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Wow... the man himself Dr Pete!! Thanks for the info. Much appreciated. I've decided to go with both Moz Pro AND Screaming Frog.

Mo Info. Mo Power. Mo Money

Thanks for the feedback guys! Much appreciated

Hi, I have a MOZ PRO account which is brilliant for me. I am about to move my site from HTTP to HTTPS and was looking for a smooth way to list every page and its details so I can make sure I do the correct redirects etc.. before the switch to SSL.

Do I need to get Screaming Frog, or can the tools with MOZ Pro ease my path just as well?

Thanks

Hi, i'm trying to report on the ranks of my local landing page URLs within my website. What is the best way of seeing this data from certain locations around the UK?

For example - I have a landing page that is targeting London. How can I see how that ranks in the SERPs from various locations within the Greater London area?

Can this be done accurately on MOZ or SEMrush?

I would like to see how other people track their local pages for ranking locally.

Thanks

Thanks for that, I'll give that a try and see what comes up!

If it's an off the shelf store software that you're using, they mostly let you choose the location that you want your store to sit in, so be sure to check that out.

Alex

You could try http://mysiteauditor.com/

I've used them quite a bit. Also maybe try SEMrush.

Never heard of it but I'm intrigued. I will go and check it out and hopefully be able to give some valid input!

Cheers

It's sounds like they're all competing for the same listings "real estate". I would consolidate them onto the strongest domain and drive traffic to it that way.

Are the sites in the same country? If you are targeting "local" you could create sub pages targeting that city.

Hi folks, I know the majority of you are based in the US, so won't be experiencing the same problem as me.

I have set up a Google My Business account for a company here in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The only problem is that I can't verify it using the normal methods like a postcard being sent out as the UAE doesn't have a postal service, so there are no postcodes to target an address.

Basically I go through the process of creating a GMB account, setting the address details and map marker, then try to verify the account by postcard (this is the only way).

I wait 14+ days but still no postcard arrives for obvious reasons - no postal address!

So - my question is, how do we get round this problem? I know it can be done as there are plenty of businesses out there in Dubai that are verified on Google maps and GMB.

Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ok cool thanks for the tips Oleg

Hi MOZ, I have a site that is aimed at the English speaking market of the United Arab Emirates. The language tag is currently set to lang="en-GB" and the og:locale also set to en_GB.

The domain is a .com and aimed at the whole world.

Should I be trying to target en-AE and en_AE for these tags instead of GB?

Thanks for this Don. I did actually manage to find this - Its Adwords Ad Preview, so you can choose the location and it will display as if there.

https://adwords.google.com/apt/AdPreview?__u=2955918576&__c=8883971256&authuser=0

Hope that helps anyone else looking to do the same.

Hi community. So I live in Dubai but have a lot of clients in the UK that want local SEO. Does anyone have any tips on performing search queries in Google that reflect a true search results page as though that search was being performed in a chosen UK city?

say if I wanted to see the SERPs for "hairdressers" in the city of Bristol in the UK, at the moment I get a pretty vague UK SERP from With lots of Dubai based adverts et.

Any tips would be great, thanks

Hi Rebecca,

Yes the content on each city is unique (not great, but unique). When they were on subdomains they were absolute replicas of each other apart from city name switches and maybe some short intro text, but other than that, complete copies.

Now those old subdomains get forwarded on to each new subfolder page so;

city-location.maincompany.com gets forwarded to maincompany.com/uk/city-location/

Alex

Apologies Robert. The owner of the company still calls the subfolder pages "Microsites" and it appears it has stuck in my brain!!!

There are no microsites, just subfolders (maincompany.com/uk/city-location/ which used to be the subdomains to house each major city franchise of the company. Back then when it was all subdomains (city-location.maincompany.com) had masses amounts of duplicate content as they had basically a Wordpress multisite and just duplicated each website but changed its target city keyword.

Am I making any sense here at all? Basically, it's all in an orderly fashion NOW, but the rankings have dropped.

You can see the changes in position almost switch over night. I honestly think that this is the best format for future roofing the website though. The old one was a completed mess, with very poor site navigation and architecture.

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See graph of indexed pages...

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No, they're just sub pages. So maindomain.com/uk/cityname1 etc...

Thanks Robert, I think I will try reverting with some of them. I completely agree with you that we are ALL experimenting with our SEO efforts. There's so many SEOers that recommend switching from sub domains to sub directories, this is why I made the change.

Thanks for your detailed input.