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I recently attended a webinar by ETNA Interactive on local search SEO. The presenter recommended including the name of your town in the title of the blog to increase local search SEO.

Is this OK? Ive always been concerned that it is such an obvious attempt to rank locally that Google would consider it "spammy" ? black hat, "sketchy" or otherwise manipulative.

Have the rules changed? Is it OK to do?

Brooke

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I have an 8 year old plastic surgery website with my name in the url. I have just released a new website with a generic local plastic surgery url without my name.

However my google authorship photo is appearing in listings from both sites with different URLs.

So far Google is listing pages from both sites on the same google page result for similar search terms.

However I am concerned that eventually I may be punished for dup content since I am the same author for both pages?

The practice and the practitioner are at the same location, is there anything that I can do from my end to speed up the process.

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Upon trying to Validate my Moz Local this error keeps appearing "We were unable to validate the following listings on either Google or Facebook Places."  I have checked both of these accounts and all of the listings are accurate and up to date?  Is there something that I am missing?

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I am trying to list my business under Moz Local.  I have filled out all of the documentation and had no errors.  However I am stuck on Validation.  It says "We were unable to validate the following listings on either Google or Facebook Places."  I have checked both my google and facebook pages they are up to date with the most current address.  Any ideas where the problem may be?

Jane,

Thank you very much. This is the second time you have helped me!

Thanks

Brooke

Thank you very much-you have given me hope!!!

I have a 9 year old WP website  with a WP blog which is still getting 300+ new visitors a day even though I have not written a blog for 5 years and have not updated content. Some posts have over 25,000 links.

However the Moz analytics  is fraught with significant errors-404 redirects, page not found, dup content, no metatags, title too long etc. I was totally inexperienced 5 years ago and made many errors. However the basic content was sound and still is producing new visitors.

I am starting a new ecommerce website using the same name but the URL and server will be different. I want to transfer my WP blog to the new site. I am concerned however that bringing the posts over can create the same errors on the new site.

If I update all of the blogs on the old site using Yoast before transferring the blog to the new site will that help. I suppose I could check those flagged dup content and only transfer one of that category?

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I have a new website. Several of my inbound links report on open site explorer have (no follow) next to them. I assune this is not optimal-why does it happen?

Brooke

Great thank you

Since google closed the Adwords keywoord tool I have been unable to find a source that compares with the long list of various keyword uses and the relative number of searches for each.

Had printed out the ones I needed and threw them away!!

Is there a comparable source available

Thank you. Will have to study this

Kevin,

Thank you. Many of my postings in the past 7 years on a different site have ranked very well and received a lot of visitors because I do provide content that is thorough and provides meaningful information for patients and is not "spammy".

I am intrigued at the possibility of including references from the medical literature from well respected journals.

However I am uncertain how to add them to my content. ?? insert an active link to the journal article within my content or ?? use the commonly accepted practice of placing a numerical reference behind the mention of the article and listing numerical references at the end of the blog article.

Will the crawlers pick up the reference and the list of articles at the end of the blog?

How will crawlers or Google ascertain that my content is scientifically based and hopefully grant more authority to the page.

I understand the spammy nature of Plastic Surgery websites but have always tried to make my content informative and scientifically based. Your suggestion seems like very good advice but I am uncertain how to accomplish it technically.

Thank you.

Brooke Seckel

I have a new website. Did "on page grading". Although the page received a grade of A the only area that did not receive a check mark was key word stuffing.

It recommended I not use keyword more that 15 times but I only counted 11 uses of the key phrase "breast augmentation."

However the phrase is also used in alt tag of images which would take me over 15.

Are alt tag on images counted and is this a concern?

I tried to use "augmentation mammaplasty" to reduce the use of the phrase "breast augmentation" but will use of "augmentation" and "breast" alone also cause the count to increase for the phrase "breast augmentation"