Came back here to ask you another question but you already answered it! awesome! thanks man!

Nice tool! thanks!

So what is generally considered crawlable in this case then? just 301s and 302s?

Conversely, would it be possible to hide a link by making it not crawl able? this isn't my intent, I just want to make sure I don't get jacked when acquiring new links.

A lot of the time I see companies employing a technique like this:

<a target="_blank" href="/external/wcpages/referral.aspx?URL=http%253a%252f%252fwww.xxxx.ca&ReferralType=W&ProfileID=22&ListingID=96&CategoryID=219">xxxxxa>

Or similarly with php.  In an attempt to log all the clicks that exit their site from certain locations.

When google bot comes along and crawls this page, does it still understand that this page links to www.xxxx.ca?

I realize one can use the google adwords keyword tool to get rough organic search volume, but Is there a method to see how much a keyword is searched within specifically google places?  That is, seperated out from the organic search?

Ideally i would like to see how often certain keywords are search for in google, v.s. in google places/maps directly.

maybe it is not possible.

cheers,

storwell

Is there a way to enable this in the settings somewhere? or is this simply not an available feature yet?

Would be really great if there was an extra column in the report that shows local rank, as 93 of our top 100 keywords we track are all blended search results and a lot of the time this shows really inaccurate results because of this.

Sorry, ignore my question, the answer was on the page all along, guess i need another coffee.

If someone finds this, the answer is here:

http://schema.org/LocalBusiness

So we're redoing our reviews/testimonials page on our website right now and moving over to the schema.org format as described here:

http://schema.org/Review

But we would like to combine each of our reviews with a location for which it was reviewed using this:

http://schema.org/LocalBusiness

What i can't wrap my head around would be the correct syntax? is it just the first block and then the next block? or is there a way of putting the actual physical address within the review page itself?

So is this the correct way to do a page full of reviews that are reviewing various physical locations?

*   <div< span="">itemprop="reviews"  itemscope  itemtype="http://schema.org/Review"></div<>*   <span< span="">itemprop="name">Value purchase</span<> -*   by  <span< span="">itemprop="author">Lucas</span<>,*   <meta< span="">itemprop="datePublished"  content="2011-03-25">March 25, 2011</meta<>*   <div< span="">itemprop="reviewRating"  itemscope  itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating"></div<>*   <meta< span="">itemprop="worstRating"  content  =  "1"/></meta<>*   <span< span="">itemprop="ratingValue">4</span<>/*   <span< span="">itemprop="bestRating">5</span<>stars*   <span< span="">itemprop="description">Great microwave for the price. It is small and</span<>*   fits in my apartment.

1.  <div< span="">itemscope  itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness"></div<>
2.  #  <span< span="">itemprop="name">Beachwalk Beachwear & Giftware</span<> 
3.  <span< span="">itemprop="description"> A superb collection of fine gifts and clothing</span<>
4.  to accent your stay in Mexico Beach.
5.  <div< span="">itemprop="address"  itemscope  itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress"></div<>
6.  <span< span="">itemprop="streetAddress">3102 Highway 98</span<>
7.  <span< span="">itemprop="addressLocality">Mexico Beach</span<>,
8.  <span< span="">itemprop="addressRegion">FL</span<>

10.  Phone:  <span< span="">itemprop="telephone">850-648-4200</span<>

• <div< span="">itemprop="reviews" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review"></div<>* <span< span="">itemprop="name">Value purchase</span<> -* by <span< span="">itemprop="author">Lucas</span<>,* <meta< span="">itemprop="datePublished" content="2011-03-25">March 25, 2011</meta<>* <div< span="">itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating"></div<>* <meta< span="">itemprop="worstRating" content = "1"/></meta<>* <span< span="">itemprop="ratingValue">4</span<>/* <span< span="">itemprop="bestRating">5</span<>stars* <span< span="">itemprop="description">Great microwave for the price. It is small and</span<>* fits in my apartment.

1. <div< span="">itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness"></div<>

2. <span< span="">itemprop="name">Beachwalk Beachwear & Giftware</span<>

3. <span< span="">itemprop="description"> A superb collection of fine gifts and clothing</span<>

4. to accent your stay in Mexico Beach.

5. <div< span="">itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress"></div<>

6. <span< span="">itemprop="streetAddress">3102 Highway 98</span<>

7. <span< span="">itemprop="addressLocality">Mexico Beach</span<>,

8. <span< span="">itemprop="addressRegion">FL</span<>

9. Phone: <span< span="">itemprop="telephone">850-648-4200</span<>

From what I understand, if you search for a keyword say "blue widgets" and you click on a result, and then spend 10 seconds there, and go back to google and click on a different result google will track that first result as being not very relevant.

What I don't understand is what happens when (and this happens all the time, i did it today) you click on a result go to that page, find it (not?) relevant and then get distracted, phone call, or someone calls you into another room in the office.  You end up accidentally leaving the tab open all day long, and never go back to the google search.  So your time on site to google is what? infinity? there must be an upper cap here? at some point they must say, ok, the user is gone, time on site = our maximum = 5 minutes?!?

Get me? any insight?

Oh thats funny! So it seems that google is judging that a lot on CTR, problem is though with that is that CTR is heavily biased by what the actual rankings are.  Nobody is going to page in 5 pages looking for something, they will likely click one of the first 5 results. So in terms of local optimization, where there is an extremely heavy geographical bias towards the city center, you end up with the google suggest of:

Keyword DOWNTOWN.

this is so silly.  Google is gaming it's own algo!

Lets take a quick check of my theory: Flowers Seattle ...

flowers seattle wa
flowers seattle restaraunt
flowers seattle downtown
flowers seattle capitol hill

Lets try another...

car rental chicago...

car rental chicago airport
car rental chicago downtown
car rental chicago midway
car rental chicago train station

Hmmm...

Well my initial attempt here was to try to expand on possible keywords that I am missing out on.  I feel i have been putting too much stock in google adwords' keyword tool.  I have started to use the Bing keyword suggest excel tool but generally the numbers are so small in Bing/Yahoo that it is hard to get good results out of it.

Do you have any suggestions to help find more long tail keywords?

Thanks EGOL! another great reply from you We decided to take your advice and just keep the content on our own site.

Cheers,

Storwell

Is google autocomplete based solely off keyword search volume? Or is there some other factors i am missing here?

Here's an example:

Auto complete suggestions for 'storage toronto':

[storage toronto cost] [storage toronto downtown] [storage toronto rates] [storage toronto leaside] [storage toronto prices] [storage toronto dupont] [storage toronto laird] [storage toronto eastern ave] [storage toronto ontario]

Google adwords keyword tool results for these:

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| Keyword | Global Monthly Searches | Local Monthly Searches  |
| [storage toronto cost] | 0 | 0 |
| [storage toronto downtown] | 36 | 28 |
| [storage toronto rates] | 0 | 0 |
| [storage toronto leaside] | 0 | 0 |
| [storage toronto prices] | 73 | 73 |
| [storage toronto dupont] | 0 | 0 |
| [storage toronto laird] | 0 | 0 |
| [storage toronto eastern ave] | 0 | 0 |
| [storage toronto ontario] | 0 | 0 |

So here is what i find confusing:

If [storage toronto cost] is the top suggestion for [storage toronto...] then why does google say it has 0 monthly searches?  Why isn't [storage toronto downtown] the first suggestion? or better yet, why isn't [storage toronto prices] the top suggestion?

So either: 1) google adwords keyword tool is wrong.

or 2) google suggest isn't based on just volume??

I've run these same keywords through Bing's Excel keyword information spreadsheet query and it came back saying all keywords had 0 searches ever, except for...drumroll:

[storage toronto prices]  with 7 monthly searches, once, in august, and 0 all other months.

Now i assume that bing/yahoo numbers are significantly smaller, but this does show that that the same keyword is the most popular, so in some way suggests that google's keyword is accurate.  So i guess this brings be back to my confusion, what other factors is google's suggest based on, because it obviously isn't primarily search volume.

And yes, i have made sure to clear caches, and disable personalized search and search history, and tried the query in several browsers, just to double check i wasn't getting a personalized list, so we can rule that out.

Thanks,

Storwell.

Can you submit to more than one? or do they detect that the article has already been posted on another site?  Which sites do you usually use for posting articles?

Thanks,

Storwell

I had a thought recently, and perhaps it is a pretty bad thought, but i don't see the flaw in it, or how google would really detect it, so please correct me where I am wrong here.

Say we ran some sort of marketing campeign and through that campeign we created about 100 extra pages on our domain.   A lot of these pages are heavily shared on facebook, twitter, google+ etc.  These pages also have several backlinks here and there. Now this campaign is over and so these pages no longer seem relevant to us.

If we were to add 301 redirects to all these pages, to three different (and unrelated) internal pages (our primary targets) would this pass all the accumulated link juice on to those three target internal pages?

Or would this behaviour get penalized by google?

When starting out with a new client, where do you look first to build links for that client?  I have a lot of close friends who have small businesses with not a very huge budget for SEO and I'm trying to wrap my head around how to do a significant amount of quality link building without breaking the bank.  Any suggestions?

My list so far is:

Friends / Family of the client.
Free (good quality) directories - Yellow pages, etc.
Content creation / Article publishing
Paid directories (BBB, etc)

What i am wondering though is if anyone out there has some suggestions as to how to do some quality link building for a small client with a limited budget (lets say, $500).

Thanks! we figured as much, and already have a positive review since this bad one.  I was just wondering if there was an easier fix

Thanks! we figured as much, and already have a positive review since this bad one.  I was just wondering if there was an easier fix