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Wow! There are numerous things that can make this happen and what do you mean "re-doing" the domains? Sounds

1. Did you make any serious changes to your website?
2. Did you check Google Webmaster Tools for any penalties?
3. Did you hire any one recently to do backlinking?

Things I've noticed on your website:

1. Don't put the phone number in a graphic. Users can't click to call and the search engines can see the number.
2. Your website says you are in Viera FL 32955 and your Google Plus says Rockledge FL 32955. That's not good.
3. I see you at this address as well. 970 North Cocoa Blvd. # 4 Cocoa, FL 32922  Did they move recently?

Well, affordable + high quality content = spend time trying out various writers until you find one you like.

I have used various writers using Fiverr.com and Elance.com.  I went through a few writers until I could find one that delivered great content for the money. I even felt so bad about the low prices I was paying that I started giving her a bonus now and then.

I have paid from $5 per article to $40 per article. Depends on the length and how much the writer injects the proper SEO techniques. Since I like to do the final editing, I don't require my writer to be a writing guru. She is fast and can deliver many articles over a few days.

I know that specialty writers can cost much more that what I have been paying so it all depends on your specific needs.

Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll just update the graphics and other components to give the site a facelift!

Joomla site is old and dated. Want to convert to new theme with Wordpress. The only thing holding me back is the fear of falling from the rankings and making the client very unhappy

If we do this conversion, is their a chance that we could fall out of the 7 pack? Will try to keep most of the links the same.

I am using ranking reports from BrightLocal. Brightlocal gives you ranking reports that check your ranking by keywords like this:

Google    Google+Local    Yahoo   Yahoo Local   Bing   Bing Local

So apparently, there are multiple ways to rank in Google

1. Go to Google.com and type something in.
2. Go to this url https://plus.google.com/local and type something in
3. Go to maps.google.com

For regular Google search. my client isn't in the top 50 for keyword search "dentist Oxnard CA"
For Google+Local, client is #7 for keyword search "dentist Oxnard CA"

Do people even use Google+Local Search?

My question was how is it possible to not be in the top 50 for Google search for "dentist Oxnard CA" but be #7 for Google+Local search?

I have a client who ranks #7 in Google+ Local for search term dentist Oxnard CA & Oxnard CA Dentist but for regular Google search results, they are not in the top 50. How is this possible? No penalties in Webmaster tools. I've been working on this client for over a year. All of the other pages on the website are ranking very well but the all elusive dentist Oxnard CA position is 0

How does regular Google search results relate to Google+ Local?

Here is the link again. http://www.seobook.com/video-google-seo-friendly-page-titles

If it doesn't work, just copy from here and paste into your browser.

Here is a good video about title tags:
http://www.seobook.com/video-google-seo-friendly-page-titles

I have caught my web developer doing this and I straightened him out real quick. H1,H2,H3 etc are designed to give hierarchy to a web page. I think of it as a priority order of your content.

What happens is that it's real easy to put an H1 tag around text to make the font bigger and even use H2 tags to do the same. My web guy put an H1 tag around the phone number at  the top of the page and that is what Google used to show in the description meta in search listings.

In short, you should use the tags as intended. Here is a link on the subject.
http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/headers/

-Bob

I just don't think it's enough of a signal for Google just to put that in your title tag. Seems to be working ok in Yahoo and Bing search . If you search for "SHOPIOUS DIRECTORY" you do show up.

Most of the time, your Brand name will go at the end of your title tag. So now you have a conflict. Seems like you have an identity crisis. What is the true name of your business? Shopious, Shopious Indonesia, Shopious Directory

A couple of FYI's

You have multiple H1 tags on your home page. Probably not the greatest idea. If you are doing this to size text, probably better to do it with css.

You have registered your domain through GoDaddy and it looks like you have used your personal residence. If you did, you might want to purchase domain privacy to hide this.

Also, If I search for  "Shopious Directory adalah direktori toko toko fashion" you are found as well so your site is being indexed. I just don't think you have used 'Shopious Directory' term all over your website enough for Google to pick it up as a brand.

The thing is, you have nothing in your business name with "Shopious Directory" (and probably no google plus business page named that either that I could find) Your business name is ""Shopious Indonesia" and if you Google that it comes up just fine.

I am searching Google for "shopious directory women" and there are entries that come up.  Give me an example search term that is returning no results.

-Bob

Yes, I don't like Yext. I sure don't want somebody else in charge of my listings. I've used them on a couple of clients early on and really saw no benefit. I feel like they are absorbing all these local directories and eventually we may have no choice but to use them

The only time I would do this is if each business entity had it's own group of people dedicated to the business and you had plenty of content to support the site. Lawyers will sometimes break up Family Law, Business Law, Maritime Law etc into different microsites. It's a ton of work though to keep each site updated and current.

-Bob

1. Website - When developing your site, be sure to check how it looks in Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox. For mobile IPAD, Iphone and Android. If you have issues, it's probably with your CSS. Many websites use what they call responsive designs. They adapt to the type of device you are using. Even with responsive designs, they require tweaks here and there to get things looking right.

2. Website Tanking - Just to rule out a few items, take a look at your Google Webmaster Tools and see if there are any manual actions (messages) done on your site. Also check Webmaster Tools under section Google Index->Index Status to make sure all your pages are indexed.

3. Local Directories - At a minimum, make sure you are listed in these key directories: Axiom, Infogroup and Localeze. After that, claim/add your information in Citysearch/Citygrid, Local.com, Manta, Primeplace Nokia, Yellowbook, Yellowbot, Yellowee,Yellowpages,Insiderpages,Kudzu, Merchant Circle,Supermedia. There are more but this should keep you busy for a while.

4. Claim your Google Plus, Yahoo Local and Bing Listings

5. Know your competitors. How well does your website look against theirs? Does your site look trustworthy?  Use <cite>www.opensiteexplorer.org/</cite> ‎to check your backlinks against theirs.

Unfortunately, trying to rank isn't a set it and forget it operation. Keep updating your website, post to your Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter, Website Blog with engaging content.

The Stonebridge Dental Plus Page that ZD created is here:
https://plus.google.com/104280204877579676759/about?gl=US&hl=en-US

• Notice that it is not a verified listing

The Plus Page I claimed on behalf of the client which is verified is here (which I can log in to):
https://plus.google.com/b/115007218006913673410/115007218006913673410/about

Looks like ZD purchased a domain which then forwards to the ZD doctor page and then created a new Google Plus profile with my clients address and phone.

I might have to ask them for their contract with ZD and see if there is something in there I'm missing.

I did an individual claim. I always claim everything in the clients name. Also, our Google+ listing is verified. (I had the postcard go to client and I entered the code)

I claimed in Places for Business dashboard.

Here is our real Google+ page:
https://plus.google.com/b/115007218006913673410/115007218006913673410/about

The client knew about the ZD "Jump Start"  program but had no Idea what that meant technically.

stonebridgedentaltexas.com domain is owned by ZD

A dentist I work with contracted with a company called Z O C D O C (ZD).  ZD ' S goal is to deliver patients to the dentist. To my surprise, ZD created a domain name called s t o n e b r i d g e d e n t a l t e x a s.com that forwards to the doctors ZD doctor page.

(You can see the Google results listing by Google search: dentist mckinney tx or click this link http://imgur.com/liq05at)

Apparently, ZD calls this their "kick start" program so basically ZD is redirecting traffic from what should have been the dentists 7 Pack listing (which would have gone to the dentist website)  to the ZD's doctor page.
So now, the dentists 7 pack listing domain is owned by ZD but ZD has this hooked up to the doctors office address.

Issues swimming inside my head:

1. Is there anything that can be done here? I can't really ask them to take their site down since they own it.
2. Even if ZD takes this site down, there is no guarantee the dentists website will replace the one that's in the 7 pack currently
3. I am pretty sure that the dentist site won't appear in the 7 pack because that would mean there would be two listings with the same address right?
4. As a side-issue, looks like Google removed the links to the Google-Plus pages? Not it only shows reviews.

Any words of wisdome here? It would be nice that if when somebody clicked on the link to Stonebridge Dental that it would go to the dentist website, not ZD.. like it should be

I have heard many people say "Never pay for a link". I only pay for those directories if it gets me a backlink. My rule is that if it's under 10 bucks, I'll do it. My dentists pay me good money every month and a $10 one time fee isn't going to break the bank especially if it gets you a lifetime backlink.

I started working with a client about a year and a half ago. I had the computer guy who setup the website for my client grant me access to webmaster tools. When I added the site, I have "Restricted Access"  I kind of dropped the ball in following up with him and now, there is no response from his email and the hosting provider website is down.

Is there any way to get his non working email off as owner and make me the owner?

I launched a dental website a couple of months ago and within a month, we had incredible keyword rankings ahead of many of the competitors in the same town. We had a brand new url, brand new content and everything. So in this case, we seemed to rank well in a short amount of time. Our content was nothing special, but unique of course. I am still scratching my head to figure this one out!

Not working for me either

Yea, that's it! A bit pricey. Thanks for the "software review". Maybe I'll sit this one out.

I've seen this report in 10 different place in Google and seems like it's private labeled.  I tried the URL but I don't think this guy is the owner of the tool.

Thanks for the info. I just want to be clear that the links I provided to the reports are just random reports I found on Google. They aren't mine.  I'm just trying to find the source of that tool that was used.

I use SEO MoZ, Majestic SEO, Bright Local, SEOFrog and a few others. Seems like you need several tools to look at things in different ways.

This tool was pretty cool because it runs through your site, tells you what's wrong and how to fix it with examples. For 5 bucks, I fixed a bunch of things that the other tools wouldn't have found.

I've been meaning to check out Raven tools. Thanks for the reminder!

Just for kicks, I decided to pay 5 bucks for an SEO Report on a website I was working on for a client. Yea FIVERR.

The report was actually not too bad and I was able to clean up a bunch of stuff. Here is a link to other sites on the internet who use this tool. I would like to use it for myself so I'm trying to figure out the source of the report. Here are a few urls to the reports. Remove the two stars in the URL. I don't want to give them a backlink.

http://rapid**purple.com/services/free-seo-analysis/
http://www.doc**stoc.com/docs/93426462/SEO-Plan

Has anybody used these or know the source?

-Bob

Ok, thanks, I appreciate the suggestion. I have 17 dental websites I want to change and I would rather not do this exercise twice through all of them! I'll try this on 5-10 pages of the 35 pages I have and see what happens.

Trying to figure out the best way to construct localized  urls for the dental website.

For example, If I have the URL:
http://www.kooskidental.com/services/cosmetic-dentistry/  
and If I want to make it local to the city I would use:

http://www.kooskidental.com/services/richardson-tx-cosmetic-dentistry/

But what happens is that I have other options off the menu like:

http://www.koooskidental.com/services/richardson-tx-cosmetic-dentistry/teeth-whitening/

But if I am trying to rank for richardson tx teeth whitening, I would have to do

http://www.koooskidental.com/services/richardson-tx-cosmetic-dentistry/richardson-tx-teeth-whitening/

But that's pretty long and ugly and I don't think I need richardson-tx in their twice.

If I am trying to rank for richardson tx cosmetic dentistry and richardson tx teeth whitening, what would be the best structure for the url's?

1. i use http://www.majesticseo.com for checking backlinks. It shows everything and is far superior than ose in my opinion.

Just to clarify I am using my clients email and password to access their Google Places account. I use a second computer for this because I hate logging out of my own gmail account on my main machine cause it closes my email and all my Google Docs that I have open.

The Google Places aspect of things seems to be working fine, except for the fact I can't upload photos. I am choosing a photo from my computer. Still getting "We were unable to store this image.   I searched the web for this error and seems that others were getting this message too from time to time. I have been unable to upload photos for 3 days now. The next goal was to try to see if I can upload photos into Google+ but this is where the confusion begins

This brings me to the Google+ page issue. So I figured out that when I log in as my client and end up at the Gmail screen, I click the +You in the Google menu and it takes me to a page that says Join Google+ by creating your public profile. So apparently, there is no Google+ page under my clients login and password.

What I don't understand is that when I search for my client by name, city and state in Google, I see their listing in the SERP and I see they have 5 reviews. When I click where it says "5 Google Reviews, it goes to a page that looks like a Google+ page.  And this is the imaged that I attached on my original post. When I click "Manage this page" it takes me to the Google places Dashboard (My clients, not mine)

If I click the back button on the browser and then click "Edit business details" instead of "Manage this page"  it goes to the screen that has a link that says, "If you own this place, claim it and edit it directly"   When I do this, a sceen comes up and says "This Listing is Unavailable"  and that someone else may own it.

On one hand, it looks like the Google+ page has not been claimed, but on the other hand, it looks like it has cause Google says "This Listing is Unavailable"

I'm working on a dentist website. I logged in using their gmail account. I then searched for the practice name with the city and state then found their listing. I clicked on the link that has the Google reviews and it brought me to their Google+ page.

If I click on Manage this page, it takes me to my client Google places dashboard page where I can edit some information.... even though I am having a hard time uploading images. Getting a "Cannot upload images at this time" Error

The weird thing is that if I hit the browser back button and then  Manage this page again, it takes me to the page where I can claim the business.

I click on the blue link that says "If you own this place, claim it and edit it directly", I get a message that says "You may only access listings that you own. If you created this listing with a different Google Account, please log into that account and try again. If you've deleted this listing, you may create it again in Google Places

Any clues on what is going on? Please see images attached.

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I've been working with dentists for a about 6 months but there is something that I feel I need to nail down.

When looking at directory listings and trying to standardize a dental practice NAP, many dentists have their company name in many different formats. Here is what I have seen so far.

Advanced Dental Care of Chicago
Advanced Dental Care of Chicago - Angela Davidson DDS
Advanced Dental Care of Chicago Drs Davidson, Richardson & Smith
Angela Davidson DDS
Davidson, Richardson & Smith - Advanced Dental Care of Chicago

What happens here is that with dentistry, the doctors name is as important as the practice name. Many people hear about a doctor and Google by the doctors name. Others Google the practice name.

It almost makes sense to put both the practice name and the doctors name in the Business name but as you can see, the practice name can get real long especially if they have 5 other doctors working there.

On top of that, some doctors don't stick around the practice that long so you end up with business listings containing old dental partners.

Trying to come to a consensus on the best way to list a dental practice.

This sounds like a good hybrid approach. Dentist+zip does sound spammy to me and using the doctors name in the URL doesn't give us any keywords we can use. I'll try to come up witha decent URL that looks both professional and keyword rich.

Another SEO person who was working my potential dental customer  website managed to hookup over 147 backlinks to various bogus weather sites, watch sites, chinese sites etc.

The dentist owns the URL which is "dentist" plus his zipcode.  Is it worth continuing SEO on this site or should I scrap the URL? I am worried that Google may take action on this site sometime in the future and all the work I will do will be lost.

He does have another website, because SEO's keeps trying to sell dentists microsites... This site isn't too bad but he doesn't own the URL but the url is a combination of the two doctors names and isn't easy to remember... and we would have to spend time trying to gain control of the URL.

Suggestions?

Thanks for the responses gang. This is certainly a learning process.

When you go to the URL and the link isn't there, what does it mean? Looks like the link may have been around since 2011. Any clues?  What is an old comment on the story or something?

From openexplorer

URL: http://espn.go.com/espn/espys/?ov=bestplay

Title: 2011 ESPYS - July 2011 ESPNHD

Anchor Text: http://www.l a d e n t i s t.c o m    (I don't want a link to them so I spaced it)

Page Authority: 51

Domain Authority 100

Number of Links: 7

Followable = YES

Origin = External

Target URL: http://www.l a d e n t i s t .com/

Since I work with clients in the law and medical fields, I guess I have to be real careful. I guess it make sense to only comment in your niche but I could see that there could be some grey areas.

If I'm a dentist and comment on a forum about an event I'm helping to sponsor is that bad?

If I have a link on a little league website cause I sponsor them, is that bad... it's not my niche.

Now poker sites and websites with .ru and other country urls, yea I can see that and I have run into clients who have a ton of those backlinks.  Think I'll go the route of niche websites first.

In this scenario, would I try to rank the abbreviated page? Guess I really shouldn't because it would compete with the individual pages?

I am working on a dental website. Under menu item "services"   lists everything he does like..

Athletic Sports Guards
An athletic sports guard is a resilient plastic appliance that is worn to protect the teeth and gum tissues by absorbing the forces generated by traumatic blows during sports or other activities.

Digital X-Rays We use state of the art digital x-rays and digital cameras to help with an accurate diagnosis of any concerns.

Digital Imaging On initial visits, and recall visits, we take a series of digital photographs to aid us in diagnosis as well as to give you a close-up view of your mouth and any oral conditions.

Smile Makeovers
We offer a number of different options including bleaching, bonding, porcelain veeners, and in some cases, implants and/or orthodontic care is utilized in our smile makeover planning.

Nitrous oxide for your Comfort

Would it be better to break these services up into individual pages?  I was thinking I would because then I could add more pictures and expand on the topic and try to get an "A" grade on each page.

I'm not sure how I could rank a page if I have 35 services listed on the page. That would be an awfully big H1!

Suggestions?

I totally forgot about the dashboard. Sometimes on the fence about claiming something that is not mine. The process of transferring back to the owner is sometimes not so obvious. Thanks for the info

It's funny you mention that. I have my clients setup mark@example.com. I use mark to be short for marketing so it's not so obvious!

I would like to manage my clients Google places account so I can add pictures, fill out the profile etc. If he already has a Google places account how do I get access?

I feel a little gun-shy about asking for his personal email and password to gain access.

I've been experimenting with farming out my content. I'm kinda cheap so I didn't want to pay for an "official" copy writer.

1. I tried giving some content ideas to a buddy of mine who is a paralegal. He took too long to get content to me and I had to yank it back from him cause it was causing a riff in our relationship.

2. I just started experimenting with using script writers, book writers etc. out of Craigslist. So far the first one I tried seemed like she was into it. I gave her 80 bucks to start last Tuesday. Wednesday evening came around and haven't heard from her so I called and she said she has been busy and she would have it by Thursday. Here it is Friday night and nothing. So far, not working out so good. Her price was $40 buck an hour so I figured if I charged my client $100.00 per article/webpage, I could make some for myself. Plan B will be to interview the next write on the phone extensively and ask the right questions and put deadlines on copy.

Now that's thinking outside the elevator! I like it!

I was just wondering how SEOmoz calculates keyword rankings up and down every week.

Shouldn't there be a way to have SEOmoz calculate rankings on a Local and Non-Local Basis?

For example I have "Local Dentist" as a keyword in SEOmo for my dental client. SEOmoz shows that we are not in the Top 50.

| Local dentist | Not in Top 50 | | Not in Top 50 | | Not in Top 5 |

If I change my location in Google browser to the zip of where the office is located, we
show up in position 14(for the home page) & 15 (for an inside page)

How can I show the keyword rankings to my client if the keyword ranking report doesn't reflect searches done in my clients local area?

If I disable the moz toolbar and restart Firefox, I don't have issues. If I keep the toolbar running with multiple tabs, session browsing gets progressively slower.

I think what happens is that the toolbar has to check page rank, domain authority.. etc so when you are doing general browsing, that slows down your session. Firefox does give memory low indications sometimes but can't tell if that's because of the toolbar working away or not. Haven't run those tests.

I have been using the SEOmoz toolbar for a while. In the course of a day, and with so many projects going on I end up having about 15-20 tabs in Firefox open at once.  Because of the toolbar, my browsing session slows to a crawl and I hate to disable the toolbar because then I have to shut down the 10 projects I am working on. I usually close down my browser when I can't take it anymore and it feels like I am browsing on my 1990's palm device.

What I decided to do is install the toolbar on Google Chrome. I don't use this browser very often so now whenever I need to check out a website, I just use Chrome instead of Firefox.

Maybe there is a way to turn off the toolbar that I don't know about. Any other toolbar tips?

I'll have to figure out how to do this. I was planning on using Wordpress for this. Here is the demo site I have so far.  dental1.datacomplete.com. I don't think this theme can be tweaked to allow for the landing pages as you described but I will give it a shot tomorrow.  Unfortunately the dentists that I am working with are going through a rebuilding process and their funds are somewhat limited so I am trying to get something up for them with cost in mind and with something that they can edit the content themselves.  Thanks again!

Thanks for the information.

Yes she has two locations operating under the same name and are 6 miles apart  with different zip codes and different phone numbers.

I may want to try that "Chat Live Now" type of software for her practice and she may want to give different offers to different offices.

if i used something like mytoothdoctor.com for the main site and then displayed a box to choose a location would that be kinda goofy?

Then I would have mytoothdoctor.com as the main site and then torrance.mytoothdoctor.com and wilmington.mytoothdoctor.com