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That will depend on the directory tools like Synup, Moz Local can tell you when they go up on certain sites. If it's not a popular one there are a few different scenarios : Do they give you a temporary page that is only visible to you and will go live after it's approved? You can check the HTTP header response fo it and if it returns 200 it's probably approved and live. Do they give you a live URL that says it's pending verification? Scrape the page and use XPath to see id that bit of text changes. etc Give us some more info on it and perhaps we can help.

Shoot! There may be something else going on. Give us a shout at help@moz.com and we'll see if we can figure it out!

Hello, If you have access to the analytics of a site you can look in Behaviour and then see the Behaviour Flow. This will break down the pages people land on, how many click through, and how many drop off at each point in their journey. I hope this is of some help, Cheers, Luke

Thats a good point actually, being UK based, i tend to forget States in the US is how you're likely to do location redirects (that and i read Colorado as Canada... my bad). The short answer i think is not directly. You could use the users IP address and something called mode_geoip in order to handle the redirects, it takes a bit more configuration and setup though. Im seeing lots about redirecting on country, not all that much on redirecting on state, but a good starting point is perhaps this Stackoverflow thread. It's probably something you'll need to ask a developer to do. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9838344/how-to-redirect-domain-according-to-country-ip-address

Thanks Don for your response. My follow up question would be what to you have has the default index page examplesite.com? What content is displayed there?

Yes, I'd definatley do that. You are just cross-linking form other domains onto your own site. If the domains are registered in different IP Ranges even better.

If you're worried about scraper sites--at Moz, there are a ton of sites scraping our blog content, for example--I strongly recommend implementing the rel=canonical tag on your site. Often scrapers grab the entire HTML of your page, and thus, they will grab rel=canonical, which will signal back to search engines that your content is the original content.

You are aware of the latest Pigeon updates, right? And the move of directories into a higher valuation by Google for serps? Here's how I blogged about same - http://www.canuckseo.com/index.php/2014/08/google-pigeon-update-gotta-know/ and a quick Google for "pigeon update favors directories" shows many more SEO practitioners with the same view... Yelp has especially been moved up in my own client roster serps....

Hi William, I'm trying to solve the pagination errors in Big Commerce. In what way would I modify robots.txt to fix this? Thanks! Hal