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When you do a search in google for: site:hslawyers.com you can see that all the pages have unique descriptions and titles, therefore nothing is being blocked inthe robot.txt or htaccess file. I would guess it's from the home page which has this as a description

Perhaps Google is not displaying it because of the special characters, but I dont think that is the case. Perhaps your home page is pulling data from outside of the Yoast plug in...

Also,

I found a code on your home page:

from my understanding noodp is attemting to pull your description from DMOZ. Read more here: http://www.seoboy.com/what-are-the-meta-tags-noodp-and-noydir-used-for-in-seo/

Hi Penny,

Create a brand and verify the account. You can link your G+ to your site and whenever someone +1s your google business page or site you gain authority. You can follow, interact, and circle others as a business, which is great at getting more +1s.

Once you have your business page set up you can post as the actual business and gain more +1 to your page. We've managed to get 1.3k +1's to one of our sites in 3 weeks. We post as the brand in communities that are interested in similar things.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/113582609509419286582/113582609509419286582/posts

Let me know if you have any more questions.

It can be many reasons, withut a URL it will be hard to tell.

If the site is new it may take time to index. Also, in your Wordpress general settings make sure the site title and tagline are left blank.

What is showing in the SERP's? Perhaps the title and description are pulling from somewhere else...

Hi Dave,

Yoast for Wordpress is great you just have to set it up properly: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

It is best practice to add a unique title and description to all the pages that you want to show up on a the SERP.

"Also, when the client searches it says in the meta desc - you've viewed this site many times". What is that?"

This is a personalized setting.

In order to see what a new searcher sees, you will need to clear your browsers history, and make sure you are logged off of any Google accounts.

301 all the pages to newer better pages for the users. Keep the sites page sizes smaller, make the site responsive, and ensure that it is easily indexable.

No having a dash is not going to have a significant impact on your site as far as rankings... However typing the URL into a browser manually will be easier, and a shorter URL in general is better.

If you can avoid the hyphen then do it. If you must use the hyphen, it should not impact your SEO results.

Perhaps, I have no experience with such a thing.. However I am sure a good enough programer can design an app with that functionality.

If you want to rank for your site in both languages and have them crawled you need to create separate pages for each language. Read here: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/multilingual-seo/19903/

If you use an auto detect function your content will not cater good to your audience or Google.

Have you considered an app?

You need to add a canonical tags to let search engines know that the content is almost identical.

here is an awesome post to get you all set up: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

How long has it been up? Also, did you add the site from its root?

Check out: http://blumenthals.com/blog/  from Mike Blumenthol

and

http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/ from Phil Rozak (you can get a free 7 step guide for local SEO on here)

1. by authority, local citations, reviews, frequent updates, interaction as a brand (posting and interacting as the brand itself on Google +).

2. I've seen 7 and i've seen less I think it depends on the search query and device, mobile vs. pc etc...

3. Can you share a link?

4. No, because if you check the map it will show more results. Perhaps Google does not think others deserve to be there.

My pleasure. However the real credit belong to Cyrus Shepard for writing this masterpiece, Many takeaways on it.

This will help.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-rank

19. Diversify Your Anchor Text - Naturally

If Google’s Penguin update taught us anything, it’s that over-thinking anchor text is bound to get us in trouble.

When you link naturally and editorially to other places on the web, you naturally diversify your anchor text. The same should hold true when you link internally.

Don’t choose your anchor text to fit your keywords; choose your anchor text to fit the content around it.

Practically speaking, this means linking internally with a mix of partial match keyword and related phrases. Don’t be scared to link occasionally without good keywords in the anchor – the link can still pass relevancy signals. When it comes to linking, it’s safer to under-do it than over-do it.

As long as they are not going to delete your link you are good, but that's a risk you will have to take if you go through with it.

IMO it's better to post the article on your own blog and look for relevant media outlets to share it. Why give your valuable content to another competing site? Sure you can get one link your site as a reference, but why not be the reference that they link to naturally.

Guest posting can be beneficial, however you are right about getting a post on a competitors site, they can remove your link at any time and they will learn your strategy. I would look for a similar niche rather then a direct competitor.. ie if your site is selling funny t-shirts you can guest post on humer sites...

The SEO agency that you are working with, what is their incentive? Do they want anything in exchange for the blog post?

Google has been lowering the value of low quality links such as non relavent guest blogging, because they dont want people to game the system. If you want to rank in Google you need to give the users what they want (value).

Google has not officially announced an update, however they have been making changes, and they make about 500 changes a year. If you go to Googles webmaster forum you can see that many people are experiencing loss in rankings.

You can check the weather here: mozcast.com

Also, I would recommend checking out SEObythesea by Barry Schwarts.

What dave is saying is it's better to have unique content for each language because it gets crawled.