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Thank you Ricky!

Answered 2 of my inquiries in the past 24hours

I like the option of having a NAV item called "cities we serve" with cities such as San Francisco landing to a Welcome Page having all the services displayed there with proper anchors(like you mentioned).

Coming back to the NAV I'd like to see the San francisco splitting into the different service pages(attachment).

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Thank you guys for your help

Hi Mozzers,

I have a client that have 3 pages represented twice in the Nav. There are not duplicates since they land with the same URL. It seems odd to have this situation but I guess it make sense for my client to have those represented twice since these pages could fall into multiple categories?

Is it a bad practice for SEO or is it a waste to have those in the NAV? Should I require to eliminate the extras?

Thanks!

Hi Miriam,

Quick question regarding the "cities we serve" in the main NAV. So are you saying that this item should display all the cities the business serve and each one of them would split up into their respective services with unique content.(see attachment)

Thanks for letting me know!

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Hi Mozzers,

Context: I am working with a plumbing company that is located in NC and covers 6 locations( 1 address + 5 target cities). To start off I am planning to SEO his main location + 2 to 3 areas. The initial plan is to create 30 (10 services for 3 locations) unique landing pages for the main area and the extra locations,.

His services are:

• PLUMBING
• EMERGENCY PLUMBING
• WATER TREATMENT
• WATER HEATER INSTALLATION
• WATER HEATER REPAIR
• TANKLESS WATER HEATERS
• SEWER AND DRAIN CLEANING
• REPIPING
• GARBAGE DISPOSALS
• GENERAL PLUMBING

Since I am including 2 to 3 extra areas offering all these services above, should I include a subnavigation which will create a localized microsite within the site itself for these extra locations or not? Please specify why?

Thanks!

Hi

I would like to know Moz rankings can report canadian ranking or does it just focuses on US market search engines only? If it does also focuses on the canadian market, how do you set it up?

Thanks

Sorry I can't display the name of the client. The only thing I can provide is the image I provided about the errors in my initial post.

Sorry Jeff But my client and I are located in San Francisco. Can you still help me figuring out the issue?

Thanks

Hi Jeff

My client which I can't mention the name uses https://clients.mindbodyonline.com links on its main navigation. The issue is that whenever a sitemap is submitted, errors occur because of  https://clients.mindbodyonline.com URLs placed in the navigation.

My goal is to have a site map without any errors.

Thanks for letting me know!

Hi Mozzers,

I have a client who uses an important customer database and offers gift cards via https://clients.mindbodyonline.com located within the navigation which causes sitemap errors whenever it is submitted since domain is different.

Should I ask to remove those links from navigation? if so where can I relocate those links? If not what should I do to have a site map without any errors?

Thanks!

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Thank you guys for those useful tips

Hi mozzers,

A potential future client(electrician) covers 40+ locations in one region(local SEO) but only has 1 address. He wants to rank for at least 5 to 7 main locations which he has PO boxes for.

Can I use these as addresses on his website or will it be seen as violating the google guideline? If it is no good what should I do?

Thanks

Thank you Federico!

Hi Guys,

Context: I am working with a plumbing companies that have a corporate side and a franchise side. We got 2 franchises on board. The corporate is not working with us though. Some of these franchises don't even have a website.

Because they are local plumbers(franchises) covering generally at least 2 cities, local SEO will be the primary tactic to pursue. So before getting into that, I have to purchase domain names that are already not taken(different from corporate), therefore slightly different from corporate name but not completely to keep the advantage of the brand name.

1. My first problem: should I include a geo kw rich URL or not? To me I personally believe that creating a domain name without geo can be better in the sense that I will be able to create different subfolders for all the different locations that each franchises covers. Also, I am not sure also if google likes those geo urls?

2. If you guys would recommend Geo kw rich urls, wouldn't be a good idea to get multiple domains that would link at each other for each of the locations they cover or would it be a bad idea?

in long term SEO Who wins the battle?

www.example.com/cityname

www.examplecityname.com

Thanks Mozzers!

Thank you Guys

Appreciate your help!

Hi mozzers,

Not sure if I should setup preferred domain when the non www version redirects to the www version? if yes why?

Thanks!

Thanks Appreciate your help Martjin!

Thank you guys for all of your suggestions! I am lucky that my company has an account with teamtreehouse!  I will definitely try to learn some PHP, some Java and maybe checkout distilled/u even though it seems that distilled/u teach you SEO(broad concepts) but doesn't mention any of the dev stuff I can learn.

Is the dev stuff on the beginner's or advanced level?

Thanks Guys!

Hey Martijin,

The site has had 500 server errors issues a couple weeks ago. It has been resolved though. Do you think it is related? If it is, when will I be able to see the cache version of these pages?

Thanks!

Thank you Federico