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I am not sure but doubt this will work on Google search ads (i mean adwords ads on Google.com)...It blocks ads on the web pages you visit including Youtube, Hulu, TwitchTV/JustinTV, most Major News Sites(cnn/fox/nbc/msnbc) and many more. Ads from services like Google AdSense Yahoo DoubleClick It also blocks the GoogleAnalytics tracking script.

unfortunately, you can’t remove ads altogether, you can remove unwanted ads. In Google Search and Gmail, you can block ads from specific advertisers. On sites that are part of the Display Network, you can choose which interests or demographic details are used to show you ads and, in some cases, “mute” ads you no longer want to see.

You can find the detailed instructions here- https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662850?hl=en

Hope this helps!

Traditionally, the search engines ignore everything after the hash-tag because it's usually content contained on the same page or URL. Therefore, those additional URLs should not get indexed (only the part before the hashtag should). As per my experience, they completely disregard anything after the # tag in a URL.

However, it is always advisable to have clean urls as both SEs and people prefer them over complicated one. Clean urls deliver enhanced usability to help users remember and share your URLs more easily. Another benefit of a simple URL is that other sites are more likely to link to a simple URL, because it is easier to do so.

These URLs are called AJAX URL- a URL containing a hash fragment, e.g., www.example.com/index.html#mystate, where #mystate is the hash fragment.

Reg. the above mentioned URL- This url is using Hash-Bang (#!) not hashtag, which makes Ajax/ javascript pages crawlable. The basic # indicates a location on a page (anchor) so does not get indexed as a separate URL.

You can find detailed information here- https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/174992?hl=en

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/174993

Hope this helps!

This thread may be helpful for you- http://moz.com/community/q/why-is-my-servers-ip-address-showing-up-in-webmaster-tools 

• Sachin

If you are planning to insert these keywords in your content for the sake of SEO then I would strongly suggest you to avoid this practice.

Having a keyword appear multiple times on the page does help Google to relate what the page is all about, however, stuffing the keywords unnecessarily will fade your users' experience and warn Google that you are trying to over-optimize your page for the algorithm and your site may get penalized.

I would advice you to focus more on quality of the content and try to use the keywords in optimum level. Get your content right, think about the words you want a page to be found for and use them naturally on the page. It will help you to created a solid foundation and will support all of your other SEO efforts.

Hope this helps!

See if you can find your solution here- http://searchengineland.com/google-shopping-7-advanced-tips-strategies-for-merchants-126166

or http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2012/11/19/measuring-adwords-product-listing-ads-google-analytics/#sr=g&m=o&cp=or&ct=-tmc&st=(opu qspwjefe)&ts=1412756852

Hi Renukishor,

This article should solve all your queries- http://moz.com/blog/google-algorithm-cheat-sheet-panda-penguin-hummingbird

• Sachin

Got you.

In the case of Google Shopping listing clicks, these will show up as Organic and not cpc. However, these will not track separate from your normal organic traffic. To be able to know how they report you will have to create a filter.

You can find the instructions for implementation here- http://moz.com/ugc/tracking-google-shopping-traffic-with-google-analytics-14244

Don't forget to read the comments by the author of this post as there is some updated filter information in an update posted to the comments.

For more information you can read this discussion- https://www.en.adwords-community.com/t5/Tracking-Reporting/Google-shopping-results-in-google-analytics/td-p/109822

Hope this helps!

If you can, then modify those links and direct them to the main domain. If not, don't put much effort...rather, I would advice you to invest that time in creating new more relevant links which can help you more

Also,  there is no difference between a 301 and a link in terms of PageRank dilution.

According to Matt, if you have many redirects, like chains of them from one url to another to another, that is a known bad thing. But one or so won't hurt you.

Here is video link where Matt has answered the question- What percentage of PageRank is lost through a 301 redirect?- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Filv4pP-1nw

You must list a physical address.  If you provide service at their customer's location then you can use your home address. Here, you have the option to hide your address (if do not want to show it to public). You can get more info here-  Google Places Quality Guidelines

You may also find this link helpful- http://moz.com/community/q/google-local-listing-no-physical-address

Yes, Google has completely dropped all authorship functionality from the search results and webmaster tools.

John Mueller of Google Webmaster Tools has announced in a Google+ post here- https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8

Some more resources you may find helpful-

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2352147/Google-to-Remove-Author-Images-from-Search-Results

http://moz.com/blog/author-photos-are-gone-does-google-authorship-still-have-value-29334

http://searchengineland.com/goodbye-google-authorship-201975

Totally agree with Kayintveen and EGOL.

You can find this link useful and can show to your client to support your argument.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2154469/How-to-Write-Title-Tags-For-Search-Engine-Optimization

Hi Bigrat95,

Google states that the disavow tool should be used only "if you are confident that the links are causing issues for you." The disavow backlinks tool should be used with caution since it can potentially harm your site's performance.

Using the disavow backlinks tool is an indicator that there's something fishy about your website and it can happen that you disavow good backlinks that help your website.

So, I would advise you to take care of the following points before using Disavow Tool: -

• In most cases, Google can assess which links to trust without additional guidance, so most normal or typical sites will not need to use this tool.

• It is advisable to use this tool if , you actually did spam Google in the past. if not then invest your time in getting new high quality backlinks.

• Again, it is a good idea to use this tool if You have received an algorithmic or a manual penalty from Google.

• According to Cutts, after a webmaster has gone through the usual routes of trying to get links removed off sites they see as being low-quality, whether it was from poor SEO decisions or a bad SEO company, then that is when you would use the disavow tool, to disavow the links you haven't been able to get removed.

• Cutts said that if the links are on sites you don’t want to be associated with whatsoever, to go and disavow the site from the domain level (e.g., example.com) rather than that the exact page the link appears on (e.g., example.com/directory/directory/spamlinkpage.html).

I would not advice you to disavow all the low PR and DA backlinks. It is always recommended to go thru the link to see the quality in terms of relevancy.

You should remove the link if you think that can harm your site like links from porn sites, gambling sites, non-relevant websites, links from the TLD which are in different language like an English site link on .de domains etc.

Don't disavow your good backlinks accidentally! Be cautious!

Also, remember- Each time you upload a new .txt file it will overwrite the previous one, so for using the disavowing tool more than once, update the original .txt file and upload it again.

Hope this will help.

Hi Rajeev,

Here is my opinion on your queries-

Google generally display the local results in search when it feels that a search would benefit from producing local-based results. For example, if someone in NewYork searches on Google for “Chinese Restaurant” they will find search results for many NY Chinese restaurants. If another person living in California makes the same search, the search results will represent California Chinese restaurants. A searcher does not need to specify “NY” or “CA” in their search phrase in order to find local Chinese restaurants. They will get local search results automatically. Google uses your location to tailor their results. This is done based on Google’s information about your current location, which generally is actually pretty accurate.

However, if the person in CA search for the phrase "chinese Restaurant in Newyork" then he will show you listed Chinese restaurants in NY.

If you change your location settings to NY (when you are in California) then google will display you the restaurants listed in NY even when you have not specified your location in search term (in this case NY).

For the factors you can read-

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2321848/4-Local-Search-Tactics-That-Will-Matter-More-in-2014

http://moz.com/blog/top-20-local-search-ranking-factors-an-illustrated-guide

You may find this moz post helpful- 40 Important Local Search Questions Answered

http://moz.com/blog/40-important-local-search-questions-answered

Hey, I am sure you will find answers for all of your queries here- http://moz.com/ugc/seo-guide-to-google-webmaster-recommendations-for-pagination

Also, I would recommend you to read these articles-

http://moz.com/blog/rel-confused-answers-to-your-rel-canonical-questions

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html

Hi Masbro,

Here are some suggestions:

• You can participate in national travel communities/ forums like TripAdvisor. They usually have city-wise segregation for city specific discussions.

• You can be a part of various local travel groups on Facebook. Here, you can find national as well as city specific groups. For example: Explore Canada (https://www.facebook.com/ExploreCanada) for Canada as a whole and Visit Toronto (https://www.facebook.com/visittoronto) for Toronto as specific location. It’s not just Facebook but other platforms like Twitter engagement, blogging, Pinterest, YouTube, LinkedIn, all are important.

• Engagement with local travel bloggers can be good idea.

• Image platforms like Instagram is again a worth try. When you are planning to market a destination where your travel agency offers a trip, pictures could be the thing you would like to show to your potential customers. Most of the people decide the spot where they want to go for a vacation after seeing the images, mostly on the internet. So, the images are probably the best tools for travel marketing, especially when it is performed online.

Hope this will help.

Hi there,

There could be multiple of reasons of it. I would suggest you to dig dipper into analytics to find out the exact reason. You should analyze few things like what are those keywords, which is the landing page (if there is any specific), from which geography you got the most traffic during that day etc.

Here, I am ruling out the possibility of improvement in your site ranking (as a reason) because your traffic has come down again to the previous level.

There is a possibility that your site is ranking for the keywords related to a topic which leads to a lot of searches on 17th like some breaking news, controversy etc. I experienced the same once when we were managing a client site related to travel destinations. One day, we saw a big spike in traffic for a particular city page (1000 times more) and later we discovered that the traffic was because of a breaking news update for that city.

So, intervention Analysis & event analysis for that day may help you to find the exact reason.

All the best.

Traditionally, the search engines ignore everything after the hash-tag because it's usually content contained on the same page or URL. Therefore, those additional URLs should not get indexed (only the part before the hashtag should). As per my experience, they completely disregard anything after the # tag in a URL.

However, it is always advisable to have clean urls as both SEs and people prefer them over complicated one. Clean urls deliver enhanced usability to help users remember and share your URLs more easily. Another benefit of a simple URL is that other sites are more likely to link to a simple URL, because it is easier to do so.

Remember the following points while adding the negative keywords in your campaigns :

• Negative broad keywords won’t match on synonyms or similar words like they can for regular keywords.
• Negative keywords, even on broad match, won’t match on close variations or plurals.
• For single-word negative keywords, there is no difference between broad and phrase match.