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I don't think we can look at a word-count in a vacuum; not only because there are so many contributing factors, but because there are likely variables that effected this "magic number" (a concept that I feel is bunk) that weren't measured and considered or weighed in any way.

Most importantly, I don't think such a figure has any use to a specific person, business, site, etc. It's interesting data, but it says nothing about what any individual should do or expect. In my experience, my readers want anywhere between 300 - 2000 words; but again, this means practically nothing. There are different types of posts, subjects, content-uses, audiences based on these, and many other variables.

I think that, if one's data shows that their posts aren't doing well, word count is one area in which it may be worth exploring different solutions. But there are dozens of more vital and useful data points out there and readily available.

First, I'd note that using the same strategy for similar keywords doesn't necessarily mean they'll have similar results. Sometimes, keywords need very different strategies, content-association, and have different competition / difficulty.

Is it only you who are having ranking issues for this brand, or are other websites having the same issue?

If you can provide links to both, I could help you out - but without seeing your pages or any data, it's impossible to say. There are a lot of possible reasons for that.

First and most importantly, I strongly advise against ever suggesting a client "play the system". Everyone gets caught eventually and it's silly to make such a big risk for such a small benefit. How long before he's caught? Who knows. But he will be, and neither of you wants that.

I recommend removing his home and mother's home as locations in terms of Google Places. Then, optimize the website for these locations. Make mention of the areas he serves often (but not to a spammy degree), and create **good, long, unique content **for location- or area-specific pages.

There are effectively 2 ways you could handle this properly:

1. Consolidate all of those duplicate pages into one page; keeping these listings one a single page and using a gallery / ajax / etc. to bring up one specific car at a time.
2. Choose one page from each set of duplicates as the base page, and place "rel-canonical" tags in the duplicates.

Option 2 is likely the better of the two in terms of SEO and your business, but both are technically viable options.

While your site looks very nice and clean, there are a handful of things that are hurting it:

1. There's no header navigation on the initial page (the left-hand widget isn't "initial" in this sense).
2. There's barely any text on the homepage.
3. There doesn't seem to be an H1 on the page (certainly not at the top - even though it might seem that way, the slider content may not be getting picked up by Google as such).
4. Effectively, your homepage is a long list of products. Take a look at Amazon and even smaller ecommerce sites. Your site, and specifically, homepage, is lacking content.

I'm sure with a genuine audit, you could get loads more information, but these are all things you may wish to consider looking into.

I had this same issue not more than a few months ago; it seems that the option Google recommends is to delete the listing(s) you don't prefer. Unfortunately, this is currently the only viable option. If you have followers on the one you intend on deleting that aren't followers on your preferred listing, I suggest inviting them to follow the one you save.

In general, I think it's never a good idea to outright remove or delete a blog post - especially one that may actually be helpful to proper visitors. In this case, I'd suggest setting blog posts that disrupt your site's flow/funnel or otherwise cause this sort of issue to "no-index". Deindexing posts / pages like this will remove them from SERPs, but will leave them accessible to visitors. Don't be too heavy-handed with de-indexing though. Do this to one or a few posts, and see how that effects your site after a month. Then, if it's had a benefit, you could de-index more (not all) posts like this.

Never allow someone to take or steal your content. Ever. It's never good for your site, and it's just a matter of time before it causes an (even bigger) issue for you. Duplicate content hurts both parties, even if you added it first. Moreover, the backlinks wouldn't be worth the harm.

Send them a take-down request to their website administrator. If, after a short amount of time, they haven't responded and/or taken your content down, file a complaint with Google regarding stolen content.

If you could provide an example, I'm sure it would be easy to help you out and give you an answer as to why that might be.

First, it's important to note that you can never expect the same results year-over-year for a page that's similar to a previous one. You need to take into account competition, algorithm changes, etc.

One glaring issue I find on this page is that you have almost no unique text. Google looks very unfavorably on pages that have little content; your page only has about 100 words. I strongly suggest writing more about the product; what it's made of, it's dimensions, history, anything.

After inspecting the code, I see that your meta-description wasn't updated. It starts "Find your perfect mid-year diary 14-15 with TOAD." - but should ready 15-16, no?

Fixing these things may not reap the benefits you're looking for, but they're certainly a start. Good luck!

Antonio is absolutely correct - in the 10th line of your homepage's code is a no-index tag.

To elaborate more on his second point, the reason the page: _kaya3976.com.au/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php  _is the only one being shown, is because Google sees that there's a website, but can't actually index any visitor-intended pages - and is therefore showing your WP Login page. You definitely want that to be resolved ASAP, but I would make absolutely sure with whomever's been developing the site that there isn't a reason it's de-indexed currently.

No one can really answer a question like this without knowing more details about your product. However, generally speaking, I would say to try to do the following:

• Break the process up between at least several, related steps.
• Keep the design simple, and the clutter and/or extra content to a minimum during the process.
• The more a user can click rather than type, the better. Drop downs are generally preferable to text-input fields.
• Keep the design, headings, and placement of items consistent.
• Ensure that, if customers are inputting sensitive data, that the entire site or section is https (getting an SSL certification). That way their data will be secure.
• If you're worried that people may not be willing to spend 10-20 minutes, consider having a preliminary amount of data necessary for sign-up / login / etc. and then allow them to add more information before accessing the product directly.

These are just some general tips, but I hope they're helpful nonetheless.

Never allow someone to take or steal your content. Ever. It's never good for your site, and it's just a matter of time before it causes an (even bigger) issue for you. Duplicate content hurts both parties, even if you added it first. Moreover, the backlinks wouldn't be worth the harm.

Send them a take-down request to their website administrator. If, after a short amount of time, they haven't responded and/or taken your content down, file a complaint with Google regarding stolen content.

My company recently created a website for a huge moving company with many locations. The site's very successful, in part for a few things. Of those, some are pretty conventional:

• Create location-specific pages with unique content about that location - be it your business' location's history, about the town/city, etc. **Do not **allow these pages to be similar to one another. They must have unique, rich content.
• Depending on the amount of locations, you may be able to add those new location-based pages in the footer. I'd say after 20 or so, it might become excessive.
• If you have a blog, you should definitely write about those locations, any new openings, events happening in the areas, etc.
• It should go without saying, but make sure to optimize for each location where appropriate. However, do not over-optimize for any area unless it's the main hub for business.
• Schema. Schema all over the location information.
• Make sure your 301s are organized and all-encompassing.
• Not at all necessary, but occasions like this are great for reviewing your website's design and content.

There's surely a lot more you can do, but this list is a good starting point, I'd say. Hope this helps!

Hey there,

Since I obviously don't know the specifics of your situation, I'll give you an answer based on generalities. I'd say that there are probably 3 possible reasons that they'd lower the position offered to you:

1. They found someone they feel is more qualified for the position.
2. They no longer want to fill that position.
3. They simply don't feel that you currently fit the criteria, but that you might after more experience.

However, it doesn't matter why they might have offered you a lower position, I think what matters is if you'd be happy at the one currently being offered. If not, then be gutsy and ask them frankly why they offered a lower position - either you won't be hired (which you don't want) or they'll explain and you can make a more educated decision.

If you're happy with the lower position, or you feel that there's high potential to move-up, then go for it. The worst case is that it doesn't work out, which would leave you where you are now.

Please keep in mind that this is all subjective opinion - I, and no one else, should tote it as anything other than that. Good luck to you! I hope it works out for the best.

First, an H1 should pretty much never be in the footer. H1 tags are meant to be the lead-in for the page and the content therein. It should tell visitors and Google what your page is about, using keywords if possible. That said, there isn't inherently anything wrong with having 2 or 3 H1 tags if your page is long and has several different bits of content that don't fall under one category.

Second, while it's important for a company's name and brand to be relatively prominent on a website, having it on every page as an H1 tag is extremely excessive. If I saw it as a user, I'd think it's not only spammy, but strange since it's presumably in other prominent places on the site (in the header, content, some H tags, etc).

I strongly recommend that you remove these H1 tags from your footer and, if having the brand name within pages is something your client really wants, have it placed more organically in the content.

Playhazel has a stronger call-to-action in name. This is stronger in most ways, I would say.

Hazelbox doesn't sound game-related, so unless you have strong branding for the name, it likely won't be as clear or strong in conversion.

Of course, I'm basing all of this input on inference and experience, and not empirical data. So I would do some research into either and think about branding methods before I made a decision, were I you. Good luck!

To answer your questions:

1. Not necessarily, but I'd be very careful. Content that's very similar isn't far from content that's duplicated.
2. I'm not 100% sure what you mean, but that's not an area I'm well-versed in.
3. What I can tell you is that you may want to consider having 1 website rather than hundreds. That one website can have a primary, large navigational section solely for locations and information about locations and varying services. This is probably something you'd have to discuss with the franchise owners and many others, but the fact that you have many sites and not one, means that you're missing out on SEO. It may benefit you greatly to consolidate everything into one - especially if you're trying to strengthen your brand. I did this with a client of mine recently who has several locations across the country, and they're doing much better in terms of SEO and conversion. But the most important thing to say is that measuring and preparing is often a good step.

Tim's correct, but I'll add a couple of things:

• Never take any analytics platform as gospel - meaning, each of them have their inaccuracies. This is one of the benefits to having multiple platforms running analytics on your site(s).
• In this case, I would recommend following Google's count. Not only because it's higher, but because their analytics are going to be more accurate (generally) to what's happening in SERPs. When I say the volume of page issues is a factor, what I'm considering is that either Google is simply seeing more errors than Moz, or Google's crawl is itself in error (which happens on occasion). Either way, that would need to be resolved, so solving the issues Google's provided should be paramount.
• Lastly, the Yoast plugin is wonderful in many ways. Don't take everything it gives you at face value, but more often than not, it'll be a fantastic resource for on-page SEO. There's also a plugin simply called "Redirection" that can setup 301s from a page that's 404ed to a more relevant page, should you wish to go that path. Either way, always make sure you have either a dedicated 404 page (with actionable content so users aren't lost), or some manner of populate-able content.

Good luck!