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Dirk, Anthony - Thanks for the feedback. Very helpful.

Vic

Here's a scenario for you:

The site is running WordPress and the images are uploaded to the media section. You can set image attributes there such as the Description & Alt Tag.

Let's say you'd like to reuse the same image in two different blog posts. The image keeps the same Description & Alt Tag associated with it in the media section.

Would this be considered duplicate content?

What would be the best practice in this case to reuse the same image in multiple posts?

What’s been working well for us is marking those errors as fixed and then asking Google to remove them from index. To do this, click on the Google Index menu in Webmaster Tools, then click on Remove URLs and create new removal requests for each URL you want Google to remove.

One caution – Don’t remove URLs you didn’t intend on removing! Double check everything before you submit removal requests to Google.

Vic

This is a ghost referrer, similar to Semalt.

One way to get around this issue is to filter this referrer out in Google Analytics. To do this:

1. Create new view for your domain.
2. Go to Filters.
3. Create a New Filter.
4. Give this filter a name. For example: “Exclude 4webmasters.org from Analytics”
5. Select Filter Type “Custom”.
6. Select Exclude, Filter Field = Referral, Filter Pattern = 4webmasters.org
7. Save.

You’ve now successfully filtered out this referrer.

You may also consider excluding the following. If they haven’t gotten to your site yet, it’s only a matter of time.

-           best-seo-offer.com
-           best-seo-solution.com
-           buttons-for-website.com
-           buttons-for-your-website.com
-           social-buttons.com
-           semalt.com
-           free-share-buttons.com

Hope this helps.

Vic

We have multiple 800 numbers that point to local DIDs. It is my understanding that a toll-free number cannot be standalone, according to our telephone company. I'd ask your client to find out what DID it's pointing at. A DID is usually a local number. Hope this helps!

It is an interesting case here with lots of variables involved. Since your client wants to promote the new business over the old business, why not just get a brand new local phone number for the new business? You can still keep the old phone number as well.

The old number will have the NAP for the old business. The new one will do the same for the new business. Yes - It will be a bit annoying have two phone lines coming into the office physically, but it's doable and manageable.

And let's say your client decides to phase out the old business all together in the future. Then you'd simply forward the old number to the new one.

Glad to help, Justin. Also, remember when you go live with the site to take the development site offline or secure it in a way where regular web traffic can't get to it. Otherwise you risk visitor confusion.

You bet, Rich. As Alick points out you should also consider these points:

• It's a good idea to have unique local phone numbers for each business. The attorneys in the example above have that.

• Can customers actually come there on location and transact business with you?

• It's probably not going to be doable to add a suite number to your address since you're not in a commercial building.

When we went through a similar process for our company last year, we set up a development site under a sub-domain and no-indexed all the pages under it. That prevented any duplicate content issues for us. Once going live, we allowed indexing and following of certain pages.

Another way to do it is to edit your robots.txt and disallow all access to the development site.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

A friend of mine is an attorney that shares a law office space (an old house converted into an office) that’s located in a mixed-zone area downtown. If you looked at the address and the physical space, you couldn’t tell it’s a commercial building. There is a small sign that hangs outside of it that says “Law Offices” and has each attorney's name on it. He specializes in personal injury and has his own brand/practice/website. The three other attorneys he shares the space with have their own practices (divorce law, traffic tickets, etc.) They also have their own brands & websites.

All rank pretty well in local search for their respective markets.

In my opinion, as long as both services are unique in what they are offering, having the same address should not be an issue.

We had a similar issue when we went from an old domain to our new domain last year in July. It took Google about 2 months to start recognizing our new domain and all the pages on it. During the first couple of months, we saw search results for pages with our new and old domain names.

Here is what we did to mitigate the issue:

1. Double check that the change of address tool was used correctly and that Google was aware of our new domain.

2. Redirect the old domain to the new one.

3. Monitor Webmaster tools for 404 errors and redirect links accordingly as they came up.

After 2 months and at this point, we can’t find any traces of our old domain on search results.

Good luck!

Vic

When we went through a similar process for our company last year, we set up a development site under a sub-domain and no-indexed all the pages under it. That prevented any duplicate content issues for us. Once going live, we allowed indexing and following of certain pages.

Another way to do it is to edit your robots.txt and disallow all access to the development site.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

This is a very common thing. Most of these attacks are automated, coming from China or Eastern Europe. You may consider banning traffic from those countries all together if it's not relevant to you. Change the default admin user name to something else. And do as EGOL recommended - set a really strong password. And then change that password every few months.

This is a ghost referrer, similar to Semalt.

One way to get around this issue is to filter this referrer out in Google Analytics. To do this:

1. Create new view for your domain.
2. Go to Filters.
3. Create a New Filter.
4. Give this filter a name. For example: “Exclude 4webmasters.org from Analytics”
5. Select Filter Type “Custom”.
6. Select Exclude, Filter Field = Referral, Filter Pattern = 4webmasters.org
7. Save.

You’ve now successfully filtered out this referrer.

You may also consider excluding the following. If they haven’t gotten to your site yet, it’s only a matter of time.

-           best-seo-offer.com
-           best-seo-solution.com
-           buttons-for-website.com
-           buttons-for-your-website.com
-           social-buttons.com
-           semalt.com
-           free-share-buttons.com

Hope this helps.

Vic

You bet, Rich. As Alick points out you should also consider these points:

• It's a good idea to have unique local phone numbers for each business. The attorneys in the example above have that.

• Can customers actually come there on location and transact business with you?

• It's probably not going to be doable to add a suite number to your address since you're not in a commercial building.

Hi, Edmond,

Is it just the blog content you’re looking to translate or the entire site?

If it’s the entire site, you may consider putting all of your English content under a /en/ subdirectory. For example: http://yoursite.com/en/englishcontentgoeshere.

As far as the blog by itself goes, I think you would be able to employ the same structure.

Alternatively, you may consider putting all of the English content under a Category called “Content in English” or something similar. This is probably the simplest approach.

One important thing to consider is your target market. Are you targeting English-speaking audience in U.S. or in other countries? Where is your Spanish-speaking site based at and who is your target audience? You will need to plan for that and localize accordingly.

Vic

It is an interesting case here with lots of variables involved. Since your client wants to promote the new business over the old business, why not just get a brand new local phone number for the new business? You can still keep the old phone number as well.

The old number will have the NAP for the old business. The new one will do the same for the new business. Yes - It will be a bit annoying have two phone lines coming into the office physically, but it's doable and manageable.

And let's say your client decides to phase out the old business all together in the future. Then you'd simply forward the old number to the new one.

What’s been working well for us is marking those errors as fixed and then asking Google to remove them from index. To do this, click on the Google Index menu in Webmaster Tools, then click on Remove URLs and create new removal requests for each URL you want Google to remove.

One caution – Don’t remove URLs you didn’t intend on removing! Double check everything before you submit removal requests to Google.

Vic

A friend of mine is an attorney that shares a law office space (an old house converted into an office) that’s located in a mixed-zone area downtown. If you looked at the address and the physical space, you couldn’t tell it’s a commercial building. There is a small sign that hangs outside of it that says “Law Offices” and has each attorney's name on it. He specializes in personal injury and has his own brand/practice/website. The three other attorneys he shares the space with have their own practices (divorce law, traffic tickets, etc.) They also have their own brands & websites.

All rank pretty well in local search for their respective markets.

In my opinion, as long as both services are unique in what they are offering, having the same address should not be an issue.