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Maybe my problem is I'm not looking in the right place.

I'm in audience>technology>network and the column shows "service provider."

For example,

Since I implemented the filter four days ago, rackspace cloud servers have visited my site 848 times, , visited 1 page each time, spent 0 seconds on the page and bounced 100% of the time.

What is the reg expression for rackspace?

Sure. Here's the post for filtering the bots.

Here's the reg x posted:  ^(microsoft corp|inktomi corporation|yahoo! inc.|google inc.|stumbleupon inc.)$|gomez

We've submitted our sites to the reputable local directories and update only as needed.

Looking through our backlink profile I've found our store on ooodles of local directories I have nothing to do with and never signed up for.

I'd direct the money elsewhere.

Here's one I've got bookmarked:  http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies

And another:  http://pointblankseo.com/creative-link-building

I've set up a filter to remove bot traffic from Analytics. I relied on regular expressions posted in an article that eliminates what appears to be most of them.

However, there are other bots I would like to filter but I'm having a hard time determining the regular expressions for them.

How do I determine what the regular expression is for additional bots so I can apply them to the filter?

I read an Analytics "how to" but its over my head and I'm hoping for some "dumbed down" guidance.

I'm curious if/how this will affect how many keywords to put in the title tag (for ecommerce - catetories and product names/titles).

If its related primarily to conversational search it sounds like something I won't be sweating.

You answered my question so it didn't seem dated to me.

Related to conversational search. Good to know.

Thanks David.

Two primary areas of focus for Hummingbird:

1. Better results for longer tail keyword inquiries

2. Voice command results

The public is becoming more seasoned at search as the years go by so they are comfortable adding more terms to their search.

IMO, social has also helped educate internet users for specificity:  @xyz or .com/xyz etc.  We're actually telling people what to enter after a hash-tag. Unthinkable a few years ago.

I'm curious if/how this will affect how many keywords to put in the title tag (for ecommerce - catetories and product names/titles).

Depending on how your site is set up I think some history of sold out events gives you credibility from a user perspective.

Having said that however, as a user I don't want to see sold out events past the last 6 months (if you've got quite a few) - 12 months at the most.

Anything past that I would delete and redirect to current events.

Exactly!

I wonder if Volusion called and asked if they could piggy-back?

If they had a partner page with Moz would the rel-canonical go to Rand?

Without assessing your site I can say you may not be doing anything wrong.

During Google's recent rolling algo changes we saw a drop in traffic of about 20% during the similar time frame you suggest.

We've recovered about 15% of that lost traffic and continue in the direction of the traffic levels prior to those changes.

We're white hat in what we do and this recent algo update is the only time we've actually lost significant traffic.

I usually don't over-react to Google's pendulum swings as things typically return to normal.

I'm not a business lawyer but has Moz been in the marketplace long enough to take issue with this?

Volusion's new mid-to-enterprise level eCommerce platform is http://www.mozu.com/

Thanks Robert.

"Assuming (from your question) you do not have a physical address for city B,"

The scenario has a business address in city B which is in the footer of the site.

If the business address is in the footer, how does it affect site optimization of big city A and he half dozen other cities in the sub-directories?

Did I misread the article?

How will this affect Google's keyword planner data?

We appear to be picking up momentum in the direction of pay-to-play.

Yes, I want to know how the footer name, address and phone number affect local optimization efforts.

Suppose I want to optimize my site (as Robert suggests) for big city A. However, my business address is in a suburb of big city A (little city B).

If the little city address is in the footer, will it diminish my SEO efforts for big city A?

Further, if I'm optimizing for 2, 5 or 10 cities in sub-directories how does the NAP in the footer affect optimization for those cities?

Is the NAP stripped from the footer throughout the site?  Can you leave the NAP in the footer without negatively affecting on-page optimization for big city A and the other half dozen cities?

Hi Alicia,

I'm not sure of the content of that video, but since it is still branded as SEO Moz it apparently got lost in translation.

Perhaps one of the moderators will post.

As far as SEO is concerned, the best place for you to start is with the Moz Beginner's Guide.

Thanks Miriam.

Another thread suggested (and a couple reputable users said it works) to optimize the site for major city A and create a sub-directory for 2, 5 or 10 other city pages.  I get the approach but what do you do with the footer NAP?

I asked for clarity in the other thread but got no takers.

So I'll ask here. For this type of optimization to work, would you have to strip the NAP from the footer for big city A site optimization AND the sub-directory individual city optimization?

Or can you leave the NAP on all the pages (sub-directory pages included) and just have strong page optimization above the footer throughout?

I'm not knowledgeable in root/sub-directory setups so I may not be asking sensible questions.

Big city A is the target optimization for services.

Suburb city B is the location of the business.

Will the NAP of the business in the footer negatively impact on-page optimization for Big city A?