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Looking to update my business address where possible because I have moved offices.

I know that Google uses citations from multiple parties to impact on the Google Places results.

Trouble is when address details are updated on hese third party sites I notice that Google doesn't often recache the page and get the new address.

What method(s) can I use to resolve this issue?

Justin

Great advice again, wil buy the bok and look into the service.

Justin

Hi Egol,

Thats great advice RE the competition I will check it out.

The client likes absolutes its difficult to consult on changes / improvements because he would like to see evidence that the improvements should help.  Is there a way to get at this kind of info?

Justin

Hi Eric,

Great advice...

I actually went through comparing new to old site versions.

Would love our thoughts have sent a PM.

Justin

One of my clients recently had his site redesigned.

He wanted to change the design completely, I did offer advice on aspects relating to the redesign, I think its fair to say that he didn't follow all of my advice.

PPC still running as usual and rankings still OK but the leads have gone down.

Most of the leads come via the phone.

I have suggested a number of ways to establish what has gone wrong including surveying his existing customers, comparing old and new designs etc...The client isn't keen on these methods.

I'm hoping someone has some direct experience and can offer some direction as to how best to proceed?

Justin

Thanks so much that does help.

Great advice as usual.

Justin

Hi Miriam,

Glad you like the topic

I'm thinking that cleaner URL's are better if you're trying to prompt customers for reviews, but I doubt the effect will be significant in my niche.

Other than that it's matching up the detail and I guessing that what I do might depend on the platform.

For FB the correct name is still found in the H2 tag.

For Yelp the name mirrors the URL in the H1 tag.

So I'm guessing that Yelp is perhaps more important to change than FB provided that I can get a better URL that is.

Do you have any insight into just how similar detail needs to be within your listings?  For example will Google understand the following:

The addition or lack of a line like "South West England"

Details that are identical but different like "UK" V's "United Kingdom"

in the H2 tag

Great advice Bryan thanks...

You're probably right RE URL availability and I think that might be why the URL's were so complex to begin with.

There is almost zero engagement, one thing I do want to do is get some reviews, to improve my local results.

i know that FB will have perhaps less impact than Google but am guessing that the reviews will be far easier to achieve.

I have decided to re launch a small side project that I had to abandon a few years ago.

I want to specifically target Google Local Results.

I do need to overcome a proximity to centroid issue in a fairly competative niche.

Unfortunately a number of my listings i.e. Facebook and Yelp have less than optimal URL's.

For example:

https://www.facebook.com/businessname.targetlocation.keyword/
http://www.yelp.com/biz/business-name-key-phrase-and-keyword-location

Well you get the idea.

NB: None of these listings currently have reviews.

Now I know that its best to keep the info consistent across the board, so I wonder if I would be better off scrapping these listings in favor of ones with URL's that match the business name.

• I can see that I can merge FB pages so am guessing that this would work for FB, has anyone any experience of this?
• Am assuming yelp will have to be deleted in some way.

Any thoughts?

Sorry should have been clearer its when the text changes as part of a redesign.

Still its seems odd to me.

I have read that it is unsafe to change more than 20% of your site’s content in any update.

The rationale is that "Changing too much at once can flag your site within the Google algorithm as having something suspicious going on."

Is this true, has anyone had any direct experiences of this or similar?

I don't know the actual answer but this http://themoralconcept.net/pandalist.html implies that they are or were up until very recently.

I would say on every page after watching this:

http://moz.com/blog/panda-optimization-whiteboard-friday

and reading this:

http://themoralconcept.net/pandalist.html

Hope this helps.

Justin

I'm looking at a site that has implemented trailing slashes inconsistently across multiple pages.

For instance:
http://www.examplesite.co.uk/ (WITH)
http://www.examplesite.co.uk/product-range (WITHOUT)
http://www.examplesite.co.uk/product (WITHOUT)
http://www.examplesite.co.uk/blog/ (WITH)
http://www.examplesite.co.uk/blog/blog-article/ (WITH)

The blog was created later in Wordpress which is one of the reasons why this issue exists.

Looking at the inbound links unsurprisingly the lions share go to the home page but lots of other pages have links as well, particularly the product pages, no to many to the blog pages.

This pattern is similar in terms of which pages rank, the home page ranks well for a variety of phrases, the product pages also do quite well.

I know that ideally the URL's should be identical to the existing site, or if you have to you should 301 redirect old to new.

The client wants to switch the whole site over to Wordpress which will be default implement a consistent URL structure across the board, thereby changing at least some of the URL's no matter what I do.

I remember a Matt Cutts video that stated that even a 301 redirect will loose a clicks worth of link juice see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Filv4pP-1nw

The existing site has a poor UX compared to the new proposed design so this should help us.

Has anyone got any experience with a similar issue or any advice about how best to proceed?

I have been working with a UK based printing company for a while now.

We have had some good success, ranking well for most of our target phrases.

One thing we do is to offer select Graphic Designers and Illustrators free business cards.

Last year we approached a load of Designers and Illustrators (sourced via followerwonk) and printed cards for them, but we have run out of suitable candidates.

One particular problem is that if the designers don’t need cards at that moment in time, the offer is forgotten about.

Any Ideas how we can give the offer a lift?

Let me know your thoughts.

Justin

Hi Keri,

Yes FollowerWonk is great but it doesn't seem to allow for that...

Justin

Hi Grace,

Thanks for the help, was looking for an automated solution for a list of twitter usernames who I am not yet following.

Justin

Hi Ben,

Thanks for responding.

Its an offer to help fundraisers with drinkimg water for their events.

I have PM'd you the link.

Justin

What about adding to all of the other pages i.e not to /calendar/ the links will be followed but not indexed by Google.

Don't forget country tld's like .co.uk if your marketing in these countries they are also fine.

Sounds a bit like your thinking of running multiple domains, the normal advice is that you should stick with 1.

Working with an idea for link building...

The company I work for is offering help to charities and fundraisers within the UK.

Looking at Twitter to connect with movers and shakers but has anyone got any specific advice / experience to offer?

Justin

Anyone know of a service where I can insert a list of URLs (or twitter user names) and get twitter stats for each account?

Thanks in advance.

Justin

Have Google sent you a message indicating that they thik they are spammy?  If not then they may not be as bad as your assuming.

Also check out http://www.seomoz.org/blog/identifying-link-penalties-in-2012

Hi Simon,

Noindex Follow meta tag sounds like the way to go.

Best to read this first... http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world

Hope this helps.

Justin

Hi Guy,

Does this help...

Although the canonical URL tag is generally thought of as a way to solve duplicate content problems, it can be extremely wise to use it on every (unique) page of a site to help prevent any query strings, session IDs, scraped versions, licensing deals or future developments to potentially create a secondary version and pull link juice or other metrics away from the original. We believe the canonical URL tag is a best practice to help prevent future problems, even if nothing is specifically duplicate/problematic today.

Source:http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new

Thanks for replying..

Started as a Graphic Designer so no faking involved.

In fact thats exactly what I don't want.

I do want to approach people from a social perspective first and foremost, not a link building perspective, which is why I feel my existing account may not be wholly appropriate.

Anyone have any experience of this?

Perhaps I'm wrong and I should use my own account, what do you think?

Don't be too quick to think the worst.

Recently one of my clients changed their geo settings they ranked but not in the UK.

Send me the URL and the target keyword and I will take a quick look.

Justin

Just to update in case anyone wants to know a method would be... http://findpeopleonplus.com/

How to best set up Twitter personas...

Connecting with different groups of people, for different clients.

There are even crossovers most notably in Graphic Design Industry 2 different clients want to engage with Graphic Designers.

Would prefer to handel all through my own account but don't want people to think huh SEO guy he just cares about links.

Best way forwards seem to be to set up client specific accounts?

Any thoughts?

Only 3...

But general advice on scraping would also be apreciated...

Are there any decent tools you would recomend?

Would you just fall back on hiring someone (I'm no coder)?

Justin

Thanks Russ,

Any advice on what to use to scrape the results?

Justin

I need a (or several ways) to search Google Plus Profiles.

It would be great to:

• Identify people by the area in which they live
• Identify keywords in the profile

Any ideas anyone?

Justin

Cool thanks for your help...

Ezine articles seem to use the rel=canonical tag, wouldn't that force the engines to view them as the canonical source?

Have also heard the rumour RE blogs

Should have probably stated that the articles are not perhaps as fantastic as i would like.

Thanks Donnie

I'm afraid the pages on the client site are static.

1 to 2 months ouch...

Thanks for your help...

No idea how it was set I will assume mistake...

Justin

One of my clients has a bunch of articles on the normal article syndication sites.

They have duplicated these articles on their own site.

My instinct is to implement on the offending pages of the clients site.

Anyone with any experience of something similar?

Is this the right way to go?

Thanks in advance.

Justin

One of my clients is targeting UK customers.

They have UK IP address.

I then noticed that they had their Geographic target set to "Target users in: United States".

I advised them to change this.

Anyone know:

• How this could have been set, the client says they didn't do it?
• How long will it take for Google to see this has been changed?

Thanks in advance.

Justin

Thanks for the insight...

"Google trys to redirect you to .co.uk these days"

Thats just what I said to the client unfortunately it doesn't seem to happen when they search HO HUM.

"googles been going up constantly in the UK"

Would love to know where you got the data from, I cannot find it online.

"i would recomend leaving it as targeting UK users"

I won't change anything unless I have strong evidence to do so, so no worries.

So...

Does anyone have up to date info on UK Google.com V's Google.co.uk traffic?

Anyone know how to push up rankings for UK users searching on Google.com?

Thanks in advance,

Justin

In the UK lots of people use google.com rather than google.co.uk.

See: http://weblogs.hitwise.com/robin-goad/2008/04/how_popular_is_googles_pages_from__the_uk_search_option.html

The above data is a bit out of date but still I know lots of UK people who search on google.com.

When I depersonalise the results and search there is a difference between what I see on google.com V's what I see on google.co.uk.

Indeed one of the companies I work for ranks ok on google.co.uk, but not so well on google.com

Questions:

How would I best track ranking for UK based users who use google.com AND/OR google.co.uk using the SEOmoz tools (or other tools if appropriate)?

I note that in "Google Webmaster Tools" you can change the setings to "Target users in United Kingdom".  Given the fact that UK users use both google.com AND/OR google.co.uk would it be better to change this to unlisted or deselect the "Target users in" option?

Thanks in advance.

Justin

Hi Joshua,

Written in haste...

Firstly if you are going to add unique content to each of the pages that makes them each a best in class page for the terms that you are targetting then the dup issue will be resolved (assuming that you optomise each of the pages correctly).

Content about the individual woods, doesn't sound good enough to answer the queastions a searcher might have if they were searching for "Sapele Countertops".

In terms of Jquery, it sounds like you need to figure out what you are trying to achive in the first instance.

let me know the following and I will try to help further:

Have you any evidence that these terms are searched for?

Do you have any idea of keyword difficulty http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty for these terms?

Depending on what your trying to achieve you have loads of options.

Hope this helps.

Justin