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Hi,

I work on this site: http://www.towerhousetraining.co.uk/about-us. This is the home page URL. Should this be 301'd to: http://www.towerhousetraining.co.uk?

I have created a site map, which I submitted to Google Webmaster Tools, which includes these URL's: /about-us, /training-we-offer & /contact-us. There are a total of 3 pages on the website. Webmaster tools has only indexed 2 out of 3 pages. I think this is something to do with the /about-us URL, as when I do a site: search, these pages appear:

www.towerhousetraining.co.uk/, /training-we-offer & /contact-us.

I am not sure why Google has indexed the home page as www.towerhousetraining.co.uk/ and not /about-us? Is it a bad idea in general not to have your homepage as your root domain?

I added a  to the homepage, but am wondering if this was the right thing to do?

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Miriam, I hadn't realised that, thanks for your response. When I type 'web design Leicester' no local listings come up but if I search 'web design in Leicester' the local listings do come up. But then, i guess not many people are going to be searching 'web design in Leicester'.

Hi Paul, Thanks for your reply. The title tag change was just a small tweak I did today, so just ignore that. The main changes I had done seem to have all been picked up ok. I appreciate you saying that the search topic is competitive, maybe that's why! I'm planning on getting some articles submitted to some higher authority sites to raise our DA, I'll monitor whether that helps. I'm still confused as to why we're just not being seen in Google Local?

I have been trying to optimise the following site for both Google SERP's and Google Local - Pixel Primate

The URL has been around for around 3 years now but they just updated the website and launched it in December 2012. I did the on-page optimisation early in January 2013 and Google seems to have indexed the changes, for the home page at least. One major keyword I am targeting for the home page is 'Web Design Leicester'.

I understand that the DA is fairly low (24) so this is something I need to improve. However, I've experienced positive results fairly quickly from just on-page optimisation for other sites I have worked on. The site just doesn't seem to be ranking at all for any keywords.

Maybe the industry type is just extremely competitve but I find it very strange to not be visible anywhere in the SERPs. The site does not seem to have any penalties as it ranks for 'Pixel Primate' and all pages appear when doing a site: search.

Also what's strange is that I set up the Google Local listing years ago but it doesn't appear anywhere in the local listing, not even when I search for it manually.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Apologies if this is a dumb question, i'm struggling to find an answer.  I was wondering how to list a business on Yahoo! local UK?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Hi,

I'm currently working on improving rankings for a web design company.  I think i'm possibly getting a bit hung up on this but I'm a bit stuck!  The company has offices in 2 locations in the UK - in both Leicester and London.  Do I need to include the 2 different locations in my keywords to improve ranking for both locations, say someone searching in Leicester searching for say 'web design Leicester'?  ie one of my page titles (with keywords) is currently:

Web design agency, Graphic design, Branding, Leicester & London

Am I going about this in the right way?

Hope this makes sense!