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You'll be just fine the way you have it now. Google may deem the contact info (the duplicate content) more relevant on one of your pages over the same info on some of your other pages...  but that won't diminish the relevance of the content on any of your other pages. I hope that makes sense

I agree with the two responses you've received already. If you have good content, you'll want to put it on landing pages on your site. then seek to find (some will find you) sites that will link to your good content/landing pages. This is a much better way of doing things then seeking sites to submit your content to. Duplicate content issues and Panda really make this type of process outdated. I a firm believer in keeping your good content on site.

I really like Joe's response. I would focus on his second recommendation to have the content added to important landing pages (your commercial pages), then 301 the resource page/s to the landing page/s. Or, you could follow Joe's first recommendation and seek to add good 'llinkable' content to appropriate landing pages from here on in. You have a 'good' problem here and if you go about handling the link equity properly, your landing pages will become your authority (resource) pages.

In my opinion, and it's just an opinion - clearly not gospel ;-), hosting images on the site is better. You may also post the images on sites like Flickr for the traffic. Flickr links do not pass link equity and you will lose link equity by having the external links on your page/s. The Flickr domain may be strong, but the page/s you host your photos on may not be strong (re: social signals). However I would agree with having photos (tagged) on as many good sites as possible for traffic, links & signals. In the past Rand has suggested hosting images on Flickr... not sure what he thinks nowadays.

Ryan; there are some who believe in hosting images off-site, and some who favour hosting images on-site. There's a lot of discussion around the topic; I haven't seen anything definitive one way or the other.

Having the images on your site's pages is better SEO wise. The algo takes into consideration 'engagement objects' such as photos, video, etc. in a positive way. The same goes for videos. If bandwidth is an issue, I'd suggest handling it in ways that will still allow you to keep your photos on the site.

Andy

I think you'll be just fine using the strategy you've described Brian. I think Rebecca's concerned about having several landing pages for the same keyword. Her example described using the kw "space needle" in the title tag on several different landing pages... thus confusing Google as to which should be the relevant landing page for queries regarding "space needle". You'll have different cities in each title tag; no issues there.

• if the search kw you were targeting was "driving lessons" - without some qualifier (eg. city name), then yes, Google would have a hard time ascertaining which was the appropriate landing page for "driving lessons". Having the city/locale name coupled with "driving lessons", multiple times, while not perfect, will be just fine.

Andy

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Andy

You are right zharriet, time to give your host a call

All great responses   Here is a neat tool to see who is sharing space on your present server (it will also indicate potential 'bad' sites in red) http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/

Andy

Jacob  is correct is his advice regarding link strategy - as well, there is some strong research on -- unnatural linking patterns --  As for the www vs. non-www, it doesn't matter much at all. As Jacob suggested, I'd redirect the non-www to www or vice-versa (via .htaccess).
You can also (try, as I think the option still isn't working) to set your www or non-www preference in Google Webmaster Tools.

Andy

It is against Google's TOS to have more than 1 Places listing. If (as is the case in some countries) there is no 'Report A Problem' link on the Place page, you may (as suggested by a Google Places rep (I have the link somewhere) claim the duplicate and then delete the undesirable one: follow the steps as Storwell Self Storage has laid out.

If the Places page/s is in the USA, you'll want to follow Jacob's suggestions, as well as #5 from Storwell Self Storage

5. wait a couple days, if that listing is still showing up in the search results, go to its places page, and click the Report A Problem link, and select “Place has another listing”. If you can, include a link to your claimed place page in the comments section.

Here is the link to the Google Places help page for duplicate issues:

http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=183009

I'd stay as far away from automated article submission software as I could. Do a bit of research on this topic and you will see why... just trying to help

I concur with Ryan's assessment - I've switched to and from VPS setups; there are no SEO repercussions. Ryan's advice to prepare everything ahead of time... and then change the address on the nameservers, should have everything propagating over (it varies from site to site) within 6 to 72 hours.

I don't think you understand what I'm asking, however I do appreciate your suggestions I know how to optimize, what I'm really looking for are site architecture suggestions that will help with the issue/s I noted in my original question.

"services" broadly speaking, keywords like "website creation", "ditch digging", "private tutoring"...

Thanks Richard

however... this is the tricky part:

I'm quite good at optimizing locally for this type of thing. However, many of the "service" keywords are not yet 'localized' by Google, I'd want to have my client webpages show well in the SERP's. for these 'non-localized' "service keywords" as well.

Sorry, I meant David Mihm -- oops!

I suspect having the settings in WMT set for the USA "might" hurt your performance in other areas, however the small company website (that gets 90% of its business from the USA) I mentioned in my prior response has the setting set to USA and it ranks #3 for it's main search term in both .ca and .com. Having claimed a Local Places account might also be an issue. I'd suggest you contact either Todd Mihm (http://www.davidmihm.com/blog) or Mike Blumenthal (http://blumenthals.com/blog) for an answer to that question.

I have a client who is expanding his business locations from 2 cities to 3, and working towards having 10+ locations across Canada. Right now we're building location based landing pages for each city, as well as keyword targeted landing pages for each city. For example, landing pages for "Vancouver whatever clinic" and "Calgary whatever clinic" as well as for "Vancouver specific service", and "Calgary specific service". This means a lot of landing pages will need to be created to target each of 10 or so desirable "service" keywords for each city's location. I've no issue with this, however I was wondering how other companies go about this? What's the best way to be relevant for certain "service" based keyword searches in each city?

• Many of the "service" keywords are 'localized' meaning they will show Google Places results for local brick and mortar businesses for each location. I'm quite good at optimizing locally for this type of thing. However, many of the "service" keywords are not yet 'localized' by Google, I'd want to have my client webpages show well in the SERP's. for these 'non-localized' "service keywords" as well.

• the new site will be built in WordPress