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Thanks Kenny. Will try this out!

Been noticing these anomalies for some time now. I'm from eVenues.com and we've found the rank tracker extremely useful to see how our campaigns are doing. I noticed however that we no longer show up in the app as ranking for our brand? I know that results differ according to location and a myriad other variables but I think we're pretty strong as far as our brand name is concerned. I did a quick double check in incognito and, yep, we're still ranking...

Any ideas on this?

A company in a space related to ours just launched the other day. One thing I noticed was how well designed their site was and how beautiful their UI was. http://eventup.com/venues/los-angeles/.

There's a lot of dynamic content here. When I click "inspect element" in chrome I just get a few placholders--no content. When inspecting the source the dynamic content does show up, but I'm not sure what Google would be crawling here. Would there be concerns about cloaking?

I like that idea! Thanks!

Hi Adam,

Thanks a lot for your detailed reply!

We certainly only want to optimize only one page for similar terms. To be more clear, perhaps we should have a landing page with larger pictures/more text optimized for those terms that link to a search page that we don't care about getting indexed? I'm not sure if we have the resources to do this at this time however.

Very helpful, thanks! I'll pass this on to our CEO

Kenji

So we're in the process of going back and forth with our designer about optimizing our search results, which also doubles as a landing page for visitors searching with keywords like "Meeting Rooms Seattle" and "Seattle Meeting Spaces" We're on the front page in the SERPs, but still have a way to go.

This is our current page: http://www.evenues.com/Meeting-Spaces/Seattle/Washington

And this is something we've proposed for our designer to work with: http://imgur.com/JU1zg

There search page text and links in the top left corner were to be placed for onsite SEO purposes ie we have no real text/content on the page for relevancy.

We're currently in the process of writing the copy for each city on the search pages.

Our designer made this argument:

After giving it some thought I came to the conclusion that we may want to take a step back, and focus on the overall goal of this exercise.

From what I have gathered, you would like to generate more click-throus and improve SEO, right?

In my opinion, adding all of the provided copy and the link farm to the search results page would not necessarily help that. In fact, I think it would actually push the actual results way down. The content you provided me is more suited for a landing page, not a search results page (that is taking into consideration that you want similar content for other locations).

Redfin has done a ton of great SEO work on their site. Using them as an example, if you go to Redfin.com, you will find tiny links in the footer that say "home for sale in seattle" etc.

If you click on those, it puts you on a page like this: http://www.redfin.com/cities/1/seattle?src=homepage and then from there you can click to a neighborhood page like this: http://www.redfin.com/city/1387/WA/Bellevue.

I would recommend that we create a set of location pages with the content the client is asking for, that are specifically optimized for SEO, and provide links in the footer of the site to get to those pages. Then the links on the new landing pages would land the user on the search results page.

By keeping two different pages for two different purposes separate would help keep content more organized and help user find specific info they are looking for.

As a quick fix we could put one line of text under the H1 text on search results as well, maybe with a strong tag.

By doing that we will be able to keep the page looking clean and easy to navigate through.

Anyways, that's just my two cents.

Any ideas/input on this?

Thanks Ryan. This makes a lot of sense. We'll definitely work on issue #2 and see if we can't limit the number of links on this page.

Hi all,

I work for evenues, a directory website that provides listings of meeting rooms and event spaces.

Things seemed to be chugging along nicely with our link building effort (mostly through guest blogging using a variety of anchor text). Woke up on Monday morning to find that our City pages have been de-indexed.

This page: http://www.evenues.com/Meeting-Spaces/Seattle/Washington used to be at the top of page #2 in the SERPs for the keyword "Meeting Rooms in Seattle"

I doubt that we got de-indexed because of our link building efforts, as it was only a few blog posts and links from profile pages on community websites.

My guess is that when we did a recent 2.0 release of the site, there are now several "filters" or subcategory pages with latitude and longitude parameters in the URL + different page titles based on the categories like:

"Meeting Rooms and Event Spaces in Seattle" --Main Page

"Meeting Rooms in Seattle"

"Classroom Venues in Seattle"

"Party Venues in Seattle"

There was a bit of pushback when I suggested that we do a rel="canonical" on these babies because ideally we'd like to rank for all 4 queries (Meeting Rooms, Party Venues, Classrooms, in City).

These are new changes, and I have a sneaking suspicion this is why we got de-indexed. We're presenting generally the same content.

Thoughts?