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Thanks, thought this would be the case.

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Ade

Hi, one of my clients owns a dental practice. The business is split into 2 parts. One is general dentistry and the other in cosmetic dentistry. They are both aimed at different markets. The question is, should we have 1 website with all the details for the business under, or could we have two domains and promote both sites differently. Does anyone see any issues with the address being the same etc?

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Ade

Thanks, yeah this is where its confusing for me trying to learn about back links The website is super relevant, it doesnt "look" spammy, other companies in my industry as registered here..... hummm seo fun

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Hi, im submitting a clients website to some directories. They are a dental practice and I'm adding them to this website http://goo.gl/Tvyabd

Once i added the business to its directory it asked me to add a link (in so many words) back to its website from my clients website. Is this ok to do or is it seen as spam?

Im confused about this as sometimes directories are free and sometimes they ask for a fee for it to be fast tracked to put it on the website. I always check the Domain authority of the websites and make sure they are relevant to the industry that I'm working in but again not sure if this would be seen as "paying" for links.

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Ade

Thanks Kathy, yeah is an odd one. Ive seen it happen before with some other sites we have done and its always confused me why it happens.

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Ade

Thanks for the answers. great idea as well Inbound Boulder

Hi, wondered if someone could help. My clients website shows up well for terms but its always the homepage rather than the targeted landing page. For example, if you search for "teeth whitening anglesey" they appear http://goo.gl/ohJdua however, its the homepage rather than the tooth whitening page http://goo.gl/uVI8gK

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Ade

Ok thanks Dan

Great, thanks for that. Just one question, my client says that if we feel it's better he's happy to use the old domain as the main and switch the site, which makes more sense as it's the name of the company, in light of the fact we seem to have lost most keyword ranking, will this have any improvements or disadvantages?

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Ok great, thanks for your advice Linda, have a nice day.!

Ok great, thanks Linda, its odd because Google isn't saying where its linked or they are linked from like it normally does.

Did you see this question

would this page http://goo.gl/YoPg0q and this page http://goo.gl/kRq0Pd be classed as ghosting? this wasn't the intention but Ive come across this page whilst doing some site research from along time ago and wondering if it would effect my ranking? Should i put a 301 or do you think its ok to leave?

Thanks, i appreciate your feedback.

Hi, yes this is what i mean, this is why I'm so confused by it. It has never been a page on the website, we've checked an triple checked this.

Sorry Linda, just re-read when you say 301, its in google webmaster tools that its saying 404 error?

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Brilliant, thanks Moz guys, its helpful. One other question as i have you...

would this page http://goo.gl/YoPg0q and this page http://goo.gl/kRq0Pd be classed as ghosting? this wasn't the intention but Ive come across this page whilst doing some site research from along time ago and wondering if it would effect my ranking? Should i put a 301 or do you think its ok to leave? Thanks

Ok thanks, Oddly in webmaster tools it shows HTML improvements as duplicate title tags:

/clinic_locations.html
/uk-clinics-luton-wolverhampton-locations/

But the .html hasn't been around for ages, maybe 2 years? It has a 404 re-direct. Im wondering 2 things. Should I ignore this and will it be effecting my seo and if so is there any more i can do about it?

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Hello, for sometime now we have URLs showing up in Google webmaster saying these are 404 errors but don't exist on our website.......but also never have?

Heres an example

cosmetic-dentistry/28yearold-southport-dentist-wins-best-young-dentist-award/801530293

The root being this goo.gl/vi4N4F

Really confused about this? We have recently made our website wordpress?

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Ade

Hi Dirk, thanks for this. No we hadn't noticed a difference. Its important to point out that the page rank dropped before the new framework went live though. Although we have been looking at this and have made some improvements this afternoon. Google speed test now says 74 for the desktop so we will work some more on it tomorrow.

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No true, but if thats the case does it say "penalty" or just re-indexing

Sorry a quick update. If you search in google.co.uk and search with your location being in certain areas of the UK they come up top for the brand name, but if you search for the brand name in say "Manchester" they show at the bottom of the page.

Weird

Hi Mark, thanks for that. As it happens the brand name seems to be appearing again today and google webmaster tools also suggests this in WMT with in the ranking section. We've been checking the manual action section for a few weeks now but it just says "No manual webspam actions found"

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Hello, there! yeah everything has 301 redirects, no duplicate content is live now. They used to come top for "dental implants luton" http://goo.gl/fO74zy

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Morning Moz Fans:

My URL is: http://goo.gl/Dhbjwj

According to MOZ, which we are tracking this URL with, somewhere between the 3rd Feb and 10th the domain went from being fairly well indexed to being dropped to pages further back than 6-7, for pretty much everything, even the company name was only registering at the bottom of page one.

Around this time we were transferring the website from .php into wordpress, so we were creating new pages, called by the same names and all the same content but we created the wordpress area in a sub domain of the website. Again around this time we had an issue with the blog area and had to take it down for 4-5 weeks due to some errors which meant google wouldn't have been able to crawl these pages properly, but the rest of the website was up and running.

We also discovered recently that the company have and use this domain http://goo.gl/5JvDUH

So my question is, what do you think caused the problem? has it been premaritally penalised? is there a way I can get google to specifically look at it and is there any more i can do?Thank you for your help

Hello, we have an issue which I'm hoping someone can help with.

Our Moz system is saying that this page

http://www.indigolittle.com/fees/

Is a duplicate page. We use this page purely for mobiles and we have added code to say

This has been on for over a month now however Moz is still picking the page us as a High Priority Issue.

Thanks for that, i feel inspired! I know it can be done its just sometimes you feel your doing a lot of work and you look at another site and think "there not doing half this stuff, why are they doing so well?" Im of course also looking at other areas/keywords to improve the SEO but as you know most clients get certain terms into there heads that they want to show up for. Thanks for your help.

Thanks Jeremy, I've not been working on the SEO that long, less than 2 months. I guess my question is more to do with the fact that its hard to say to a client "This is SEO and this is what needs doing on your site" then for a client to simply turn round and say " well this company doesnt do that and they are top".

Hello, I have a question which I really want to get to the bottom of.

We are carrying out some SEO for a client. Im currently using the tools in Moz to help me with this. Im currently trying to target "Dentist Balham". We are following all the "rules" creating content, created a mobile friendly site etc. However the site that is coming top is www.balhamdentalcare.co.uk which carries non of the things we are doing, in fact a lot of the content is PDF downloads. They don't do well in the SERP Report compared to other sites. Its basically not a great site but its coming up first. Does any one think this can be beaten or does it just come down to the fact that they use  "Balham" in the domain name?

Thanks for your advice.
Ade

Hello, I've adding OpenGraph, Twitter cards and Google's Schema code to my website to help these services pick the correct information about my website. I'm doing this as per the Moz SEO cheatsheet.

Does these rich snippets need to be on the index page only, or should they appear on every page?

Brilliant, thanks for that Justin. Just checking a couple of things though. The site does seem to have some back links:

http://www.yell.com/biz/perfect-profiles-limited-wolverhampton-901442204/
http://www.cosmeticdentistryguide.co.uk/cosmeticdentistryabroad/profile/perfect-profiles.html

Do you have any suggestions for the types of sites we need links from? (local directories etc) I shy away from back links in general.

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Ade

Hi,

We have a page that we have optimised in the MOZ system and got a grade A for the term "Dental Implants Wolverhampton"

The page that has been optimised isn't being indexed in google

http://www.perfectdental.eu.com/treatments-implants.php

However, this page

http://www.perfectdental.eu.com/uk-clinics-dental-team.php

Which hasn't been optimised is indexed 11. If i run this page through the MOZ "on-page checker" it receives a quality score of F. Its very confusing, would be great to hear from anyone with any ideas?

Thanks
Ade