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I've been coming across many yahoo listings that have a "First Name, Last Name-Business Name" as the listing title including one that I came across that includes my name and my company's business. There's no reason why I should be listed on the listing. Yahoo, says that they pull data from other sources:

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But none of those sites have my name connected to them other than in the account information. Yahoo, doesn't seem to have a good way to fix their listings. I sent their customer support an email about it but I'm not expecting to get much out of it.

Does anyone know of a good way to get around/fix this?

spencerhjustice

So I copied your source code into an html file on a locally hosted server and ran it through screaming frog. It read it with no issues.

Since your script and css files are using relative references it crawled them as 404's but it read the title, description and everything else without issues. This leads me to believe that one of your javascript files is causing an issue with the crawler.

If you have the pro version of screaming frog you can adjust the settings to ignore javascript and see if that works, which may help you solve the problem.

spencerhjustice

I mean I'm not saying that it's not possible, but above the fold is relevant to the user because it's actually something they see. The section is completely invisible to a user, hence shouldn't be relevant.

spencerhjustice

I honestly don't think that the <title>tag location is your issue.</p> <p>One issue that I'm seeing is that your page load time is pretty abysmal. According to tools.pingdom.com your page load time is around 8 seconds. This probably has to do with the massive amount of code that your site is using. That is at least one thing you may look into improving.</p></title>

spencerhjustice

I'm not sure that I agree with this. If this were about the

or any element that is actually visibile on the page then I'd be inclined to agree but there is really no reason that you should need to put the <title>tag higher up as long as it is within the <head> section. It really shouldn't affect anything in my opinion.</p></title>

spencerhjustice

https://mybusinesslistingmanager.myacxiom.com/

That's the link to register to edit your axciom business listing. You will likely have to create an account and then do a phone verification. If I recall correctly the phone verification generally requires you to call them from the phone number on the listing.

spencerhjustice

I don't think that would be relevant since it's not a copy of the article and any way, it just references it.

I also doubt that the huffington post does rel canonicals because that would lose them traffic.

spencerhjustice

It is possible that he called Google to fix the issues and they said that they were not real locations. They do have customer service reps for local businesses, but if it's an actual office that you can recieve mail and phone calls at their really shouldn't be anyway for them to know you don't actually have an office there.

I have a decent amount of experience in local SEO and I've read tons of local SEO articles and I've never even heard of Google sending out people to check on local businesses and I highly doubt that they do. My best guess would be that the SEO thinks it's not best practice to use the satellite offices because they're not a regularly staffed offices, so they're making up something to convince you to scrap the idea of using them.

spencerhjustice

I would like to point out that twitter is using javascript redirects not serverside redirects. If you disable javascript and try that url it will load the homepage/ your twitter feed and the url will stay the same.

The second url doesn't seem to be properly redirecting as at least for me it just 301 redirects back to itself.

spencerhjustice

That's not true. Google is able to crawl and index properly setup ajax based pages like the one in question. Bing on the otherhand is not able to do so or at least not last time I checked.

spencerhjustice

Assuming that each site is optimized similarly I would assume that either the m. version has a better linking profile or more likely that the desktop version has spammy links and is suffering from an algorithmic penalty due to penguin. I would look into that first. Check webmaster tools under search traffic > manual actions to see if there's anything there as well.

Like the majority of questions in these forums its difficult to give a more specific answer without being able to look at the actual sites in question.

spencerhjustice

Wow, that's ridiculous. I just looked at https://www.97thfloor.com/ and their site is sort of cool, but it also really hurts my eyes.

I never understood SEO company's that preach one thing and then either do something else or just don't do exactly what they're telling their customers.

97th floor also has the same title tag for every page. I guess they just don't want to be found organically, which I guess might make sense when you work with big brands like they do.

spencerhjustice

https://mybusinesslistingmanager.myacxiom.com/

That's the link to register to edit your axciom business listing. You will likely have to create an account and then do a phone verification. If I recall correctly the phone verification generally requires you to call them from the phone number on the listing.

spencerhjustice

So it looks like you're a venue for music, poetry and live music. Most of this is based off of "live music san juan puerto rico"

Your address is not listed on your website or anywhere on the web that I can find. How am I supposed to visit your business if I can't figure out where it is? Fix that.

You have a map on your contact page that is just to San Juan. That doesn't help anyone. Create a Google+ local listing ASAP and then link your map to that listing in Google maps! Also add your address on your Facebook and build out other relevant directory listings, such as Yelp. Look at what your competitors are doing. La Repestua looks like a decent one to look at even if they don't offer exactly what you do.

I would also suggest including the name of your business in the title tag of the homepage. This should help to ensure your website ranks first for your business name. I currently see your Facebook and Twitter beating it.

There are tons of travel sites that feature live music venues. Just search for "live music san juan puerto rico" and a ton show up. These are the types of places you want to show up.

There doesn't appear to be a ton of competition in San Juan so just getting some basic directory listings set up should help you out a lot.

spencerhjustice

This is exactly correct. I actually went in and looked at every single link listed in opensiteexplorer. All but one of the links is a spammy directory link and the one that isn't is a low quality link from a magento plugin vendor.

Even a few decent links should help a lot.

spencerhjustice

I don't see any issue with this at all. This sounds like it's beneficial to the user and not spammy, so I don't see it causing any problems.

spencerhjustice

This is mostly speculation but it almost looks like Google is choosing to index http://www.roguevalleymicro.com/ instead of http://www.roguevalleymicro.com/index.php.

If you search for site:roguevalleymicro.com it shows http://www.roguevalleymicro.com/ with the title and meta description for http://www.roguevalleymicro.com/index.php.

It might be doing that because almost every single link, including the google+ page link to http://www.roguevalleymicro.com instead of http://www.roguevalleymicro.com/index.php.

I would actually advise that you rewrite http://www.roguevalleymicro.com/index.php to http://www.roguevalleymicro.com/ which is more aesthetically pleasing and will probably fix your issue.

spencerhjustice

Just a friendly reminder. Please don't delete your question after it's been answered. It's very likely that someone in the future could have the same question and they would have been able to find the answer if you hadn't deleted the question.

spencerhjustice

Assuming that you plan on posting them on your site as pdf files then they are spiderable to some extent. Google does spider and index some pdf's. I wouldn't advise this as a plan because pdf's do not generally rank well in most areas. The only category I can think of offhand where they do are irs forms.

They would be much more likely to be thoroughly crawled, indexed and ranked if they are posted as actual webpages in html.

spencerhjustice

Can you link the Facebook page that they have transferred them to?

To my knowledge Facebook will only consolidate pages that are duplicates of each other, if it is a competitor that they transferred then this is a massive error on their part. Generally merging pages requires you to be an admin on both pages, so I'm not sure how they manages this. It seems like your competitor must have convinced Facebook that your page was a duplicate of yours. I imagine that contacting Facebook will be a pain but that's the only way you will be able to get this reverted.

I'm sorry this happened. It sounds extremely frustrating. Good luck with getting this fixed!

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