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@rh-digi is your account linked to Google Universal Analytics as that is when it was roughly turned off, for data to continue to flow you may been to reconnect to the new GA4.

Hi there, I would certainly think about using Yoast & Yoast Premium, it has some great features and will interogate each page of your WP installtion allowing you to make the most of your content.

I would then also consider using tools such as Googles Site Kit, JetPack and W3 Total Cache to give your side the best speed boosts possible as these will also help you with your SEO gains.

Do you have a post so we can evaluate?

Hey Mozzers,

Recently we have had a series of agencies in to pitch for work, one group mentioned that due to our association with a possibly penalised product review website, any links and activity associated with the brand would hinder our SEO.

We currently have a  good rating, but we are now no longer pushing our customers to the site as we move to a new platform. The current link back from this website is also no-followed.

Any thoughts on how this could impact us? And how the agencies determined the site was penalised and causing us problems.

Cheers

Tim

Pretty much what Greg said - there are so many things to look into including but not limited to the below..

• Enable Compress with GZip etc
• Serve scaled images and try SVGs.
• Reduce and minify scripts, HTML and CSS
• Possibly serve images from a content delivery network
• Load scripts asyncronously
• Avoid redirects where possible, reduce DNS look ups and http requests
• Set up caching correctly.
• Use a fast server and install  SSL certificate. Intially it maybe slower but you can optimise bestter and in the end should produce faster speeds via HTTP2.0.

Plus lots, lots more.

Your CSS does look to be doing a fair bit of render blocking. Maybe look to combine and reduce to essential needed items.

Hey Lee,

I work in the insurance sector and pretty much all serp listing lost their aggregate rating stars here in the UK in the Sept update you mentioned (many other niches also affected).

I have managed to keep our Stars going a little longer by switching from aggregate reviews to individual product review ratings within the product scope. You will lose the total review counter, but atleast you get a genuine review and still some stars to aid click through.

I cannot be certain you Shopify plugin will still perform with aggregate reviews, you may need to hard coded until it is updated - do they have a support section for the plugin?

I don't think Aggregate review ratings will be returning in the near future.

Cheers

Tim

Could it be related to this?

https://www.seroundtable.com/rumors-shortnames-google-my-business-suspensions-27861.html

Where I work we currently have two profiles for the same address and we have not been penalised. Have you made sure the account content is totally different and also verified the listings?

Thank you for the tips guys, I am going to try and play with departments and see if that has the desired effect on search intent without negatively impacting our overall GMB profile and the knowledge panel.

Hey All,

I am not sure this is possible but here goes...

I've a phone number pulled in from "Google My Business" for the company I work for Caravan Guard Insurance.

We have different numbers for specific functions e.g. claims, renewals, quotes.

Currently If I type in "caravan guard claims number" into Google Search it shows our general tel number which is clearly pulled in from GMB and the Knowledge Panel. Can this be influenced or have multiple options?

For example If I were to search "caravan guard number" it would continue to show our default customer number like present, but if I were to search for "caravan guard claims number" it shows our claims number.

Not sure it is possible, but thought I would ask.

Cheers all

Tim

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Have you performed any more disavow processes since? If you have not, simply login to your Search Console and head to the disavow section.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links

If you have not added any more, simply click the profile you are working with, and it should open up a box with a link to your most recent added file. See my linked image which shows the pop up. You can then download the text file that you/they added.

Hope that helps.

If it is an older file, I would suggest talking to google about seeing previous versions of the txt file, that is if they hold onto them.

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Have you checked your robots.txt file to ensure you are not blocking google and other bots from crawling your site?

This should work:

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Update: I have opened your robots.txt and it is saying disallow!!
Secondly it can take a little while for your site to be fully indexed so be patient.

The og:title is a meta property that hes been defined for objects in a social graph. They are used for example by Facebook. It will not directly replace your tag, but support it for other platforms searchabilty.

This will likely be due to the new index that was released, your domain authority is relative to the index and sites contained in the index. The new index was smaller, but is now fixed and will likely give you more accurate figures.

https://moz.com/community/q/new-mozscape-index-released-learn-just-what-s-been-going-on

https://moz.com/blog/mozscape-index-2015

Hey XDunningX,

In order to get Gold stars (rich snippet) in your serps you need to apply a specific set of Schema data to the architecture or loaded elements of your site products. This can either be by microdata

itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
Rated 3.5/5
based on 11 customer reviews **Or via JSON

PLEASE SEE FULL EXAMPLES ON SCHEMA.ORG, THESE HAVE BEEN STRIPPED A TOUCH.

Where I woork we have linked up a series of products with the product schema and then associated a series of aggregate reviews (average star rating for lots of reviews) and individual reviews left by our customers that are associated with the product. You can also apply reviews to Brands, Services, Events, Creative work, Offers, Organisations and Places.

The schema website supported by Google and Bing, outlines a series of examples for you to implement.

However, please bear in mind, that even if you have implemented the schema correctly sometimes the search engines will elect not o show it. I feel however it is worth the effort to give you the chance.

Have fun implementing.**

Personally, I find it easy enough - simple as a couple of quick clicks. The homepage of Moz.com is in my opinion more of a landing page aimed at attracting new clients and is about their products than existing users. Login and other elements are where I would expect them to be placed on the screen / menu. I would imagine most people are also advanced web users and have bookmarks and alike to make it a one click process as opposed to two/three.

How would you improve on them? Surely that is more constructive

Hey SWD,

First of all it appears to be a relatively competitive keyword phrase with quite a few companies targeting it, As such just because you may be doing some things right, it doesn't mean you will instantly climb the serps unfortunately, How long has the site been live?

Here are some things to check - make sure you...

1. Submit your sitemap in Google and Bings Webmaster tools.
2. Also do a crawl of the site and submit and render before sbmitting to the index.

Even after submission it will take a little time for it to appear.

Secondly, and this is only my opinion, but I check the source of your pages and spotted this 
alt="DPF Cleaning Service | Economy Remapping | JL Engineering" title="DPF Cleaning Service and Economy Remapping" on all of your navigation buttons, make them relevant to where they are pointing,

A few more relevant links to your site may help too. Cheers

Tim

Is the content the same though for the two sections?

For me if one is about jumper products you sell and the other about reviews of jumpers, I think they do very different things, but I can see there will be an overlap and you want to elimate this to Google has a clear definition of both.

Could you not implement to different schema types. One for blog related listing articles etc and one tailored towards product schema, hopefully this will help google to determine the sections a little better.

If however, they are in effect the same pages and content why not implement a series of rel canonicals to the preferred more important pages.

Hope that helps

If you are writing a blog post for your product / services etc on an external site then this can be viewed as advertising in Googles eyes. For this type of self exposure I would suggest no-follows for any links pointing back to yourself.

If you are writing a post for your own blog and would like to mention something be it a product or person that is relevant to the blog topic etc then there is no harm in leaving the link as a follow version. If the person / site is a direct competitor in a similar market then leaving a follow may boost their rankings, but that is your call.

It all depends on the promotional aspect and location of the blog post for me. Hope this helps.

The code is definately a bit of a mess.

Due to the second rel being rel='nofollow' this link will likely be a no follow.

Secondly in order for it to be accurately used as a follow it should be rel="follow" not rel="dofollow" as this does not exist. For a link to be a naturally followed link you do not even need to use the rel="" tag.

anchor text - FOLLOW
anchor text - NO FOLLOW

Here is a bit more on use of nofollow

Hope this helps.

Tim