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Thats a good tip. Beware of rewording products titles though. Especially for titles where people are searching for a specific branded product or will be searching for exactly the same title.

I don't know if you saw this. Its very good timing that Rand wrote a blog post about this very subject!

Check it out, as always its a worthwhile read.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-places-citations-5-tactics-to-earn-links-for-your-local-business

Nope. iFrame is a link juice free zone.

I don't think it will hurt to do that, but there is probably no SEO value to doing it either.

It could be a good idea if you want to use an easily remembered URL in offline media and advertising thought.

Well thats a pretty easy experiment. And the results appear to be that a proxy is not necessary.

I searched for SEO firm on google.co.uk from my office in San Diego and from a UK proxy @ http://goproxing.biz

Here are screen shots of both SERPS. While not an extensive test it appears that US based IPs can get UK results when searching google.co.uk

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Eric,

Let me add that the keyword difficulty tool doesn't necessaraly apply to local search. A LOT of other stuff is looked at as far as local SEO.

You should check out David Mihm's bolg. It is one of the BEST resources available in local search.

http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/

Citations are the "link" equivalent for local search. If you go to your places page, there is a section that says "more about this place" That is info google has scraped from other local sources that mention your businesses. They may or may not contain a link.

Looking at your citations and your competitors is a good area to work on improving your listing in Google Places.

Heres an image of a citation section.

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Oh and a strong listing you would be more focused on number of searches if you feel it's realistic you could rank for it.

Oh and a strong listing you would be more focused on number of searches if you feel it's realistic you could rank for it.

It depends how strong your citations are. If your new or ave a weak listing I'd pay more attention to competition?

Awesome find on the snippet optimizer!

Awesome find on the snippet optimizer!

That's really great!

Named anchors I great if it meets your needs otherwise rel canonical will work.

Is your own shortner really necessary? I can't imagine it is.

I did this accidentally as well recently and had 100% of my products disallowed from google shopping within 48 hours. Sounds like it's not an option. They need the crawl your images folder to make sure you have valid images in you product listings.

Found it! http://www.seomoz.org/blog/301-redirect-or-relcanonical-which-one-should-you-use Check out the section "Redirecting all pages in one go to a single URL" "Although the intention may not be manipulative, there have been cases of people doing this to try and consolidate all the link juice from loads of pages into one page, to make that page stronger. This can sometimes put up a flag to Google who may come and take a closer look at whats going on." This post does also come with a Matt Cutts video discussing this. Hope that helps!

I swear I read in a recent post that Google frowns on large redirect to your homepage... Am I crazy??? I tried to find where I read this but can't remember. Anyone? Bueler?

Huge bummer. I thought you may say that. Thanks.

Since WP is all dynamic content the canonical tag is a good thing. It tells the search engines which version is the prefered version Without looking at your report or site, I'd say your ok. Work on fixing the red and yellow if possible and necessary.