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Oh you're right we still have to update the footer, sorry about that.

Thank you for your help.

Thank you Ray,

We already "submitted feedback" a month ago and I tried it again today.

I have created a Wikipedia page and it is pending approval from Wikipedia

Our info is already in the footer of the site.

Our Local Listing is updated.

Sigh, thank you for your response though! Let me know if you have any more ideas.

Does anyone know if there is a way I can call Google about this?

Hello Everyone,

So we have a problem. There is another business with the same name as ours showing up on Google Local/ Google maps when I type in our business name in Google. Our name is Brighton College, and the other business is Brighton College, however they are from the UK. They are showing up on the right hand side with their wikipedia page and on Google Maps and we aren't, but I'm searching in Canada on Google.ca across the street from our college. Any idea on how to fix this?

Thank you!

Hi Everyone

I was recently approached by the Vancouver Sun and the Province (our major newspapers in BC), and they said they had an "exclusive partnership" with Yahoo. I can't seem to find much information on it... what is the "Yahoo Newspaper Consortium" and is there any benefit for me going with what the newspapers offer rather than doing our own thing with Yahoo Ads?

Any resources or info is appreciated

Hey everyone, How do I print off Google Adwords Certification certificate through Google Partners?

Hey everyone, I have a question.

We already have conversion tracking set up for our landing pages, however Adwords has the option to import goals from anaytics, one of which is for the landing pages. What will happen if I do? Will it erase all the conversion data I already have? Will it mess things up? Or am I not understanding this correctly... Any help would be appreciated

Hi everyone, I am looking here https://developers.google.com/webmasters/videosearch/schema and I don't fully understand.

Could someone please explain, step by step, what I have to do to optimize for Google video search? I.e. Step 1 do this Step 2 do this.

I don't fully understand

Thank you!

Our home page was affected, so I believe it's a little on the home page, more so on the targeted page level.

Wow great job! How long did that take you? What kind of quality links did you get and how did you get them? I'm a bit frustrated because I've been doing some quality links, even got two from 2 different pr7 .gov links, and still haven't recovered yet :s

What did you do?

Great question! I would love to hear answers as I have a similar situation.

My suggestion would be to sign up for Google Local (make sure to merge Google Places and Google Plus) and have each driver verify the location by having Google send confirmation to their home. You can opt to not show the address on the Local page. This will make it so your company shows up on Google Local and Google Maps for each location where each driver lives.

let me know if I need to explain that concept more.

My Opinion: Change to longer branded username for consistent brand identity. If you brand properly they will remember your name anyway, regardless of how long it is.

Personally I have done this for clients and had great success.

Hope that helps

I agree with donford, A few is ok as long as they are relevant and it looks natural. I would never recommend it from directories.

If you or your friend have 2 websites, do a tri-link instead. i.e. you link to his from site 1, he/she links to your 2nd site

in my experience, ALL paid links should be no-folow. Also they may have penalized you for having all the same few keywords. A good link building strategy Must look natural to Google. Otherwise it's just a matter of time before you get penalized.

Sorry this happened to you, i feel your pain!

Hello Everyone,

So we have a problem. There is another business with the same name as ours showing up on Google Local/ Google maps when I type in our business name in Google. Our name is Brighton College, and the other business is Brighton College, however they are from the UK. They are showing up on the right hand side with their wikipedia page and on Google Maps and we aren't, but I'm searching in Canada on Google.ca across the street from our college. Any idea on how to fix this?

Thank you!

Here's some ideas...

free advertising (no follow link) such as banner ads, etc.

if you have more than one website, offer them a link from a different website

a free guest blog post for their website with a link back to your pdf

a link from your twitter or facebook pages

if you have free Google Ads coupons you could offer one of those, or offer to do some ads for them on your account with a free Google Ads coupon

I'll post more ideas if I come up with them

I think it depends more on the quality of the blog, domain age, links pointing to it, etc. If its a wordpress or blogspot blog that was obviously put up a week ago just to make one blogpost for a link then it will have little or no authority. However there are some great, high ranking blogs from blogspot and wordpress that have been around a long time, and a link in a guest post from those would help quite a bit. I would say it matters more how trustworthy the site is, not so much where its hosted.

Having said that, if two sites had the same ranking factors, same domain age, same links, etc. and one was hosted privately and the other on wordpress, I would think they would give the edge to the privately hosted one. I would think otherwise it wouldn't have much of an effect at all.

I thought this was weird and was wondering if anyone knows the answer to this...

I attached the image so you can see what I mean.

How does this company get away with having more characters than what Google Adwords allows? And why is there a "block ads from" thing underneath this ad, but not the others?

Sorry for the bad arrow, I'm on Windows XP lol

Thanks you

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I agree with Webdeal, go with the 301

article directories aren't as effective since the major panda update a while ago.

social bookmarking has its place, just like anything else. Do not bookmark from hundreds or thousands of low quality, PR 0 social bookmarking sites. It;s unnatural and Google will know what you are doing. Instead focus on fewer, high quality social bookmarks. Major social bookmarking sites help you get crawled and indexed faster, as long as you do it naturally