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I really appreciate this tip! I had forgotten to come back to this thread, I have been busy implementing the changes that Miriam outlined for me. That is a great tip. Should I insert the geotag of the city for each landing page? I am still wondering if I should add hCards for my business to the landing pages (since I am located in a different city)

I have actually added a bit of new content and enough new images that I believe everything is now unique on each page (I will have to check now that I say that)

Alright, I have read up quite a bit on wordpress, and it seems like going to a dynamic php based setup like that would probably be a big change for me.  What I have now seems to be working well, I am just interested in adding a bit more content to each page.  Maybe I am way off base but it seems like to recreate my site in wordpress would be a pretty decent amount of work (for me being a noob and all)

I guess I just had two more questions.

Is there a substantial advantage SEO wise to using a dynamic site like wordpress?

Is there any simple way anyone can think of two beef up my content without losing what ever aesthetic appeal or end user friendliness I have created?  I was kind of hoping there would be some spry utility for it, or something of that nature.

Alright I am gonna look into switching to Wordpress, I am sure I can find lots of tutorials and info on it. No matter what I will defiantly re do anything that is an image instead of text. We love it up here, my parents actually moved up here from the San diego area. I love it down there.

I am currently reading up on word press, this is the current site http://winecountrycarpet.com/ If you look below the footer you will see the links to the other 3 landing pages based on geographical location.

hmmm, interesting, I am looking into wordpress now.

I know it sounds lame, but could I just add a form to the side and put the content there? Seems like it would be less intrusive to the end user experience, but would still ad content to the site?

I guess my question is would a table like that index as part of the site?

I would like to ad a blog to a few different pages of my site, is this possible? I would prefer it to not be a stand alone blog, because I am pretty sure it would begin to outrank my landing pages in search results.

I built my site using dreamweaver, but I have seen a reference somewhere to a utility for adding a word press blog to an existing site?

This site seems to be doing what I had in mind?

http://www.drynclean.com/

both great answers, the htaccess change didn't work for me cause I am a helpless noob, but the rel=canonical worked like a charm, thanks all your the best.

Thank you again Mirriam, I am in the process of implementing the changes that you have outlined, I just had a couple of questions. The shop is just my garage, their are no other business at the address.  I am going forward completely with your changes regarding nap and everything else.

Should I add the nap to the footer in a different way so google can read it? If I add it into the image that won't help with google will it?

Should I add the nap to the alt tags of images? approximately how many of them should I add it to?

Will adding my Atascadero Contact information hurt me in the rankings in the surrounding towns?

I am going to add it to the meta description of each page, this is what I had in mind

Does that look right to you?

Thanks you SO much for your help so far, I appreciate it a lot, its a confusing world out there and I appreciate you clarifying it for me.

I am having an issue with duplicate content that I can't seem to figure out.  I got rid of the www.mydomain.com by modifying the htaccess file but I can't figure out how to fix theproblem of  mydomain.com/ and mydomain.com

Thank you Miriam I actually really appreciate a straight answer (they are not easy to get these days),

I will definitely start to implement the changes you outlined.  I have been a bit embarrassed of my copy the whole time, but I am going to sit down and just pound out a few versions of it for each page.  I absolutely agree with what you say about making it feel as local as possible on each landing page.  I was happy with my picture of Morro Rock for that reason.  I am just going to have to get more stock photo's of local landmarks is what I am thinking for each landing page., I tried it with my own pictures and it just looked bad.  I am going to actually hire a photographer to take a picture of us and the van for the header though.  I feel like people like to see who they are letting into their home.

Do you think it is important that I ad the hCard ? i really try and keep my address of the page as much as possible since it is not a commercial building, just my home and a shop, but I am open to it if there is a benefit SEO wise or if you feel the end user would appreciate it.

The point about optimizing my contact us page is interesting.  I have pretty much left optimization out of the extra pages, the services and the contact us pages, thinking it was all about my landing pages.

How much different does the content need to be to avoid duplicate content? I believe I have used different wording on each of the landing pages and switched up the images, different titles, different alt tags, I know when I audit the site with seoMOZ it doesn't trigger duplicate content? now you have me a bit worried.  I was more concerned that I might be split a little thin regarding linking. I definitely have a google places (postcard is in the mail) and same with bing and yahoo.

i have set up my local service site using my index page for my main city that I am targeting.  I have then created three more pages targeting three surrounding cities.  I am now link building using good anchor text to each of the appropriate pages.  I think I am doing right but i have read some stuff today that made me question my technique

here is the site http://winecountrycarpet.com/

Thank you in advance for any advice I can get.

I am in the process of promoting my local service site at http://winecountrycarpet.com and I was wondering what you guys would recommend? i have submitted to a lot of directories and get any backlink I can.  I have also started writing articles and submitting them to sooper articles and Ezine articles, but I feel like I am doing something wrong.  I am open to any suggestions.