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Thank you for the suggestions. And, I agree with the approach of using an existing Google Places user/login (if applicable) to establish the personal account - then the page. However, in recent cases where I am dealing with post Places/Plus merge and the client did NOT have an existing Places account - things become a bit trickier

I don't know about you guys, but I have encountered several clients that simply don't want anything to do with establishing or managing Places or Plus accounts - siting that's part of the reason they hired me. They are also resistant to having their personal name/information being visible. I attempt to appease their concerns by explaining the various privacy settings G provides, but resistance typically prevails.

Thanks for the response. I just added  a page for a client under my personal account. During the process, I was not required to enter my personal name, so I am not sure what you mean by, "quite a few Google+ profiles with my name..." did you establish multiple personal profiles using your name for clients?

It appears there can be only one "owner" of a page - personal profile information is not visible to visitors of the page, however, there can be multiple "managers" of the page and ownership can be transferred to an existing manager.

I am sure Google did not intend for SEO or Social Media companies to establish and manage multiple pages upon the behalf of various clients in this fashion, but I don't see any other viable method at this point.

Hi folks,

I am coming to the realization that most of my local business clients simply do not have the time, desire or knowledge to establish a Google Plus personal profile and business page. Therefore, I have been contemplating the best approach to establishing Google Plus business pages for multiple clients.

It would appear that information attached to the personal profile for the primary Google Plus account is not revealed when a business page is viewed, and a single personal profile can establish multiple business pages, would it be safe to assume this may be the correct approach?

For example: I have a personal profile and a page for my SEO business. Could I simply create additional business pages for my clients under my account - even though I am not business owner? Are there any adverse ramifications to this approach (e.g. ownership transfer, local SERP issues, etc.)?

Thanks!

Hello Steven,

Thank you for providing another perspective. However, all factors considered, I agree with Shane's approach on this one. The pages add very little merit to the site and exist primarily to provide the site users with eye-candy (e.g. photos of classic cars).

I completely understand and agree with all points you have conveyed. However, I am not certain as to the best approach to "noindex" the urls which are being created dynamically from within the static html page? Maybe I am making this more complex than it needs to be...

The goal is to have the page remain in the index, but not follow any dynamically generated links on the page. The nofollow directive (in place for months) has not done the job.

Recall the importance of the page title in establishing page relevance. The page title in this instance is using the plural version of your targeted keyword. Perhaps this is factor alone is influencing the ranking priorities of the search bots and producing the results you are seeing.

I do see the singular version of the keyword appears in several instances on the page, but is wrapped in an

with an

appearing _prior - _which struck me as a bit odd.

Sorry, but I didn't have time to dig into linking profiles

Therein lies the problem. I did have the nofollow directive in place specifying the /gallery/ folder, but apparently, the bots still crawled it. I agree that the noindex removes the page, but I wasn't certain if it prevented crawling of the page, as I have read mixed opinions on this.

I just thought of something else... perhaps an external url is linking to this page - allowing it to be crawled. I am off to examine this perspective.

Thanks for your response!

Assuming your on-page optimization is in place; do you have separate pages optimized for each version of the keyword (e.g. plural and singular) or are both versions of the keyword on the same page? Linking profiles utilizing variations of  the keywords could also be a factor... sorry, but you really haven't presented enough information to arrive at a sound assessment.

Hi folks!

I discovered bit of an issue with a client's site. Primarily, the site consists of static html pages, however, within one page (a car photo gallery), a line of php coding:

dynamically generates a 100 or so pages comprising the photo gallery - all with the same page title and meta description. The photo gallery script resides in the /gallery  folder, which I attempted to block via robots.txt - to no avail. My next step will be to include a:

within the head section of the html page, but I am wondering if this will stop the bots dead in their tracks or will they still be able to pick-up on the pages generated by the call to the php script residing a bit further down on the page?

Dino

I found that post to be very useful in regards to my local ranking questions.

Thanks for the link

Great suggestions! Especially adding testimonials from the specific areas.

You see, I am specifically interested in adding static pages (up to 10 or 12 pages) to target these regions - without sounding redundant to the viewer or the search bots.

Thanks again!

Thanks for your response. My client has a specific group of core services (key phrases) that need to be featured. They only thing I can think of, is to create multiple versions of the same content for each area targeted and add geo-modifiers to the static urls and related on-page areas. However, I was hoping to find alternative and effective methods which would avoid spinning the content.

I have a local client in the automotive service sector. Actually,  I deal with several local, service-oriented businesses, so I am hoping to apply the knowledge gained from this question to several cases. And, I am not concerned with Google Places or Adwords in this case - I have those dialed-in just fine - I am referring to a methodology applicable to organic search results.

While it has been simple enough to target one or two local geographic regions (e.g. cities/towns) for specific key phrases related to my client's industry by adding geo-modifiers to the mix.  I need to develop and apply a method to target multiple outlying towns (up to 12 within a 30mi radius) near my client's place of business - without generating pages of duplicate content (e.g. automotive service town-1, automotive service town-2, automotive service town-3, etc.)

Would someone more experienced in this area be willing to shed some light upon my dilemma?

Thanks!