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Hello Miriam

You are quite correct, that option has gone in my part of the world, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.  I'm really stumped as to what to do!  I just has my location as St Albans and doesn't as far as I can see allow me to give our service area!  Mostly we supply secondary glazing to London for acoustic insulation.

I'm aware of the advice to add internal links between pages and so I always add links as and when appropriate. However, my website builder allows me the option to open the link in a new window or in the originator.  I invariably choose the former but don't know if this is best practice.

Could anyone advise?

Hello Mozers

I've been stumped by the changes in the interface with Google My Business.  I used to be able to set up the area for which I wanted a business to cover.  Now I can't find anyway to tell Google.

The company I work for is in St Albans and our main workload is London.  It would be helpful if I could actually control what Google Local sees as Local for my company, i.e. to encompass central London which is only 19 miles away.

Can someone give me an idiots guide has to how to tell Google the area I'd like our local listing to cover?

Thanks

Thank you Highland

That was very helpful!

Thank you Martijn

That's really helpful!

Our brand name is being bid on by out competitors.  If we bid on our own brand name, for which we rank #1 for all our profiles and website, will we make our competitors cost per click higher?

A colleague of mine has been sent a marketing pack from www.applegate.co.uk  - is it good SEO practice to use free directories, or are these days over?

Hello Mozers

Could someone recommend a free monitoring tool to keep a handle on who is not following you back on Twitter?

I've been asked by my manager to investigate the best blogging platform for our company website.  On a recent CIM course it ways suggested that Wordpress is not necessarily reliable.  Could anyone advise?  The blog is required to provide a space for current industry news, casestudies etc.  It is also envisaged that the blog will allow comments.

I've only got good things to say about Wordpress, but have only used the platform for my own small SEO company.