I'm not too sure whether it's a ranking factor or not, there are varying opinions.  I would say it's risky.

Additionally, I don't see what there is to be gained by deleting and recreating a profile that could just get another bad review, Also the person that gave you that bad review can come and leave another one!

I would work with some good customers and ask them to do reviews. Far more productive than trying to hide hide mistakes and Google will love good reviews to.

Explain to your client that resources are better spend on creating some new reviews and if you get enough good ones you can outweigh the bad ones to a large degree.  Take a look around, you will see there is plenty of excellent brands that get bad reviews from time to time.

1. Avoid shared hosting (Often very limited resources)

2. I would definitely look at beefy VPS, they are very cost-effective.  (Make sure you get a managed solution)

3. Dedicated servers are good, but very expensive.

Aim to hosting the country you want to serve (Yes even though you using a CDN)

As a final note before moving everything over, migrate one of the biggest sites and test thoroughly for performance before moving the rest. When you are migrating and for a few weeks afterwards keep your old service up and running so you can quickly change back to the old location if you have any issues.

Also backup, backup, backup. Everything and at every stage (From bitter experience) 

Hope it helps, these suggestions from personal experience.

Regards

Richard

For best results DIM (Do It Manually!)

Joking apart I would stay away from automatic audits, they are often incorrect and can give you a pack of trouble.

I would start by setting yourself out a strategy something like the following:-

1. Fix coding and visual errors
2. Use Moz Open Site Explorer and find which sites have the best reputation on the web (you can compare several sites in one go).
3. Research all the domain names that you have, put them in a spreadsheet, rate them for brandability, reputation and if they have any current positions worth maintaining.

By the end of this you should have a good idea of the quality and how far reaching powerful brands are.

Also don't forget social media, although not directly related to SEO it will give you a good idea is to brand reputation.

Hope understood your question correctly, if not please elaborate and see what I can do to help.

As far as I know there is no way of uncovering the Google 'not provided' keywords, and I don't think there's any point in kicking against it either because there are several ways that you can get information.  Mostly I think Google tries to hide any terms it thinks may release confidential information or very specific low-volume terms, in which case these probably wouldn't be much use anyway.

With enough traffic you can still get an awful lot of information from Google Analytics, it still releases about 10% of the keywords.

Secondly, Look at Google Search Console > Search Traffic > Search Analytics.

The strategy that I like best is to work the opposite way on, decide on the keywords that you want to go after and then optimise the site for those keywords.

Google tries to personalize the results as much as possible, they use cookies and other types of identification data to try and track users and provide the most relevant results.

After you close chrome technically there is no method for Google to identify who you are, hence you may see different results.

Getting accurate search position results for tracking marketing progress seems a bit of a buzz word at the moment.  It comes back to as Marketers/SEO's we need to track and monitor our efforts, on the flipside Google is trying to provide the most accurate result to the user often by means of personalisation.  That is where you have an immediate conflict, for maximum user engagement (which all of us want) you sometimes have to sacrifice tractability.

Assuming you did manage to track personalised results you would need a lot of data about that person and their browsing habits to understand how you back best matched their search query.  Most of us would quickly get ourselves lost in data.  Does that make sense?

There are plenty of Serps checker tools around, but I sometimes have my doubts how accurate they are - Google definitely doesn't like them.

There is a slight misconception here, DA is not a Google metric. It is a MOZ metric (and a very useful one) Google no longer publishes their authority score.

As things are currently secure webpages are not a make or break. Google says that if you are collecting people's information, payment information or other sensitive data you should use a secure page.  However, if you are just telling somebody how to reinstall Windows 10 it's probably not a big deal.

It will probably become more of an issue as time goes on, but currently there are still a number of online shops which are not secure and they rank reasonably well.

That said, where ever possible always use SSL (or to give it its official name TLS).

The way I would do it is to search for a super long tail keyword, copy a large bunch of text of the page and paste it in Google (you may need to pass it through a notepad to strip out formatting).

Afraid I don't have an answer answer to your question regarding info and site parameters.

I would trust the mega long tail keyword option more, You have to remember how dynamic Google searches are, even from one PC to another on the same premises.

Hope it helps.

I guess it probably depends on the website, I think they are counted as 'backlinks' but probably carry less authority.  I guess one benefit is it helps the visibility of your pages to search engines.

Fully agree with Peter, very easy to bypass IP blocking these days, there are some sophisticated systems that can still detect but mostly outside the range of us mere mortals!

If you block a particular country from crawling your website it is pretty certain you will not rank in that country (which I guess isn't a problem anyway) but I suspect this would only have a very limited (if any) impact on your rankings in other countries.

We have had a similar issue, here are a couple of ideas.

1. When someone places an order use a secondary method of validation.

2. With the new customer entries/registrations make sure you have a good captcha, most of this sort of thing tends to be from bots. A captcha Will often fix that problem.

Firstly, sounds like you do have a penalty of some sort.

Secondly, I would not have redirected the hacked pages back to the site anywhere, you could give yourself a penalty that way. You could be passing bad authority or worse from anywhere else on the web, completely out of your control.

Thirdly, don't discount the potential of a website problem. Broken script, user damage, another hack etc

1. Do a thorough link cleanup.

2. Consider taking down any pages that are not relevant or earning any value.

3. Check search console for any notifications or manual penalties.

4. Check the website for performance and functionality.

Sorry just a question, where are you getting your back links list from? It's not unknown for tools to be inaccurate.

Another point I forgot to mention, Moz did update their index in the past few days, lots of people have seen a DA drop.

Does CDN impact on SEO or not?

There seems conflicting ideas as to whether they impact positively or negatively, I realise that if the page loads quicker this is a good thing for SEO and usability of course.

Does Google see CDN as just cheating and a get-around for not doing the work from the ground up and using good hosting etc?

Do you have any direct experience?

All constructive input much appreciated!

I'm very doubtful hosting the video off-site would have much effect on the site speed especially YouTube, Personally I use Wistia mainly due to the level of analytics that they provide.  The only time this may be an issue if you have a quantity on a single page, in that case I would try and split it onto several different pages by means of categories or something.

To me it sounds like there may be a programming problem.

The other thing is it may not be the videos that is slowing the site down.

Just a few thoughts don't know if it helps.

Mello Matt,

If it was my site I would seriously consider getting rid of any redirects from old dodgy pages, you could force Google to consider for the content still exists.  If it goes to a 404 Google can then see clearly it no longer exists.
But would be interesting on what others have to say on that.

I would source my back links mainly from Google search console.

Hope that helps.