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We've been trying to use the GMB Q&A feature as a lot of customers seem to be engaging with the listing/asking relevant questions.
However, sometimes we answer a question directly from the business listing account but it does not appear (no error message is shown when posting either). When we go to re-post the answer, the text is sometimes still visible in the answer box field.
Any ideas what might be causing the issue?
One of our clients services the US and the UK, but having looked at the report over an extended period of time we can still see that the vast majority of traffic is coming from the US. I.e. our last report for March indicated that there were over 3,000 users in the US but only 6 in the UK.
We know that Google Analytics works out a user’s location based on where their IP is located and not their physical location, and that this means that the data needs to be taken with a pinch of salt as it won’t always represent what you expect.
That being said, we know that the traffic figures for Europe are largely inaccurate and would like to get some more accurate stats to report on. Is there a way to do so at all within Google Analytics?
On any page on the site (https://theadventurepeople.com/), the same short code appears.
Having investigated Google index pages, Google's cache and Fetch & Render, it does look like Google can view the content and index it, but we're not 100% convinced.
Background technical information from the web developer:
Is Prerender.io/React going to negatively impact our SEO efforts?
I want to use some content that I sent out in a newsletter a while ago - adding it as a blog to my website.
The newsletter exists on a http://myemail.constantcontact.com URL and is being indexed by Google.
Will this count as duplicate content?
We are launching a product in Australia which is already available in the UK. We currently have the .co.uk but the .com is not available. How important would it be to get the Australian TLD? I am interested in hearing from people who have knowledge of the Australian market to understand how they would feel about buying from a .co.uk.
I know the US market wouldn't be keen to buy from a .co.uk, so would be interested to know if the same would be true of Australia.
The product is a crafty mum to mum product, invented by a UK mum and that is part of the appeal, which may make the UK domain more palatable?
The client has a small budget and low profit margins so creating a whole new website could be prohibitative. So I am keen to go down the route of a sub-directory targeting Australia if possible.
Thanks in advance
What are the implications if a web designer codes the content of the site twice into the page in order to make the site responsive? I can't add the url I'm afraid but the H1 and the content appear twice in the code in order to produce both a responsive version and a desktop version. This is a Wordpress site. Is Google clever enough to distinguish between the 2 versions and treat them individually? Or will Google really think that the content has been repeated on the same page?
I am helping out with a couple of community sites and am seeing the same problem on both. They are small non-commercial local websites. One has 5 or 6 relevant links to the home page, and the title tag and content have been optimised for the name of the group and the location (and in any case the phrase is completely non-competitive). The other one has few links and isn't optimised. Both sites are fairly new.
Both sites have the same problem in that when you search for the name of the group, it is not the home page that comes up but another page.
My experience is mainly in the more competitive commercial arena, so I thought that these community sites would be simple! Can anyone point me in the right direction as to why this might be?
No spammy links on either. These are community sites that are not particularly well maintained, but the phrases I am searching for are non-competitive. I have checked that the home pages are not no-indexed.
Any tips much appreciated!
Thanks everyone - I'm glad I'm not going mad!
We are seeing big delays in search console data this month. In the past we have seen delays of a few days, but I have never noticed it being this long before. At the moment we have no data since 23rd February. Have I just never noticed this before or is this particularly long? Is anyone else seeing the same thing?
Good plan, thanks for this and all your help.
I know it can be really tempting to buy links in packages such as this in order to facilitate link building, it is a very dangerous area. Low quality links will harm your website. And it can be very difficult to recover.
You don't know which websites these people are going to target. You are paying for something and you don't really know what it is. For this sort of service to work, you need URLS. You need to know exactly which websites they are going to put links on to your website - before you do it.
This sort of pile them high, sell them cheap link building service is so obvious to Google. If you are happy to change your domain name when it all goes wrong, then try this service out. If you are attached to your domain name then I really wouldn't even consider this sort of service.
You don't need an enormous number of links to get good results on Google - these days it is all about quality. You need strong keyword research, structured on-page optimisation, quality content production, quality links, engagement on social media and the building of a community around your brand.
Yes that is a lot of hard work, but all the above actually builds your brand, improves the user experience for your customers and makes your website a better place to be.
One of our clients services the US and the UK, but having looked at the report over an extended period of time we can still see that the vast majority of traffic is coming from the US. I.e. our last report for March indicated that there were over 3,000 users in the US but only 6 in the UK.
We know that Google Analytics works out a user’s location based on where their IP is located and not their physical location, and that this means that the data needs to be taken with a pinch of salt as it won’t always represent what you expect.
That being said, we know that the traffic figures for Europe are largely inaccurate and would like to get some more accurate stats to report on. Is there a way to do so at all within Google Analytics?
We've been trying to use the GMB Q&A feature as a lot of customers seem to be engaging with the listing/asking relevant questions.
However, sometimes we answer a question directly from the business listing account but it does not appear (no error message is shown when posting either). When we go to re-post the answer, the text is sometimes still visible in the answer box field.
Any ideas what might be causing the issue?