I can completely see where your coming from and agree! Thank you!

We have updated and added completely new content to our state pages. Our old state content is sitting in a our Google drive. Can I make these public to get them indexed and provide a link back to our state pages? In theory it sounds like a great link building strategy...

TIA!

Spam score of 28 is extremely high, however I only show a 1 for your domain...

https://screencast.com/t/w1lKfTYa

Roman, thank you so much for your response! We're on the exact same page, this was my thought process as well. Thank you for clarifying!

Hello Moz Friends!

I was wondering what the correct "SEO friendly" strategy is with badges and awards. We recently got BBB accredited and added their badge to the footer of the website. We also added a review badge from shopper approved to the footer. As I'm joining other communities, I see there's badges given to us. For example, Alignable. Great place for networking. They offer a badge that says "locals recommend us" or something.

Should I embed these badges onto our website someplace? Should I create a page for just badges or place them in the footer or sidebar widgets? What the best SEO practice for this?

Thank you!!

Yes, that makes perfect sense! That's exactly what I was looking for.

I will make the old content a draft and utilize it some place else.

Thank you!

I'm going through all our blog and FAQ pages to see which ones are performing well and which ones are competing with one another. Basically doing an SEO content clean up. Is there any SEO benefit to keeping the page published vs trashing it after you apply a 301 redirect to a better performing page?

Not that I've noticed... I started with the company back in February and noticed it when I crawled the site with Screaming Frog. So they already had uppercase and lowercase permalinks back then. When I brought it to our developers attention they didn't seem to concerned. Then I saw something somewhere that discussed Google seeing them as potential duplicates. Which is when I posted to MOZ and got the response that it was fine since we have canonical URLs in place. So, it has not had any negative effect since I started that I can see. However, I don't know how to correct Screaming Frog from seeing as duplicate pages.

I had the same issue in Screaming Frog and posted to Moz Q&A a few weeks ago about it that was resolved.

https://moz.com/community/q/uppercase-lowercase-reading-as-duplicate-permalinks

Gaston thank you so much!!! I appreciate your extremely fast responses and help with resolving this issue!

Hello Moz Friends!

I was wondering what the correct "SEO friendly" strategy is with badges and awards. We recently got BBB accredited and added their badge to the footer of the website. We also added a review badge from shopper approved to the footer. As I'm joining other communities, I see there's badges given to us. For example, Alignable. Great place for networking. They offer a badge that says "locals recommend us" or something.

Should I embed these badges onto our website someplace? Should I create a page for just badges or place them in the footer or sidebar widgets? What the best SEO practice for this?

Thank you!!

Not a good idea, I know it's hard to explain these types of things from an SEO point of view that the customer understands. You're going to lose all your good reviews that the business has gained. I'm also not sure if you're able to just create a new GMB once you mark the current one permanently closed without changing the NAP. I agree with SEOman10, work on getting some new positive reviews going.

Also, if the review was not left by a real customer can't you report it to Google or no?

I had the same issue in Screaming Frog and posted to Moz Q&A a few weeks ago about it that was resolved.

https://moz.com/community/q/uppercase-lowercase-reading-as-duplicate-permalinks

We have updated and added completely new content to our state pages. Our old state content is sitting in a our Google drive. Can I make these public to get them indexed and provide a link back to our state pages? In theory it sounds like a great link building strategy...

TIA!