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Dr. Pete just posted an article that might help explain what's going on here - http://moz.com/blog/comparing-ranktracking-methods-browser-vs-crawler-vs-webmaster-tools

Moz uses a crawler to track the rankings you see in your reports. Because of personalization and a variety of other factors, the results in the report might be slightly different than what you see when manually searching in your browser.

Hey Zhiwen,

If I'm understanding your question correctly, I think all you need to do it go to this URL - http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/domains?site=emailmarketing.comm100.com%2Fnewsletter%2F - which will take you to the Linking Domains tab in OSE. Make sure the dropdown menu is set to "this page" then click the "Export to CSV" link on the right side of the page.

You need to be Moz Pro member in order to download anything from OSE, so unless you're a paying member, you won't be able to export any reports from OSE.

Thanks for the help, Chris and Mariam! Through the link that Chris shared, I ended up at https://mapreporter.navteq.com which looks to be Yahoo's version of Google Map Maker. This looked really promising at first until I realized that you can't make any edits in the United States (see attached image). In fact, you can't make any edits in any major country throughout the world. Le sigh.

I ended submitting a request to the Yahoo Local support team about what to do in a situation like this. I'll follow up here again if I ever hear back from them.

Thanks again for the advice!

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Hey everyone,

I'm working with a client to get their Yahoo listing all setup. The problem is that they're located in a fairly new industrial complex that looks like it hasn't been added to Yahoo's map data. I'm unable to create a listing for them because Yahoo doesn't recognize the address as valid.

How long does it take for Yahoo to update their map data for newly constructed areas? Is there anyway to speed to process along (maybe something similar to Google Map Maker where users can suggest updates)?

Does anyone know any workarounds or solutions for a problem like this?

Thanks!

Tim

Thanks, Tom! We try to do our best with educational stuff, but a lot of our clients tend to feel overwhelmed or just don't have the time to do link building themselves.

I've recommended companies from the SEOmoz list, but they're usually too expensive for our clients. Maybe I just need to do a better job of setting pricing expectations when I recommend a company and explain that quality work comes at a premium.

I work for a company that manages websites for several hundred small businesses. We do a good job with on-site optimization but don't do any link building for our clients.

Occasionally, clients are in desperate need of links and ask us for recommendations. I've had a tough time finding a balance between quality consultants and affordable prices. I understand that link building campaigns, in general, carry a hefty price tag, but of our clients can't afford any of the big name agencies.

We've also had a few of our clients get burned recently by bad link building and I don't want to point them in the wrong direction.

Does anyone have any recommendations for companies or freelance consultants that do good work without breaking the bank?

Thanks!

Tim

Hi Joel,

There have a been a couple great articles on the SEOmoz blog this year that should be able to give you some ideas. You should definitely check them out.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/building-links-with-video-content

Hope this helps!

Tim

Hey DRCS,

It's likely just because SEOmoz had some issues with their most recent update to their index. The update was delayed for a few weeks so the current infomation in OSE is a little outdated. If you website is new, most of your new links probably weren't included in the last index. Don't worry, however, the index is scheduled to be updated again next week.

Even after the next update, you'll notice differences between all the link tracking tools. They all use different methods for crawling the web, scrubbing out junky or old links and processing their data. This results in wildly different numbers. Although it can be good to use a few tools to get a larger picture of your link graph, I find it most helpful to track my success by sticking with one tool and comparing my metrics on a monthly basis.

Hope this helps!

Tim

Hi Arthur,

I believe you're just talking about management of your Places pages, right? If that's the case, it's totally fine manage both under one Google Account. In fact, this would be preferable since you'll be able to view stats about your pages and make edits in one location.

Tim

Happy to help!

Rather than submitting your articles to a syndication service, I would recommend using them as guest posts on individual blogs. My Blog Guest for finding blogs that may post your articles.

Article spinning/syndication might result in a bunch of links, but most of those links will be of very little value. On the other hand, getting links from a handful of high quality blogs can go much further towards improving your site's authority.

Hi Jean,

I highly recommend Epipheo Studios. They're a bit expensive but they do amazing work. We recently had them create a video for our website and we love it.

If anything, adding a video to your site would likely help your site through improved engagement stats. I wouldn't worry about load time too much. The best option is to embed the video on your site through YouTube, Vimeo, Wisita or any other 3rd party hosting service. The embed code will have very little affect on load time.

Hope this helps!

Tim

Hey Dave,

Google has an article about this over on their Webmaster Tools blog - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.es/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

In short, yes, it does have a small impact on how Google determines where your website would be considered relevant, but they also look at country specific TLDs and your geo-targeting settings in Webmaster Tools.

In my experience, it's not something to be overly concerned about. If you can easily get your site hosted in Australia, go for it, if not, you'll probably do just fine.

Tim

Miriam, you always give the most awesomest Local SEO responses!

One thing we've also had some success with is signing up with the major listing aggregators like Localeze. This is especially helpful if you have multiple locations as it gives you a way to easily manage your NAP information.

Here's some more good info from David Mihm about listing distribution - http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/seo-industry/local-search-ecosystem-2012/

Here are the two plugins we've been testing:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-awd/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/AWD has more goodies and options. SFC is made by http://ottopress.com/, probably a more experienced WordPress developer and better supported. Both should work for Facebook comments.

Hope this helps!

Tim

Hi Arthur,

I think doing both is okay. For our clients with multiple offices, we usually list contact information for all locations on the /contact page. Then we create unique content that is specifically optimized for each location on separate pages.

If local SEO is really important for the company, make sure you claim Google Places pages (and listings on any other important directories) for each location as well.

Tim

Hi Michael,

It really depends on how Google decides to display the local results which can vary based on the keyword being used. The most common way of displaying results is called the 7-Pack (see example) in which no description is used for the map listings.

Occasionally, you will see a local search result that does include a description, but this usually only happens when the search phrase is specific to a single business (see example).

So it really depends on Google and there isn't a way you can force them to show a description. It all comes down to the keyword you're ranking for. On the upside, Google Places pages tend to a get a lot of attention when they appear in organic search results. Here an interesting article by Dr. Pete about it. Please note that although some of the examples Dr. Pete uses do show descriptions, Google has since changed the way they typically display local search results.

Hope this helps!

Tim

Hi Adam,

I would suggest you read through David Mihm's Local Search Ranking Factors. It's almost a year old now, but there is still a lot of insight that can be gained from it.

As with organic search results, local rankings are influenced by a huge number of factors. There are some basic steps like selecting the right categories and claiming your listing that play a very important role, but things like the authority of your homepage, the number of matching listings on other directories (like Yelp, CitySearch, etc.) and the number and quality of reviews on your Places page can all have an impact on results as well.

Tim

To add to that, what tool did you use to grab link metrics for a one week old website? Most tools have at least a little lag in determine inbound links. Your new website likely hasn't had a chance to establish the long-term, quality links that the sites for your retail stores have built during their lifetime.

Unless I'm mistaken, the SEOmoz Tools only pull in search traffic data from Google Analytics. I would suggest going directly to Google Analytics and exporting data from there to get a larger picture of your overall traffic - http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57161

Hope this helps!

Tim