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We use the All in One SEO plugin which allows us to add the Google Plus profile URL for each user. Then we go to the Google Plus user page and the blog as a place they contribute to.

It seems to work pretty well for us.

Thanks ladies.

It looks as if you have answered the question and confirmed what I thought.

So, I wanted to say thank you ahead of time for any help the amazing Moz community may be able to provide me with. I am going to start with giving a little background to the company I work for and then I will ask the question.

We are a 200 person CFO Services firm (www.b2bcfo.com). We have partners almost all over the country and our research with potential partners and clients has shown that they like having a national presence, but they also need a regional/local presence too. To that end, we set up Google Places accounts for each of our partners as they are technically separate businesses under our umbrella.

We also have the main national site (www.b2bcfo.com) and we have regional websites (e.g. www.houstonb2bcfo.com).

We want to set up Google Authorship on each of our partners sections of the regional website, in the process of setting this up, we realized that the Google Plus pages we were using were Local + pages and it didn't seem to give us the option to add the "Contributor on" links to get Google Authorship working.

It seems to me as if the only way we can get Google Authorship working is to set up additional Google Plus accounts (users) and then manage 2 accounts for each professional.

I was wondering if anyone in the community knows a way of getting the Google plus local pages to work  with authorship? Or do you have any other suggestions on how this may work?

Please let me know if you need more information,

Thank you.

We would have the job description on each page mentioning the locations, then we would also have the job capture form.

You are right in that these descriptions do have unique data on them. I am thinking we are just going to have to take the time to write as much unique content as possible.

Thanks for the feedback.

Marcus,

I am not sure I understand the last line of your post. But I have looked at the Keyword difficulty tool and these are fairly competitive phrases.

The problem we have is that we are competing against the likes of Indeed.com, Monster.com and sites such as that. While we do use these sites, they don't quite provide the flexibility we are looking for.

We used to rank quite highly for these types of phrases, but I have noticed a recent trend in Google for them to rank the job search sites ahead of us. The hope is that if we provide similar content, then Google would start pushing us up the rankings again.

I think these need to be indexed as it is through organic search that people have been getting to our site using terms such as "cfo jobs in [location]"

I have been thinking about adding new content for each city, but you are right, that is a LOT of work. I wonder if it might be worth having one page with unique, location based content for the main city in an area and just have a list of nearby cities on the page that we are also hiring in.

We are planning on having a job posting page for each city that we are looking to hire new CFO partners in. But, the problem is, we have LOTS of locations. I was wondering what would be the best way to have similar content on each page (since the job description and requirements are the same for each job posting) without being hit by Google for having duplicate content? One of the main reasons we have decided to have location based pages is that we have noticed visitors to our site are searching for "cfo job in [location] but we notice that most of these visitors then leave. We believe it to be because the pages they land on make no mention of the location that they were looking for and is a little incongruent with what they were expecting.

We are looking to use the following URLs and TItle/Description as an example:

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http://careers.b2bcfo.com/cfo-jobs/Alabama/Birmingham

| CFO Careers in Birmingham, AL |

| Are you looking for a CFO Career in Birmingham, Alabama ? We're looking for partners there. Apply today! |

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Any advice you have for this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

We use the All in One SEO plugin which allows us to add the Google Plus profile URL for each user. Then we go to the Google Plus user page and the blog as a place they contribute to.

It seems to work pretty well for us.