Hello,

Our website hosts sponsored content from different brands. Should we be listing the sponsor either on the frontend and/or through markup? - Would either way have any sort of an impact?

The content itself is already clearly marked as 'sponsored content' but we were more interested in listing the specific sponsor.

Also, we’re assuming the outbound links would need to be marked rel="sponsored" but are there any other best practices we should be implementing?

Any insight would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
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Hello,
We are trying to verify our Google My Business listing, however, the current unverified listing is using an old address we no longer have access to.

The only option for verification is through the mail.

We tried requesting an edit but it didn’t go through.

Would the best option be to create a new one and try to have the old (unverified) listing removed?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.
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Thank you, Jeroen for your response! Did you have any thoughts on the second and third questions (i.e. GMB and local optimization)?

Let me know what you think.

Hello,

We’re building out a site for our business that has close to 100 office locations in different cities. Many of these are ‘partner brands’ that we have acquired under our brand. Similar to a franchise model.

We want to be able to help users find offices near their location. Each office will have it’s own landing page with a physical address and contact information. We know we’ll have to build out unique copy and markup customized to the office/location. We’ve already read through https://moz.com/blog/overcoming-your-fear-of-local-landing-pages as well. We’re also considering ‘silos’ to build out pages for each location.

To preserve authority and avoid cannibalization; our thought was having each location as sub-folders off of our domain (i.e. domain.com/locations/Partner#1/). The other option would be using a sub-domain (i.e. Partner.Domain.com/) which we noticed competitors doing and treating each sub-domain as their own independent site.

1. Is all of the above the correct strategy? Any further suggestions?
2. Should we fill out a separate GMB for each office and should they all use the same brand name? (in other words “BrandA” vs. “BrandA” - Brooklyn Office).
3. In addition to GMB; would each location need local listings created (also all under the same name)?

Any help or insight would be very much appreciated.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

Thank you in advance.

Best,

Thank you very much for your help. When I check permissions I’m already listed as the primary owner. Would that be the same as being “accepted in Content ID as a Content Owner” or is that something separate?

Thanks again!
Best,

Hello,

This is more of a technical question but does anyone know if it’s possible to allow embedding on YouTube videos only for specific sites? We want to restrict embedding on our videos but still be able to embed them on our domain.

I’m already listed as the primary owner and have the channel linked to my personal email (same email used to upload videos) but when I go to the below link mentioned on Google's Page for Restrict Embedding (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6301625) it says I don’t have permission to access that page for both my personal account and channel. The documentation states it's possible to "Block embedding on all sites or apps except for those URLs or app package names you enter in the text box." but I can't seem to find it. I can only find the option to turn it off/on completely.

https://www.youtube.com/content_owner_settings

I noticed my personal email hasn't been verified; would that make a difference here?

Any help or insight on how to approach this would be very much appreciated.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you!
Thank you in advance.
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Hello Kris,

Thank you very much for your help. We’ll contact the host to see if they could help. Is there any way to check if it’s the CMS and database structure or is that also something for the hosting company?

Also, we checked and there was an issue with the sitemap.xml. Could that have been a potential cause? - More just curious.

Please let us know if there are details we could provide that might help.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thanks again.

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Hello Everyone,

So recently when we checked our domain using a Moz Crawl Test and Screaming Frog only the homepage comes up and the meta title says “You are being redirected to…”. We have several pages that used to come up and when submitting them to GSC no issues come up. The robots.txt file looks fine as well.

We thought this might be ‘server’ related but it’s a little out of our field of expertise so we thought we would find out if anyone has any experience with this (ideas of reasons, how to check…etc.) or any potential suggestions.

Any extra insight would be really appreciated.

Please let us know if there is anything we could provide further details for that might.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

Thanks in advance.

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Hello Nigel,

Thank you very much for your help. The reason we were a little hesitant to remove those lines from the robots.txt file is we were not sure if that would cause the ‘filtered’ pages we have for these collections to be indexed (Each collection can be sorted and filtered). We didn’t write the robots.txt originally and don’t really know what the syntax we would be removing is doing. While we try to find out and look for other options do you have any idea of whether it could have that type of impact?

Also, we checked and there’s not a ‘noindex’ tag present.

We currently only have one blog post up but oddly enough it does seem to be ‘indexed’ (even with the /blogs/ URL).

We’re not so experienced with backend Shopify elements but is it possible there’s an issue that related to Google only caching the collections/all page we have up that lists all of our products?

Any help or suggestions you have would be very much appreciated and thank you again!

Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns or we could provide any further details in the meantime.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Best,

Hello Everyone,

So this is not really my strong suit but I’m going to do my best to explain the full scope of the issue and really hope someone has any insight. We have an e-commerce client (can't really share the domain) that uses Shopify; they have a large number of products categorized by Collections. The issue is when we do a site:search of our Collection Pages (site:Domain.com/Collections/) they don’t seem to be indexed.

Also, not sure if it’s relevant but we also recently did an over-hall of our design. Because we haven’t been able to identify the issue here’s everything we know/have done so far:

• Moz Crawl Check and the Collection Pages came up.
• Checked Organic Landing Page Analytics (source/medium: Google) and the pages are getting traffic.
• Submitted the pages to Google Search Console.
• The URLs are listed on the sitemap.xml but when we tried to submit the Collections sitemap.xml to Google Search Console 99 were submitted but nothing came back as being indexed (like our other pages and products).
• We tested the URL in GSC’s robots.txt tester and it came up as being “allowed” but just in case below is the language used in our robots:
  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /admin
  Disallow: /cart
  Disallow: /orders
  Disallow: /checkout
  Disallow: /9545580/checkouts
  Disallow: /carts
  Disallow: /account
  Disallow: /collections/+
  Disallow: /collections/%2B
  Disallow: /collections/%2b
  Disallow: /blogs/+
  Disallow: /blogs/%2B
  Disallow: /blogs/%2b
  Disallow: /design_theme_id
  Disallow: /preview_theme_id
  Disallow: /preview_script_id
  Disallow: /apple-app-site-association
  Sitemap: https://domain.com/sitemap.xml
• A Google Cache:Search currently shows a collections/all page we have up that lists all of our products.

Please let us know if there’s any other details we could provide that might help.

Any insight or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Looking forward to hearing all of your thoughts!

Thank you in advance.

Best,

Hello,

This is more of a technical question but does anyone know if it’s possible to allow embedding on YouTube videos only for specific sites? We want to restrict embedding on our videos but still be able to embed them on our domain.

I’m already listed as the primary owner and have the channel linked to my personal email (same email used to upload videos) but when I go to the below link mentioned on Google's Page for Restrict Embedding (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6301625) it says I don’t have permission to access that page for both my personal account and channel. The documentation states it's possible to "Block embedding on all sites or apps except for those URLs or app package names you enter in the text box." but I can't seem to find it. I can only find the option to turn it off/on completely.

https://www.youtube.com/content_owner_settings

I noticed my personal email hasn't been verified; would that make a difference here?

Any help or insight on how to approach this would be very much appreciated.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you!
Thank you in advance.
Best,

Thank you very much for your help. When I check permissions I’m already listed as the primary owner. Would that be the same as being “accepted in Content ID as a Content Owner” or is that something separate?

Thanks again!
Best,