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Hi Miriam, thanks again for your feedback. I've asked the question, so awaiting some feedback. Hope I can get their position on this (I live in hope!). Yes, it was me before mentioning some other sites. This is impacting me in several places at the moment, which is a right pain! If Google provides an answer, I'll definitely try to share it around

This problem keeps coming up at the mo, partly because I'm working for out-of-town locations. Hey, ho...

Anyway, now I'm in S.W. England. The site has a Bristol postal address. But is actually in Bath & NE Somerset County. So the post office claims them for Bristol, the administrators for Bath, and the business is about the same distance from both.

Bristol is more of a key market than Bath, but both are very important.

This is a pizza takeaway, pizza restaurant, bar, function room. There's a homepage, and 4 key landing pages for each key service, then loads of internal pages under each category.

Web developer did this in the title tags - key service (e.g Function Room)| Bristol & Bath | [then company name] on the 4 key landing pages. Then they've targeted Bristol and Bath individually on interior pages - e.g.  Function Room **| **Bath | [company name] on the party venue page.

This seems OK to me, but not sure if Google will find this spammy or not (2 key cities in the title tags). In which case I will start playing with the title tags. I don't want them to take a hit from Google, particularly with all the changes coming through at the mo. I'm being very cautious.

I also question the div between, for the service (e.g. Function Room) and they city in question. I would take that first div out.

Any thoughts on this would be great. I'm finding UK boundary confusion, and how Google might deal with that in instances like this, mighty confusing.

This boundary thing seems to be haunting me at the mo. Oh what I'd give for somewhere within a defined boundary!

Anyway, just noticed a client has one city in its official postal address, and another city under its geotag.

So I'm looking at the title tags and I'm thinking of mentioning both cities on the main entry pages (6 of them) then dividing mention in sub pages.

Is this acceptable to Google? Might they see mention of both cities in homepage title tag (and other entry pages) as spammy. I don't want to upset Google!!!

PS. Both cities are core markets. I would say they're of equal importance in terms of current business bookings and business potential.

Thanks guys - appreciated.

Hi, just wondering what your thoughts are on this one - several businesses I work for are located in in-between places.

For example, one is in one city for its address, but in another city's council (/state) area. Another is in a rural area, almost exactly the same distance between 2 cities (about 10 miles either way).

Both businesses mention both cities on several pages of their websites, including in title tags (including homepage title tags), and it seems to be working OK in terms of rankings (ie they're ranking well for keyphrases for both cities).

Is it acceptable practice to mention both cities in a single title tag though? That's my question.

(some of this confusion dates back to UK local authority boundary/name changes, in 2009)

Thanks for your useful feedback Dan, Anthony and Marisa - much appreciated

Just spotted bigger H1s and small H2s on a website, in the newsroom.  The smaller H2 = section heading (Newsroom), the larger H1 is a news headline. Might that cause me any search engine problems?

Thanks for the useful feedback Matt - It sure is a tough one - they are ranked in top 3 for a specific business category, they are relevant to client, and they channel large numbers of bookings to target geographical region.

That said, booking with them could undo my SEO work, so not worth the risk. My impression is they're not being purposefully manipulative - it's just they don't get the SEO implications of what they're doing.

Was just about to book an advert in a directory until the salesperson told me that the directory listing would be replicated over 40 times, from different websites (they white label the directory to different sites, who then sell their own adverts in the directory).

I asked them whether they did nofollows - they didn't know what they were, so clearly not.

I'm thinking 40 plus identical links coming through (over 10% of total links to site) could attract punishment from Google. Your thoughts would be welcome.

Thanking you in advance, Luke

Just wondering whether anybody has experience with this? If Googlebot is able to analyse Facebook activity that is (I'm not entirely sure whether it is...)

Google sure are, so I'm keeping watch Just this afternoon a supplier I do business with has been de-indexed (gulp). Thanks for that outline - very useful framework there.

Hi Matt - thanks for the answer there - some very good points indeed.

I'm working with Pizzas and some of the pages can look a little stuffed - it's quite basic in-your-face marketing and pizza is mentioned a lot (as are some other words) because of the way we communicate (which works, but then Googlebot might not understand and mistake it for keyword stuffing, that's the concern I guess).

That's a very interesting point on not using meta tags because of the competition. We're in a very competitive market so I sure think that applies to us.