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Jeff is completely right on this one!

Having a testimonials page on your website is a great idea. It shows the clients going to your website that you are a good provider. I would think you could just place "Review from Google+" or "Review from Yelp" at the bottom of a comment.

Here is our testimonial page: http://www.essentialpest.com/testimonials/

We don't place reviews from other websites. The testimonials we have posted came from emails, letters, etc. - However, I would think that if you linked the word "Google+" from "Review from Google+" with a link to that review, it would just be proof that review does exist.

This may be useful to you. http://moz.com/blog/getting-reviews-the-right-way-for-local-businesses

Good luck!

Most definitely option #1.

What is the word on Meta Keyword Tags? Are they good to have, or bad?

Our biggest competitor seems to have them.

That may be why they are not going away. When using the disavow tool, you need to find the exact link from that domain where the link is placed, and then disavow that linked page.

Are you disavowing the exact links or just the domains?

Thank you for your help!

The problem is, our content is unique to each page and post. Yet they still have been coming up duplicated. I'll have to try Netrepid's google searching suggestion to double check these.

Thank you for that information!

No Magento. We were debating the use of Canonical tags ourself.

From my understanding, you're asking if you should have tracking from youtube to your website, or if Google Analytics will show that traffic based on how much traffic your YT is getting.

If that is the case, then I would suggest tracking them individually as you said. The Google Analytics tracking only tracks how many people go to your youtube, not how many people go to youtube and click your website link.

Therefore, Google Analytics will not show traffic going from youtube to your website, only your traffic to youtube.

Hope this helps.

Although we no longer attend these conferences, Reach Local seems to have great information as far as reaching local SEO goals. Constant Contact is another great one to attend if you are looking to reach out to your customers. It helps to bring more attention to your business.

Having a testimonials page on your website is a great idea. It shows the clients going to your website that you are a good provider. I would think you could just place "Review from Google+" or "Review from Yelp" at the bottom of a comment.

Here is our testimonial page: http://www.essentialpest.com/testimonials/

We don't place reviews from other websites. The testimonials we have posted came from emails, letters, etc. - However, I would think that if you linked the word "Google+" from "Review from Google+" with a link to that review, it would just be proof that review does exist.

This may be useful to you. http://moz.com/blog/getting-reviews-the-right-way-for-local-businesses

Good luck!

Thank you for that information!

Disavow is a very useful tool, but it can definitely effect your site negatively. Be careful how you use the Disavow tool.

Disavowing the direct link is the best way to tackle removing those links. In other words, finding the direct page link that your link is on, rather than just the main domain. Otherwise, those links will still exist within the website. I would definitely try to get this resolved. However, it looks as though this site is one to be reported as it looks very spammy.

We have found a numerous amount of spam URLS that our webmaster tools has pulled linking to us. It is important to get these cleared up to be seen as trustworthy to Google. Having links that are not related to your website is seen as "bad" through Google.

In the top right you will see "MOZ PRO" click on that. This will bring you to your home page that will have a listing of your website. Click the "View" button next to it on the right hand side.

This will bring up your dashboard and on the left hand side you will see a menu like this:

Dashboard

Search

Social

Links

Brands & Mentions

Click on the one that says "Search." From there, scroll to the very bottom and on the right hand side there will be a list of the errors you're looking for.

Most definitely option #1.

This recently happened to us. Unfortunately, we had to call Google directly in order to get this problem fixed.

Here is the number: 1-650-253-0000   Press 5, 3, then 0.

Hope this helps, I know it helped us!

If you do not edit the URL in WordPress yourself, it will make one for that blog post automatically. If Google webmaster tools is showing the original URL (long version) as a 404 error, it is because WordPress has a shortened version and Google is still reading the elongated one which does not exist.

To fix this, you can redirect the longer URL to the shorter URL with a 301 re-direct - or you can simply go and change the URL of that blog post to the longer version.

If you found the link from that domain that is causing the problem, I would suggest disavowing the exact link using Google Webmaster tools.

Spam links are considered toxic links to your website and can definitely impact your ranking.