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In this case you want to do your research first.  Use Google search and see how it reacts to your two keyword phrases as Google is becoming smarter and smarter with things like synonyms.  It might be that both keyword phrases produce same results, if so go with the most correct understanding of the keyword phrase and choose one page. In that case choosing two pages can also split authority of one page if Google interprets those two keywords identically.

For more info: http://searchengineland.com/is-googles-synonym-matching-increasing-how-searchers-and-brands-can-be-both-helped-and-hurt-131504

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"Want Redundancy and I'd like the service to recognize a user's location by IP and assign the closest server to them"

First, if you aren't already, get a hosting company that offers IP-failover/shared IPs. Linode, Slicehost (among many) offer this. See:http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/10/28/ip-failover-high-av...

Basically, you have two VPSs (or servers) and if the first goes down, the second jumps in to take its place on the same IP address so that you don't have to change the DNS or anything.

Second, you can turn your TTLs down for your DNS so that when you make changes they happen faster.

Third, you can have an offsite VPS mirror with a different hosting company ready to roll.

That's usually how I deal with the issue of high availability. Have two boxes with one company with a shared-IP setup so that if one goes down, the second just takes over. Then have an off-site mirror with a different company and have my DNS TTLs set low enough that hopefully most people can get access in a couple hours.

The problem is that it all costs money. Rather than one server, you now have three. Costs have tripled to move you from, say, 99.5% reliability to 99.9%. So, you're paying a lot more for a very marginal improvement and the question that you have to ask is whether that tiny marginal improvement warrants paying triple.... more on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1074747

How much links per month per location are you looking to create? (This might help some wanting to help)

Here at moz community we recommend: http://moz.com/community/recommended#local-search-services

Hi Freddy,

Google thinks that by entering Crawford you are entering the city + Realty therefore those results.

Searches for Crawford Reality + location , as in Western Australia, or even for me just Australia, would return normal results as in this case google interprets the search query as business name + location, vs city + business type as above.

Does that help

Hello Jonathan,

You mentioned "two different citys for her service" are you trying to rank for local results or for organic results?

Also first page for one of the cities does this mean for the main location, aka the location of the business?

If you haven't worked with overseas teams on smaller projects or have that experience in this. I would try to pay a bit more and get someone to do it domestically. $35K is def on the higher side, so with enough searching around you should be able to find a price that works for you, app developers are in great number these days. Yes the quality ranges as well.

As for searching for a developer, this should give you some ideas: http://www.quora.com/iOS-Development/How-do-I-find-an-experienced-iPhone-app-developer

Hope this helps

Hi WMCA,

Google Places can get this data from other citations. However once you claim control of your Google listing it "should" take in your input. However Google still to this day has issues, especially if you recently moved from Google Local to Google+ Page.

What you should do if you do not see new business hours change within a day:

1. Login to your local dashboard

2. Click on the listing in question

3. Click the Report Problems with this Listing link

4. Fill out the form, and send it off to Google

Hope this helps!

I am just curious how you ran into EGOL, and two why you consider him the best content writer? Just curious, Thanks

Time might come, and might be around the corner when, images in Google Search will be OCR'd (scanned for text/wording and made searchable) this will result in your watermarks if its in Copyright Joe Smith (text form) will be searchable.

Also thing about this if you are using image search with an image of your brand, (not sure about practically but theoretically) you should be able to find all your images if they are watermarked with your Brand image in Google image search.

So if you are planning to future proof your images for image SEO go for it!

Hi Oomdo

For local seo, your citations aka your NAP in youtube description goes a long way because in local seo world it works as a link

If you need more info Dana DiTomaso did a great post on earlier this year: http://moz.com/blog/you-asked-i-answered-qa-from-you-probably-think-this-citation-source-is-about-you-dont-you

**3. Couldn't citations on sites such as YouTube and Flickr be flagged as spam?**Only if you're being spammy in your citation building. If the photo or video could contain a relevant address, I don't see an issue. For example, if the photo or video was taken at your business, then you're just saying (with a full NAP) where the photo or video was taken! I can't see how that would be considered spam - it's relevant information for the visitor.

I agree with Dana that somethings will look spammy but your NAP in cases like a youtube video should not.

Hope this helps

Hi Christy I believe its 15GB of storage right, probably a typo.

If hosting exists subdomain redirects for clean URLs is great. Also dropbox.com and many other services work, with subdomain redirects, like so.

Hi Carlo Del Fabbro,

You mentioned that you prefer not to use sub-directories but prefer sub-domains. To my understanding and according to Matt Cutts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk subdomains and subfolders work the same way.  There are some downsides with subdomains, but I do not believe they are with SEO, so it should not steer you away from using a subdomain.  I am not sure why Rubix mentioned that in the post maybe ask him to clarify or get others to chime in

Hope this Helps!

I do not think you will be harmed. You will not be able to rank for local without an address but you have a fair shot to rank organically for the cities that you are going after.

It's generally not too hard to rank in Google Places and organically for your primary location.  However if you are a service area business looking to rank for neighboring cities or service areas, Google makes this much tougher.

Andrew Shotland mentions the obvious and not so obvious options: Service Area pages ranking organically, getting a real/virtual address, boost geo signals, and using zip codes instead of service area circle.

But I am wondering if anyone had success with other methods? Maybe you have used geo-tagging in a creative way? This is a hurdle that many local business are struggling with and any experience or thoughts will be much appreciated

Glad to help and thankful to be part of such a great community!

Search engines and informed individuals are used to ?'s as like Takeshi said "query parameters" or "query variables". For everyone else it might look "questionable" (Sorry just had to say it )

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/06/crawl-errors-now-reports-soft-404s.html

above is some of the ways to fix soft 404s. But the easiest might be to deindex and not have Google Webmasters crawl the members area. Unless its important for you

Hope this helps

Hi,

Generally if its good for the user in most cases, its good for the search engines, and SEO. However this is a technical issue as well, but there is great material on this, including:

http://searchengineland.com/the-latest-greatest-on-seo-pagination-114284

http://moz.com/blog/pagination-best-practices-for-seo-user-experience

http://moz.com/community/q/what-is-the-best-seo-solution-for-pagination

Hope this helps!

Awesome William, its great to have a Googler input in these discussions

It is used by some SEO reports like http://www.woorank.com, I dont believe Moz report has anything on it.

It is not used by Google, but it seems that it is still relevant to some industries, and they say "some search engines might still use it" So, it is applied to be on the "safe side"

More info:

http://blog.woorank.com/2013/04/dublin-core-metadata-for-seo-and-usability/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/648641/does-anyone-bother-with-dublin-core-anymore/648734#648734

Dublin Core Generator for your site

Hope this helps