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  • JaspalX


    None of my reports are completing - even if left to run overnight - anyone else seeing this? There was mention of this in http://www.seomoz.org/q/problems-with-ose-downloads but I get the sense from that thread that the problem was solved back in August.

    Moz Pro | | JaspalX
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  • Grumpy_Carl


    HI Anyone know the difference between selecting UK or GB when choosing your engines to track keyword rankings? Is it that one of the options only includes pages from the UK while the other tracks all pages, but from a UK rankings point of view - ie pages hosted overseas will still rank. - if so, which is which? Or, and this is very unlikely, is it simply that the GB data does not include Northern  Ireland as the UK is technically the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. NI is in UK but not in GB. Nice and confusing! Thanks

    Moz Pro | | Grumpy_Carl
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  • onlinemediadirect


    One of our clients sites rankings has been jumping around like crazy and I have never experienced this before. The site - http://www.tshirtsubway.com Was 2nd for Music T shirts on Google.co.uk Plus top of the 2nd page for T shirts. Then all of a sudden the ranking for T Shirts disappered. Do you think the site could be subject to a spam link attack from a rival ? What is the best way forward with resubmission to Google webmaster tools. The strange this is the site is now 4th for Music T Shirts so still ranking ? But for that word it has disappeared... Head scratching as I type...

    Algorithm Updates | | onlinemediadirect
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  • pbhatt


    We have an old meta description that advertises an old offer (FREE X if you Buy Y) that we are no longer running on the site. I changed the meta description, now what is the fastest way I can get Google to update their SERP with the new description?

    Technical SEO | | pbhatt
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  • ksracer


    Wix offers an inexpensive, user friendly platform for building websites. Most of the site is flash, but Wix claims to be SEO friendly. I'm all ears for your feedback and experience with Wix.

    On-Page Optimization | | ksracer
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  • matt-14567


    I work at a marketing firm, and was trying to convince my boss that we need to start writing meta descriptions for all pages on the sites we develop for clients. He asked why this would be necessary since Google automatically pulls a snippet of content, containing the keyword(s) that had been searched, from any page listed in its SERPs. I didn't have an answer for this, and it got me wondering: When does Google actually display the meta descriptions that people write instead of scraped content? And is it really that necessary to write meta descriptions?

    On-Page Optimization | | matt-14567
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  • Prime85


    Hello... I'm trying to do some analysis on my site (http://goo.gl/JgK1e) and SEOMOZ Crawl Diagnostics is telling me that I have 5,769 pages with duplicate content. Can someone, anyone, please help me understand: how does SEOMOZ determine if i have duplicate content Is it correct ?  Are there really that many pages of duplicate content How do i fix this, if true <---- ** Most important ** Thanks in advance for any help!!

    On-Page Optimization | | Prime85
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  • msperformance


    The analysis said that I have two titles on our main page. www.msperformanceonline.com the 1st is "Camaro Accessories, Camaro Parts, MS Performance" and the second is ( and""). I have looked and can't find out where it is!?! I been looking for hours through the code. Is there anything else I can use to find it? I Anyone's help will be appreciated.

    On-Page Optimization | | msperformance
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  • lafurniturestore


    We recently acquired a premium domain name The domain we were operating on before had a lot of SEO done on it, as well as branding campaigns. Now that we have the premium domain, would it be wise to start doing SEO on the premium domain and discontinue old domain promotions if we plan on changing the brand name? to clear up any confusion, we own for example AAAFurnitureStore.com we acquired the premium domain: AAAFurniture.com should we redirect AAAFurnitureStore.com -> AAAFurniture.com or since we already have established presence/brand do opposite and redirect AAAFurniture.com -> AAAFurnitureStore.com and keep the brand name same as "AAA Furniture Store"?

    Branding | | lafurniturestore
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  • MountainMedia


    A client recently bought an older domain that is keyword-rich to an aspect of his company. The main website has both e-commerce and call-to-action elements. Our team is split on whether or not to create a micro-site on that domain focused on that aspect of the work that he does or to simply redirect the old domain to his main website. I have not had the opportunity to look at the link profile of the recently acquired domain nor do I have any idea of how many times it's changed hands (which would seem to now be a possible indicator of doorway pages). If any clarification would help, please let me know and I'll do my best to answer.

    Technical SEO | | MountainMedia
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  • nux


    Hello, I am seeing my sitemap.xml show up in Google webmaster tools at the top for one of the main keywords for my site.  This is in the Your Site on the Web - Keywords section.  The URLs of my site contain this keyword, which is why I figure it showed up. I'm curious if this should be a concern to me?  I find it odd that the sitemap would show up in this way. Thanks

    Technical SEO | | nux
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  • lwilkins


    I designed a website a month ago and found moderate keywords to use through the SEOmoz tool. Now when I search them again, they are all highly competitive. Is it seasonal? Should I redo the keywords?

    Keyword Research | | lwilkins
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  • ContactOnline


    Having accidentaly entered keywords into my campaign with both upper-case initial letters ("Product Design") and lower-case initial letters ("product design") I find that the rankings are, as expected, identical. However, the traffic generated by the keywords is markedly different. Does this mean that the two versions of the keyword should be treated like totally seperate keywords in future? Indeed, should I be entering all variants of capitalisation into future keyword campaigns (such as "product Design" and "Product design") if I wish to get the full picture in future? Any answers would be welcome. David in Scotland

    Moz Pro | | ContactOnline
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  • Peter264


    We run a busy aviation website, with lots of members who post external links within our forum.  Currently, we implement NOFOLLOW tags on all external links or links to external sites not in our domain portfolio. Would we benefit from removing the NOFOLLOW attribute?  Would we benefit from keeping it? Your thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Peter264
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  • Bartell


    I have a client who is in the lead generation business for a specific aesthetic service. The company basically generates leads through SEO and sells them to hundreds of local businesses across the US and Canada. There is some serious competition for the main service keyword (this is not the real keyword) e.g. “liposuction” and over the past year we have seen rankings fall significantly (from top 3 to 13-15). But... what I have found is that most of the traffic, particularly the highly converting traffic, comes from local keyword variations e.g. “liposuction in san diego”. However, these keywords are also highly competitive because there are several local businesses in these areas. How would you suggest creating content for these pages when they are all extremely similar and we need to target 100s of cities? For example the page “liposuction in san diego” is very similar to the page “liposuction in sacramento”, ect ect. Thanks for the help!

    On-Page Optimization | | Bartell
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  • Bandicoot


    Hi all - I'm working on an SEO project, dealing with my first database-driven website that is built on a custom CMS. Almost all of the pages are created by the admin user in the CMS, pulling info from a database. What are the best practices here regarding SEO? I know that overall static is good, and as much static as possible is best, but how does Google treat a site like this? For instance, lets say the user creates a new page in the CMS, and then posts it live. The page is rendered and navigable, after putting together the user-inputed info (the content on the page) and the info pulled from the database (like info pulled out to create the Title tag and H1 tags, etc). Is this page now going to be crawled successfully and indexed as a static page in Google's eyes, and thus ok to start working on rank for, etc? Any help is appreciated - thanks!

    Technical SEO | | Bandicoot
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  • tkobrien


    I have two rafting websites. One ranks high for one set of keywords. The other ranks okay for a different set. I want to redirect the whole second site to the first to give the first more link juice and hopefully lift the first site even more in the rankings. Would it be better to link to a deeper page of the 1st site. I have a page that does well for some long tail keywords or would it be better to link to the main page. Or is it a bad idea over all.

    Link Building | | tkobrien
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  • donford


    The best way I can explain why question is with an example. Lets say I have a parent parent page that is focusing on a broad keyword.
    I also have a sub-page which is focused more on long-tail keyword variations. When I make an internal link and give it a title tag, should I give it the long-tail keyword for the juice, or should I use the broad keyword for the parent page's relevancy? Thanks for any help, advise or pointers.

    On-Page Optimization | | donford
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  • jgower


    This is probably SEO 101, but I'm unsure what to do here... Last week my weekly crawl diagnostics were off the chart because http:// was not resolving to http://www...fixed that but now it's saying I have duplicate content on: http://www.......com http://www.......com/index.php How do I fix this? Thanks in advance!

    Technical SEO | | jgower
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  • PeterM22


    I'm wondering post-panda if its wise to block access to blog post summary pages like this one: http://www.howtotradestocks.org/blog/page/15/ Any thoughts?

    Technical SEO | | PeterM22
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  • d4online


    We've been experiencing some unusual behaviour in the Google.co.uk SERPs recently... Basically, the ranking of some of our websites for certain keywords appears to be changing by the minute. For example, doing a search for "our keyword" might show us at #20. Then a few minutes later, doing the same search shows us at #14, and then the same search a few minutes later shows us at #26, and then sometimes we're not ranked at all, etc etc. I know the algorithm changes a lot, but does it really change every couple of minutes? Has anyone else experienced this kind of behaviour in the SERPs? What could be causing it to happen?

    Algorithm Updates | | d4online
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  • TheHecksler


    Hey, On Keyword Difficulty Tool: pls explain, whats the exact different between broad match and exact match. Thx. Seb. 🙂

    Keyword Research | | TheHecksler
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  • soapme


    Our site is currently hosted in Germany (1&1) and it primarily attracts users from the USA. We are however keen to improve our search engine rankings on UK search engines and are considering moving to UK servers. I have ‘heard’ that a site doesn’t perform as well for people visiting from the USA to UK servers as for example the German network where we are now. Can anybody offer advice on whether this will affect the response time of webpages to USA visitors? If it will have an affect, will this have a significant impact on SEO? Thanks,

    International SEO | | soapme
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  • neooptic


    Hi everybody! I've been looking at my Webmaster Tools stats, and it looks like not all the URLs in the sitemap tree have been indexed, according to WMT at least. Is this reliable, and if so, is it worth investigating further? | Sitemap | Status | Type | Downloaded | URLs submitted | URLs in web index |
    | | /ISitemap1.xml | | Sitemap | Dec 15, 2011 | 2,000 | 1,309 |
    | | /isitemap.xml | | Index | Dec 15, 2011 | 8,695 | 4,127 |
    | | /isitemap2.xml | | Sitemap | Dec 15, 2011 | 2,000 | 998 |
    | | /isitemap3.xml | | Sitemap | Dec 15, 2011 | 2,000 | 819 |
    | | /isitemap4.xml | | Sitemap | Dec 15, 2011 | 2,000 | 719 |
    | | /isitemap5.xml | | Sitemap | Dec 15, 2011 | 695 | 282 | Thanks!

    Reporting & Analytics | | neooptic
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  • eCommerceSEO


    On our website we have two ways to get in a brand environment. We have general brand pages and brand pages divided by category. At this moment the category brand pages get the most SEO value, because we have a link on our homepage to these pages (via the mega dropdown). The problem is that we would like to assign the SEO value to the general brand pages (with all the articles) instead of the category brand pages (with only articles within a category). We prefer to optimize the general brand page without a link to this page on the homepage for now. for example; Those two pages have the most SEO value
    www.debijenkorf.nl/herenmode/diesel
    www.debijenkorf.nl/damesmode/diesel but we would like to assign value to; 
    www.debijenkorf.nl/diesel Do you have a solution for this problem? Thank you in advance! Kind regards,

    Technical SEO | | eCommerceSEO
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  • DigitalJungle


    Hi All, Client of mine using reversed Meta Tags format in their website and Honestly i never saw such Meta Tags formats. In my opinion having 2 Title tags and wrong reversed description tag is not correct and the needs to be removed, and other tags need to be changed,too But they said that it probably doesn't make a difference because they don't think it affects search engine results and won't remove it just based on opinion. Because weird thing is Search Engines are apparently able to index them. So should i persist on correcting them or just hope for the best and ignore it?!?!?! Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | DigitalJungle
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  • webindustry


    We are designing a .BIZ site where we will push a high percentage of  the traffic ourselves. In other words, we aren't relying heavily on SEO for being found. I have a two part question: 1. Is there really any reason for a young start up .biz company to buy a $100 / year .XXX extension? 2. We don't have the .com (and can't afford it at the moment) but we do have the .co Does the .co have any upside to it that the .biz does not in SER?And do we get penalized for using the .biz? In other words, do SEs prefer the .com and nothing else will do quite as well? Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | webindustry
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  • NiallTom


    I've seen this touched on in other posts but have read conflicting answers and am hoping to get some clarification.  What should my keyword strategy be for an e-commerce site in an industry that has moderate to high competition for it's short-tail keyword phrases? Should I try to optimize my homepage for the highly competitive, short-tail keywords, while going after the long-tail, and less competitive (but less traffic, too) on my product pages?  What's a good rule of thumb as far as the number of keyword phrases to target per product? Thank you

    Keyword Research | | NiallTom
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  • erinhealthchoices


    Hi, We are translating our articles into French (they are already in English) and are considering Cantonese & Mandarin. How does Google see this? Say I post an article on Diabetes Symptoms in English, Cantonese and French. Same article, different languages. Does Google look at this as three separate articles, ranking you uniquely, or does it count as one article? Thanks, Erin

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | erinhealthchoices
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  • Copstead


    What is the best way to submit all of your product pages, millions, to Google for serps?  XML, RSS, Google Product Search, etc. These are products that are updated on a daily basis, and change often.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Copstead
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  • ociosu


    Hi, I have more than 100 videos on youtube with thousands of visits. This videos are often inserted in other websites, but I don't get links from them. How to take advantage of it?

    Social Media | | ociosu
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  • paulmund


    HI guys, I ran a report on my site and it shows some duplicate titles (example below). Do I need to add something to the htaccess file or another file to fix this? I understand that the search engines should only see 1 URL for the page. 2 pages have "Bikes for sale | used bikes | second hand bicycles" title pauslwebsite.com/bikes/ paulswebsite.com/bikes/index.asp Thanks

    Technical SEO | | paulmund
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  • vijayvasu


    hello Mozzers. question - does it make a big difference between having a .co vs a .com . I am tryign to get a URL, with the actual keywords in the URL . for example blackboots.com/ I see that the .com is taken but the .co is available, is it a good idea to buy it? also what about hyphens in urls - do they hurt or help if you actually have the keywords in the url. thanks much - you rock, V

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | vijayvasu
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  • SEOPresident


    I have run into a situation where a website has 2 pages for different variations of a keyword.  I personally like to use 1 page and make it powerful for a variety of variations of that keyword.  Unfortunately for the site I’m working on, using only one page is not an option.  Here is an example:  They have a page for “Alex Miley Cameras” and then they have a page for “Alex Miley Cell Phones”.  On the first one they want to rank for Alex Miley & Alex Miley Cameras.  For the 2<sup>nd</sup> they want to rank for “Alex Miley Cell Phones”.  My concern is will Google be indecisive on which page to rank for the keyword “Alex Miley” since they both contain this word.  Also, will it affect any of the other words and spread the juice making each page weaker.   I would appreciate advice on how to rank these pages each separately for their keywords and not have to worry about any confusion from Google.  I can’t change the structure of the site.  I only have access to the Meta info and page content.  Thank you for your help

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SEOPresident
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  • EugeneF


    I am working on a site redesign and re evaluating concepts I haven't thought about for a few years. I generally see site navigation that is either "top-down" or "left bar". Top down navigation normally uses the left nav. for search refinements. The benefit of top nav. is that it clears up the center of the page for non navigation content. The drawback is that you can't fit as many categories in a top nav. Left side nav. can hold a long list of categories, but subcategories are often in the center of the page. In the past, I have preferred to use left nav. with a multi level scroll over search refinement.  I believe this allowed users to get to their destination page with fewer clicks.  (I have always believed that every required additional click causes lost customers).  I also believe that this has caused me to get more juice flowing to deeper pages on sites and better long-tail conversion.  This means I have had pages with a LOT of links. With this method, I have tightly controlled my categories.  What on other sites are often dynamic search refinements, are on my sites additional categories. I am considering making a site with a top down navigation system.  I like the additional screen space in the center I get to work with.  Is my assumption about pages created by search refinement wrong?  Is it ok for SEO to have a left nav that has a bunch of search refinements that are dynamically created?

    Web Design | | EugeneF
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  • VPSEO


    We currently have our error page set up as a 202 page that is unreachable by the search engines as it is currently in our robots.txt file. Should the current error page be a 404 error page and reachable by the search engines? Is there more value or is it a better practice to use 404 over a 202? We noticed in our Google Webmaster account we have a number of broken links pointing the site, but the 404 error page was not accessible. If you have any insight that would be great, if you have any questions please let me know. Thanks, VPSEO

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | VPSEO
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  • johnshearer


    Hi All, In your opinion what are the advantages and disadvantages of Livefyre Facebook comments system Disques Thanks, John

    Content Development | | johnshearer
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  • burst


    Hi guys, My name is Rob, and I work at Burst! Creative Group in Vancouver BC. We are having issues with the 5XX(server Error)'s. We have 57 of them, and can't figure out why! We have never had this problem before, but have recently added a blog to our website, and figure that this addition may have caused some problems. I'm hoping that I can get some helpful information from you MOZers to eliminate these crawl errors. You can take a look at our website at www.burstcreativegroup.com . Thank you in advance for all of your input! Rob

    Web Design | | burst
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  • RobertFisher


    I am curious to know if anyone has any data that correlates site/page changes like content or Title Tag, H1, etc. and subsequent movement in rankings on Google and Bing and Yahoo? The equation is for example: ABCSite.com/home-page/ makes a change to the H1 and H2 and one paragraph of content is changed. Over next 6 to 12 weeks changes in page rank for the 3 engines is tracked to see where it started and where it "stopped." Obviously, there are more factors than individual algorithms in play here. An example of that would be that a significant number of sites will be indexed in Google by a dev and not in the others. We see this regularly. So, at least from a timing standpoint, different sites are entering/leaving the fray at different rates. We are going to begin to track this but I would love to see any data already around or speak with anyone involved in such a study about what they found. Thanks

    Algorithm Updates | | RobertFisher
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  • eworld


    I have quite a bit of excellent content articles at my disposal and we would like to increase the number of pages on our site. I could, theoretically add 100's of pages at a time. Does anyone have a good sense of how much content added to a sight in mass looks bad to Google? My plan is to add approximately 50 pages a week to our site, which already has 4000 pages of content. This is relevant content, since we are a custom writing service and all topics are covered. Our content is what gives us great organic hits and orders. However, I would like to add more than 50 a week...how many is too many? Thanks and I appreciate thoughts and feedback! Karen

    Content Development | | eworld
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  • theLotter


    I am trying to add keywords to my SEOMoz campaign and it says I have reached my 300 KW limit eventhough I have only added 1 word! Any suggestions? uwt2V

    Moz Pro | | theLotter
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  • NInc81


    My brother owns a laundromat...Im putting together his site.....I am targetinga small geographic area obviously.... Which domain is more seo friendly for the kw north brunswick nj laundromat? northbrunswicknjlaundromat.com north-brunswick-nj-laundromat.com northbrunswick-nj-laundromat.com northbrunswicknj-laundromat.com I doubt there is a huge difference between any of them and my first instict was to go with "northbrunswicknjlaundromat" but it seems it may be too wordy to not use hyphens. Do search engines care? Thanks in advance for any and all help Nolan

    Technical SEO | | NInc81
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  • MartinHof


    When I type 'plumbing courses' into Google, why does Able Skills with these statistics: Page Authority: 57,
    2,752 Links from 330 Root Domains
    Domain Authority: 52,
    575,594 Links from 1,211 Root Domains rank below other pages with inferior statistics?

    Moz Pro | | MartinHof
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  • MichaelWeisbaum


    Local SERPS continue to confuse me.  I feel like I can tell what's going on but I'm never right.  How do these two listings rank for "best bar" in the local Chicago SERPS?  It's the same if you search for "best bar in chicago". http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&biw=2109&bih=1218&noj=1&gs_upl=3495l4209l0l4335l8l5l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=best+bar&fb=1&gl=us&hq=best+bar&hnear=0x880e2c3cd0f4cbed:0xafe0a6ad09c0c000,Chicago,+IL&cid=17128325649974296516 or http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&biw=2109&bih=1218&noj=1&gs_upl=3495l4209l0l4335l8l5l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=best+bar&fb=1&gl=us&hq=best+bar&hnear=0x880e2c3cd0f4cbed:0xafe0a6ad09c0c000,Chicago,+IL&cid=455944883716881589&ei=aQPqTo7mN4mIgwe4oc3fCA&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=placepage-link&resnum=5&ved=0CFgQ4gkwBA This has had me stumped for months.  I've analyzed everything and there aren't any good indicators as to how this was done.  The former doesn't even have a website.  The latter example has some category keyword stuffing, which I don't get why they're account hasn't been suspended because of it.  It also has a very small and not very powerful link profile. Any insights would be much appreciated!

    Image & Video Optimization | | MichaelWeisbaum
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