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It depends how much good content you can create.

If you can create great content, then having a single service per page might be the best approach. But the content needs to be unique enough across not only services, but your locations as well.

As far as looking for more guidance, read How do I build the perfectly optimized page? by Rand Fishkin - with your keywords being your location and service. Then read The 2013 Local Search Ranking Factors to figure out how to get your page to rank in the local results. And for fun you can take a look at The 2013 Local Search Ecosystems to get a complete understanding of how the different local directories interact with each other.

My best advice is to try it out... if it works, GREAT. If it doesn't, try something else. It is very rare that you will hit a homerun on the first try. So document your steps and processes and figure out what works for you. OR try different approaches on each of your locations and see what is working best and adopt the best practices to the other locations (if that makes sense).

Hope this helps.

Mike

Here is a step-by-step of what you could try doing from Cypress North: Hacked? Here's How to Remove the Dreaded Google Malware Warning.

Google also says, "If you're the administrator of a site we've identified with this warning message, learn how webmasters can fix this issue. Note that in some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message."

Good luck.

Mike

Ideally you'd want to have different landing pages for each Indianapolis, Columbus Ohio, and Louisville KY.

You'd do onpage optimization on each of those landing pages for your service and the location (including the physical address and phone number of your office location), as well as offpage optimization in the business directories on GetListed.org.

As far as examples, you should analyze your competitors that are winning in your space and improve upon what they are already doing to get to where they are.

Hope that helps.

Mike

Hi Craig,

Did you submit your sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools?

Mike

Hi Mark,

I disagree with a lot of the points in that article. Sliders/Carousels can be done well. In many cases, I don't think brands are trying to rank for their homepage for anything other than their brand name - therefore, this strategy is serving its purpose.

IBM uses this strategy and is successful. SAP uses this strategy and is successful. And even Apple uses this strategy and is successful (I think I might have just blown a few minds with this bomb).

To your questions:

1. I think showing a representative sample of the logos for the companies you help is fine. Whether it is just 5 and they click a link to go to the dedicated page OR if you use a mini slider/carousel to show the wide range of companies on the homepage.

2. You could consider using a slider of sorts that would have a high profile company logo and a quote from someone at that company that is saying how awesome your services are... if you could get like 5 or so quotes/testimonials like that... that would be pretty awesome - in my opinion.

When done correctly, any of the text you use should be able to be indexed by crawlers, so no FLASH and no crazy difficult javascript.

If you think this is a differentiator and will help people select you as their service provider, then this is a great idea. If you are just looking to make you site look cool, you could just have a page accessible from your navigation that would like to a comprehensive list of company logos.

Hope this helps.

Mike

You can enter up to 20 keywords at a time, separated by a comma, tab, or new line.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Jess,

Using Screaming Frog, it looks like your /blog page actually has 131 links. If you add up your footer (30), plus links to your homepage (6), plus pagination (9), plus Link Building and Content article (5), and your Alex Bogusky Video article (6) - you already have 50+ and that is not including top and side navigation, as well as the rest of the articles on your page.

Matt Cutts sums things up really well in this article saying:

"...Google will index more than 100K of a page, but there’s still a good reason to recommend keeping to under a hundred links or so: the user experience. If you’re showing well over 100 links per page, you could be overwhelming your users and giving them a bad experience. A page might look good to you until you put on your “user hat” and see what it looks like to a new visitor.

But in some cases, it might make sense to have more than a hundred links. Does Google automatically consider a page spam if your page has over 100 links? No, not at all. The “100 links” recommendation is in the “Design and content” guidelines section, and it’s the Quality guidelines that contain the things that we consider webspam (stuff like hidden text, doorway pages, installing malware, etc.). Can pages with over 100 links be spammy? Sure, especially if those links are hidden or keyword-stuffed. But pages with lots of links are not automatically considered spammy by Google.

So how might Google treat pages with well over a hundred links? If you end up with hundreds of links on a page, Google might choose not to follow or to index all those links. At any rate, you’re dividing the PageRank of that page between hundreds of links, so each link is only going to pass along a minuscule amount of PageRank anyway. Users often dislike link-heavy pages too, so before you go overboard putting a ton of links on a page, ask yourself what the purpose of the page is and whether it works well for the user experience."

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Carl,

For the pagination issue, depending on the page content, you can either leave it "as is" or you can use one of the 3 methods referenced on SearchEngineLand.com for managing pagination.

And if it is a lot of different filtering and search results pages, you could choose to noindex,nofollow them (unless you want these types of pages to show up in Google's SERP) which would resolve your crawl issues with Moz.

You are correct in stating that these probably won't have a massive impact on rankings. For these types of issues, it more or less comes down to how tight you want to run your ship.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Christopher,

You shouldn't need to worry about your high bounce rate in this case. There are many websites that have high bounce rates that are extremely relevant and useful to visitors.

For instance if, if I Google, "pollen forecast minneapolis mn" and click on a link from Weather.com, see the forecast for the day and bounce within 3 seconds... that is actually good. The page is serving its purpose and giving the user reliable information quickly.

Now in your case, with the high bounce rate and the long time on the page, I would assume Google would be able to figure out that you have some great piece of content, like a story, or a video that is truly captivating an audience.

I would not worry about this in the least.

Thumbs up on driving visitors to your site. Keep up the good work!

Mike

When you are in your campaign settings, under Manage Keywords, place a check in the box(es) adjacent to the keyword(s) you want to associate a label. Then, use the Add/Clear Labels dropdown to select a current label or create a new one. Finally, click Add Labels to add the selected labels to the selected keywords.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Andy,

First thing fix all of those errors and as many warnings as you can. Those typically are affecting your ranking, as well as your user experience, so those should be worked on before anything social or content related - in my opinion.

Also, my suggestion would be to think big, but start small. It sounds like you have a lot of great ideas for going forward with the website, but I would recommend that you focus your efforts in one area and master it... I mean really knock it out of the park. For instance, if you have Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, instead of engaging half-a$$ed (which I'm not saying you are, I am just saying that managing 3 social media accounts can be WICKED challenging to do right in addition to everything else you are taking on), really focus on one - whichever is bringing you the most traffic or engagement and really dominate in that area.

If you are a one-man-team trying to accomplish all of this, you may be spreading yourself thin in trying to tackle all of these different areas, that's why I suggest going after one area and once it is really rocking and it only needs a bit of maintenance, move onto the next - I fell you'll see a bigger return going this route. But, if you have a whole team pushing the website, I think you are going in the right direction.

Good luck.

Mike

Yes. If you cannot use a 301 or if it does not make sense to use a 301, then using the canonical tag to show that the page is a copy of another page would be your best route.

http://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Dana,

It looks like some of the *.cat links are still being used through your site.

For instance, /StoreFront/B8I.cat is actually 301-ing to /StoreFront/category/B8I.cat and /StoreFront/B8I.cat (with anchor text "headphones or earbuds") is being used on the /StoreFront/category/controlling-the-low-end-on-your-stage page.

The /StoreFront/category/controlling-the-low-end-on-your-stage page is at level 7 in your site and is linking to /StoreFront/B8I.cat, making it at level 8, which then 301s to /StoreFront/category/B8I.cat, keeping it still on level 8 because of the 301, and finally redirecting with a 301 to StoreFront/category/headphones (which is a level 1, because it is accessible from the homepage (level 0) navigation).

Does that make sense?

It did in my brain... just let me know if it does on paper : )

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi and welcome!

I'd check out these two links. They have a ton of how-tos and videos and FAQs... I reference these ALL THE TIME!

http://www.moz.com/help

http://www.moz.com/help/pro

Hope this helps.

Mike

My guess would be the person in charge of procuring and/or installing the cert took a day of vacation today and Monday things are closed for the Labor Day holiday... just guessing : )

That or just working it into their schedule. Sometimes at larger companies the people managing the website for SEO/Content/etc. are not the same people managing things on the back-end.

Hi Dave,

If I were in your shoes, I'd set up a rule to 302 redirect all of your https pages to their http equivalent until Tuesday when you get your cert.

This will make it so if anyone clicks on your https pages in Google's index that they will be brought to the appropriate page and not get a security warning.

The 302 will also tell Google "Hey, this is just a temporary redirect... don't worry about indexing things differently." - because if you get Google to index all of the http versions and if you don't 301 those, you will get a ton of 404 errors. Which is fine... but it gets messy fast.

Hope that helps.

Mike

I played around with it for a few minutes and couldn't figure out a way to import the labels. It looks like they are imported into the csv and surrounded by pipes | , but using the pipes in the Add Keywords box either adds the label as a keyword (if separated by a tab, if you copy and paste from Excel) or as part of the keyword if you just have a space (ie: keyword |label|).

Maybe suggest an enhancement if this is something that you will always need to be doing?

Mike

No problem.

You can try doing some troubleshooting by disabling some add-ons and testing in Safe Mode.

Give this a whirl: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Mike

It is working for me in Firefox 23.

What version are you using?

Mike

PS you have a canonical issue with repsole.com and www.repsole.com both resolving to the same page.