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Right. Moz Local uses the matching verifired Google + and Facebook listings to verify those locations. So what you have there is what gets applied to the myriad of others. See: https://moz.com/local/how and:

Moz Local takes the time and hassle out of managing your listings across multiple sites and directories. When you submit a listing on Moz Local, it must match an existing Google Places or Facebook listing across all of the following attributes: Business Name, Address, Phone Number, and Website. Because you've already gone through the phone or postcard verification process with Google and/or Facebook, your Moz Local listings will be validated if they exactly match Google or Facebook.

Some of our partners—such as Infogroup and Best of the Web—may call or email to confirm your listing information is accurate, but no postcard or PIN entry is required.

Since Facebook will scale it they'll have a range to apply them from and it should work pretty well across the platforms. Submission errors come across one at a time so you should see which 3rd party services have issues with the submission, if any. Cheers!

Hi Jay. A link to the product--or description of the product--would be useful in regards to keyword ideas. If you provide that you'll get better answers. Cheers!

Hi Aidan. When it comes to figuring out precise traffic levels, there's really no other way to do it than have access to their analytics. That said, here are two other posts on the same topic that I recently answered that should help you out.

1. http://moz.com/community/q/i-am-looking-to-find-the-top-pages-based-on-traffic-volume-on-my-competitors-websites-does-anyone-know-of-any-good-resources

2. infer some traffic amounts when you're tracking keyword rankings

3. get a good idea of how much engagement or traction a competitor is getting from social via tools

4. http://moz.com/community/q/i-am-looking-to-find-the-top-pages-based-on-traffic-volume-on-my-competitors-websites-does-anyone-know-of-any-good-resources

5. you're going to be missing a lot of data by not knowing how well they're doing in terms of email marketing, social, referrers, etc.

Cheers!

Currently your client is at a disadvantage due to not having physical, staffed, testing centers and thus doesn't qualify for Google Local in the same way as competitors that do.  Even if your competitors have one receptionist staffing the building during non-testing hours but is open to receive inquiries and appointments that puts them ahead of your client. If the outlay isn't there for an additional phone number then I would compete on service and service area, not trying to outstrip the competition with fictitious locations. If you're successful at that then perhaps growing to the point of having fully leased centers makes sense. Cheers!

Google is very good with semantically relevant information and updating posts like this with new results and further information often also provides a fresh content boost. With the volume you're talking about, I'd recommend rolling out the new content in phases so that you can see how it impacts results and decide best for your situation. Cheers!

Hmm... This is kind of borderline with the physical location requirements outlined by Google, "If your business rents a temporary, "virtual" office at a different address from your primary business, do not create a page for that location unless it is staffed during your normal business hours."  Even though it's staffed for testing it's not staffed when you'd expect people to contact you or 'visit'. That only happens with your online interactions. It'd probably be most accurate to do the business as a brand, with addresses for the testing centers. They likely don't need separate phone numbers as they're not staffed locations. Anyone visiting outside of testing hours would find an empty building.

It's just another thing that can be ticked off the list. Even with third party tracking it could vary substantially depending on where the original request is coming from. Even if the time savings are miniscule moving up in Pagespeed grade is useful.

I'd definitely invest the minimum $$ required to get a phone number per location. These could all be setup to forward to the one mobile number--still keeping things simple that way while also allowing for each location to have a number.

Some questions though, are these physical locations client owned/leased and operated? Like is a permanent establishment with regular office hours and such? Or is this a testing service that is renting space just in time to deliver the course?

Cheers!

Hi Jeff. The timeline portion is handled via the scheduling drop down at the end of the report.  The link for that would be: http://analytics.moz.com/reports/[YOUR.MOZNUMBER]/schedule/[YOUR.REPORT.NUMBER]

There you'll have the option to schedule the report generation and set the daily, weekly, or monthly time frame. Cheers!

Hi Chris. Here's the Google Dev page on it: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service/PreResolveDns

With the speed enhancement being, "DNS resolution time varies from <1ms for locally cached results, to hundreds of milliseconds due to the cascading nature of DNS. This can contribute significantly towards total page load time. This filter reduces DNS lookup time by providing hints to the browser at the beginning of the HTML, which allows the browser to pre-resolve DNS for resources on the page."

It's similar to preloading images that are going to appear on the next page clicked or scrolled to. The transition seems much faster when it's loaded while interacting with the first page. Cheers!

You'll probably have to do a campaign per location. Do they have separate URLs to track as well? If that's the case you'll get better data by creating a campaign per location. Same goes for Moz Local as you'll want your NAP to align with each location there as well. Cheers!

Moz uses Google + and Facebook as their baselines so having images that are scaled to the reqs in those two would be the quickest solution. With Google you can bulk upload images in the dimensional range of 1000x1000 to 3000x3000 "We recommend adding photos that are larger than 1000 x 1000 pixels and smaller than 3000 x 3000 pixels." (https://support.google.com/business/answer/6031953) and then select what you want as a cover photo within Google+. See this guideline: https://support.google.com/business/answer/4791112.

And for Facebook a profile photo containing your company's logo must measure at least 180 by 180 pixels to meet Facebook's upload requirements. Once uploaded, the photo is resized to 160 by 160 pixels and placed within a 170 by 170 field, providing a small border between your profile photo and cover photo. Photos larger than 180 by 180 pixels are scaled down to fit within the profile template. (from: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/size-facebook-business-logos-57290.html)

From the Moz blurb on it, "For Google+ we can track product, brand, and business pages. These are pages that can be "Followed" and for which you are the administrator. We cannot track personal accounts."  If you're trying to connect a personal account it won't work. Likewise if you're trying to connect two or more of the same version that will also not work.  Cheers!

That appears pretty buggy to me. Instead of using whichever plugin or feature of Wordpress that is creating these blog posts per image I'd use an FTP program and upload the images directly to the server into an /image/ folder. That way you'll have more options with your media and they'll be easier to deal with in bulk.

Depending on your situation you could also consider offloading the imagery via a CDN and attempt to speed up your site in that way as well. Cheers!

If a lot of your citations are San Diego based then perhaps. Even Moz doesn't get a knowledge box from time to time unless you enter Moz Seattle, WA, and their brand is very national / international. Again, a big part of the knowledge box is user intent and search volumes.

Ruth brings up a good point, autoplay can work when it's expected, but most sites aren't Youtube, Netflix, or Vimeo. Still if your site is in the category of "all we do is videos" then autoplay may work for you.

Doubtful. Running a site:holidayhypermarket.co.uk search in Google returns 10,700 results, plus from the help documentation on OSE it says, "The second thing to keep in mind that the exported data will only include the top 25 pages per linking root domain," from: http://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer/top-pages-ose

So by design it's not really a tool that's trying to duplicate Google, rather make an actionable scaled down copy of what's going on.

I wouldn't use OSE as an onsite crawler. That's what a tool like Xenu Link Slueth or Screaming Frog is for.

Were these bolded terms relevant to the search query?