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Hi I raised a similar question yesterday. http://moz.com/community/q/no-access-for-uk-get-listed-and-now-moz-local-alternatives-to-moz

I use Whitespark which is good but someone kindly also recommended Brighton Local yesterday.

Thanks a lot. I will have a look at them.

Ive had a pro subscription now for quite sometime and it was a shame when Get Listed UK was removed, now Moz has released its Moz Local and thats also just for US customers. I presume UK and other countries are a low priority, so don't expect anything for us for the foreseeable future!

Ive taken out a subscription for Whitespark, but is there an alternative to Moz that people know of that does support us poor UK people?

Hi,
Im about to start helping a small business who has a facebook account but no website. Has anyone got any experience of getting a business ranking locally without a website? Just wandering if NAP details from a facebook / Google+ account helps with local citation building? Or whether a basic website is required?

Antony

You can see the companies recommended by Moz here http://moz.com/community/recommended

I too use Firefox, so would be a shame to loose it, but can understand your reasoning. Maybe if the 100% was put into the Chrome version to make it even more awesome then it would be ok I suppose (if you must).

Yer i watched this today, was very interesting and useful. Lots to learn.

Share it on Google+ and twitter this the quickest way I find to get stuffed indexed.

Hi There,

Does anyone know when the UK version of Get Listed is returning. It got removed a while ago and not been seen of since. Im just trying to learn more about local SEO so thought it would help!

In the meantime if anyone has any recommendations on good learning material then please let me know.

Antony

I remember seeing one for the Matt Cutts videos a few months ago and im pretty sure he said its not a problem if its relevant and adds value to the site in question.

Your absolutely right Chris, I was in the process of rewriting all the content and going to be getting the blog going. Also now looking at quality links etc. Google places done, so was trying to get some local citations.

Ant

Ah ok it was something in the Wordpress theme options for "Choose Google Bot Indexing Type" that wasnt selected. Ive now changed it to

Thanks for that. Much appreciated.

Hi Everyone,
I created a new website a few weeks ago www.drivingseaford.co.uk , did a little link citation, links from Google+, submitted to webmaster tools etc but its still not getting indexed.

Webmaster tools crawl stats page is showing pages being crawled, no errors. But 0 indexed.

http://www.drivingseaford.co.uk/robots.txt is showing

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

Im a bit stumped as never had this before!!! Any ideas from you lovely people??

Antony

How old are these pages? looking at your link profile its rather thin and all directories.

If you create a page and leave it then it will drop over time depending on the competition. You need to get people talking about it on Favebook, twitter, blogs etc.

Really good response from Adam.

The way I look at it is the person who wrote the article took their time to craft something for your website. If we are honest you probably got more from it than they will (we all prefer the content rather than a simple link). It isn't really playing the game if you nofollow, it doesnt do any harm giving them a bit of link juice, plus it builds a relationship for future assistance.

Insurance is never going to be an easy one to compete on as competitors often have big budgets! I would be aiming at the longtail and local as people say. Decent blog posts are a good way of finding keywords that attract visitors. I use analytics to see what people are finding me by, check it out in moz tools to see if decent volume and then turn the keyword from the blog into its own page and then go all out on optimisation and links.

When I go into Twitter I dont go there to look for something specifically normally however anything I see that catches my eye I might click on and as I dont follow huge amounts of people I keep my feed more filtered to what im interested in.

I'm not surprised Tweets dont convert so well from this person as thinking as a normal person I would be more likely to click on someone doing a review. Could she or someone she works with do a review on your products and tweet that. Maybe that will give a bit more authority and more chance to convert.

yer as i expected just making the most from poor competition

Cant answer question 1,

For question two ive had similar happen with information ive updated not showing. It turned out I had two profiles, one was the owner and one was a different account that had "manage" status. I had to change both of the them to keep it inline. Which was a bit weird and now I try to avoid two profiles with editor privileges.  Do you have another account that can also update your profile?

Hi Everyone,

Im speaking to someone about doing decent SEO, follwing the basics and not doing dodgy stuff for the short term. He is a driving instructor trying to rank for driving lessons peterborough (this is in the uk) and one of the websites coming out towards the top of serps is ian-rayner.com/index.htm. Its got no links, no social signs, has a page labelled  SEO Stuff with a whole list of keywords and internal links back to his home page. It has a Domain authority of 11 and page authority of 1 !!! Is it because no one is following the basics and uncompetitive that its ranking or is he doing something other than a few keywords in the content, meta title and description, and a internal links that im missing?