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Hi people,

After much hard work our site www.noyelling.com.au is doing very well in the SERPS in Brisbane. The only problem is that we've gone from having a full blended listing to what can be seen in the attached image - a map-pack listing. While we are number 1, I don't feel that having the listing as it is is offering anywhere near the value we'd receive from a full blended maps/organic listing.

Any ideas on how a full listing can be achieved so that we can be number 1 and be separate from the map-pack we are part of currently?

Thanks,

Matt Williams

www.noyelling.com.au

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I think the company logo or even a picture of the product could improve click through

but this would be going against google rules as they ask for a head shot.

I agree that you may be better of with http://schema.org. But it woulkd be great if you could find a way to protwct your unique contwnt with rel=author and not lose ctr.

I found an old domain that has very high domain authority and one of its top linking root domains is baidu I clicked the link in ose and it took me to a baidu serp?????

please explain...im happy to clarify if need be or give you the site in question just let me know what you think.   I checked ose for the page authority of the serp page it was 50.

would that page be helping the site in question to rank?  or  am I just dumb for asking this question

One more thing I couldnt actually find a link to the page I was looking at in ose on the baidu result page..

thanks

So when I look in wmt its telling me our site is about fish oil etc when we are web designers.

We have blocked these pages in robots text and removed them.

WMT is showing 500 errors in crawl errors and telling us we have health issues on our site.

what should we do and how do i bulk select these errors is wmt  to mark as fixed (if they are fixed)

Thanks for the contribution and link building recommendation.

Re. duplicate content, I'm very aware of the importance of completely reworking the content and tailoring each location-hub to that specific location.

Thanks again

Cheers Stephen, your recommendation is something I definitely had in the works, going to work on ranking the home page for 'driving school', 'driving lessons' and other general, nationally-applicable terms.

Hi peoples,

I'm looking to expand my company (www.noyelling.com.au) from Brisbane to other major Australian cities, and really need to nail the way the site is set up and the SEO strategy before committing a lot of time, effort and money into getting top rankings in different cities around Oz.

Most of our SEO clout currently is on our home page, and it is optimised very heavily for Brisbane-specific keywords. My idea for new regions is to follow a similar approach by creating a new 'home' page for each new city (along with a separate pricing and service area page).

e.g.

www.noyelling.com.au/perth/

www.noyelling.com.au/sydney/

etc etc

The idea would then be to build links and citations to each of these city-specific home pages to get them ranking for all the top local keywords.

Do you think this is the best way to go about this, or could I consolidate my efforts somehow?

Key considerations are:

• Need to develop a natural link profile
• Nail local SEO
• Quality usability for customers (arriving on a page for their city rather than having to navigate to their city)

What about making the writing into an image(that way it wouldn't be crawled it might look cool or weird not sure? How are you going about setting up the localized pages? I'm about to do something similar and wouldn't mind a few tips

Heres the url http://www.bluejade.com.au

I completely  agree with you when you say..

"In my opinion the SEO consultant who will bring the most value to a company will be the one who learns the most about that  company's current business, current products, current goals and current capacity... and then identifies ways to match them to opportunities that exist on the web."

And this is exactly the type of business I want us to be, so how would you recommend learning about these above mentioned factors and more.  Apart from researching there site and industry ( which comes later) assuming they are not a client yet.

It seems to me that a well designed in depth questionaire would scale very well and would mean that before you start looking deeply into someones site ( which takes alot of time ) you can use questions carefully constructed to serve lots of purposes.

Then of course come your research more talks with the client and eventually a proposal/ business plan.

but it seems to me that the first step is to make them think  through a set of questions

it shows that they are commited and it should be very usefull for everyone involved