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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

A meta description should look like this:

name="description" content="This is where the description goes. This is the bestest meta description in all the land."/>

This should go in the head section of your site, somewhere between and

Edit: Also, capitalization doesn't matter and the trailing slash in mine isn't necessary. Here's Moz's resource on meta descriptions if you want some more info: http://moz.com/learn/seo/meta-description

I've never used this strategy personally but I have heard that Google will read the captions and use the text for ranking purposes. I've also seen articles mentioning this as a best practice for Youtube SEO. I don't have a specific source though, so hopefully someone with more experience will be able to help.

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextag.com%2Fhp-p2015-laserjet%2Fproducts-html%3Fnxtg%3D116d0a1c0504-

I knew that the % meant it was encoding another character. I didn't know exactly which characters those stood for off the top of my head, so i just made educated guesses and got http://www.nextag.com/hp-p2015-laserjet/products-html

Generally html is the end of the url so I assumed the %3Fnxtg%3D116d0a1c0504- was a url parameter, which after looking at the table of url encoded characters, %3F is a "?" which is the beginning of a url parameter.

The bottom block of text is definitely spammy and needs to be removed, but other than that I would say that http://www.generalplumbingsupply.com/American-Canyon-CA-v1.HTML is a better landing page for SEO and for user experience. It has a better layout and provides more information. The only real issue is that the content should be customized for each location instead of using the same text for all 5 locations with swapped out location names at the end. You'll want to schema the addresses, phone numbers and hours on that page was well.

I'm not sure how long that page has been up but it's not indexed at all as far as I can tell and the top page that is indexed: www.generalplumbingsupply.com/locations-sonora.html is a 404. Also there are even more duplicate content issues because this page is indexed: http://www.generalplumbingsupply.com/Kitchen-And-Bathroom-Products-In-American-Canyon-CA-v1.HTML and has exactly the same content as http://www.generalplumbingsupply.com/American-Canyon-CA-v1.HTML. It would make sure that all pages with the same content are using one url, instead of having multiple urls with the exact same content.

This is one of those times where it's frustrating to be a local SEO, because the site is actually ranking in the cities that they have fake location pages for.

Good Luck!

If you go to site settings in webmaster tools you can set your geographic target to United Kingdom which may help.

I agree with Samuel. I also don't think that adding an author tag would have the benefit that you want. It's not going to stop them from stealing your content and repurposing it.

It looks like you are although possibly unintentionally. It looks like you're doing display advertising and are showing up here because it's a relevant page. It actually looks like a product listing ad.

Here's a link to the page I found your ad on.

It's http://www.archcitygranite.com/ he linked it as an attachment.

The content seems to be working fine for me on desktop and mobile.

Did you change domains when you changed themes or were you always http://www.securityjobsuk.co.uk/ but with better rankings? I ask because your domain authority is pretty low (18) and generally sites with that low of a domain authority don't rank at all.

The only other issue I can see is that your logo/sitename is sitting in a sitewide h1 and every page I looked at had at least 4 h1 tags, which is definitely not advised. Any page should only ever have one h1 and the logo shouldn't be a sitewide h1, at least in my opinion. That may be at least part of your issue.

You didn't look very hard for canonicals, because they're all using rel="canonical" tags back to http://www.chillisauce.co.uk/stag-weekends/edinburgh/

How did you find these pages?

It looks like they might just be ppc landing pages, which is why they are all variations of eachother or they might be old seo tactics that they just decided to consolidate via canonical tags.

They're actually going about that how they should be, which is why they are not being penalized whatsover.

You will also notice that for all of those keywords http://www.chillisauce.co.uk/stag-weekends/edinburgh/ is the only url that ranks.

I concur. Wordpress is an excellent option for blogging and it would definitely better to put it on a subdirectory of your main site. Something like http://www.awaragroup.com/blog would be ideal.

You can use screaming frog for this but you need to have the paid version which is £99 per year. It can also do tons of other things and I highly recommend it.

This article explains how to use this to see if links have been removed which will also tell you if they still exist.

In 29 I'm seeing it under customize and there's a "Title Bar" button in the bottom left corner.

It's because your meta descriptions are improperly formatted.

Yours are formatted like:

description="We make it easy to send emails triggered by user behavior. Build, measure and improve your emails to activate and retain users" />

but they should be like:

It's definitely not ideal but as long as they're all showing the same author I don't think it will cause you any issues. I've seen many other sites where authorship is showing in search results and the yhave multiple rel="author" tags in their source code.

You're probably not using google.ca. It ranks slightly lower on google.com.

If for some reason you don't want to redirect www.michelangelohotel.com then you can just add a meta robots tag in the header of every page that looks like this:

Although you said that they would point www.michelangelohotel.com to www.starhotel.com/en/michelangelo-hotel-new-york which would generally means that it is being redirected so anyone that types in www.michelangelohotel.com will end up at www.starhotel.com/en/michelangelo-hotel-new-york

I would imagine that because Chevrolet is part of the brand name that it shouldn't cause any issues but using Chevy might be more beneficial anyways.

Also if I recall correctly from when I did keyword research for a Chevy dealership/parts seller, Chevy was actually searched just as often if not more often than Chevrolet. Obviously that's subject to location though.

Hmm I'm seeing it as coming up once each in the title, meta description, body and img alt in the On-Page Grader Tool.

And "Exact Keyword Used in Document Text at Least Once" is showing a check-mark.

Yoast may not be picking it up due to how your homepage is laid out in wordpress. Yoast probably just pulls the main body content and a lot of wordpress homepages are in widgets or other places outside of the main page content, which will likely hide it from the yoast plugin.

If I understand correctly the executives at your company want to use the domain that the current event site is on to create an umbrella site, but you want to keep SEO strength of that site but on a different domain?

I don't think that that would work how you want it to, because as far as I know once you take that 301 off, all of the links leading to the original domain are going to start counting towards that umbrella site and the even site will likely drastically drop in rankings.

The temporary might help to boost the new domain for the event site, but it's definitely a complicated situation and I'm not sure that there's a good way to go about it.

Also, you mentioned a blog at the beginning of your post but after reading it, it kind of seems somewhat irrelevant to your question.

I would be wary of most services that are charging under ~$1000 a month total, not necessarily on a keyword basis.  I would also highly advise against using an overseas agency, you're more likely to get screwed than to get a good deal in  my experience. I would suggest checking out Moz's recommended agencies or agencies that are active on Moz and other SEO related blogs/news sites.

This is definitely tough because you are an online business, which generally means more competition. Hopefully you're in a fairly specific niche that isn't super competitive.

Good Luck!

It looks like there are two issues.

The first issue is that Firefox and Chrome are treating the padding differently. Firefox is padding from the bottom of the text of the navigation whereas chrome is padding from the top of the containing div.

The second issue is that your site appears to be adding hardcoded css via javascript which is why you don't see that style in the source code. It's being added by a script executed in the browser after the site is loaded.

The best tool that I know of that would do that would be the redirects tab under links in Ahrefs. If that's not showing you what you want, then I'm not confident that you will find another tool that will.

A chrome extension that could be somewhat helpful to follow redirect paths and see what types of redirects are being used is: Redirect Path

P.S. Thanks for asking this question because it helped me to realize that my site's .htaccess file somehow got deleted recently and my 301 redirects weren't working.

Yep, it's definitely schema that Indeed is using to get that snippet. You'll see on http://www.indeed.co.za/Picker-Packer-jobs that the

for each row uses the itemtype="http://schema.org/JobPosting" property and the tags are using properties like itemprop="hiringOrganization".

Schema is a little confusing at first but it's actually fairly straightforward once you get it figured out.

For adzuna.com it looks like google might just be recognizing that it's a search results page and pulling the "Results 1-10 of 14" that's displayed on the page.

Not really an answer to the question but I just googled "hot vs not" in incognito and this page is the second to last result on the first page, which is mildly interesting.

I want to clarify something that I think would help to better answer the question. Is this showing in the meta description in the source code on the pages or is it just showing up in Google's search results?

If it's in the source code then you obviously can change it, although it may be somewhat difficult depending on the cms.

If it's only in search results and not in the source code then it's going to be a lot more difficult to get rid of. This is something that Google is detecting on your site and automatically displaying because it think that it's beneficial to searchers.

I'm confused as to what your question is. I'm assuming it's related to a meta refresh or some error related to a meta refresh but you haven't really specified what you mean.

In regards to the email on that page it looks like someone added an on click event for event tracking in google analytics but that should be irrelevant to a meta refresh. The email itself is coded incorrectly, which is why you'll notice clicking on it redirects you to the homepage(at least in firefox and chrome). The "http://" needs to be removed and probably replaced with "mailto:" so that it's "mailto:sheira.gorris@fdmgroup.com"

This is a strategy called "Barnacle SEO." Essentially you optimize and build links to high end business profiles like yelp because they are more likely to rank due to their high domain authority.

Here's the most recent post I could find on it: http://searchengineland.com/barnacle-seo-making-big-comeback-local-187253

The competitor you're talking about has a higher domain authority which already gives him a decent head start, but it's good that you're still outranking his website. What I see that's definitely helping him is that he optimized his listings for the city you're trying to rank in. He has more reviews than you and he has tons more facebook likes. He also has his Yelp linked to from his facebook and he links back to his yelp profile from his website.

Also, to answer your last question, part of the reason these are ranking is definitely because their is fairly low competition in the space.

I definitely wouldn't canonical them because as far as I can tell the content on the individual client pages is unique.

Honestly I don't see why you're worried. The pages all have unique content and contain no external links. If the main client page contained direct links to the clients' sites then I could see their being an issue but you shouldn't have to nofollow internal links.

Via .htaccess file in the root of your site you can use mod rewrite to display http://www.roguevalleymicro.com/index.php as http://www.roguevalleymicro.com/ instead.

It would look something like:

Rewrite index.php to root

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

I can't say I'm master at .htaccess files, so that may not be 100% correct.

It would be better if someone with a little more experience with rewrites could add their input.

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.

As far as I can tell Webmaster tools doesn't take into account http vs https it only looks at domains/subdomains so you shouldn't need to do anything on that front. Whenever you make a large change like that it usually takes a little bit of time for everything to get settled with Google and get back to normal.

So I would say that you shouldn't need to do anything else. You just need to wait and everything should get reindexed.

I would say that it most likely won't have any negative effect but the best practice is to only use call swapping via an images for local seo.

If you're curious you can see what phone number google-bot sees by using the new fetch and render option in webmaster tools under crawl.

If you want to use call tracking via changing text on the page I would suggest setting it up to only swap out numbers for paid searchers. I don't know if this is a standard option for most call tracking providers but I use CallRail and I know that they allow you to set it up that way.

Remarketing should have no benefit to rankings whatsoever. Remarketing ads are loaded via javascript, are generally in iframes with nofollow and they go through a redirect chain before leading to the website. This means that they aren't actual links that Google sees or counts for SEO benefit.

They may be using some sort of blackhat method to gain links that fast, but remarketing is not that method.

They work if you open them in a new tab, at least for me.

I would start by looking them up in opensiteexplorer which is a Moz tool. This will give you a majority of your competitors links. If you want a more in depth breakdown then I would look at https://ahrefs.com/ and https://www.majesticseo.com/ but you're only going to get a snapshot without a paid subscription for those.

You need to look at the actual render of the webpage and see what number it's rendering.

I believe that getgoaliath.com script that it is blocking is the number swapping javascript so I would imagine that you should be fine.

I've never used if by phone but I've heard good things. I think you're most likely good to go.

I'm assuming your noindex tags looks something like

name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/> or name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>

and you have them on every single page that you don't want google to index?

How long ago did you do this because this a process that could take awhile, especially with 196,000 pages?

If it's been awhile and it's still doing this, you can also restrict these pages in your robots.txt so that Google doesn't crawl the pages at all.

Here's a blog related to this from google's webmaster central: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-robots-meta-tag.html

This shouldn't cause any issues whatsoever as long as you aren't doing anything manipulative or blackhat. This is fairly common.

From my understanding of your post, technically anyone trying to go to the non www. version of the old pages would be redirected twice which would be a redirect chain. Assuming their aren't any or aren't many links to the non www. version of the pages I don't think that should be a problem. As long as all of your links on the site are linking directly to the proper pages or at most are being redirected once I don't think that you should have any issues.