Hey Judd, I also agree with Martin.

I would suggest reducing the number of articles on your homepage. The homepage is more of a gateway to introduce further primary content, services and products of your site. A space to sell and entice your audience. I think by having so many articles you are potentially causing more distractions that necessary.

More content about your business and services would also be more beneficial than the blog content.

Maybe just have a single row for your blog, featuring a single article from each of your categories. That way hopefully you will enable your services to shine a little more whilst still retaining some peripheral related content seo value.

If people are searching for your blog content and you rank well, the articles themselves will predominately be the landing pages rather than your home page.

Hope that is of some use.

Cheers

Tim

If you have lots of inline css, but would like to implement a site wide style change - e.g. changing text size, or your updating your brands colours - any inline css could stop this from taking affect fully and instead of a quick change to a single line of css in a stylesheet, you could potentially have to update hundreds of files wasting time and effort that could be spent elsewhere.

have you ran a test - https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/

Make sure nothing has changed or gone missing from your schema.

Your agency is clearly telling a lie that it is no longer being used. - type in "car insurance" and you will see loads.

As far as I am aware digital agencies don't host reviews. The only Google "review" partners I am aware of are listed on the link  below.

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2375474?hl=en-GB Update - sorry the above link was for Google Adwords My bad...

Like you said it could be temporary and there have been instances of bugs in the past which have stopped them displaying, or Google may have chosen to stop reviews for your niche - or are others still displaying?

Have they chosen another site to show the ratings over yours?

We also use review mark-up. We use it based on aggregated / combined scores - say 200 reviews average 4.7 out of 5 etc.

As far as I am aware Google is still using this schema markup and it is indeed showing up for us at press.

The one thing to consider however, is that Google chooses to either show the rating or not. Just because you have it in place does not mean they will use it. If the rest of your niche also uses the schema you may find that Google will only select a few at a time.

First off, I would imagine you need your wordpress installation to be inside a /blog/ directory on your server, unless you can do some fancy redirect.

Secondly, in order to change the URL structure from post id / post name. You can do this in your wordpress settings.

Go to -> Settings -> Permalinks.

You will need to select a custom structure, something like
/%postname%/

or if you wish to keep hold of the ID 
/%postname%-%post_id%/

Then save your settings.

Hopefully that does the trick.

Cheers

Tim

Try this for a complete site wide redirect to HTTPS://

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

I have also updated all my exiting 301 redirect to point to the new location. All older pages should be caught under this rule.

Also remember to update your Search Console profiles, sitemap, robots etc

I would also update all internal links to point to https:// rather than relying purely on the redirect.

I suppose it all depends on who set up the account in the first place, if they did all the ground work and set up the campaigns, and ad groups then they probably don't have to let you see it. I would rather have my account set up in house initially then grant access to third parties who then get tagged as an editor etc, that way you remain as the account holder.

I do not think it unreasonable that you have asked for evidence of what they are bidding on, negatived keywords, search terms, ad trials, optimisation etc. It is all basic data that can be shared. Like Egol said, look into your contract and see what they should be divulging via their reports etc.

Finally....
Are they proving their worth? If not consider outsourcing to someone/ some agency that can or is willing to share, build a relationship and improve.

Hmmmm, Google will likely deem your widget as an advertising tool and in their world this is potentially deemed negative, as such you have to make the call, do you want to stay on Google side and follow what they say or continue and then fall foul to some kind of penalty.

I personally would add rel="nofollow" to be on the safe side. Hopefully this won't dramatically affect your rankings.

Could you potentially trial the nofollow on a segment of the plugins to see how it impacts your rankings. Scary I know, but possibly the only way you can see how it could affect you.

Like Chris has alluded to, they are very different tools, Hubspot from what I know and have played with is a CRM solution aimed more at the sales cycle and used to help you develop a single customer view and enable automated interactions, yes it include some metrics but mostly sales related from what I've seen.

Moz on the other hand Is more for your SEO development and provides metrics on how your site performs and develops.

if funds allow, I would also look to have both tools as part of my armoury... Hubspot for the wider marketing automations, journeys and sales and Moz for your sites development to help support your CRM marketing.

This is a strange one then.... very strange.

Just performed a site: search and like you said it is not showing up as indexed. There is normally something technical to explain an issue like this, but I cannot see anything after looking at your site robots and source code.

Hmmm, is it a case of Google simply feels the homepage is not as engaging and relevant in terms of search to your users and they put more emphasis on product pages which it choose to feature instead.

I often find that for key terms our product pages almost always rank higher then the homepage unless a brand only search.

Secondly, is this a recent change? Could the most recent Penguin update have simply resulted in your competitors getting a boost where as before the previous algo was holding them back which has resulted in your position slide.