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Great resource William, thanks!

Thanks William, I did use that tool but it did not returned to many options as it did by studying the competition and the answers here.

Have a look at the resources below and let me know if you need more help. Responsive web design is recommended by Google but it does not apply to all websites. You have to take into consideration things like user intent, navigation, content. There is a lot of debate about it here on Seomoz and I would proceed carefully by reading some of the resources below. One thing I would advice though is to keep the robots blocked until you figure out what you want. In my opinion, Bryson Meunier has written quite a lot about the subject on several respected blogs in the industry.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/search/label/mobile

http://www.brysonmeunier.com/

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-of-responsive-web-design

http://www.seomoz.org/q/mobile-seo-tips-and-best-practices

Hope it helps!

I think the question summarizes it pretty well. Did anybody experienced this, to rank for one or multiple keywords in both local and organic search results?

For a SAB (service area business) would it help to have a map of their location on the Homepage?

Hi Miriam, I already read 2 out of 3 forum messages above, I read the third one now and applied the instructions but I get the same message. I will try to get Linda or Vanessa involved.

Thanks for your help!

I am sorry if I wasn't clear enough. I was asking about the quality of unstructured citations and the places you get them from, not about reviews although, it is a very interesting piece to read.

Thanks again Miriam for contributing! Yes, I do know but it was more of a reassurance for a colleague of mine.

It does indeed Miriam, exactly what I needed. I new about the 20 miles radius, I even asked a few Google moderators about but I got mixed responses. Anyway, thanks!

We all now how important citations are, structured and unstructured for local results. Oftentimes, as David Mihm said, they are the factor that could tilt the balance.
It is also true that the higher the authority of a website the more weight Google puts on a citation.

My question is, how far should you go after those unstructured citations, would you get them from everywhere you can if the number and not the quality would be the difference between number 1 and number 2 spot in Google local?

Maybe I should have been clearer, I was talking about the name in the website footer and contact page , where both have been created using schema.org

From a local perspective, if the legal name of the business is "Rising Realty, Inc", when you added in your footer should I loose the "Inc" part to be consistent with all the other mentions of the business across the web, which are without "Inc"?

Thank you!

No problem, anytime.

I checked it also, everything looks fine to me.

Can you provide the website in question?

Should I be worry that the link below returns that message?  My listing is live and well, it can be accessed from anywhere except from Google places page, under "Respond to reviews
Owners can post a public response to **reviews **by Google users."

Any thoughts?

Thanks Andy!

Based on my interaction with Google map maker forum moderators, IF you run a SAB (service area business) you should do your edits ONLY in your Places claimed listing.

Can you provide more information about it?

I manage the Google places page for a SAB (local limousine company). The question is, should I add "taxi" and "airport shuttle service" as categories? I have listed only "limousine" and "car service' for now and I want to play it safe although those 2 are related to limo service. Sometimes people refer to limo service as "taxi service" or they are inquiring about prices for shuttle service to the airport and they end up booking the service quite often.

Does Google look to our website to find these words in the content? Google Analytics show lots of people are finding us through those two keywords as well although you cannot find the word “taxi" on our website. The interesting thing is that when searching for "taxi + my zip code" the company shows up 4th on maps results and when searching for "shuttle service + my zip code”, the company shows up 2nd on local results and also 2nd in organic results. Is this enough to make me add these 2 categories?

Second question is about the area served, does it make a difference (in rankings) if I choose “Distance from one location"over"List of areas served"? What happens is the red pin would be in a different location. If I choose "Distance from one location" the pin would be right in the center of the city (which I think it shouldn't matter anymore that much since the proximity to the centroid is not a ranking factor anymore). If “list of area” served is selected, (the city name will be chosen) then the pin would be about 5 miles West of the city center.

Any thoughts will be appreciated.

Thank you!

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Thank you!