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Does anyone know the allocation, percentage-wise, of clicks that go to Adwords vs Local 3 Pack vs Organic on Google Search (average)?

A couple of years ago we had a series of bad reviews due to our billing company. We have not been able to recover from this and are unable to appear in Local listings due to the horrible reviews even though they are from years ago. Would it be a good idea to change domains and google+ accounts in order to start over with reviews and local citations?

Can you have a website with multiple pages of the exact same copy, (being different locations of a franchise business), and still be able to rank for each individual franchise? Is that possible?

My business website ranked on the first page for 48 of 51 keywords for years. Then 10 months ago I had a duplicate content problem from a bad plugin and every keyword ranking dropped off the first page. I got the duplicate content problem fixed, but I've been stuck with only 3 keywords of 51 on the first page ever since. This is a local site and without much competition at all.

http://www.pmaaustin.com

The Yoast SEO Plugin shows the on page optimization of nearly every page/post on this website as solid Green, but MOZ rates nearly all of my pages' On Page Optimization as an F. It rates nearly all these keywords as an F as showing they should all be optimized on the Home page. I don't understand that.

Also according to MOZ ,versus my competitor's websites, I have mostly the highest Domain and Page Authority. I also has the largest # and most relevant Root Domains. It also has the best written content, and the almost only active blog. Still, nearly every keyword is sitting on page 2. It seems like it wants to "Spring" onto page 1!  What am I missing?

I had a bad plugin create duplicate content issues on my Wordpress CMS - www.pmaaustin.com  I got it fixed, but now every keyword has been stuck on page 2 for search terms for 4 months now, where I was 49 out of 52 keywords on page one. It's a small local niche with mostly easier to rank keywords. Am I missing something?

p.s. Also has a notice on the Dashboard that says:

"404 Redirected: There are 889 captured 404 URLs that need to be processed."  Could that be a problem?

Thanks,

Steve

Is Signpost a good service for a small business?

Thank you your insights and advice. Now that I know the direction my business is growing, there are three changes I want to make for my business site:

1. Change the hosting from GoDaddy to Bluehost - do you agree?
2. Replace my Wordpress theme from Thesis to the new Headway Themes 3.0 (so site can grow w/o me learning or hiring a coder)
3. and of course changing the current domain to www.ImpactMMAfitness.com - Thank you for your help with this!

In which order or combination should I proceed with these steps?

Sincerely,

Steve

Thanks for the advice - the business has always been named Impact MMA Fitness, I just set up the website trying to rocket to the top of the SERP's with a Keyword rich domain - wrong choice!

Thank you for your help - sorry for the delay in thanking you!

A year and a half ago, SEO was all new to me and I may have made a mistake that looks to be a problem now. In a misguided quest to rank higher and faster, I used a domain for it's keywords and quick ranking potential rather than using my business' name URL.

I've built the links and authority to where I'm now ranking well for many of my local search terms which is important for my local business success. The situation is that now I want to expand my business nationally as a franchise which will require my company's name in the domain(?), and the addition of entirely new pages and terms.

My company's name' URL>    www.ImpactMMAfitness.com    is pointed to my site www.austinfitnessgyms.com  and GA shows a significant # of visitors type our name in to find us. I also think it would be odd for someone outside my town looking for franchise info to be pointed to a different domain with Austin in it.

I was wondering what option would be best:

1. Keep as is
2. Change domains - ouch!?
3. Make a new second site
4. ?

I have 'ImpactFranchise.com I could use for a new site just for franchising but I would be starting at the bottom for any rankings.

Is there a solution, or did I dig myself into a hole?

I couple weeks ago I switched my website from Drupal to a Wordpress CMS: Martial Arts Austin   My rankings have  remained the same, but the Domain Authority has plummeted from like 29 to 21. I know this is small fry, but I don't want my business to drop in ranking.

The URL's were kept exactly the same, with the internal links and copy also kept the same with few additions.

Also, according to Open Site Explorer, the site's stronger pages have now averaged out with the weaker and unused pages so they all now share the same Page Authority - that doesn't seem right. Is there reason for concern?

Did I screw something up, or am I making too much of this?

Thanks

Is it better to 301 or to closely duplicate each page URL when switching  over to a new website from an established site with good ranking and a different CMS ( Drupal switching to Wordpress)?

Thanks for the help!

Thank you for helping me through this issue. I was worried I'd be facing a penalty for the duplicate content and am glad to get it corrected. This site has Drupal as it's CMS and it's been a bear trying to change/add/update anything. There are a number of problems with this site - it doesn't show the Description tags even though I have them filled out.You can see this on View Source that there's no Descriptions tags. Any changes I have wanted to make can't be changed like the Facebook button and Alt tags, by me anyway.

I'm working on a new Wordpress website to replace this one with. Again, thank you for your help!

Sincerely,

Steve

Thank you for your help, but according to the Crawl Dignostics for this website's SEOMoz Campaign, I have 16 pages of duplicate content. Should I discard this info.?

The website guy that made the website for my business Premier Martial Arts Austin disappeared and didn't set up that www. was to begin each URL, so I now have a duplicate content problem and don't want to be penalized for it. I tried to show in Webmaster tools the preferred setup but can't get it to OK that I'm the website owner. Any idea as what to do?

Thanks for the help - that fixed it! If you lived in Austin, TX we'd give you some free Muay Thai classes!!

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The Home page Title Tag on my Wordpress CMS Website doesn't update. It has the Thesis Theme and All in One SEO plugin. I've updated it exactly the same on the Home page, for SEO plugin, and in the Thesis Theme - but still it displays the old one..

The site was last cached about a week ago - 3X since I've been attempting to change it. The other page's Title Tags update instantly when updated, but not the Home page. I've been digging for a solution and can't seem to find an answer. What could be the problem?

(www.austinfitnessgyms.com  -It should be: Austin Gym | Kickboxing in Austin | Impact MMA Fitness)