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Hi Jay,

I would be very careful with your links. You can add your site to some business directories for a start but make sure you check them before you place the link. A good article on inbound links is:

https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

I use the Open Site Explorer to see what the value of a link has:

https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/

Good luck!

Regards, Tymen

Hi,

Maybe: http://sproutsocial.com/ is worth a try. Not cheap eather. I am now testing http://mediainjection.com/ and it seems to be a good tool aswell.

Regards, Tymen

Hi Jane,

It is temporary. I had the same issue a year ago and it took 4-6 weeks till all scores and indexes were in place again. Eventually we even got better rankings by making the move to https:.

"patience is a virtue" Good luck and regards

Tymen

Hi Rik,

This may take a bit longer to index. Also Google shows differerent metadescription for the same page based on the keywords used in the search query. A good article on metadescriptions is here on Moz.

Hope it helps,

Regards, Tymen

Hi Christian,

After I implemented the right structured data it took 5 weeks for Google to show the stars. So you might need to have some more patience. Also the updates of number of reviews lags a few weeks so the number of reviews in the Rich Snippets are a few weeks behind the real number of reviews. I have only my own reviews so this is a lot easier I guess. I placed the code in the footer so it shows on all pages (except Homepage).

Good luck!

Tymen

PS: The code I used:

****http://schema.org/LocalBusiness" itemscope="" class="fc_rating">

Eppinga.nl" itemprop="name">

http://schema.org/AggregateRating" itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope="">

Wij scoren 4.6 van 5 sterren, berekend uit 83  reviews van klanten.****

Hi Pet,

You could look at: https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/last-updated-shortcode/

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Rebecca,

I would say it doesn't matter. The optimised posts will most likely get higher rankings. I very regularly edit and extend posts with up to date info and this is only resulting in better rankings because of the "fresh" content I provide. Best wishes to you too!

Regards, Tymen

Hi,

I get the feeling you work with Wordpress. There is no need to change anything in my opinion. Pages and posts both rank ok depending on the content provided. With a good search tool and navigation in place your visitors can easily find the page or post they need. Also in Wordpress you can choose what way the posts URL is build up. You can find it here. This can help you optimise it from now on.I would not change url's from posts nor pages in the past.

Good luck!

Hi John,

You could clean them up and 301 redirect the old/wrong tags/ categories to the correct new page/post. This way the visitors will not notice anything and you let Google know where you want people to go to.

I would also take a look at: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/no-indexing-wordpress-taxonomies-do-or-dont/49508/

In this article it is explained how to "noindex" Tags and Categories in WP. This way you will avoid a lot of duplicate content.

Good luck!

Regard, Tymen

Hi Iannaude,

I would either rank for both countries with 1 website or rank for 2 countries with 2 websites. 2 websites means; 2 x unique content so is 2 x the work. Depending on the number of products you should make a decision what you want to do.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Abie,

I would start with https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo and take it from there. Good luck!

Hi Edmond,

You need need at least 30 reviews within the last 12 months, and the ratings need to be 3.5 stars minimum on average. BUT: Having these ratings doesnt garantee anything. Usually my experience is that having them in place will take about 6 weeks before they show up in the ads.

On https://services.google.com/fb/forms/SellerRatingExtensions/ Google says they should be included automatically. PS: The form on the page is for disabling the stars.

In The Netherlands Google adwords provide a very good support desk for all questions regarding your ads.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Edward,

Google itself protects advertisers if ads are being clicked too often. They have numerous filters to help detect invalid clicks. You also get money back if Google finds out the visitor was not a "normal" visitor. More on this you can find on: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/42995?hl=en

Of course you stille have some competition who clicks once and surfs your site for a while and you have to pay the click. But how bad is that?

Regards Tymen

Hi Peasoup,

I would surely advice to not simply copy the content to the 4 different domains.

I have a few good links for you:

https://moz.com/learn/seo/cctlds more info on ccTld's

https://moz.com/community/q/duplicate-content-on-multinational-sites  Exactly your issue: make sure you read the comment of Gianluca Fiorelli.

Hreflang: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Good luck with it!

Hi Richard,

I would completely stay away from drop downs. You often get problems with different browsers and mobile. For main navigation you could go for: Home> What we Do> Who we are> Contact. Next to that I would work with a sidemenu or footermenu in which you have all the services. For example you could take a look at www.aliexpress.com. This way the visitor can navigate easily and all the serbices are visible on the homepage for visitors and Google.

Good luck! Tymen

Hi,

WiIth Moz's Page Optimization you can Track & Monitor keywords or is that not what you mean?

regards,

Tymen

Hi!

Big images reduce the speed on the page and speed is a(n increasingly important) ranking factor. You could use Page Speed Insights to see your overall  site speed or the speed of a specific page.

Within Worpress there is also a setting to index images as a search result or not. On my site it was on and once turned off within a few weeks my overall scores increased so maybe that helps aswell.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Radi,

I would get rid of all punctuation except for "-" as it is seen as a space. If you use othe punctuations they are ignored. When added in a query the results are without the punctuation. Same goes for Bing.

More info:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?rd=1#exceptions_punctuations

Makes it easier for you I hope

Grt Tymen

Hi Gopi,

What you're looking for is the Google Search Console API: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/Once installed it will save the data also after the 90 days. So like Gaston mentions it is not possible to get older data but once you have this API running it will give you the data in the future from the moment it is installed.

Good luck! Tymen

Hi P.

You can not run a campaign with Analytics. You can run a campaign with Adwords using data from Analytics which is a very good idea! I personally retarget on different groups; "visit shopping cart", "more than 5 min on site" "suggested target from analytics" etc...

Good luck!

Tymen