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Hi All,

Did good chunk of research here prior to posting on sitelinks.

• Tried the Webmaster Console to remove the links
• Tried removing via sitemap, WP SEO plugin removal
• Now removed unnecessary pages, and redirected to homepage.
• Re petitioned for removal via Webmaster Google Console area.

Whats been the recent conservative realistic estimate of when sitelinks will be removed/refreshed? Also any tricks to expedite recrawl or re build of sitelinks. The site has very low traffic SMB that uses site purely for portfolio and no ranking/traffic purposes. so maybe the priority is very low for this site.

Back in the day sitelinks were a lot easier to manage or so it seems.

Thoughts?

Totally @Nadiamo, do let me know if you want to run any more thoughts or ideas by us, here..

I will answer your 3 specific options and general thoughts at the bottom:

1. Yes you have the correct game plan here.  Postal code may or may not help unless it is specifically searched for.

2. Unique content is the name of the game, each neighborhood/area will have their own unique elements you can write about in your content and this will engage the user and bring familiarity and will rank better, and this solves duplicate issues.

3. Greater area reach is hard unless you are dominating with reviews or other local listing factors. The goal is having a physical location close to your area of intent.

"product is expensive so this justifies" - does this justify potentially opening another physical location to be closer to the searcher?

Also how is the current showroom main location doing, with search and its response? Is it in the target area, is it reaching customers well?

Still looking for a solution, Thanks

Aware of both those options, but both attemp to close the listing. Thanks for trying to help Jung

I have listings that I need disconnected from my main Google My Business account.

I can close, or remove which is similar as closing,  but the goal is not to close the listings, just to remove the association to my google account, and im not transferring the listing as well.

Anyone know how to accomplish this?

Goal is to clean up old listings that are exist but I dont manage

Thanks for all the help

Effectdigital,

Critical Path optimization is just one part of a bigger amp pie including:

1. Allow only asynchronous scripts
2. Size all resources statically
3. Don't let extension mechanisms block rendering
4. Keep all third-party JavaScript out of the critical path
5. All CSS must be inline and size-bound
6. Font triggering must be efficient
7. Minimize style recalculations
8. Only run GPU-accelerated animations
9. Prioritize resource loading
10. And More

So amp process covers a lot, and agreed top devs is ideal, but in WordPress world there are plugins that successfully cover 90% of what a solid dev would do in a custom project, and for many cases a plugin is more then enough so looking for more input, of any that had success. Again thank you for the current response this is helpful.

Thanks Joe,

Anyone have experience for extended length blog articles that took advantage of amp functionality?And saw rank boost? This is the info I am looking for.

Thanks all

Hello beloved,

Been some time since I have  been on, planning to return and help out and be bit more active.

Need some latest thoughts and input, on amp plugins for Wordpress, and their results and effect on rankings?

Thank you all in advance

Yeah I noticed the same even for paid customers. At first I thought it was for unpaid customers, as there is a way to setup your profile via someone requesting to set it up, but not get a followed link. However checking paid aka Verified accounts it does not have a follow link, really interesting..

Hi Syed,

At this point it is all automated, there is no webmaster input (other than removing the sitelinks that you do not want to show up under Google WMT) or schema to help with this.

Also note, that sitelinks are search query specific. Example the same homepage for a site can display different results based on the query, in this case with sitemaps or not, at times schema might be displayed instead of sitemaps; meaning other schema that is set up can at times take away from the sitemaps that you are trying to display.

Some say that it is authority based and the more authority your site has, the sooner the sitelinks show up. However with a great structured site, for example a Wordpress site with easy to follow permalink structure, sitemaps, no duplicate content. I have seen even non authoritative and new domains showing up with sitemaps quickly.

More info from Google:

"We only show sitelinks for results when we think they'll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don't think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user's query, we won't show them.

At the moment, sitelinks are automated. We're always working to improve our sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate webmaster input in the future. There are best practices you can follow, however, to improve the quality of your sitelinks. For example, for your site's internal links, make sure you use anchor text and alt text that's informative, compact, and avoids repetition."

Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en 

Hope it helps!

A great resource here: https://www.whitespark.ca/local-citation-finder/

Also a common misconception is that if you havent created listings in local directories they are not there, sometimes services generate listings for you, and at times with incorrect, or partially correct information. All your listings should have identical NAP (Name, Adderess, Phone, Email, and Website) for most benefit. and this service https://getlisted.org/ actually locates any current listings in directores etc. that you may have so that you can claim, fix, and update your listings.

Hope this helps

Hi Dario,

Authority is a superior metric for the following reasons:

1. Twitter followers could just be spam accounts and not genuine followers

2. Authority is usually based on things such as retweets, mentions, and responses meaning that you are engaging your community and your tribe or a following actually is responding to your shares.

Therefore 100 followers that retweet and engage your shares, will be more meaningful than 1000 followers with no shares, retweets, etc.

Hope this helps!

Well first see if the promo works if it does and numbers make sense, you can apply the unconditional free shipping for a while if the behavioral economics of peoples choices are similar in a sense that they treat the promo and actual shipping change the same way, you can leave unconditional. shipping as is, if not revert back to the initial pricing.

3 Stage:

1. Promo test

2. Change shipping rate on the website, and try unconditional for a while

3. Keep or revert back

Hope this helps

Hi Jonathan,

Domain vs Page authority: http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority (includes a bit on how to influence/grow domain authority, and page authority would be focusing your SEO efforts on one page as opposed to the whole website)

Also Karl has a great response here: http://moz.com/community/q/what-s-more-important-page-authority-vs-domain-authority

As for www or not. Choose and stick with one, its important in terms of SEO link building to have consistency when you are building links to your pages. So either http://domain.com or http://www.domain.com is fine but choose one.

Also do a 301 permanent redirect to the preferred choice. Without this you might run in to these issues.

Hope this helps

Hi Tyler,

This should do it. If you don't do this facebook will scan all the pics and give a user an option to choose out of the scanned images. If the above is used once it will give one default image to be selected. You can use multiple og:image tags to allow the user to chose multiple default images that you have selected.

Hope this helps!

If you are going for content and landing pages. Its hard to beat Wordpress (.org not .com). The search engines seem to love how Wordpress platform is set up for content publishing, and the community to support this platform is huge and one of the nicest around. Its proven to scale well with larger news sites as well.

Hope this helps

Hi Miriam,

Thanks for all your consistent help, and just to provide my input:

1. It does not look very natural to those extremes, similar to having a backlink profile from one source, it could potentially look like a local directory, and if the site is not of that nature, Google should not rank them for that.

2) I want to look at the current Google structure of local results and organic results.

For local business with NAPs, Google places is the solution, granted it still doesnt work for all local searches + keywords, and might not give you meta description, it will easily tell you its a local physical business or a franchise of big national company but that still has a local presence.  I think Google is improving very much in this.

Now after the Google Places results you still have organic results, this area in my eyes is a fair game to all, to rank for keyword plus local, and leave the spam filtering up to Google. What I mean by this, its Google's job to rank quality content vs for example Post-Gazette spam, In same terms I think Google should rank high quality pages in the organic even if they are for every city, granted it would be really tough to produce unique great content with every city, that is not thin, duplicate, and in the future social + social share proof. Where domain authority monopolies would not fly as the do now, but Page authority of great content would dominate the organic SERPS.

3. Would I recommend this to a national company, probably not at that scale for the reason of unnatural scale of this type of content. I would recommend for top or key cities and if budget permits go for longer tail unique search keywords with that city. As a diversification of content vs looking like yelp directory.

Yes this is a totally normal procedure. But as in everything you do with wordpress or otherwise please BACK-UP FIRST. But the procedure is standard and is done often.  Both are quality plugins with Yoast definitely being the most popular choice. So a switch between the two is natural.

Here is the step by step guide:

http://yoast.com/all-in-one-seo-pack-migration/

Hope this helps

Hi,

1. Yes you can contact the owner to ask for removal. It might or might not be worth your time.

2. You can do that too. Or actually the best way to do this proactively in the future, if you are using wordpress, is using RSS footer option or manually set this up that will display the original full link of the article, this way it is automatically there as the scrape your RSS feed. This would be my top pro-active suggestion.

3. You can do this manually with Google Webmaster Tools and/or Copyscape, or also you can set up Google Alerts for each most that you have done that will notify you when the content is scraped.

For detailed info how to do some of this see this article also make sure to read the comments they are informative as well: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/content-scrapers/

As far as actively fighting this, many say, it is not worth it, as long as you take precautionary steps to make sure that you always outrank the scrapers, with methods such as the RSS footers for each article you publish.

Hope this helps!