I had a website that disappeared from the search rankings one morning, then a couple hours later it re-appeared. No manual actions were taken.

IF you had a website disappearing today (or yesterday possibly), it could be a Penguin 3.0 penalty as it was released within the past 24 hours.

Thanks,

Cole

Thanks Erica!

Sounds like I want to move forward with Moz Local for most of our customers.

Awesome feedback.

Can you let me take a look at it? Feel free to private message me.

Thanks,

Gotcha. You solely focus on Moz Local.

Does anyone use any other service besides Moz Local?

Thanks,

For brands that have a budget to pay $600 / year for valuable backlink directories, would you recommend Moz Local + Yext?

I would like to hear some feedback on marketers that use Yext.

Thanks,
Cole

Is that it?

The same article will rank it two different geographic locations and duplicate content won't hurt me?

I feel like that's too easy. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

Thanks!

Hey Moz,

I am looking to target international audiences. But I may have duplicate content. For example, I have article 123 on each domain listed below. Will each content rank separately (in US and UK and Canada) because of the domain?

The idea is to rank well in several different countries. But should I never have an article duplicated? Should we start from ground up creating articles per country? Some articles may apply to both! I guess this whole duplicate content thing is quite confusing to me.

I understand that I can submit to GWT and do geographic location and add rel=alternate tag but will that allow all of them to rank separately?

www.example.com

www.example.co.uk

www.example.ca

Please help and thanks so much!

Cole

Hello Alan,

Within Google Analytics, you can create a goal based on how long a user spends on the specific page. I think this is your best bet - I haven't heard of a plugin to assign a conversion when filling out the form.

Hope this helps.

Awesome responses guys. Anyone else have any other insight?

Excellent, quality response. Thanks so much.

I would love to hear from any disavow experts, maybe even costs of them (of course, I don't want to break any Moz rules that may be applicable).

Cole

Hey Moz,

I am working with a client on more advanced SEO tactics. This client has a reputable domain authority of 67 and 50,000+ backlinks.

We're wanting to continue SEO efforts and stay on top of any bad backlinks that may arise.

Would it be worth asking websites (below 20 domain authority) to remove our links? Then, use the disavow tool if they do not respond.

Is this a common SEO practice for continued advanced efforts? Also, what would your domain authority benchmark be? I used 20 just as an example.

Thanks so much for your help.

Cole

Hey Ruben,

I've done some work for a couple title companies. If you Google "title lawyers lafayette la" or "title attorneys lafayette la," we rank #1. HOWEVER, our client has not seen a big jump of incoming customers from the website. In addition, we have recently added on local SEO (Google Places for business).

I've seen local SEO (Google Places for business) have tremendous success with a local criminal lawyer in town.

Conclusion: Local SEO may be more valuable than attempting to rank #1 on Google, but it is important to remember that your Local SEO (Google Places) is affected by your organic SEO as one of many factors.

I suggest: Having A+ on-site optimization (URL's, Title, Meta Description, Content with focused keywords, h1-h3 headers, image alt tags). And pursuing Local SEO via Google Places. Make sure to fill out all of the information within the account and I hope you achieve first page of Google Maps on SERPs.

Other marketing efforts: We have seen success from doing Facebook Ads targeting the real estate companies in town (custom audiences would be great too). We have also seen good success in Remarketing. Considering the title industry is a top-of-mind game.

Good luck!