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Thank you Andy and respondant!

That is really helpful information.  I'm grateful for you following through!

Kind RegardsCatherine

Thank you Andy - that is kind of you:)

Hello Mozers

My client asked a very good question today.  I didn't know the answer, hence this question.  When you submit a 'Removing content for legal reasons report':

https://support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_legalother?product=websearch

will the person(s) owning the website containing this inflammatory content recieve any communication from Google?

My clients have already had the offending URL removed by a court order which was sent to the offending company.  However now the site has been relocated and the same content is glaring out at them (and their potential clients) with the title "Solicitors from Hell + Brand name" immediately under their SERPs entry.

**I'm going to follow the advice of the forum and try to get the url removed via Googles report system as well as the reargard action of increasing my clients SERPs entries via Social + Content. ** However, I need to be able to firmly tell my clients the implications of submitting a report.  They are worried that if they rock the boat this URL (with open access for reporting of complaints) will simply get more inflammatory)!  By rocking the boat, I mean, Google informing the owners of this "Solicitors from Hell" site that they have been reported for "hosting defamatory" content.  I'm hoping that Google wouldn't inform such a site, and that the only indicator would be an absence of visits.  Is this the case or am I being too optimistic?

Hi Mozers

I'm in the process of trying to secure a client that requires social media expertise.  I want to be able to use my SEO knowledge as a benefit.  I am struggling to explain in simple terms how a knowledge of SEO underpins a good Social Media campaign.

Does anyone know of any good resources I can work through to communicate this issue effectively?

Thanks

Thank you Miriam, I am very grateful.  I'll follow all your advice to the letter.  I apologies if I came over a bit too anxious, it's just I was really rattled.  Feeling safe at home is something we lucky westerners take very much for granted, until we feel threatened!  Thanks again, taking positive, informed action is empowering!

Hello Google Local Experts

I'm a little stress, to put it mildly.  I have been working hard to get to grips with Google+ and Google Local.  I have followed all the advice on Moz that I can lay me hands on.

Following advice, I have added my private address (in rich text snippets) to the header of my own site.  I've not felt particularly comfortable about doing that, but it's clearly one of the messages Google Local requires to be sure that your site is authentic.

My concerns got concrete last evening when a new follower on Google+ started to send me private messages - culminating in asking where I lived.  Despite family demands I went straight to my site and removed my house number.  Now I know I'm messing up my NAP - but Ahh - my About section points straight to my site which at that point had my full address in Bold on each page of my site.

I really am upset about this and think that Google should be rethinking their demand for displaying a companies address on the site.  If you are self employed you are put in a vulnerable position which is morally questionable.

Please would someone give me some advice on the best way to address my worries in the short term?

Please could someone with a bit of clout point this potentail danger to women out to the powers that be in Google?

Thank you again:)

My client has been very successful in local for yoga hertford.  Now she wants to do an additional site with five other yogies.  The name of the company is obviously different and as with her original company hertsyoga - the actual venues for the sessions are all over the place but principally at a local venue called the Castle which hires out a studio.

My question is what do I do to keep her Nap consistent.  She apparently has friendly neighbours who are happy for her to use their address (one door up), and apparently they wont move!  But I really don't think they will be happy for me to put their address on the site and in citations locally.

What should I do?

Thank you Miriam, I'll look at Bright local and yes the technical team where very helpful!  Sorry form the delay in getting back, I was struck down with a bug!!

Regards

Catherine

Thank you Dan:)

I'll do as you advise.

Well - at the moment I just have list of the of titles under the page title and txt (see attached url) - what I'd like to do is make it more like http://sugarrae.com/reviews/ - with image and some of the post's text.  I've no idea how to go about achieving this.

I do know to get the plugin to work I had to set 'the page template for category pages' to 'Front Page'.

Sorry if I'm being dim!

Thanks for replying

Catherine

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Hello Mozers

I have learnt from the forum about the competitive analysis tool http://www.51blocks.com/online-marketing-tools/free-local-analysis/ and followed the link - only to find that it is for the US.  I'm in the UK and need to access this for google.uk - does anyone know of a UK equivalent?

Could I also check with the forum to ask the question that got me into this in the first place.  It's probably a daft question.  For the Ranking report in Moz, do I just need to put the local city name in front of the keyword to get the local rank.  I have been doing this and assuming it's ok, and my local ranking does show up.

Thanks

Catherine

Hello Dan

I have finally managed to get near to the examply you posted.  I've failed totally to find any help documentation however and so for my test site 'www.seoherts.co.uk' I've got a test customized category page minus anything other than the titles.

Could you be even kinder and direct me to some help for customizing the plugin?  You help  has really been amazing, you actually helped me back out of a corner.  Now I'm nearly home an dry.

Thanks Dan

Ahh, it took me two weeks, but you could be right....

I probably would have been better off talking to you before I started!

That's what comes of teaching yourself.  I'll give it a try tomorrow.  Will let you know - and thanks again Dan!

I will have to give up the Recent 'Coverage' Recent 'Companies' list in the footer (which I was rather proud of!)

Catherine

Hello Dan

I did as you suggested and got the options for categories of my 'blog'.  The problem is that I've got these posttypes with their own categories.  I'm probably asking too much of the plugin - but it doesn't give me the option to set up a page template with these as it doesn't recognise they exist.  I seem to have lost them deep down in WP...

Thank you David

I will try again, but I have told them three times over the course of three months.  I was told to first contact the tutor, which I did.  I got no response!  I contacted them again two more times and got no response at all!

Hello Dan

Would it be ok for me to send you the login details?  I'm finding it hard to explain because as I was lead by the nose by the tutorial I was a little lost in the woods in the process.

What I was aimming to achieve was to create two additional dynamic content pages i.e. 'companies' and 'coverage'.  My client and old friend is successfully getting new businesses and national coverage for them on a daily basis!  The 'online portfolio tutorial' on lynda.com appeared to meet the need.

In the tutorial (using twenty eleven) the tutor takes you through setting up two different posttypes, 'recipes' and 'one other, I've forgotten now'.  I basically followed doggedly setting up these two seperate posttypes and ended up with 'companies' and 'coverage' which actually do work.

The problem came when I tried to display these as a list - as you do with a blog page.  In the tutorial you simply had to change the default permalinks, then somehow magically the option to select the url for this illusive list appeared in the Menu option.  This doesn't happen when you follow the same set of operations in twenty twelve, and I know it is to do with a change in function somehwere in the php.  As I don't really understand php to this level I ended up with a terrible fudge as you will see at www.maxwellcomms.com.

If it is appropriate and if you are able to help would you like me to send you login details?  I will totally understand if you think it's too big and ask.

I have tried hard to get help from Lynda.com but they only insisted I contact the tutor, he didn't respond!  Ahh....

Hi folks

Can anybody help me.  I foolishly, dogedly followed  a Lynda.com tutorial for developing an 'online portfolio in WP'.  Little did I know that my initial assumption - to use the 'twenty twelve' rather than the 'twenty eleven' theme would land me in such deep water.

I was attempting to learn php on my own.  All went well, until, --- the index page for the customized post type.

Now I have two beautiful customized posttypes, 'companies' 'coverage' and no idea how to create an index page for either.  I can't do the next step!  I have tried every permutation - changing the permalink settings, changing them back, desperately searching for any handle to the nebulous links within the menu section.  The only thing I can do (and have done for now) is to link the menu item 'company' and the menu item 'coverage' to a single post.  Then the poor visitor has to scroll through the posts individually.

I tried contacting the tutor and Lynda.com, to no avail!  I have searched forums and found this is a common problem, but because I am so confused and novice to php they might as well be speaking Chinese.

To compound my problems, looking through 'Wordpress SEO' for Yoast, I am painfully aware I can't go to the first basic step and fix the peramilinks to 'Postname' as that just makes my flakey menu collapse like a pack of cards.

Help!

I've a client with a jobs page.  I've found that a high traffic, low competition keyword phrase 'OH jobs' and wish to optimize appropriately.  The trouble is that there is hardly any body text and any number of job entry listing.  As the listing which all go to individual job description pages, naturally fit the description (part description) OH Job - would it be good to use this description within the anchor text of the links?  If so is there a maximum?  I've been trawling around SEOmoz and Google Search and have got more and more bogged down!

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