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Hi,

I don't know much about the local directories you are using but I can tell you that something similar happened to me - on .ro -Romania, and I know how irritating it is, and how funny the whole situation ends up when you contact the company and laugh in their faces - for example one particular company offered a client of ours to develop their website - of course they had a website which was actually number 1 on in a very competitive industry - Ohh, I replied to the email they sent - where they offered to both build the company a website and optimize it, and I asked them how come they didn't find the website if they are so good? :)) The company was well known -  placed on the first position - so that means, and must mean that the agencies that are trying to steal our clients don't even check to whom they are sending the "templated mail" - this could also mean they are simply buying the contact information from the directory itself - and that the directory sells the e-mail addresses which they promised to keep private.

From my point of view if the directory has no source of income: meaning adds or asking for money in exchange for a listing, they must have some income from somewhere else - just think of all the possibilities...

I think starting exclusive directories to those that " can answer basic SEO questions and have an email address with the same domain as their marketing web site." is an awesome idea - and I would love to help out!

Hello,

I wouldn't waist my time optimizing images. In the old interface clicking on the thumbnail of an image led to the page where the image was published (the image would be shown front-and-center, while the site would be displayed, greyed-out, in the background) Now, when you click on the image, a high resolution version of the image appears right within Google’s search results - users don't really have a reason to visit your website. They can see high resolution images in Google image search results and easily browse trough them. You can read more about that here.

What you could do is brand the images with your logo - maybe have a call to action. It could help increasing your brand recognition.

Hello,

I've seen this before. A company hires a copywriter to write content (either on a specific theme or based or inspired from your website's content). The content must be original and it's verified on Google, by searching for a couple of phrases and checking the result.

Hope that helped!

Hello,

Go on Wikipedia, search for an article on the niche you want, check the article's history, verify who wrote the article, or who made important and valid changes, click on the user's name - check his wiki user page, if you are satisfied with his/her work leave him a message with your proposal.

Salut Stefanita,

"Keyword stuffed" alt tags might look spammy. Use the alt to describe your image - give a relevant description while using the keywords. You can use around 140 characters and you can actually rank for long tail keywords and be found on google images. You can make the first image relevant for your main keywords, but after that just make relevant descriptive text.

Hi,

As I see it, you don't need to use a rel="Canonical" because your pages are not duplicates. You have content in italian and translated content in English.

The only thing you need to do is add a rel="alternate" hreflang="x"

This is what Google recommends in case your website is fully translated.

Some example scenarios where rel="alternate" hreflang="x" is recommended: For example, you have both German and English versions of each page. Here is how you implement it: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

1. Add a HTML link in the header - section for example:

2. HTTP header. If you publish non-HTML files (like PDFs), you can use an HTTP header to indicate a different language version of a URL: Link: <http: www.yourwebsite.eg="" en="">; rel="alternate"; hreflang="en".</http:>