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Exactly my idea! and you have everything in one spot. I hope it will work out for you! Cheers!

Hi David, This is an odd one, I agree. Obviously, proximity of the searcher to the business in question contributes to what ranks where, but what you are experiencing with office A showing when you are in town B and and office B showing when you're in town A is new to me. If only one of the offices was showing when you were searching from both towns, I would suggest that that location is being judged by Google to be of premium importance, regardless of location. I've seen that happen before. But I don't have an answer for the phenomenon you have described. It's like Google has it backwards! My suggestion: start a thread about this in either the Google and Your Business Forum or the Google MapMaker forum and see if you can get either a Google Top Contributor or MapMaker RER to escalate the issue to a Google staffer. *You'll have to cross your fingers on this. I can't guarantee you'll receive a response, but the issue is problematic enough for your customers to deserve an explanation, in my opinion. I would title your post something like: Results Sending Customers To 2 Opposite Locations, Despite Proximity Of Searcher. Then, show exactly what you are experiencing and be prepared to share the full account details. If you do get an answer from a Google staffer, I would certainly be interested in hearing what they say. Most problems in Local SEO come up over and over again, but this is a new one for me and I'd like to know if you learn anything.

Ok Chris no worries, apology accepted, amybe i drank too much coffee

Looks like nofollow ads to me. Nothing wrong with it.  I show ads on almost every page that I have published. Rankings are great so I think that it is good for SEO. Almost every large commercial site on the web shows ads.

We published a YouMoz a while back from someone who did this for pool cues. In his own words, he writes "Before you grumble 'yeah, but I sell the most boring stuff on the planet' consider this - we write hundreds upon hundreds of unique descriptions about 58" long pieces of wood and each of those pieces of wood does the exact same thing." http://moz.com/ugc/ecommerce-content-doesnt-have-to-suck He doesn't share link metrics in the post, though you could run an OSE report on the infographic that he cited. As the head editor for YouMoz, I try to keep an eye out for things like this that people do, especially if it's a non-SEO industry. I'll come back to this question if I think of any other posts that have good examples.

Well, having more and more content over time will 100% lead to more traffic since you'l targer a larger and larger audience. I find it easier in terms of getting traffic to create more content than to hyper-optimise/target a few pages. The growing Analytics traffic curve is enough, I think.

i couldnt open your image but I would use A Custom Report not a advanced segment. Just make the dimension mobile device type you want and then select the dimension hour of day Let me know if this helps

Thanks, just never noticed them before

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

this was the diagnostic from google which was updated 4 hours ago What is the current listing status for wetherbyracing.co.uk? Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer. Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 8 time(s) over the past 90 days. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 197 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 20 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2013-06-06, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2013-06-05. Malicious software includes 23 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 4 new process(es) on the target machine. Malicious software is hosted on 4 domain(s), including racinguk.com/, locvis.ro/, kimcil.biz/. 2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including locvis.ro/, racinguk.com/. This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS15395 (Rackspace). Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the past 90 days, wetherbyracing.co.uk did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites. Has this site hosted malware? No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. How did this happen? In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message. Next steps: Return to the previous page. If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.

Grazie tanto

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

Agree w/ Martin - CrazyEgg would be the best place to start. Especially since you can get a sweet startup deal from Moz as one of your ProPerks  Paul

Sandip, I'm giving you a thumbs up just because of your glorious moustache. Well done, sir. (Your answer was pretty good too!) Matt

Get your cup of Horlicks and get your sense of peace sorted. Regardless of action points, never knee jerk! The broken link just seems to be a non-functioning mailto: link rather than a page link, as such. I could be wrong but that's my impression. I would be tempted to put a 301 redirect onto your site redirecting that link to your contact page thus capturing the user and giving them helpful information and pointing the link to a fairly 'safe' location That gives you time to maybe do a bit of digging into TopicWorld.net, see if it's real community or spammy forum, so you can then decide whether a disavow is needed. If you decide you don't want the link then I suggest you try to get it removed manually first as disavow can take weeks/months to come into effect. Hope this helps.

Hope you can fix it rather sooner then later. Hope my information fixes your website up a bit. You're welcome. Kind regards Jarno

I'm just going to share that Google has specifically mentioned to me there's issues on their end with some of these tools. That doesn't make it any easier when you are on the receiving end, however they are aware of the impact and user issues.

They already have Google confused and they are serving up .co.uk pages in the index https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandtoft.co.uk&oq=site:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandtoft.co.uk&gs_l=hp.3...7614.8078.1.8242.3.3.0.0.0.0.346.346.3-1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.7Aw11D7yXBY&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=aa7a9b1de1b17414&bpcl=38897761&biw=1920&bih=909 I agree with the move for a UK site to have a co.uk domain just make sure you are doing it accress the board, properly forwarding the .com and updating all sitemap.xml files and internal navigation P.S. block your plugins folder in robots.txt check webmaster tools for duplicate title tags and make them all unique Optimize your title tag you have <title><a class="l" href="http://www.sandtoft.co.uk/resource-centre/photo-gallery/photo-gallery-images/?photoID=634&DSID=12">Sandtoft Roof Tiles - Photo Gallery Images</title> should be something more like <title><strong>Grey Slate Roof Tiles</strong> | Sandtroft Tile Store</title> with the description of the tile at the beginning of the tag, not the name of the company, that's your domain name you'll already rank for that.

Morning Nick, A big thank you for taking time out to look at this. You've confirmed a vague hunch that the site architecture is inherently jinxed and morre importantly given me hope i can get the dismal ranking sitution out of the mire Have a great weekend & thank you again

The eternal problem of an online marketer and I have faced this problem countless times. Quite true we have zero control over them and the good news is that Google will not pay any heed to you. Usually what Google says is that if you have not built those links, you do not need to care about them but at the same time, they also say that if you believe that these links are causing you harm, you can use Disavow Links option to make Google aware of the fact that you do not trust those links coming from those sites. _So, it is a tough game. But as you said that the links are coming with exact anchor text, I would recommend you checking the quality of the links because you may never know that these may be actually [I know you are good at it] adding value to your website. Once you are confirmed that the links are spammy, go ahead and give the Disavow Link a go. _