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DinoRoss

@DinoRoss

Joined Last Online Location Waynesburg, Ohio

Job Title: SEO Consultant

Company: Icon Services, Inc.

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I have been doing SEO for 20+ years. We own 4 E-commerce websites, 40+ Amazon affiliate sites and a few miscellaneous affiliate sites focused on Anti Virus. We help clients with their digital marketing, mostly multi location businesses, service industry and manufacturing. We are of the few that make a living with our own Internet Marketing and work for others. Most of our knowledge and experience comes from growing our own sites. Our roots began selling Help Wanted (help Wanted USA) ads on AOL before the Internet. We used AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe and then later owned an ISP in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the first ISP's in Ohio, started with 14.4 modems and later got out of dial up when it hit 56K and started selling website creation and online marketing. Got involved with Internet Marketing thru a group called StomperNet and started into E-Commerce and Affiliate Marketing. I have been obsessed with learning the everchanging Internet Technology since then! The rest is history...

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RE: Call Tracking, DNI Script & Local SEO

Hey Charlie - I realize this is a slightly old question post, but I am just now starting to dig into the details on this for my clients. One thing many of these articles that offer a 'solution' is failing to address is what number to actually put on your local search listing.

I understand DNI and as long as your website has your 'regular' static local number on the homepage, and you use the static number in all of your local SEO efforts - You should not see any penalties. I have many clients that use DNI and do not have an issue, plus I have read that Google can even read the javascript and see the number the DNI is replacing. The DNI is only useful if someone actually clicks past the initial search result to call - So basically, you may still only be getting partial data if someone does not click to your site but just rather calls the number in search results.

What my clients are now asking for, and I am pushing back on , is whether we can use separate call tracking numbers on separate Local SEO mediums. Here is an example -

Google: 800-555-1234

Facebook: 800-555-1235

Bing Places: 800-555-1236

This would still keep the static/owned number on the site - but show us who is calling from where. This would give good data in call tracking reports but from what I know and have researched, kills local SEO success due to NAP inconsistency.

posted in Local Website Optimization

DinoRoss

We are of the few that make a living with our own Internet Marketing and work for others. Most of our knowledge and experience comes from growing our own sites. Our roots began selling Help Wanted (help Wanted USA) ads on AOL before the Internet. We used AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe and then later owned an ISP in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the first ISP's in Ohio, started with 14.4 modems and later got out of dial up when it hit 56K and started reselling T-1 lines to businesses and ISP's.