possibly hurt the new site.

I appreciate your comment. Very helpful.

Thanks. Yes, the content for the new site is all original. The site.com can't be accessed. It automatically 301 to the new site.

So, there is no content on the site that Google says has a penalty. Should I ask for a review since they will remove the 301?

Thanks

Quick question. As an example, a client has a site named  site.com and then changed their business name and business url to site2.com

I was informed that the site.com has a manual action (Pages affected by manual actions can see reduced display features, lower ranking, or even removal from Google Search results.) The page obviously is not active as it 301's to site2.com.

Site.com has a 301 to site2.com. My questions?

Does 301 transfer link power? So if a site is penalized, will the links that 301 cause problems to the new site2.com?

I've requested them to remove the 301. Will, that fix it? Do we need to request a review?

Thank you

Looking into allowing comments on a business blog: mysite.com/blog.  Which is the best software to use to allow readers to leave a comment? (Use wordpress) One that will help eliminate spam. Are there some that allow you to sign in without social accounts (Facebook etc) and are there some that allow you to sign in with social accounts?

Thanks

Rand,

Thank you for responding to my question. That's awesome...I'll make sure that's exactly what we do. I'm looking forward to see more about this from the link you provided.

Thanks again.

Brooks,

Thanks for the information. I'll take a look at the video.

We are going to create a few 1 - 2 minute instructional videos. I will be creating a blog that will include the video for our main website.  I want to say I read or saw (Whiteboard Friday) that Rand Fishkin mentioned to place the video on your site first for about a month (or weeks). Then, you can publish it on Youtube etc.

It sounds like a good plan.  Have Google index your blog with the video and receive organic traffic. Then place it on Youtube.

Is that correct? Is that the best practice?

Like i said, I think it was Rand that discuss this. Would love to get feedback.

Thanks.

Quick question. In regards to linking to products from your blog. I've read recently that linking excessively between your site can be a bad SEO habit.

So, I was curious if anyone else has heard of this. Plus, if you have a blog, how many internal links should you have going to you pages on your site - other blogs, products etc?

Thanks.

Thanks Roman.

You have answered my question and I agree with what you mentioned about the value of SEO.

Hi Moz Community.

I'm currently working on cleaning up a website footer on an e-commerce site. I was curious to find out if including payment options is important? Either text or image icons. Including Visa, AMEX etc. Are there benefits of displaying them? Image attached.

Thanks

vcdoL

Thanks for the suggestions. I was referred to this one that you suggested:

https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/standalone-google-sitemap-generator.html

So, the image sitemap it pretty good?

I currently use a program to create our sitemap (xml). It doesn't offer creating an mage sitemaps.

Can someone suggest a program that would create an image sitemap?

Thanks.

The blog platform is Wordpress. Would this work?

There are a few business blogs that I'm currently updating - include more details, information, case studies, statistics etc. The blog was originally published in September of 2016. Once I make the changes, do I keep the same original date or do I change the date to the day that i've uploaded the new information?

Example:
Original Published date: September 2016
Updated Blog: June 2017.

What date should the blog display?

Thank you.

When I say duplicate content, I don't mean that the content on a clients site is displaying on another site on the web or taken from a site on the web.

A client has a few product pages and each product page has content on the bottom of the page (4-5 paragraphs) describing the product. Now, this content is also displaying on other pages, but re-worded so it's not 100% duplicate. Some pages show a duplicate content % ranging from 12% to 35% and maybe 40%.

Just curious if I should suggest having each product page less than 10% duplicated.

Thanks for your help.

Question. I've noticed in the past and more recently that if you search a business (example: Adidas) in Google, you'll see their activity on Twitter being displayed organically. How can you get your business to show? I also did some research and found that some business that have their tweets displaying are not Twitter verified. I though that may have something to do with it...I guess it doesn't. Does anyone know what "triggers" a business to have their tweets show up organically.

When you search Adidas, you'll see their business info, then the twitter carousel (displays 3 tweets and a arrow to view more).

Thanks for your help.

102GB

I was searching Walgreen and I noticed a link next to business link in the results. You click on it and it's a breakdown of the business - business bio. How does that appear? Is there something that can be done to have it display?

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Thanks everyone. That's good to hear they will be replaced the link - based on what Google suggests. I appreciate the answers.

Question.

If you wanted to use the Google Demote this sitelink URL - will another sitelink appear to replace it? There is a sitelink I feel doesn't belong and hoping another one that is beneficial appears. I understand Google has control of what appears.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334

Thanks.

Thank you for the information. I appreciate breaking it down in a simple way.

Thank you for the information. I'll take a look at the Bing Ranking Factors blog.

Question...

I have a few clients that rank well for Google (first page) but are not ranking as well on Bing (page 5). Any suggestions on what to do to increase Bing ranking? I understand that Google and Bing use different algorithms, but just curious how you can increase ranking.

Appreciate your input. Thanks

Dirk,

Thanks for the links. This was very helpful and exactly what I was looking for. Spot on!

Steven

I've noticed when you search business such as Pier 1, William Sonoma, they offer a "Search william-sonoma.com" search bar within the organic search. You can see it when you google William Sonoma.

So, the question is, how does that get displayed? Is it something a business can include or is it something that Google will provide if they feel the need too?

Appreciate any feedback. Thanks.

Hi Miriam,

Thanks for checking back in. Yes, the businesses are different and the phone number, name and websites are different. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for all the information. The comments were very helpful. The businesses are different (phone number, website) and I believe the address can include a suite number which will help make them different too.

Very helpful!

I have a question about Google my Business. Currently I have a business that's been verified. I would like to add another business with the same address. The businesses are different (name, website, phone number) but the primary address is the same. Is this something that can be done? Thanks for your help.

Hi Miriam,

Thanks for the answer. Wow, this is a great article. I'll make sure the site is updated first and then follow the other steps. This was very helpful. Also, good to know Google may want to re-verify again.

Thanks,
Steven

I have a quick question about Google my Business listing. If moving a business to a new location, would all you need to do is edit the listing with the new NAP? The business is verified. Would I need to do anything else? Thanks for your help.

Ok, ,quick question. A client is launching a new product.

Would you recommend creating a landing page (off main domain) such as:

productname.com ---- and this page would have product information and would be a landing page for a possible PPC campaign. A link would be included to their main website to purchase product.

or

would you include the new product on their main website (companysite.com) in the appropriate product category?

Is there any benefits to having it on it's own domain? SEO benefits?

I would like to know what your opinion would be regarding the business name displayed in the meta description. Would you write your business name as:

Business Name or BusinessName (no space with Trademark)

I used MOZ example from here (Meta Descriptions Best Practice) and inserted the different business names.

Welcome to Business Name in San Diego, California - the nation's largest urban cultural park. Home of 15 major museums, renowned performing arts venues...

Welcome to businessname in San Diego, California - the nation's largest urban cultural park. Home of 15 major museums, renowned performing arts venues...

I'm not sure which would be best for Google and other search engines.

Thanks for your help.

I had a site that was http://www.site.com and now the entire site is https://www.site.com.

I notice in WMT its showing  https://wwwsite.com listed as not verified.  I never added it, but did Google recognize it and added it to my list of sites?

• Do I need to verify it? Is it ok to have verified http:www.site.com and additionally https://www.site.com

Also, i submitted a new sitemap and indexed pages are low. Will that go up as Google crawls the site?

The https://www.site.com was launched about a week ago.

Thanks.

Which would be best for a client: (for promoting the product and SEO)

Product on existing business website:
business.com/category/productname

or

a completely new domain name for the product:
productname.com

Thanks for your feedback.

Thank you for the responses. They were both very helpful.  I went ahead and took a few 10-word samples and searched it in Google with the quotation marks. The client showed up as the first result! He was pleased. Again, the responses were very helpful! Thanks.

I like that tips about using the quotations.

I was just using a program (copyscpape) to see if the content on a clients website has been copied. I was surprised that the content on the site was displaying 70% duplicated and it's showing the same content on a few sites with different % duplicated (ranging from 35%-80%) I have been informed that the content on the clients site is original and was written by the client.

My question is, does Google know or understand that the clients website's content was created as original and that the other sites have copied it word-for-word and placed it on their site?

Does he need to re-write the content to make it original? I just want to make sure before I told him to re-write all the content on the site? I'm well aware that duplicate content is bad, but i'm just curious if it's hurting the clients site because they originally created the content.

Thanks for your input.

I have a page on a site that is targeted for "mens hair cut" and I have received a F for the grade.

The content on the page uses "men's" throughout the content. (proper punctuation) When I re-graded the page with "men's hair cut" the page received a B grade.

My question is, does mens v.s men's make a different for on-page SEO? Should my targeted keywords include "men's" rather than "mens"?