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How to do this...
OK, Forgive me if I am wrong. But I think the question you are asking is less of a technical one. From a quick search it would seem you have no Google Local account and that you may be unfamiliar with Google Local? Its like Google's version of the yellow pages directory. All you have to do is create an account at the link below https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1713911?hl=en This will then associate your website with your local listing and Google will be able to apply your address and other features to your search results. Is that what you where asking about?
Keyword Research | | gazzerman10 -
How would you increase rankings if you were in charge of the SEO for this site
1. Guest blog on niche related high PR/PA/DA domains. 2; Get ultra high Authoritative links. (yahoo, usnews, huffingtonpost sites) 3. Press release to get authoritative links 4. Top paid directories such as Yahoo. Best bet is start with #2 and work your way to #1 then #3 then #4. Looking at their content, authority and such, honestly its not that hard to rank those keywords to the top though #2 is difficult to say. Top 5 is definitely do-able in a few months.
Social Media | | RichardSEO0 -
Why is Google's cache preview showing different version of webpage (i.e. not displaying content)
FYI, in this screenshot, I am seeing in the Google cached version of the site the "About", "additional info", "contact", and "media" pages. But I do need to click on those pages to make the content appear. To Google and other search engines, these are not separate pages, but content that is served within the same page. The URL doesn't change at all. If you wanted to have those pages indexed, I'd recommend creating them as separate pages, with links that open up in a new page. That said, you might get penalized for duplicate content if you have all of the same content on the page, but list this information below. Another idea would be to keep the left hand navigation for the About, Additional Info, Contact and Media, but have all of the content display on the page; just link to the content from the top. The way you have it built does limit the page length, but the user experience may be confusing to some, especially on a touchscreen tablet. google-cached-result-toronto-auto-vault.jpg
Technical SEO Issues | | customerparadigm.com0 -
Dev Site Was Indexed By Google
We ran into this in the past, and one thing that we (think) happened is that the links to the dev site were sent via email to several gmail accounts. We think this is how Google then indexed the site, as there were no inbound links posted anywhere. I think that the main issue is how it's perceived by the client, and if they are freaking out about it. In that case, using an access control password to prevent anyone from coming to the site will limit anyone from seeing it. The robot.txt file should flush it out, but yes, it takes a little bit of time.
Technical SEO Issues | | customerparadigm.com0 -
Where are my October Monthly Reports?
Hi! These are delayed, but they should be done in the next few hours. We have a status update at http://health.moz.com/ regarding this, and really apologize for the delay.
Technical Support | | KeriMorgret0 -
Duplicate Content Report
From your campaign, go to Search (under dashboard), and go to Crawl Diagnostics. There you will find a list of all of the crawl errors and notices, including duplicate content.
Other Research Tools | | KeriMorgret1 -
What Is Your Most Important Daily Activity?
As the owner of an SEO and Web development firm, the most important thing I do each and every day is make sure that our customers are happy, feel they are being treated fairly, and want to pay us for the valuable work that we do. Everything else (blogging, writing content, sending emails, working with project managers, designers, search marketing people, billing department, answering email) all follows this. It doesn't matter if we did a great technical job on a project, if a customer doesn't feel like what we produced was what they wanted. It doesn't matter if we drive lots of traffic to a site, if it's the wrong traffic, or the bounce rate shows people don't like what they are seeing, or if nobody converts. Hope this helps
Conversion Rate Optimization | | customerparadigm.com1 -
Should I blow up our subdomain?
They really aren't providing any traffic and the content is poor, and not written by me. I generally answer these questions by thinking about the user experience. I would delete anything from the site that does not provide a good user experience. Google devotes considerable resources to determine which sites provide a good user experience and we can assume they will continue to get better at this in the future. Best, Christopher
Technical SEO Issues | | ChristopherGlaeser0 -
Traffic, rankings and own manual note in one interface, please :)
Hi Vince, If there is such a tool, I haven't seen it. Chris's suggestion to export/import csv files into Excel and combine there would probably be where I'd start, but I'm not sure how easy it'd be to work with the annotations in Excel. There's a Greasemonkey (Firefox) script to export them, but I haven't used this myself so I can't confirm how smoothly it works. Mash-ups of multiple metrics on a single chart like this I rarely find to be helpful, as they become visually confusing quickly - but if this is exactly what your boss is looking for, you're probably going to end up creating something in Excel and replacing the data each time (but saving the visualization settings). You could also hack together a macro to handle the repeating and tedious tasks. Sorry I don't have a better/shorter/easier answer for you here. If you do find or build a solution that is robust and/or elegant, I hope you'll head over to YOUmoz and share it with the community. Best of Luck, Mike
Inbound Marketing Industry | | MikeTek0