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EGOL,

Great insights; thank you. Should I take action? Is this polish site duplication harming my website in the eyes of Google?

The site is in English on my browser.  I assumed the site is endorsed by Benjamin Moore but now I am thinking this was an incorrect analysis.

I know the content is mine because I wrote it. I do recognize that in the new world I need to take steps to protect my copyrights.

Hi Robert,

Thank you for your response. I assume you are suggesting that I file a complaint because the duplicate content is hurting my website rank? I am usually nice but thanks for the reminder. My page ranks higher then the manufacturers page for the copy.

I did not use Google authorship in March 2011; is it worth while to establish it now for that article?

I wrote an article in 2011 A Brief History of Benjamin Moore Paint on my website ( I am a painting contractor). It is a content creators win; sited as an authoritative article on wikipedia.

Benjamin Moore Paint company has copied my content on their own corporate website; a deep page. Is this hurting, helping, or neutral?

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This is scary but I am going to delete my listing.

Please see picture show I delete places & map?

I think google is confused; although I have over 80+ citations. My verified map location shows but not the google places for universal search  or places SERP.

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I moved six miles. I hesitate to delete my old listing...but I am out of options. Google communication has been boiler plate..do this, do that, wait a bit.

I have exhausted every option and explored every detail except deleting my listing.

Miriam, I see you recommend I delete old places and start again. All else has failed.

I moved last April and changed all my citations (yelp, angies, superpages, etc) I even use YEXT. All citations are identical.

I used to get 100-350 clicks from local serp until april 2012...so my business has been dramatically effected.

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I used to enjoy the first place position for google places/local, and 30 reviews in the old pre-google local. I am a painting contractor in Seattle. Then in April 2012 I moved my shop six miles to a new location. My reviews were dropped and places moved to "pending" when I changed my address.

I am now in my 8th month pending approval for my google places page:

Seattle House painting local page

I have drilled down and exhausted every resource; including verification, having all my citations exactly in a row. All my review sites like Yelp and angie's list are address/info accurate. I used Yext to check all my local citations. I am set to do not show my address as Google indicates is best practice. There is nothing I have missed...but I am still "pending".

Do I need to hire a David Mihm? I am very frustrated seeing one competitor using multiple addresses and having two listings.

Any help or insight greatly appreciated.

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I tried the adding content approach no luck. I have a google adwords rep helping with the issue..but so far not much luck.

Has anyone experienced this error

We currently do not support the location---for a Google Place Business? The place has existed for years and ranked one or two for local. A recent minor name change was submitted dropping some needed words. now place is not listed although Google places dashboard has active listing.

Alan, Thank you for your considered response.

If I only alter some text, and differentiated certain content like images and video do you believe that is enough to avoid a duplicate content potential P?

John

I have two websites in a very similar niche(s)...I have good unique content article that I would like to use on both sites because it adds value to the visitor experience..

Example:

Science of Colors would be very useful for my seattle house painting paint colors page.

I want  to have content so they do not need to leave the site to navigate to second site. Would the identical content trigger a penalty or would it be crawled, ignored, and not indexed.

Does having a rel=authorship on one site trump the site..Or is it a pile of BAD.

Scott, thanks for the feed back, good points. I will check out your blog.

Hi All,

In your opinion what are the advantages and disadvantages of

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Facebook comments system

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Thanks, John

Good point Alan 'via script".

Hey Moz Community,

I am looking for a content slider  that can be easily changed by non-technicals for posting different styles of content/calls to action  and this seems to be best:

http://www.slidedeck.com/

I have installed a nivo slider on a Seattle Painting site, and flash slider on a commercial painting site. But I want my blog clients to be able to format..then copy/paste code..linke embedding a video.

opinions? Thanks John

Alan great indepth feedback on assigned value.

Should have no impact, you are not missing any external inbound links..I guess the only other thing you might want to look at is traffic patterns in GA..are you visitor traveling to this page in any significant numbers by navigating from other pages on your site?

I have found that it takes 6-8 weeks for most links to show...sometimes up to 5 months. I once got a link from a reputable website in my niche in page anchor text do - flow link and it was a 5 month process on SEOMOZ..although SEOmajestic and Linkbuilder showed it as a link.

Marc,. great feedback about the SERP to site bounce rate..can you point to an article or source I want to learn more. Looking at my own analytics I can pour resources on those high traffic pages with higher bounce rates/times.

John