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I have a website with individual Location Landing Pages for each of my Depots.  I also have individual Google Local Business Listings for each of my depots.

Should I have a link from my Website Location Landing Pages to the associated Google local Business listings or not ?... Given that I already have a link on my Google Business listing to the relevant Location Page on my website.

I wasn't sure whether linking both ways would be more beneficial thus enforcing things better or whether it's not needed to link both ways .

thanks

Pete

Many thanks Trung.

Thats exactly what I was thinking but just wanted to get another opinion.

Many thanks

Peter

Hi All,

I have currently planning to do some url remapping on my Hire Website as alot of most important pages

are far to many levels deep from the root domain. This is also making my sitemap not tidy etc.

In GWT, Google knows that the theme is my website is Hire as it's the top word. Therefore do I still need to use the word hire in all my new url categories / structures or not ?

Examples

http://goo.gl/BFmvk2  I was thinking of remapping to www.xxxxxxx.xco.uk/tool-hire-birmingham

http://goo.gl/pC9Bdp  I was thinking of remapping to www.xxxxxx.co.uk/cleaning-equipment

Notice in the later example , I do not have the word rent in the url.

Any advice is much appreciated

thanks

peter

Many thanks Cyto.

I shall look at these things..

Much appreciated

Peter

Many thanks Cyto.

And thanks for finding the duplicate content page as well. I never knew it existed so that's another thing i need to investigate.

Many thanks

Peter

Ok cool, Many thanks Andy for looking .

thanks

Pete

Hi Andy,

The ranking has never been good. It's not something we have previously looked at as we ranked okay for the parent category pages. it's just something we are looking at now.

thanks

Peter

Hi Andy,

Here's the image - http://imgur.com/Y6uiKln

The problem is actually with what is being displayed on my product page in google. You can see from the image that whilst google has included some of the information from schema.org, it doesn't show the prices and also have added what looks like rubbish at the bottom of it.

Many thanks

Peter

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Hi All,

We have implemented Schema.org for our products and currently if you put the url in google, the results showing up are not the meta description but some of the schema.org content along with some other rubbish at the bottom .

Do you know if we are doing this wrong  as in GWT it all looks okay and says it fine?

You can get the url from here -http://goo.gl/aSFPqP

Any assistance, greatly appreciated.

thanks

peter

Hi All,

I have a query regarding my Product pages on my eCommerce site.

I have unique Product descriptions but some of the other page content on the other tabs i.e Hire Terms , Delivery , About the Hire Company  - Are duplicated across ALL my products.

Is that okay or how should I deal with them ?

See example url of one of my products below below  - http://goo.gl/aSFPqP

My products currently rank very badly... 200 + so Any advice would be greatly appreciated

thanks

Peter

Many thanks all for your answers. This has helped me a lot to understand how google local/places work.

Many thanks all.

We do have physical locations that the customer can visit. My only concern was that I use a number of different websites for our products.

The main website already has google places listings showing all our locations but other my mini websites which have a selection of the same products as my main website on have not got google places listing as yet.

Basically, I thought my having a few websites, in essence competing with other , it would help me get more coverage in serps etc.

thanks

Peter

Hi All,

I have a main eCommerce website which trades out of a number of locations and all these locations appear in google places although they don't rank particularly well in google places .

I also have a number of microsites which are specific to one type of product I do and these rank very  well locally. My question is , should I also do google places for my microsites as this would technically mean I am creating a duplicate location listing in google places but for a different website etc./business

I only have one google account so I guess this would be done under the same google account ?

thanks

Pete

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Many thanks All. This has answered my query.

Pete

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Hi All,

I have a carpet cleaner hire business and am new to google places. I have been doing my listing for it but can't seem to work out whether I should choose one of the default choices in the categories and leave it as that (in my case it would be "carpet cleaning services" or should I manually type some keywords as well as this ? So for instance, I choose the default - carpet cleaning services but also manually type in "carpet cleaner hire" , floor scrubber hire etc etc as other categories

Any advice or if someone could point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Pete

Hello All,

I have an eCommerce website doing online hire. We operate from a large number of locations (100 approx) and my 100 or so categories have individual locations pages against them

example - Carpet Cleaners (category)  www.mysite/hire-carpetcleaners
        carpet cleaner hire Manchester    www.mysite/hire-carpetcleaners/Manchester
        carpet cleaner hire london 
        carpet cleaner hire Liverpool

patio heater   (category)
        patio heater hire Manchester
        patio heater hire London
        patio heater hire Liverpool

And so on.....

I have unique content for some of these pages but given that my site had 40,000 odd urls, I do have a large amount of thin/duplicate content and it's financially not possible to get unique
content written for every single page for all my locations and categories.

Historically, I used to rank very well for these location pages although this year, things have dropped off and recently , I was hit with the Panda 4.0 update which i understand targets thin content.

Therefore what I am int he process of doing is reducing the number of locations I want to rank for and have pages for thus allowing me to achieve both a higher percentage of unique content over duplicate/thin content on the whole site and only concerntrate on a handful of locations which I can realistically get unique content written for.

My questions are as follows.

1. By reducing the number of locations, my website will currently 301 redirect these location page i have been dropping back to it's parent category.
   e.g carpet cleaner hire Liverpool page - Will redirect back to the parent Carpet cleaner hire Page.

Given that I have nearly 100 categories to do , this will mean site will generate thousands of 301 redirects when I reduce down to a handful of locations per category.

The alternative Is that I can 404 those pages ?...

What do yout think I should do ?..

Will it harm me by having so many 301's . It's essentially the same page with a location name in it redirecting back to the parent. Some of these do have unqiue content but most dont ?.

2. My other question is - On a some of these categories with location pages, I currently rank very well for locally although there is no real traffic for these location based keywords (using keyword planner). Shall I bin them or keep them?

3. Lastly , Once I have reduced the number of  location pages  , I will still have thin content until , I can get the unique content written for them. Should I remove these pages until that point of leave them as it is? It will take a few months
   to get all the site with unique content.

Once complete, I should be able to reduce my site down from 40,000 odd pages to say 5,000 pages

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

thanks
Pete