Search Engine Optimization

Following are a few factors that are likely to cause reviews to be removed: URLs (website addresses) in the body or name. The person who wrote the review is a manager of your page or works for you. The person wrote the review from the same device & IP address that you sign into to manage your local listing. The person wrote the review from the same device and IP address as other users who left you reviews. The person tried to post a review for you several times on different dates (Example: they wrote one August 5 and it got filtered so they tried again on October 10). Your listing has received a lot of reviews within a short amount of time (often associated with "bulk" email review acquisition campaigns) The person reviewing you has also reviewed multiple other businesses with the same name (if you have several locations and they reviewed all of them). If the reviews aren’t specific & unique to the location, they may be filtered. This can also happen if you h...

An interesting and different situation in Google My Business Listing i.e., I've tried to answer for the question. However, my answer is not showing up on Google my business listing. I've tried several times, but it's the same result. My Answer is not visible because of  email id within an answer . I got solution from Google Advertiser Community -  https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Basics-for-Business-Owners/Google-My-Business-Questions-amp-answers-not-working/m-p/1734937#

If you are lots of potential issues which arise after using AMP. Here is the simple step to enable and disable AMP in Wordpress. No need to worry about these steps Remove the link rel="amphtml" from the non-amp pages. Set NOINDEX for AMP pages By default, It will redirect from AMP to Non-AMP and disappeared the link rel="amphtml" tag.

Page load speed is a very important usability issue for mobile phone users but AMP pages have no impact on Google search results as G is using mobile-enabled pages in its new mobile-index, not cached AMP page versions. It seems there are still many problems with AMP. Egs: AMP only hit the scene in 2015. Few sites seem to be employing it accurately. Facebook is pushing an alternative fast load speed option. AMP seems to be poorly supported by Safari browsers. Google Analytics reports can be compromised Current AMP coding plugins for CMSs like WordPress may be problematic. There is no favouritism for AMP pages in Google search results. I presume this myth arises from the mistaken belief that the faster a page loads, the more G boosts it in the results. This belief has always been wrong. It seems there is a fixed ranking value boost for mobile vs. non-mobile formatted pages. Ref. Google Webmaster Central Blog: Jan 2018:  Using page speed in mobile search ranking  "The ...

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Google announces that  after a year and a half  of careful experimentation and testing, we’ve started migrating sites that follow the  best practices  for mobile-first indexing. To recap, our crawling, indexing, and ranking systems have typically used the desktop version of a page's content, which may cause issues for mobile searchers when that version is vastly different from the mobile version. Mobile-first indexing means that we'll use the mobile version of the page for indexing and ranking, to better help our – primarily mobile – users find what they're looking for. Best practices for mobile-first indexing -  https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-first-indexing Google crawlers - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943 Source -  https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/03/rolling-out-mobile-first-indexing.html

Rankings can fall for various reasons. Sometimes it’s due to a mistake that could have been prevented. It might have less to do with what you’re doing than what your competition is doing. In other cases a drop in rankings is the natural and temporary result of an intentional action on your part. Here are 10 reasons you might experience a drop in rankings and what you can do in each case. 1. You’re tracking the wrong rankings 2. The Google “dance” 3.  New website 4.  New website no longer 5. Low quality links 6. Losing good links 7. Bad hosting 8. Incorrect robots.txt file 9. Competitors 10. Google update Source - https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshsteimle/2015/01/14/10-reasons-your-seo-rankings-dropped-and-what-to-do-about-it/#6d62932511c1