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We publish 2-3 great quality news stories/posts on our sites weekly, but are struggling to gain traffic from external sources for them, other than our own blog and socials. We have followings for each of our sites, but want to expand and get our posts found in other relevant blogs, features, releases etc.

The posts are 'Top 10 Tips...', 'How To... in 6 Easy Steps', 'What Makes a Great...' etc. All great things that people want to read about and share. All this of course helps towards the SEO of the sites, but the posts aren't written for that, they are written to guide and inform.

My question is, how are other people getting their great content found online, talked about and shared? I personally think that our posts are awesome; containing useful information that will help people. Isn't that what it's all about?

Hi Jason

I've never had this problem yet (touch wood) but what I find works is verifying the actual business via phone or postcard, which you have done, linking the web URL in the 'Contact Us' section and then creating a Google+ button on your webpage which links to the URL that you have entered.

E.g.

http:www.russkellfurniture.co.uk

https://plus.google.com/106174762290348981656

Sometimes it takes a couple of days for Google to recognise that they are linked, but this is the way I usually find works.

If you're still struggling in a couple of days time I suggest you try https://support.google.com/places/contact/c2c_places (they are online from 2pm UK time). I've spoke to these guys a couple of times regarding issues with Google Places and Local accounts and they always sort the problem for me.

Let me know if you're still having trouble!

Luke Gilrane

So I've just seen that Moz have rolled out their new Moz Local to help businesses in the USA...

Has anyone any idea if this will be available in the UK, if so do we know when?

Also, would love to know some feedback on anyone who has already started using this new feature

Thanks Andrew.

I did speak with someone at Google Places yesterday about this issue and they informed me that places on the old dashboards would eventually be upgraded to the new layout, hopefully fixing my problem.

I'll also look into the article that you've linked!

Thanks for your response/help.

Looks like the issues have been sorted, received a number of reports this morning, and each has only come through once.

Fingers crossed it's been sorted and it won't start happening again!

Thanks again David

I'm wondering if anyone can help me...

I'm trying to set up Google+ and Google Local pages for some of our clients. For the newer clients this is easy as all their accounts are using the new Google Places dashboard which allows you to create the Local Listing and then the partnering Google+ page. Simples.

Example: https://plus.google.com/+twistfix/ (A verified Google Local listing, with a verified Google+ page for the company)

The problem I'm having is some of our older clients already had a Google Places listing from years ago, but this is on the old Google Dashboard (doesn't allow me to create a partnering Google+ page for the business).

What is the best way around this? Do I delete these old listings and start fresh using the new Google dashboard (creating the local listing and Google+ page together?) or is there another fix?

I found this guide on the Moz Blog really useful... Top 20 Local Search Ranking Factors: An Illustrated Guide

Plenty of stuff to think about and some really great tips, and need-to-knows. Hope this helps.

Great news, thanks for your help David. Look forward to your response.

The most recent duplicate report I have been sent was earlier today was from campaign Carrylift Group and the subject of the email was: Your weekly custom report for Carrylift Group is ready!

I received one of the reports at 3:44am and the other (exact same report) at 9:49am GMT.

Hi David

It's all active campaigns listed under this account (bricktech). Can you grab the list using the account name, or do need me to list them all?

Thanks

I still want the weekly reports, but only want one of them.

At the minute I'm receiving the same report twice for one campaign.

I've only got one custom report set up that is set to automatically send me crawl/rankings once a week, but each week I'm receiving the same report twice and can't see why.

It used to be that I received just one weekly report per campaign when using MozPro.

Over the last couple of weeks/month (since creating MozAnalytics reports) I've started to receive 2 reports for the same campaign...with no different whatsoever, apart from the time that they have been sent.

I've been back into the old MozPro campaigns and deleted any automated reports that were being generated there, and so now I should have just one weekly MozAnalytics report from each campaign.

Has anyone had this problem before and do they know how to fix it? Getting really annoying, especially with 13 campaigns resulting in 26 emails!

Thanks

Hi there,

I recently remember reading somewhere that tracking code could be used to monitor sales/conversions of eCommerce payments that went through WorldPay.

I've been looking around the web for news stories, forums, discussions, but all seem to be from 2007 - 2011; was just wondering if anyone knew any up-to-date info they could point me towards?

Thanks

Hello

Yes - I found this blog post after I had submitted the question.

Looks like this could be the solution.

Thanks

I'm getting quite a few 'Duplicate Title Error' on category pages which span over 2 - 3 pages.

E.g.

• http://www.partwell.com/cutting-punches
• http://www.partwell.com/cutting-punches?page=1
• http://www.partwell.com/cutting-punches?page=2
• http://www.partwell.com/cutting-punches?page=3

All 4 pages currently have the same title... <title>Steel Cutting Punches</title>

I was thinking of adding Page Numbers to the title of each corresponding page, thus making them all unique and clearing the Duplicate Page Title errors.

E.g.

• <title>Steel Cutting Punches</title>
• <title>Steel Cutting Punches | Page 1 of 3</title>
• <title>Steel Cutting Punches | Page 2 of 3</title>
• <title>Steel Cutting Punches | Page 3 of 3</title>

Is this the best way to go around it? Or is there another way that I'm not thinking of?

Would I need to use the rel=canonical tag to show that the original page is the one I want to be found?

Thanks

Hey guys

I asked the same question about a week or so ago and received some really good feedback.

http://moz.com/community/q/i-still-go-back-to-pro-when-using-my-moz-account-should-i-be-using-the-new-moz-analytics

Thanks

Brick technology

Have you tried searching for you site in Google to check that it is being indexed?

Try... site:yoursite.co.uk (notice no space between the colon and your site URL)

This will return any pages that are being indexed, and roughly how many pages are being indexed also.

Thanks

Brick Technology

When I look at the heading "Local Search Volume" or, "Global Search Volume...

Are these figures for 1 month (that's what I'm assuming)

Thanks