It does indeed Miriam, exactly what I needed. I new about the 20 miles radius, I even asked a few Google moderators about but I got mixed responses. Anyway, thanks!

Thanks Andy!

I manage the Google places page for a SAB (local limousine company). The question is, should I add "taxi" and "airport shuttle service" as categories? I have listed only "limousine" and "car service' for now and I want to play it safe although those 2 are related to limo service. Sometimes people refer to limo service as "taxi service" or they are inquiring about prices for shuttle service to the airport and they end up booking the service quite often.

Does Google look to our website to find these words in the content? Google Analytics show lots of people are finding us through those two keywords as well although you cannot find the word “taxi" on our website. The interesting thing is that when searching for "taxi + my zip code" the company shows up 4th on maps results and when searching for "shuttle service + my zip code”, the company shows up 2nd on local results and also 2nd in organic results. Is this enough to make me add these 2 categories?

Second question is about the area served, does it make a difference (in rankings) if I choose “Distance from one location"over"List of areas served"? What happens is the red pin would be in a different location. If I choose "Distance from one location" the pin would be right in the center of the city (which I think it shouldn't matter anymore that much since the proximity to the centroid is not a ranking factor anymore). If “list of area” served is selected, (the city name will be chosen) then the pin would be about 5 miles West of the city center.

Any thoughts will be appreciated.

Thank you!

The page ending in ?m=off is non existent. We are using Joomla and such page does not exist and cannot be configured via canonical tags. Any other suggestion?

Thank you!

Hello,

We have a parallel mobile website and recently we implemented a link pointing to the desktop website. This redirect is happening via a javascript code and results in a url followed by this paramenter: ?m=off

Example:
http://www.m.website.com                                 redirects to:
http://www.website.com/?m=off

Questions:

• Will the "http://www.website.com/?m=off" be considered duplicate content with "http://www.website.com" since they both return the same content?
• Is there any possibility that Google will take into consideration the url ending in "/?m=off"? How should we treat this new url?
• The webmaster tools URL parameter configuration at the moment isn't experiencing problems but should we submit the parameter anyway in order not to be indexed or should we wait first and see the error response?
• In case we should submit this for removal... what's the best way to do it? Like this?
  • Parameter: ?m=off

• Does this parameter change page content seen by the user? - doesn't affect page content

Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you!