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Bede,

I'm not so sure about this one.  i did read comment #23 left on Mike's blog.  Some of the information may remain on some of the directories but not all the directories.  I know for sure Yelp will revert back as do others.

Why be enslaved to Yext?  As an agency I can't put all my eggs in one basket.  I'd rather take the time and submit my clients information manually and be done with it. What happens when you do cancel a subscription with Yext?  Are you going to spend the next several months continually checking 45 directories to see if the information has reverted back?

The only advantage Yext brings to the table is if you constantly run coupons and/or run daily, weekly or monthly specials.  In this case the coupons and/or specials get updated across the board on many directories at the same time.

Yext is suited for single business owners who know little about citation building.  If you are an agency you must build citations manually for your clients.

Just my two cents.

It is definitive.  Yext even states this when you cancel an account.  When you cancel an account in Yext you will get a message stating that the old data will return.  Check it out for yourself.  Go through the process of canceling an account, but don't worry you will get this message before you finalize the canalization. Meaning you can opt out before actually canceling.

I'm not a 100% sure on this but I believe it to be true.

Yext acts like a sheet of paper over a listing.  Meaning when you stop paying Yext and/or don't renew, the sheet of paper will be lifted and the old underlying information returns. Yext doesn't actually change the listing it just over rides the current data.  If you don't renew with Yext the sheet of paper is lifted the old data returns.

I added 2 new web pages over the weekend and the information showed up immediately in the tool. The structured data tool does not index, it goes out and pulls in the current live data from the Title Tag but it does not display the description data.  To test this change the data in the Title Tag and refresh the preview button and the data is updated immediately.  From my observation Google only needs Title Tag info to display a Rich Snippet.  Go ahead and test it.  In fact you can add a new page to your website and a Rich Snippet shows up immediately.  This is why I am stumped.

I have resubmitted and indexed the entire site through the webmaster tool.  I'll just have to wait and see if that makes a difference.

Thanks for you input Matt.

I'm stumped as to why some of the pages on my website return no data from Google's Structured Data Testing Tool while other pages work fine and return the appropriate data.

My home page http://www.parkseo.net returns no data while many inner pages do.

http://www.parkseo.net      Returns No Data

http://www.parkseo.net/citation-submission.html      Does Return Data.

I have racked my brains out trying to figure out why some pages return data and others don't.  Any help on this issue would be greatly appricated.

Cheers!
Gary Downey

I'm managing a restaurant chain with 10 locations.  Can they all share the home page url of the corporate site in Google Places or is it better to link each location url separately?

Meaning can I use www.company.com for all locations in Google places for all locations or is it better to go with www.company.com/location.html for each location.

The page authority of the home page is 60 while individual location pages the page authority is in the 20's.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks
Gary

I have several clients like this.  i have a client with 5 locations in New York City.  I built one website and setup one Google Places + account.  I then setup, registered and marketed the 5 locations under the one Google Places account.  Setup a Google Places account for the main location and you then have the option to add more locations. I build citations for each individual location and link build for each location.  I even do separate press releases for each location.

Basically build one website and market each location/page separately.  You are correct in stating the obvious that you will lose domain authority by developing multiple websites.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Gary

It is definitive.  Yext even states this when you cancel an account.  When you cancel an account in Yext you will get a message stating that the old data will return.  Check it out for yourself.  Go through the process of canceling an account, but don't worry you will get this message before you finalize the canalization. Meaning you can opt out before actually canceling.

I'm not a 100% sure on this but I believe it to be true.

Yext acts like a sheet of paper over a listing.  Meaning when you stop paying Yext and/or don't renew, the sheet of paper will be lifted and the old underlying information returns. Yext doesn't actually change the listing it just over rides the current data.  If you don't renew with Yext the sheet of paper is lifted the old data returns.

Bede,

I'm not so sure about this one.  i did read comment #23 left on Mike's blog.  Some of the information may remain on some of the directories but not all the directories.  I know for sure Yelp will revert back as do others.

Why be enslaved to Yext?  As an agency I can't put all my eggs in one basket.  I'd rather take the time and submit my clients information manually and be done with it. What happens when you do cancel a subscription with Yext?  Are you going to spend the next several months continually checking 45 directories to see if the information has reverted back?

The only advantage Yext brings to the table is if you constantly run coupons and/or run daily, weekly or monthly specials.  In this case the coupons and/or specials get updated across the board on many directories at the same time.

Yext is suited for single business owners who know little about citation building.  If you are an agency you must build citations manually for your clients.

Just my two cents.