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Hello there,

Of course, you can, there are many businesses that add their branches into GMB.

First I would try to figure out what is causing the loss of traffic, try to spend some time at your Google analytics and compare period before and after the change and see if you are able to identify where is the source of the lost traffic.

Since you said organic traffic drop it should be some ranking drop or CTR drop, I would start by checking with my Analytics and Search Console to see if my impressions and CTR have big changes before and after changes.

You should start tracking your keyword ranking, especially keyword that gives you conversion, hopefully, you've been tracking your conversion as well, then optimize it time by time.

Hello Ross,

I have a similar experience with Google+ but I believe the reason is that there are simply too few people from our specific industry and country using Google+, to be honest, you don't need to be active on all social media platform, just on the platform where your audience is there.

For me, I just simply share written blog post on my Google+ without creating any unique content for our Google+, we spend more of our time on LinkedIn and Facebook instead.

So again, you don't need to be everywhere, just where your audience at.

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello Rajnish,

There are so many reasons that might be causing the organic traffic lost, here are some thoughts that come to my mind:

• Since you say organic traffic lost I suppose this has something to do with your ranking on Google and CTR
• Do you currently tracking some keywords and do you see a considerable ranking drop?
• Since you rebrand the product do you also made a lot of content changes?
• Did you make a lot of changes on your Meta tags that could hurt the CTR?
• It takes time for 301 Redirect to fully pass the link value.
• You migrate to a different CMS, it has different structure although the surface looks the same, so maybe you need to take a look into onpage/technical SEO as well. Maybe remove the video background, which is known to hurt onpage SEO.

Hope this helps
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

To answer your questions,

1. Google will still crawl your pages even if it's not from the sitemap unless you specify disallow from your robots.txt

2. If they are similar content with the main difference at "quantities" couldn't you consolidate them into one single page that lists all the quantities your company sell in and then 301 redirect the other pages to the consolidated one?

3. It doesn't seem like going to be causing any problem nor hurting your SEO performance, but you could always change these link to the canonical link.

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

It's usual to rankings fluctuation if you made a huge change to your site content, Google needs some time to understand your content, learn how your visitors interact with your content (bounce rate, dwell time, etc.) and then decide if you're better than your competitor's page.

So to answer your question, you might be able to get back to the top spot if Google believes your content is much more valuable to the users.

I just take a look at your website and I had, to be honest, it looks like a page designed for Google bot more than the user, the large chunks of texts, over text styling and colors, section alignments make it uneasy to read and it reminds people spammy website/blogs.

It is recommended to design your website for the users, then optimize for SEO. After all, you want to increase your ranking but also your conversion rate as well.

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

I'm guessing you're talking about example.com/our-partners-in-uk vs. example.com/our-partner-in-united-kingdom

If that's the case I'd say there won't be too much difference for going with either one, Google is smart at understanding your page content, so if your URL is not too long (>75) for using united-kingdom, then go with it, otherwise go with the shorter UK.

If what you're talking about is the subdirectory for multinational targeting, I would suggest you to take a look at this: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

What do you mean your backlinks are not indexing? If you mean you wanted to see your backlinks I would suggest using Moz link explorer and Ahref site explorer.

If you mean some of your backlinks that isn't being indexed by Google, that's nothing much you can do than wait for it to be indexed. Unless you're able to contact the webmaster which he can request for an index in his search console.

Of course if your backlinks have other backlinks it will increase the chance of being indexed as well, finally, I do not recommend using any link indexing tools because they're simply not useful at all, such as linklicious.

And no your ranking will not drop because of the backlinks not being index, unless you mean you lost the backlinks, or the backlinks being de-index, which they have to be indexed at the first place.

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Unfortunately, I don't think there's any other way to have the review extensions.

Hello there,

You can use .htaccess URL rewrite to remove all the .html from your URL, here's the rewrite rules.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

Once you added this rules you should also fix all your internal links make sure they link to the URL without .html

Hope this helps,

Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Google will truncate your URL when it exceeds a pixel length. I usually keep it as short as possible, make sure it let people understand what they might expect from that page, but not too long to look annoying. Here are some tips:

• Keep it as short as possible
• Don't use stop words
• Avoid using special characters (dash is fine and can be used as spaces)

I couldn't list all of the tips but this few guides will help you whenever you creating a new page and URL.

https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls

https://moz.com/learn/seo/url

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-friendly-url-structure-2/202790/

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello vtmoz,

I believe there won't be any negative impacts, for example, a press release can get you links from news site but it won't necessarily relevant to your site. Google approach might just be "devalue" those link instead of punishing it. I believe that is a fair to do otherwise people can just use "negative seo" to derank others site.

Hope this answered your question.

Regards,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Actually if used correctly, content syndication can be an effective way to help your site ranking, I'm assuming you have a main blog that you want to syndicate the content on it's to other blogs with different groups of visitors, so ultimately they might visit your main blog from that syndicated blog post.

There are some things you can do on syndicated posts such as canonical, noindex, etc. You can read on this 2 post which explains each method in details:

https://searchengineland.com/syndicated-content-189097

https://neilpatel.com/blog/the-step-by-step-guide-to-syndicating-content-without-screwing-up-your-seo/

Hope this helps
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

1. I would avoid using AggregateRating on the homepage because Google simply doesn't show them and it can sometimes see it as spam, instead, it's recommended to use it on your specific page that sells the product or service.

2. There's some script that helps you to do that, which helps you to embed Google Review into your website, here's a guide with details to do that.

https://www.launch2success.com/guide/display-google-reviews-website-2017/

If you're using WordPress, there's some plugin can achieve that, such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-google-reviews/

Hope this helps,

Joseph Yap

Hello there,

I'm guessing you're talking about example.com/our-partners-in-uk vs. example.com/our-partner-in-united-kingdom

If that's the case I'd say there won't be too much difference for going with either one, Google is smart at understanding your page content, so if your URL is not too long (>75) for using united-kingdom, then go with it, otherwise go with the shorter UK.

If what you're talking about is the subdirectory for multinational targeting, I would suggest you to take a look at this: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello Brad,

I'm assuming the image used to be on the same domain you're now on, and it leads them to your website 404 page, in that case, I would upload another relevant image with the same filename to my site and do a 301 redirect.

If those backlinks point to an image from the other site which is different from your current site, you might want to make sure these backlinks are quality and relevant to your content before making a domain level 301 redirect.

Hope this answered your question.

Regards,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Some people believe that Google doesn't penalize you for being linked from some spammy site, it simply just devalue those link. Whether it's true or not only Google knows, but for your situation there's 2 option:

• Disavow those spammy links
• Prevent hotlinking, which disables people linking to your images directly
  https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/smarter-way-to-prevent-image-hotlinking-with-htaccess/

Hope this answered your question.

Hello Sharon,

If you just recently change the URL for your whole website, you will experience some up and down in your ranking, but losing 90% from impression sounds like your ranking is dropping significantly from few of your main keywords.

The first thing I would do is to make sure all the 301 redirects are being set up correctly.

You want to make sure http+non-www, http+www, https+www are 301 redirected to https+non-www (your version.)

Also, make sure to set that as your preferred options in Google search console.

I found this answer might help you too: https://moz.com/community/q/checklist-for-moving-a-site-from-non-www-to-www

Regards,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Since you already got replies telling you that things can take some time, I would just provide you with something that you could do to expedite the process.

• Press release
• Setup relevant social profiles, GMB, and link to your own website make sure you have a consistent NAP
• Get citations from the local website
• Build some quality backlinks

Upon checking the keyword "residentie bosrand", I found that it wasn't a keyword with much competition either, and you have an exact match domain. So I believe the above tips can easily get you rank for your own brand name in a matter of days.

BTW, considering giving a more descriptive file name for your PDF, Google might think they're spammy. Or just simply hide them from search results. (https://moz.com/community/q/no-index-pdfs)

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello,

I believe that depends on your goal, Wistia injects a structured data that helps crawler better understanding and index your video, it also provides more marketing options such as email opt-in when playing the video.

If your goal is to grow your youtube channel, then youtube might be the right option for you, as it offers more channel for the user to reach you on youtube.

Hope this helps