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Buongiorno from 27 degrees C Wetherby UK

Imagine this scenario... I'm sat in a York Based HQ law office and Google term Langleys and the Local listing is for Lincoln is rendered

The lincoln office is the  smaller sister site 75 miles south of where I'm sitting as illustrated here appears (this is wrong) -
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/langleys-local-listing-jinxcopy_zps26e3492a.jpg

I then do the same thing in a wetherby based office and get the York based local listing appears. So my question is please" what is influencing which local listing is rendered?"

Confused,
David

Boungiorno from 25 Degrees C Ice cream vans everwhere Wetherby UK

I'd like to learn the total ins & outs of building a business facebook page. So whilst there are a zillion posts in the Google Universe banging on about it can any seo moz member please suggest a good learning resource digital or print.

Grazie,
David

Thanks Todd

Hi Guys,

Thanks for ansers thus far, to help out this is the offending site:
http://www.thirskracecourse.net/

grazie tanto,
David

Thank God an actual example! Nice one Doug

I'm sorry Chris but maybe I'm writting double dutch (which i can do after too many coffees) but i am asking for an example nothing else.
Ive ran out of different ways to ask this, I just want an example.

Mmmmm.... Nope I'm asking for evidence of a so called link bait artcle actually doing what was intended ie a company posts an article or whatever and it naturally gets linked to from a decent source. (not agency staff creating links)

Just one example please then my cynism will disolve like the morning mist

Ciao from Latitude 53.92705600 Longitude -1.38481600

Ive got a naughty cluster of clients who are slapping third banner ads on their home pages for reasons that only marketing executives understand. So here i am on the SEO side Ive added _balnks and no do follows on the rogue banners but i'm looking for a plausible argument to sh@t a client up into not doing this.

So my question is please:
"What is the number 1 reason why a client should not place third party banners pointing too non relevant sites (eg a web site focused on furniture placing a bed fred banner on their home page)"

Let the games begin!
Ciao,
David

Buongiorno from the digital epicentre that is Wetherby multiple britain in Bloom winner

I hear a lot of guff (Bullsh@t) in the digital game and the latest soundbite which i feel is wandering into this dept is "linkable assets". Ive heard suited SEO evangelicals banging the drum of link building in all manner of means including ego baiting (Posting pictures etc of the target in the hope theyll link to your site) Authority Blog commenting and whole other plethora of buzz words but seriously ....

"Who really links back to a your site unless you hold a sorn off to their head or write a 4 figure cheque?"

My growing frustration stems from I cant find one damn example, tonnes of theory blah blah blah but can anyone out there just give me a damn example, no theory or preaching please
Con amore,
David

Buongiorno from 19 Degrees C partially cloudy Wetherby UK

In the SEO game I have a number of revolving door issues. The biggest of all is the C word...Content Clients reluctance to ad contnet despite the best explanation Matt Cutts could ever provide gives my my bum a migraine.

After a while i start to feel like the ever frustrated primary teacher who despite his most valiant efforts just cant get the kids to do their homework. ( And no im not out sourcing content needs )

So now i have thought about a different tactic and that tactic is too demonstrate the growth or lack of content of their site over time . I do have WEB ceo which measurs pages indexed but my question is please:

"How do you quantitatively measure the growth of a site in terms of page volume over time"

Grazie tanto,
David

Cioa from 17 Degrees C cloudy Wetherby UK

In Google analytics I want to report specifically on Blackberry Mobile traffic next to hour if the day. Whilst this customised report I ripped off did the job @ http://bit.ly/hourdays I only resorted to this after battling with advanced segments thinking I could do the same thing.

So my question is please how can I get this report http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/hrs-day-examplecopy_zps4f15d4a1.jpg by building it via advanced segments and not ripping off via http://bit.ly/hourdays

Grazie tanto,
David

Hi Tom ive since learnt that in this scenario the best thing to do is ad a tracking parameter...

Grazie tanto

Thanks Tom, great reply & you supplied the code too si angelo!

Thanks, just never noticed them before

Buongiorno from 17 Degrees C mostly cloudy wetherby UK
When did twitter start adding ads in to tweets? Mouse action here:
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/twitter-injecting-ads_zpsb7e26f65.jpg

Grazie tanto,
David

Buongiorno from 19 Degrees C wetherby UK

Ok here goes... is it possible to umbed a twitter feed on a web page that only shows specific hash tag group(s) eg #commercial property.

Grazie tanto,
David

Dio mio!

Wetherby racecourse <cite>www.wetherbyracing.co.uk/</cite>‎ has been de indexed by Google, re indexing request has been made via webmaster tools and the offending 3rd party banner ad has been stripped out. So my question is please.

How long will it take approximately to re -index?
And is it true re submitting an updated xml site & firing tweets at the ailing site may spark it back into life?

Grazie tanto,David

Buongiorno from 16 Degrees C wetherby UK

What if a client wants to rank for commercial solcitors & commercial lawyers regardless of the best argument you could present. Isee this as a problem as semanticall lawyers & solicitors semantically mean the same thing like ATM & cashpoint, cab & taxi

So your left stuck with two phrases  both menaing the same thing and you have to create physical web pages.

Do you A
Create pages just about commerciual solicitors
& Create Pages just about commercial lawyers
Do you B
Create & blended page with copy focused on Laywers & solicitors

Help my head hurts http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/confused.jpg

Grazie Tanto,

David

Buongiorno from 18 Degrees sunny wetherby UK

Am i right in thinking you can track a forwarding urls via Google analytics. Put another way if a site points www.kissmymelons.co.uk to www.lickmybanana.co.uk can you measure how many referrals where generated from kissmymelons.co.uk

I'm 69% sure the referral data will appear in the referral source section in Google analytics but I need to be 100% sure

Grazie tanto,
David