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Okay thanks for that... Will do.

I'm pretty sure Irving means: site:www.xyz.com Put that in the search bar itself.

If you are signed in you can manually run a crawl of your site under the research tools section (at the top of the screen) that will give you a spreadsheet with all the information and errors. If it's already a campaign. When you're logged into the campaign, head over to the crawl diagnostics page.  Here you should see a drop down where you can choose csv and export.  Once this is downloaded, all you need to do is sort the column for error type and scroll over for the referrer. Brian

A great tool for checking out duplicate content is www.copyscape.com. It will show you exactly what content is being duplicated. It sounds like you guys could get dinged for having dupe content, but you'll be able to check copyscape to see for yourself.

_A tough choice. As the geo specific sites are not Country code top-level domains, it will be all the more difficult for you to make Google understand that the purpose of launching these websites is to serve the local targeted readers. It might even look like an attempt of domain farming whose main purpose is to rank high in location specific keywords by launching keywords rich domains. If your business has physical business address in these locations, you can submit your business details in Google Places. And of course you are free to create location specific pages in your main website given the fact that you are adding some interesting details there. No stuffing of keywords or rehash content just to get higher rankings in competitive terms.  _

Would it help your client? Probably not, but I think you might have a cool idea! I have always been a big fan of creating community pages.  If you can create a site for any group of people in which they can come to rely on you and your content, as well as feel like they can contribute, than it is a win/win for everyone.  Make it more than just guest blogs though.  Think about how you can generate interest through White Papers, webinars presented by leaders in the industry, even a YouTube channel in which your members can discuss the latest trends in rodent destruction.  Think about it as if you are creating an SEOmoz for rodent eradicators.  I think that there is something there.  You can focus on helping them run their business more efficiently, marketing their business, etc.  You will also be able to monetize it relatively easily with the inclusion of banner ads and content generated by companies that target exterminators. There are similar websites (see Pestworld.org), but I have not seen a community site yet.  Doesn’t mean it isn’t out there, I just did a cursory search. Good luck!

Speaking of site age at the top of the website I see this. http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml Does Google see that date and give them more cred?

Hey Greenhornet, This depends on how the widget is made. If it's none accessible by Search Engines, i.e. it's made in Flash, then Search Engine can only read limited information from them. So in the Flash case, it's not of any really benefit. If the widget is accessible to Search Engines, then better for the home page. However if it's on every page, you'll have issues with duplicate content. Therefore just have the crawlable widget on the home page, and start developing content for all your other pages. Hope that helps, and good luck. Iain - Reload Media

I would: Keep the photo on Houzz Make sure you're linking from Houzz to your site (dofollow if possible) Keep working on your site, so you can rank about Houzz, then you'll have 3 first page rankings

Referenced that article because it highlights the importance of consistency in the url string.

Hi there - The SEOmoz Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo might be a useful starting point for you.  Chapter 7 focuses on linkbuilding. You mentioned local SEO. Do you have questions specific to local search?

Hello, The answers you have so far are all good.  wp.com is a great resource but it is not great for building your brand.  I use it mainly for industry leadership purposes i.e. big picture stuff so that visitor are interested in finding out more by visiting the main website..  However, no links in content..  leave that to your profile.

Hi Greenhornet77, Yes, the suite number matters hugely to NAP. You should be sure it is included on the website and everywhere the business is listed. You must correct all business citation to match. Consistency in citations is a major local search ranking factor. Thanks for asking your question.

Hi greenhornet77!  This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team.  We have a couple of options within the campaign for keeping tabs on your keyword ranking history.  One is that you can click on a keyword from the campaign rankings page to go to a historical graph that can be exported to a PDF.  You can also export your entire keyword ranking history to a CSV from the top of the main rankings page.  The last option is that you can create a weekly rankings report from the reporting section of your campaign.  You can learn more about rankings in our help hub:  http://www.seomoz.org/help/rankings I hope this helps!

GreenHornet77 I would say you will create more problems and here is why: If you are working on Google + first, you are obviously going to have it correctly. When you add the number for the citation sites, you could create a G+ problem in that you are saying it changed, but it is still there. For many citation sites, they are just trolling for numbers and they are going to get both invariably IMO. Since we have had to fight these battles too many times, we try to be really careful with carrying one theme (phone number) for the main number. We do use tracking numbers in various ways, but we are very careful with them. Hope this helps, Robert

Greenhornet I thought I had replied to this but it doesn't show up. Google can be handled by post card and we send the client a shot of the post card and how it will look with instructions to disseminate the info so no one throws it out with junk mail. If you are handling a lot of Google + clients, you can set it up where you manage all the accounts from one dashboard and all you are waiting on are their codes. If you need a bit of help, PM me and I will have our coordinator walk you through the process once. Best

Well, you can start with authenticating your site in Google and Bing, then going to brightlocal.com / whitespark.ca , tw/g+/fb/li and social bookmarking sites (5-10 tops). Web directories take a lot of time to get into but do try odp/joeant/botw and then aim for local directories + links from your customers' connections. Do you need a list of sites or just some pointers?

Great reply!

Hi Green Hornet, There's very recent breaking news on this topic, actually. When you move to a new location, Google advises you to close the old listing and create a new one. However, historically, this caused a really bad problem of a yellow label reading 'this place has permanently closed' appearing on the listing, even if the business had actually just moved. Not good. So, I was really happy over the weekend to discover that Google has altered the messaging to read 'this place has closed or relocated'. While not ideal, it's still a big improvement. There's a great discussion of this going on over at the Local Search Forum here: http://localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com/google-places-important-updates/867-yay-permanently-closed-moved-business-google-update.html Definitely, give that a read through.