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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?

Question - Does Google read code as is or as rendered?

So for example, with a Facebook Like box, it has all the profile pictures of people...will Google see these as all separate links or ignore them?

you're welcome

ohhh ok sorry then no

Weird, I would contact the help desk for support. I'm sure they can help. Sorry I couldn't be of much assistance

try with www in front of it

Try again, I submitted it and it worked fine. The website may have been temporarily down when you tried the first time. Try again and see if it works.

Did you create a sitemap?

I would create a sitemap and submit to Google Webmaster Central.

yes I have had 3 accepted on yahoo finance. I used marketwire, a press release distribution site and submitted a press release that was accepted on yahoo.

Good point Maria. Google will be pretty unstable for the first little while. It's better to keep calm and carry on with good content

Penguin 2.0 was officially released today. I'm sure we've all seen Matt's video.

http://searchengineland.com/penguin-4-with-penguin-2-0-generation-spam-fighting-is-now-live-160544

Ideas for building sharable, linkable content? New strategies? What to avoid, what not to do, etc?

Let's get a discussion going!

Hi Adam,

No we are not the Brighton College in the UK, we are the one in Vancouver, BC, so I think you have our business info mixed up lol. Our website is http://www.brightoncollege.comand our google plus is here https://plus.google.com/100116630212547145177/posts . We are a private career college so 3 - 18 is definitly not our target LOL!

We do need more reviews though, i am waiting for the verification card from Google because I just merged the google local and google places accounts. So i was planning on getting more reviews after its verified.

Thanks for your  advice! Feel free to add me as a friend here

Someone on another site gave me this link http://www.google.ca/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html it explains just about everything. Thanks everyone for your help!

Haha no worries!

Hey everyone,

I typed "Vancouver Colleges" into Google and this new feature came up which I have never seen. It displays popular schools.

Could someone tell me what this is called?

And how do I get our college on here?

Thank you!

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Is there a way to retarget in Bing Ads?

Thanks, I tried that and it just brought me to the same page. I think I might just have to make a new one

Please read my post. It is already verified, but they have not been merged.

Hey everyone,

I'm getting a wee bit frustrated. I have looked at every blog post I can about merging Google Local and Google Business Pages and I can't figure it out. I already have a verified Google Local page here https://plus.google.com/107404063103285095864/about?gl=CA&hl=en-CA and a Google Business Page here https://plus.google.com/b/100116630212547145177/100116630212547145177/posts . Both are already verified. How do I merge these existing profiles which are already verified?

yes it does thank you!

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.

Hey everyone,

Just wondering, do pingbacks in Wordpress help or harm SEO? Or neither?

Thank you so much for providing such an in depth answer. I actually didn't realize we had SEomoz perks! It seems everyone here agrees that a Wordpress host is the best option. When I started with Bluehost I was happy with their service but over the past couple years I have become more and more frustrated.

I think I might take you and everyone elses advice and go with WPEngine.

I appreciate the time and thought you put into this answer!

Great thread! I just submitted one with Marketwire, it was much cheaper and I know they have strong contacts. i will likely use PR web next time and I'll let you know which I found better.

I think it also depends on your industry and what you are looking to get out of the press release. Marketwire is great for Canadian offline media distribution if that's what you're looking for.

Also I found their support to be horrible too

thanks. any suggestions?

Hmm good to know. Who do you use?

I have a ton of wordpress sites.

They didn't used to be slow, what changed?

I have a ton of websites on Bluehosts servers... are my sites slow because I have so many sites on there? Or is Bluehost slow for everyone?

Hey everyone,

I know is this is a bit of an old strategy, but what do you think about building social profiles (blogger, tumbler, wordpress, etc) with a keyword in the url for link building and SEO? Outdated strategy? Unnatural? Has it worked for you recently?

Comments? Questions? Suggestions?

Hey everyone, I am doing a duplicate content check using copyscape, and realized we have used a ton of the same content on LinkedIn as our website. Should we change the LinkedIn company page to be original? Or does it matter?

Thank you!

lol thanks

yes of course. i am just in the process of creating a new strategy though and fixing some of the stuff the person before me messed up.

Hi Dave,

Yes I am doing something similar, most of these keywords are for different pages. Obviously all the pages will be optimized to the keywords specific to that page, but i am wanting to pick 10 keywords to focus on and rank for with their respective pages. Rather than focusing on everything and building links all at once, I want to focus on 10 at a time, set goals and measure the results, then maintain those results and work on the next 10.

Thank you

Great answer thank you

Let me be very clear, I am not looking for info on how to rank keywords so please do not post about that.

I have a list of keywords I chose and want to rank for, and every group of keywords are related. I was wondering, what is a good strategy for determining which keywords to start with? Should I take one keyword from each group so it looks more natural? Should I do a group of 10 related keywords at a time?

Any ideas? Links? Tips? Resources? What have you done in the past?

Me neither, some examples would be great

Awesome article! Thank you!

I know Google doesn't use meta keywords in meta tags, but i was wondering if there are other smaller search engines that still do? Id it worth it to add meta keywords for them?