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Wow, that's awesome Joy! Thank you so much for reaching out and helping! Nothing more infuriating to me than a half completed job, and you were pivotal in getting it done. Thank you so much!

Thanks for the instructions. If you don't mind Joy, I'd send them to you there if you are still willing to help. Thanks!

An office space that's been given up now that the company is virtual. I was going to send you the address via PM, but it says your account doesn't accept them.

Thank you so much for that! We unfortunately got stuck in a situation where it was setup incorrectly as a local business from the beginning, but it was just lived with. But now the address is going away completely and it's become a situation that needs to be resolved. Hopefully without that big ugly "Permanently Closed" sign. It's bad for business in general.

Thank you!

Thank you for the link, I will give it a read and try Google support again.

Thanks for the response. Normally that would be perfect, except the expectation is to provide support nationally. It was never a local only business; that's just where their office is. I get the feeling that the listing might need to just be deleted, and start over with a brand page?

From what I can tell, you can't convert a business page to a brand page.

Not very up to date in handling local listings, so here's my situation. I have an office that is not going out of business, but instead going virtual. So that physical address will no longer exist but the team is intact. So I am dealing with the Google Business Listing page for this office at https://business.google.com/

In the "Published on" section, it has Google Search, Google Maps, and Google+. I want to remove it from Maps and the address from this account. There's an address for this store, but editing it only seems to allow changing, but not removal.

There is also the option of "Mark as Permanently Closed", but surely that isn't the best option since that will leave a nasty red "PERMANENTLY CLOSED" in the results when searching.

What's the best course of action here?

I had built a pull request for this issue, but thank you for jumping on it yourself. I'll try it tomorrow. Marking this as complete. I'll re-open if there's any issues. Thanks!

Just noticed it appears the python links library is broken right now. I will try another language.

I am trying to get all links that have a certain strings in their anchor text: I am using the python library: https://github.com/seomoz/SEOmozAPISamples/blob/master/python/lsapi.py

Looking at the documentation, it says I can get the normalized anchor text by using the bit flag 8 for the LinkCols value:

https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-api/mozscape/api-reference/link-metrics

So I tried this:

links = l.links('example.com', scope='page_to_domain', sort='domain_authority', filters=['external'], sourceCols = lsapi.UMCols.url, linkCols=8)

But it doesn't return the expected 'lnt' response field or anything similar to the anchor text. How do I get the anchor text on the source URLs?

I also tried 10 for the linkCols value, to get all the bit flags in the lf field as well as the anchor text. In both instances (and even with different variations of targetCols & sourceCols), this is all the fields that are returned:

'lrid', 'lsrc', 'luuu', 'uu', 'luupa', 'ltgt'

I wonder if they just installed it and didn't make any configurations? That would be my first guess since they left it up to you (the client). I wrote an article about setup on nginx (seems to be your environment). Take a look at that post and specifically the virtual host server config where I enable specific PSM filters for that website. Oh, and I'd also check the nginx.conf file to see if it's turned on. Responded to your PM as well.

#ngx_pagespeed module settings
pagespeed on;
pagespeed FileCachePath /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache;

http://www.rankhammer.com/blog/2513/page-speed-module-nginx-setup-on-linode

We're actually in the middle of this problem and found a work around. If you get the invalid pin message:

1. Login to your Yahoo biz dashboard, navigate to your client's listing and click edit.
2. Make a quick edit (doesn't matter if you change it back before hitting submit).
3. After hitting submit, it should take you right to the verification screen to either a) send a new pin, or b) enter your pin.
4. Use the PIN you already received to verify the listing.

We've done this a couple times already, and it seems to be working.

I am building a new site for a client and we're discussing their inventory section. What I would like to accomplish is have all their products load on scroll (or swipe on mobile). I have seen suggestions to load all content in the background at once, and show it as they swipe, lazy loading the product images. This will work fine for the user, but what about how GoogleBot mobile crawls the page?

Will it simulate swiping? Will it load every product at once, killing page load times b/c of all of the images it must load at once? What are considered SEO best practices when loading inventory using this technique.

I worry about this b/c it's possible for 2,000+ results to be returned, and I don't want GoogleBot to try and load all those results at once (with their product thumbnail images). And I know you will say to break those products up into categories, etc. But I want the "swipe for more" experience. 99.9% of our users will click a category or filter the results, but if someone wants to swipe through all 2,000 items on the main inventory landing page, they can. I would rather have this option than "Page 1 of 350".

I like option #4 in this question, but not sure how Google will handle it.

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/7268/iphone-mobile-web-pagination-vs-load-more-vs-scrolling?rq=1

I asked Matt Cutts to answer this, if you want to upvote this question.
https://www.google.com/moderator/#11/e=adbf4&u=CAIQwYCMnI6opfkj

It turns out it was an issue with schema.org tagging overwriting any opengraph or the actual HTML attributes. The itemscope "name" property was just set to the company name. I had a LocalBusiness schema.org markup on the page which takes precedence on Google+.

When I create a new blog post and link to it on Google+, the thumbnail & description are correct, but the HTML title it pulls in is just the company name. I have the proper HTML title tag and OpenGraph tagging on the page too, but lately (last 3 posts) it just shows company name:

Here's an example. It used to work on the first handful of posts, but the last 3 or 4, it just show the "Company Name" next to the thumbnail image & above the description.

<title>Some blog post title - Company Name</name></p> <p>...</p> <p>...</p> <p><span><meta </span><span class="webkit-html-attribute-name">property</span><span>='</span><span class="webkit-html-attribute-value">og:title</span><span>' </span><span class="webkit-html-attribute-name">content</span><span>='</span><span class="webkit-html-attribute-value">Some blog post title - Company Name</span><span>'/></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p></title>

I have 4 websites setup in my pro dashboard. The only site that isn't getting crawled is an HTTPS site. It has worked for over a year, but the past 4 crawls (an entire month now) has returned only one page crawled. Is there something going on with the crawler? I really need to be able to see these stats.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

It looks like &gl=us might be what I was looking for.

I didn't know the plugin did that, thanks. Maybe I can try and look at the backend and see how they personalize it. I swear I saw someone mention a URL param for setting location to United States, but I can't remember where I saw it on Moz.

Couple quick questions. Is using the parameter pws=0 still useful for turning off personalization?

Is there a way to set my location as a URL parameter as well? For instance, I want to set my location to United States, can this be done with a URL param the same way as pws=0?

Good to know, thank you. I had actually picked up that advice on seomoz 6-7 months ago.

When I have needed to do this. I usually got a virtual office address in the locations I wanted to rank. I haven't used these guys and am in no way affiliated with them, but here is an example:

http://www.davincivirtual.com/

Then just created Google Places with your new address and optimize for that.

When you deleted the old sitemap and created a new one, did you use the same sitemap xml filename? They will still try to crawl old URLs that were in your previous sitemap (even if they aren't listed in the new one) until they receive a 404 response from the original sitemap.

Google is actually addressing private blog networks as we speak. I was shocked this hasn't been discussed at all (on here at least). But in the past week or two, they had an algo update to penalize this PBNs, and the people that purchase links on them. Matt Cutts even tweeted about it last week.

https://twitter.com/#!/mattcutts/status/180392083427823616

I haven't redirected users by country, but I am doing it by US state for certain services on a site.

1. When a user visits the page from a state we offer the service in, they are 302 redirected to the state specific page

2. When a crawler visits the page, they are NOT redirected anywhere

3. On that same page, we have links pointing to the state specific page so they can be discovered by the crawler

Yeah, that looks like the one I saw. It would be nice to know their methodology. I could whip up a python script fairly quickly for public use to try against accounts you don't control.

It was an overview, percentage of followers that were likely to be spammers.  Based on who they followed, how much they wrote, etc. Maybe I did imagine it. ha.

I seem to remember seeing an online app mentioned here that allows you to enter a twitter username, and it reports back metrics on the likelihood of each follower being a real person or not. Does anyone have the link, or did I imagine it?

I am working on a website that all of its primary contents are videos. They have an assortment of free videos, but the majority or viewable only with a subscription to the site. If you don't have a subscription, you can see a 2 min video clip of the contents of the video. But all the videos can be anywhere from 10min to 1.5 hours. When I am auto-generating the sitemap.xml, can I put the full length of the videos for paying members in the XML in the video:duration property?

Or because publicly only 2 minutes is available (unless you pay for a membership) is that frowned upon?