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Hi Guys,

One of our clients are a big brand but their brand is a keyword domain.

After signing up to seo moz and utilising the recommended changes to the on page seo, something drastic happened.

Every page of my clients site appended the site name at the end of the title tag.

Example: <title>keyword | keyword 2 | domain name keyword</title>

I felt, and also with seomoz reports, that having the main keyword appended to the end of every title tag was far too spammy and as seo moz suggested could possibly have different pages fighting for ranks on that phrase.

We decide to remove the domain from the end on all page titles, and since google re cached the site, the rankings have tanked big time. The site is still indexed so thats good but when you consider a single lead is worth over £1000 to my client and with 20-30 leads per month, he isnt too happy.

Has anyone experienced this before? My guess is google is re evaluating the rankings to reflect the new title tags, and thus put my clients site out until it's finished updating the rankings etc?

Any help?

Thanks

i think this is probably a "only google knows" as you say.

Be good to know for sure

maybe not the best example then lol but still only one map, merged listing. what about trust deeds glasgow?

local search and i know theres lots of local businesses and maps listings but google dont show them?

im not an expert on maps so maybe someone can shed some light?

Hi guys,

Ive been doing local seo for quite some time and had great results from both organic listings and local maps listings (and a merged listings).

However ive noticed time and time again that local maps listings dont appear in serps on all local searches, even the most popular local search terms.

Take the phrase "marketing company glasgow" local phrase,local intent but no maps results. But if you click on maps on the laft hand side, theres clearly tons of mpas results.

Any ideas why google dont display local businesses on certain local intent phrases?

Is there any way around this? Even with good on page seo, and good rankings organically, it would be great to get the maps listing on page 1 too.

Thanks

Robert