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You cannot suppress the address, Google knows the address. You best best is to move the GMB to a home and clear the address or a real office and show the address (Not a virtual office).

Doing SEO on Shopify isn't easy. Set the page titles and descriptions, this will be a good start. You then need to really work on your product descriptions, specifications, imagery etc. Good internal linking will give you a boost as will making sure you have name, address and telephone on every page. Add in reviews and other trustmarks. Then work on making it a fast as possible.

A lot also depends on the size of the competition. If you are selling tea then you will be competing with thousands of others all doing the same. Which means almost all of you will not even appear on Google's radar.

If you are really serious about SEO don't use Shopify.

" If you are really serious about SEO don't use Shopify. " - THIS. It covers everything, shopify sucks

Have you done all of this: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/promoting-marketing/seo

GMB isn't a huge priority for SMB's. Those who do understand marketing are killing it, but that's like 10% of businesses. Take businesses that think a FB business page is as good as a website (so annoying) - then when it doesn't bring in clients they give up. Or their website is all about them and everything is just to make themselves feel good - not really communicating with their potential customers. 

They get scared to waste time on something that won't work. They don't know what's working or have to time to figure all this out. They have things they think are better to use their time on. 

Additionally, all this (organic) stuff takes time and people don't want to wait. 

You’re right, so many business owners don’t make the most of this feature of GMB. 

I was one of those business owners. I only really discovered it when someone had asked a question on mine and a random person (incorrectly) answered. 

I’ve just started using the space as a FAQ based on questions our clients ask, and questions that a prospective client would want answered. 

Does the Q&A section have any SEO (or other) benefits besides helping customers understand more about a business? 

Hello, 

I can't find the section to add your own questions and answers. Where is it under? 

Thx 

Hey Barton, are you asking specifically about "Product" posts?

Local Viking does bulk GMB posting as well as scheduled.

Hey Davis, yup - looking solely to update all listings for "product" post.. Any intel there? 

Not really sure I understand the question. mariaDB isn’t a document uploader

How this article is posted on mariaDB
i have article of IBM and i have to post it on wordpress , drupal , discourse, tomcat etc
Document contains instructions to "Install Wordpress/Drupal/Discourse on IBM "

Chirag Deol - Unless you know exactly why you want to do this then I'm sensing that you probably may not actually wish to.

Why do you need to deploy such a cluster with Bitnami and K8s?

You want to use a WordPress site that you have already installed to incorporate a high availability remote MySQL database, and you want to migrate your database to that remote resource? 

Do you have a special use case that requires engines like MyRocks or ColumnStore, or just InnoDB?

I can understand why you might not wish to use Amazon, and especially not Microsoft's Azure, and I like IBM, but have you looked  at SkySQL instead, which always remains bleeding edge, or is there a particular reason you're choosing IBM over that of simply a local install on an inexpensive yet powerful VPS running either SuSE, Debian, or CentOS?

Of course, any of these solutions I've mentioned will be far superior than some totally crap hosting solution by say, GoDaddy, any day of the week (even their supposed dedicated WordPress hosting service and expensive OpenVZ Servers are junk) but the reason I ask is because the instructions at Monty's site are pretty straight-forward, so if you're not understanding that then perhaps it's best to first start with describing what your needs are and saying what it is you're specifically trying to do.

For example, if you want a free document management solution using software that leverages MariaDB (excellent choice) then perhaps integrating the Pico CMS with NextCloud is for you:
http://picocms.org/plugins/ 

After that, just create a symlink to the repo on all of the other web based systems and publish that way.

This same method works well if you wish to deploy WordPress, and Drupal, and pretty much anything else simultaneously under different domains or hostnames, and all on the same physical host. If high availability is your goal then build a cluster of two or three hypervisor hosts using Xen, KVM, or VMware and at that point, we *might* be looking at a usage case for K8s, but even then with such a simple setup it's not really necessary.

Your media, regardless, would be in one location (or the repo replicated between hosts with rsync, for example) even if the MariaDB powered dynamic websites are on separate machines located wherever, and for that we just create the remote file repo as a local mount point on each of the hosts, even if all those websites don't actually have to be on different machines.

Depending on how you wish to do it, the volume of your traffic, and the number of transactions per hour or minute, any one, or all those blog engines (like WordPress) or CMS's (Like Drupal or Pico, etc) could upload the documents to the repo mounted locally, regardless of where in the world any of those websites are located physically.

This is what I do for a living (Build and provide/host enterprise cloud architecture), but I'm here to learn more about local SEO, so while I'm here I'll be happy to provide some guidance for you "here" for free... But let's start with exactly what it is you need to accomplish before looking at how you think you might want to accomplish it, arriving at a simple and secure solution for you 🤗

The SEO guy is talking a load of tosh. In any case, a survey is just a form. There are loads of form plugins. But if you want to collate and analyse the entries you may need something bespoke. There are survey plugins but I don’t use them. I build my own.

Personally, I would use my time to develop a GMB account for a wordpress plugin business. I don't think it's worth your time. You should consider where your audience would best see your reviews and plugin information. I think GMB is not the place. 

Hi. I cannot answer your question, but I was wondering if you could answer mine .. I have survey which I have created on another web site. I have been told I should have this on my actual web site (WordPress) what plug in would you suggest? This is the link to the survey: https://4eyes.io/s/cceOu/ This is my web site: www.kurtos-kalacs.com Thanks for your time ...

I've looked at the site. Very few of those page have any Local SEO value. If the client want's to rank locally the whole site needs rethinking.

Look at this: https://serviceteam.co.uk/plastering-london/ It's a pointless page.

Google doesn’t penalize for duplicate content. If there is some stuff on each page that is duplicated that makes sense to be on the page and the owner doesn’t want it removed, then don’t remove it.

I would:

1) Create some more content that is focused on the targeted page keywords so most of the content isn’t recycled. You want the content to be reader-friendly so if
It makes sense and explains/describes the keyword or page then do that.

2) If you feel like you have to remove something and you get pushback from the owner, explain in an email with substance WHY it needs to be removed, what you can expect if it is removed and what would happen if it isn’t removed. If the owner still wants it on the page against your advice then I would tell the owner “I understand and will do what you wish. I just wanted to make my professional opinion noted in case this page does not rank how we want to.”   

Why do you need 250 pages for local seo? 

If you want to hide the pages from Google just use your robots.txt