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To avoid a template change, you could also try using the "Force Rewrite Titles" option in Yoast.

From what I can tell, it is maintained; however, I believe the value of Web directories in general has fallen tremendously. Additionally, I feel like some of the sites on the list are low quality.

That's my two cents

Rather than disable or de-index archives, consider de-indexing the paginated versions (page 1,2,3,etc.), as this is likely causing the penalty. I also recommend adding category (and tag, if applicable) descriptions to the archive templates.

Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin can handle the de-indexing of the paginated archive/index pages.

I hate to be a Bernie Bummer, but Content is King, and I don't recommend going after the cheapest solution when looking to produce it. While it's theoretically possible to find an "overseas" individual or company willing to produce content very cheaply, the chances are very good that the content itself will generally be low quality.

In a nutshell, if you're on a tight budget, content is not the area to apply restraints to.

As others have said, it really depends on the topic. Personally, I find that pages with 700 to 1,000 words seem to perform best for me.

RSS Graffiti can help you publish RSS feed content to a Facebook page. I do not, however, believe it has the ability to post to Google+.

I think you can manage Google+ via Hootsuite and get all the features you want. I know there was some debate a while back about Google+ banning auto-posting services, but now I can't seem to find a reference for it.

You can also check out this "premium" script (there's also a WP plugin). I have not tried it.

http://www.nextscripts.com/google-plus-automated-posting/

Setting up an internal author bio would be, in my opinion, a credibility enhancer for the particular article/story; however, in order to take advantage of Google's Authorship feature in the SERPs, the author would need to have a Google+ profile. So essentially, I don't think setting up the profiles would have much (if any) benefit from a search engine perspective.

If the authors set up a Google+ profile in the future, you could always integrate it at a later time.

That's what I thought. Thank you.

Yes, the tag is a little too long, but how long ago did you change it? It takes some time for Google to update the indexed page titles -- if you've changed it in the last week it probably just hasn't been re-crawled and updated yet.

Thanks - I know the guidelines, but did not know the business was located in a residential area, and am wondering where to go from here -- delete and start over, or wait for Google. I've heard horror stories on the waiting process.

Hey guys,

My client is having issues with his Google+ pages and I'm wondering if someone can shine some light on the issue for me...

Basically the client has two businesses, both using the same residential address. The page was ranking well until a week ago, when it disappeared from search results and was listed in the dashboard as "Under Review."

I've heard horror stories about this -- examples of Google taking months to review pages and make a decision, and I'm wondering if if might be better to just delete the under review pages and start over (hiding the address on the new listing to comply).

Edward

Which is better? Personally, I prefer "www" URLs -- but this is just a personal preference. But either way, I do recommend setting a preferred URL within Google Webmaster Tools, as long as said URL matches the URL set as the default view for your site.

Some prefer non-www URLs because it saves character space in the URL.

The only benefit here would be a keyword-related domain name for each industry; however, as Google has made clear in recent history, this matters less and less.

The major downside would be having four or five sites to build up and promote to rank versus only having one.

While others may disagree, I feel your efforts will be better served concentrating on one site.

Interesting. I'm not a server guru by any means, but I wouldn't think there would be anymore of a security risk either way. Hopefully someone else can chime in.

Subdomains are technically treated by Google as separate site. That doesn't mean that blogging won't help your main site, but the benefits would probably be higher if you hosted the blog in a subdirectory rather than a subdomain.

Here's Google's Matt Cutts on the topic:

“My personal preference on subdomains vs. subdirectories is that I usually prefer the convenience of subdirectories for most of my content. A subdomain can be useful to separate out content that is completely different. Google uses subdomains for distinct products such news.google.com or maps.google.com, for example. If you’re a newer webmaster or SEO, I’d recommend using subdirectories until you start to feel pretty confident with the architecture of your site. At that point, you’ll be better equipped to make the right decision for your own site.”

Not a good idea:

http://www.searchinfluence.com/2012/03/google-places-virtual-office/

It looks like SEOmoz uses a custom system -- sorry, I know that's not much help.

If you want similar functionality on a WordPress site, you might want to check out the following tools:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/re-vu-comment-system/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system/

http://www.intensedebate.com/

Sign up for Google+ Local using your residential address, and then make your business address private in the listing. This will still list your city and you can set your service area to include the surrounding areas.

Please don't take the above advice. I think the responder misunderstood your situation. If the externally linking page is broken, there's not much you can do. It will fall out of Google eventually.

Correct. The only way Google uses the meta keyword tag is in site search:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/