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If you are going for content and landing pages. Its hard to beat Wordpress (.org not .com). The search engines seem to love how Wordpress platform is set up for content publishing, and the community to support this platform is huge and one of the nicest around. Its proven to scale well with larger news sites as well.

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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.

Here are the perks for a paid moz account: http://moz.com/perks it doesnt look like getlisted is part of the perks.

Also according to Tina: "Just wanted to chime in to say that you can still list your business for free at BOTW as long as you get to that listing through GetListed rather than submitting a Jumpstart Listing directly thru BOTW .... As of today anyhow. Things could change tomorrow."

http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/2013/08/21/will-google-devalue-local-citations-my-short-answer/

Try giving Google a call, as now u have that option

That is correct. There have been cases of pages being connected without a local Google + page, and this was done with a now available phone calling to Google available to small business owners: https://support.google.com/places/ Its worth a shot, even though its not guaranteed.

1. Not all keyword terms are localized

2. Even those that are localized organic results follow below.

For both of those geo-specific keywords are needed to rank organically.

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The best (most surest post-panda) and more time consuming and expensive method would be not going with YEXT and custom creating each local listing description and creating your own listings.

Having said that, in the local SEO world many will still agree that quantity of listings over quality still prevail, even in the post-panda current state of SEO.

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Yes you can now combine the two: heres a guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H__pBpALfU4

Hope this helps, and here is some of the reasons of why you should merge: http://www.steamfeed.com/why-you-must-merge-your-google-local-and-google-page-now/

Hmm it seems like it might be a temporary issue, I would try to reload and try again, try a different browser. If not feel free to use: http://moz.com/help/contact to submit a ticket/question directly to the quick and mighty moz help team.

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Good question, or questions. As you are asking about keyword research, landing pages, ranking, and conversion/email collection.

For a general overview you might want to read moz beginner seo guide and the advanced seo guide.

Also I do want to address one important part that moz can actually help with, and its not their tools per se, but the landing page that they have created:

http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/seomoz-case-study/

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As long as you like your foreign language categories with with english category for example "hola" category link it with "hello" category.  When you go to Post > Categories > Click on individual category and link it, see pic. It will automatically change %%Category%% based on whether it is russian or English.

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Yes this is a totally normal procedure. But as in everything you do with wordpress or otherwise please BACK-UP FIRST. But the procedure is standard and is done often.  Both are quality plugins with Yoast definitely being the most popular choice. So a switch between the two is natural.

Here is the step by step guide:

http://yoast.com/all-in-one-seo-pack-migration/

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Few years back you could totally go for all the links to the homepage if you wanted to have your homepage to rank well. These days Google looks at the link relevancy that was mentioned above, and also link diversification that is natural to multiple pages on your website. So another vote for "give them their brands page on your website"

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Here are similar discussions on moz.com/q that should help:

http://moz.com/community/q/what-is-best-for-seo-multiple-domains-sub-domains-or-everything-on-one-domain

http://moz.com/community/q/multi-country-targeting-for-listing-site-cctld-sub-domain-or-com-folder

http://moz.com/community/q/multiple-country-site-versions-and-hosting

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

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Also want to comment on 800 number vs local number. Generally for a local small business, a local phone number is preferred. And yes, we use it in the meta description, because it works!

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 )

It depends. Here is how I prefer my snippets:

If its an article or blog post I prefer authorship.

If its a business page, service page, review, testimonials page, product page, etc. I prefer star rating.

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There was a time when Meebo had a great social bar, and it was bought out by Google and Meebo closed down. However, we still had simple to setup great working Wibiya bar, however at the end of this year they are moving to mobile apps and shutting down this amazing social bar.

I am now in a search for great alternatives and sadly there are now little options.

Do you use great share bars, please comment with ease of setting up, load time, analytics/stats, features, etc?

I have found some alternatives, some of which I have used in the past, but they are nowhere near Wibiya

Thanks

Step 1: http://yoast.com/wordpress/video-seo/setup/

Step 2: http://yoast.com/wordpress/video-seo/how-to/

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