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So glad that hit the spot!

I'm going to reach out to our vendor to try and resolve the issue. In your experience, what would be the best way to explain this problem to their tech team and try to resolve it?

The estimated amounts are grossly overestimated. Get conversion tracking in place and phone tracking in place if you choose you need that and then look at actual data not estimates.

Didn't know about Market Wired. PRWeb (Vocus) customer support SUCKS! So if they are similar services, definitely go with Market Wired...

In the past, page titles, structured as questions have done reasonably well since they were often close to the query typed by many users. In the future, however, I'd expect to see the following 2 broad changes: Knowledge graph answers to more popular and basic questions (meaning it's not worth much time to create these types of pages). Hummingbird changes to how queries are answered. From what I've read it appears that part of Hummingbird was about better analyzing the structure and meaning of queries, rather than simply matching keywords. To me that would suggest that the page types you're talking about will be less and less valuable. Because of that, I wouldn't dedicate as much time to these types of content as I would have a couple years ago. Harder questions or Q&A type content will always have it's place, however. Getting back to your question of "Would [having pages ranked that get lots of views] help my website as whole start ranking better?", I'd say yes, but not simply because the pages are ranking. It's more likely that they'd attract some links and social shares for the site (assuming they're decent quality pages), which would provide more benefit. That said, I'd only spend time on content that's closely matched with the topic of the rest of your site - creating these random pages won't add much benefit if they're not related to the rest of the site.

That seems to be the issue - You can make separate accounts for each instead of profiles

Keith, Thanks for your quick response. Do you recommend share buttons or like buttons that have a count next to them on the website, rather than the ones that do not?

Hi Oomdo For local seo, your citations aka your NAP in youtube description goes a long way because in local seo world it works as a link If you need more info Dana DiTomaso did a great post on earlier this year: http://moz.com/blog/you-asked-i-answered-qa-from-you-probably-think-this-citation-source-is-about-you-dont-you **3. Couldn't citations on sites such as YouTube and Flickr be flagged as spam?**Only if you're being spammy in your citation building. If the photo or video could contain a relevant address, I don't see an issue. For example, if the photo or video was taken at your business, then you're just saying (with a full NAP) where the photo or video was taken! I can't see how that would be considered spam - it's relevant information for the visitor. I agree with Dana that somethings will look spammy but your NAP in cases like a youtube video should not. Hope this helps

Hi James, As far as I'm concerned, this remains the best and most comprehensive post on the topic that i've seen despite being a few years old http://www.distilled.net/blog/social-media/youtube/youtube-seo/ However, the TL:DR is... Description length doesn't really matter, but I'd try to keep it punchy so no more than a few sentences. Include a naked url link in there if you like in order to drive a bit of traffic Keywords at the start of the title seems to help. Keep the title normal Page Title length, so... 70 characters ish max Make sure you upload a closed caption file (which will be read as akin to page copy for the video) Tags do seem to help, so include any that you care about Most important thing when optimising for YouTube is actually driving retained views. Make sure people watch the video all the way to the end and don't drop out early on. Embeds of the videos count kinda like links and, assuming they drive quality views, they will also help increase your rankings.

Right now, you can only grade one keyword phrase at a time per report, but you can run multiple reports. So in this case, you would have to run 3 reports and receive 3 different letter grades. If this is a functionality you'd like to see, we do have a Moz Feature Request Forum: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-Moz-Feature-Requests Users can submit new ideas, and the community votes them up. Our product team then uses this forum for new features and determine what to build next. Hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO.

Great responses, everyone. Thanks! What did you decided to do, OOMDO?

I would not, no on the same page at least. I would expect that the last tag is used the previous tags will be dismissed, but there could also be a spam signal who knows.

I can't imagine a modern eCommerce platform creating a new product page URL every time you added more stock for an existing product. Perhaps this is being done incorrectly? Does it have something to do with how the SKU or product ID is entered, or some other user error? If not, I'd suggest changing platforms. In the meantime I guess rel canonicaling to one of them would work, but what happens when someone buys from that page/product ID? Is there only ever 1 in stock and, if so, does the URL go away/404/redirect when that happens? I think rel canonical would be a band-aid in this case. Let us know how it works out. Which eCommerce platform is it?

Hi OOMDO, I'm afraid I am not understanding what you are describing, particularly this sentence: "let's say one of those cities ends up being outside of the state though for another landing page, then it usually ends up on page two." Typically, city landing pages target one city per page, but this does not sound like what you are describing. Please, provide further details if you can. Thanks!

My pleasure!

I think you can use it in your title, but I would only pick one.  I would probably use the city first in my title "Chicago Car Loans | Website Name" "Atlanta Used Cars | Website Name" In your body text I would also include variations of these keywords to keep things honest.  you want to write content for your users and you keep your SEO inline with that.

I agree with John. Use that .htaccess code. Apart from that, I'd also recommend that you setup your preferred way in Google Webmaster Console under Configuration > Preferred domain.

Hi OOMDO, I'd like to clarify - does the business actually have 4 physical offices (1 in each of those cities) or does it have a single office, or maybe two offices, serving 4 cities? If the business has 4 offices, then I think Dave's advice is quite good. However, if the business is more of an SAB (service area business) with only one or two physical offices, then the location cities should be what is in the title tag of, say, the homepage, while the location-less service cities could be excellent candidates for city landing pages.

I think the question you're asking is more about keyword targeting than about keyword density. If you think like your own target visitor, when she sits down to look for a dealer who sells the make of car she's interested in, does she type in "Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram dealer"? Of course not. She's looking for a Chrysler, so she types in Chrysler dealer. Or even more likely: "Chrysler dealer in MyTown. There are many keyword research tools (including the one here at SEOMoz ) that will tell you the other variations of the words your target visitors are likely to use and how much competition there is for those terms. The other thing to keep in mind is that you don't target keywords to a website  you target them for individual pages. Your "website" doesn't chow up for the term Chrysler dealer, it's a particular page that gets listed. So to answer your specific question, you have multiple, related keyphrases to target for. So you need to build multiple pages, each one (and a few supporting pages) targeted to one of the phrases you identified. So while your home page might talk about being a Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram dealer, you should have another really strong page or section that talks all about why you're the best Chrysler Dealer in MyTown. And another page or section that specifically talks about how you're a Jeep dealer, etc. You are essentially building "mini-home-pages" or what are also know as Landing Pages for each of you main terms A page has the best chance of ranking well if it's clearly focused on one or two keyphrases and their closely-related variations. Then you use the site architecture (how you set up the page hierarchy and links between pages) to help the search engines understand which are the most important pages and which are the supporting pages. This is obviously just a short introduction to keyword targeting and research, but hopefully it gets you started? Paul {Edited to add: To answer your very specific question - Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram dealer is one keyword. If you want to target Chrysler dealer, you MUST use that exact phrase, not just a long phrase that happens to include the target words somewhere within it. For much less competitive terms, sometimes just having them somewhere on the page (even though not together in a specific phrase) can be enough, but if you're targeting a phrase, you must use that exact phrase at least some of the time.}