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Believe so, I think for now it focuses on local US campaigns.

I'm starting to get more local clients. I've been using Whitespark for some local stuff, which I think is powerful -- yet sometimes hard to use. I've seen Yext around, and SEO Moz has a special discount for them (for pro members).

I've read about directories, even this good read including Blekko. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/using-blekkos-seo-data-to-evaluate-web-directories-14678 but I feel at least drawn to give Yext a shot, who knows, maybe they could wow me.

Anyone used them? Or recommend one way or the other? Thanks

David nailed it, from what I have researched. Long of the short, it carries little to no value on national campaigns, and a little value on local campaigns. Since it is so easy to do, and if your campaign is local, might as well use it.

I've been reading conflicting reports that social bookmarking is really useful and that social bookmarking is a complete waste of time that passes no real juice.

My gut tells me that every answer will tailor around "make your content spreadable" and then bookmark socially, which seems to be the right answer. 2 part question -- what if the content is really hard to make exciting (i.e. for chiropractor, funeral director, etc)? Does this mean that just linking to the site with a cut-and-paste paragraph will do nothing SEO wise?

I just need to know if it is even worth looking into or if I should invest in other areas.

I have worked on a website and organically it is starting to do fine. The website itself is on the right track. Now, the places page, could use a little improvement.

I did make sure it has the right categories, has all unique pictures and videos, it does have a good amount of reviews and even citations from other local directories, and even the website links to it. It does show up for some local searches but I would like it to dominate more.

I've heard that if I've built links to that Google Places local page from other sources, it would rank higher and perform better. Is that true? Any other tips and tricks to make it perform better?

Thank you

Never tried the geotag, I will give it a shot. I am redesigning the HTML format, to try and better fit it into Panda's regulations. So, if it looks a bit "wonky", that is why.

I appreciate the advice. I still don't know why it plummeted down so fast, but I will certainly implement your techniques.

Lastly, another tidbit of info, I performed a lot of social bookmarking and other forms of link building in August, September, October...  I have yet to see ANY backlinks from the work I have done on SEO Moz or in any other 3rd party tool. Don't know if that sheds any light on anything

Even after studying the latest Panda algorithm, which frowns upon templated looks (kind of odd), I have been doing some thorough research trying to find out why a site I have been optimizing plummeted. It was hovering around 10, and fell to 37 in one to two weeks. After I read all about the Panda update, I assumed it was that. But the site falls in line and shouldn't be affected. I used that 3rd party duplicate content checker and the content checked out okay.

I looked on my SEO Pro campaign and noticed that the on-page report got an A grade, hitting on all factors except having the keyword in the URL. So, I have a site that loads in good time and should be fairly well optimized, and falls in line from what I can tell with Google's guidelines, which I read through. So why the drop?

I'm not saying this site is 100% perfect couldn't be any better, optimized to the hilt. It was designed a few years ago, but still, I am just having a hard time finding out why this site got slammed the way it did.

www.spineandsportschiro.com

Target Keyword(s)

• Roseville Chiropractor
• Roseville Chiropractic

I welcome any on-page critiques, but mostly would like to know where to look or have some kind of insight to why the rankings dropped, so I can try and fix them the right way. Thank you,

Moldy, they will not allow me to change URL structure and know SEO will be limited.  We are going to go ahead.  Your answer was really helpful.

I am working with a friend on optimizing a site that has a troublesome set of issues.

The company has integrated some ERP system that cannot be changed or removed and it is creating goofy URL's. So my question is which URL do I build links to? the www.xxx.com or the crazy URL that it is being redirected to.

Site URL: www.nauticalchartsonline.com
redirect: http://www.nauticalchartsonline.com/n.c/NauticalChartsOnline.html

I would greatly appreciate constructive feedback.. Thanks, Jeannie