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kyegrace

Awesome! Thanks for the great response. I'll dive into it in more depth shortly but I think you have likely covered off a ton of great avenues.

I'll let you know what I find with each of your suggestions and/or questions.

Thanks again!

kyegrace

We've noticed that the unit # is no longer showing on a clients Places profile page. Any thoughts on why and if relevant to rankings?

Places page - https://skitch.com/kyegrace/8fimr/vuppie-real-estate-team

or

http://maps.google.ca/maps/place?hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4GGNI_en-GBCA461CA461&gs_upl=&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1366&bih=641&wrapid=tlif133037839755610&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=realtor&fb=1&gl=ca&hq=realtor&hnear=0x548673f143a94fb3:0xbb9196ea9b81f38b,Vancouver,+BC&cid=5594900399034912659&ei=o_ZLT4XHM6ObiQKZnbCdDw&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=placepage-link&resnum=8&ved=0CIMBEOIJMAc

and as it appears in the backend https://skitch.com/kyegrace/8fimk/google-places-analytics

Any insight greatly appreciated!

kyegrace

In the end we found a unique address. The client decided it wasn't worth the risk of complication with the co working space versus using another commercial address that only he uses.

He is legitimately using this address for his business exactly how he would have used the co working space so it is onside. Just happened to be a space available that the owner of will likely never use the address online.

Sadly though that leaves us still wondering what the impact of the co working space address will cause.

kyegrace

Hello All,

A client's site was recently redesigned and since the redesign the is not displaying as such in the search engines when created using Option+R on a Mac. If it is created using it works fine.

I suspect it has something to do with the programming or the CMS. Other sites on this CMS seem to not have this problem from what I have seen so far.

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cliff+stevenson#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=cliff stevenson calgary realtor&aq=0&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=23c2bd992ac36d9d&pf=p&pdl=3000

As more time goes on, title tags and descriptions that are months or years old are also digressing to the 0.

I have cued up a few tests and once crawled will have narrowed down whether it is a CMS issue or not. Won't have completely done so, but much closer. The CMS says they have made no changes that would have caused this.

The programming gang on my end says they did nothing different on this site then on others so it can't be on us.

The classic 'no way it can by us, it has to be them' from all angles.

I am stuck in the middle trying to find the solution.

Has anyone else ever come across this problem?

Thoughts?

kyegrace

Ya, you got it right. I was worried that only changing out one word may look spammy to the SE's.

I will work on wording my Q's better!

kyegrace

Good point. As long they all use their own cell number and not the actual number of the co working space (which does offer answering services to create perception of a receptionist) they should be in a stronger position.

kyegrace

No. Either I did a poor job asking the question or you misunderstood the question.

It has nothing to do with canonicalizing. Each page is to stand alone and hopefully rank well for the neighbourhood name and in conjunction with another relevant keyword phrase. There is no 'duplicate' version of any pages.

kyegrace

I am more concerned about the neighbourhood level pages not each listing... http://www.experiencerealtygroup.com/BaturynandDunluceHomes.ubr. These are not created by the CMS, we create these by hand. It does need to be scalable though as we are creating hundreds of these page each week for our clients. When we have multiple clients in the same area we do mix up the wording of the title tag so we are not creating duplicate title tags amongst them.

Thoughts?

As you noticed the CMS gets pretty busy creating unwieldy URLs. The CMS auto creates the title tags for each listing. I am working on convincing them the change how these are auto created into something more appropriate. The URLs...I will be old and grey before I can convince them that needs to change.

Challenge in the real state space is always access to listing data, the CMS companies know this and for most of their users access to the listings on their site is all they think we need. So while Ubertor is very good in listening to our change requests they also get that we ask for changes that are relevant to less then 1% of their customers.

kyegrace

I live in Vancouver Canada and there is no shortage of businesses using Twitter here. We are a bit of a hotbed of SM use. There are plenty of businesses who don't get it and are really stinking the joint up with bull horn techniques.

On the other hand there are some that are really killing it. Plenty of restaraunts, gellato shops, bars etc are all doing a great job by being part of the culture and dialogue that goes on.

Sounds like you are intimate business that deals with your cutomers face to face. Treat social media with the same caring and general interest in your customers, neighbours and community that you do in your everyday face to face interactions.

Make it about everyone else by making them better for having lent an ear to what you have to say. They can pick up a local flyer and see whats on special. But they can get so much more from you being human.

Like others have suggested tie in helpful tips to utilze the products you provide, make them better users of your product by makng them 'smarter'.

But also lend sometime to making your followers smarter about the happenings outside your shop that may be of interest. Or just putting out 'good vibes'.

Set up a search to notify you of certain terms within a distance of your location and reach out to these people. Maybe someone is looking for a great tuna recipe or maybe someone caught a big fish while out on the water for the day. Reach out to these people, be human and lend a hand to give them a pat on the back. Make a connection. Go beyond selling fish.

Then you'll sell more fish! More importantly you'll become closer to many great people who want to help you in return. And then you'll sell even more fish. But remember selling fish is a by product of being a great digital citizen.

kyegrace

Edit I'll take the fall on this one, seems I could have asked my quesiton in a more clear manner. I was cruising other questions and finding a whole of answers that I suspect were not truly intended to help, but maybe help and earn Mozpoints.

Wasn't fair of me to label those answering here with that. I will work better on the wording of my questions!

Edit Either I am asking my question poorly or I am learning there may be a rush to get points by throwing up any old answer...it very well may be the former which I am open to feedback on.

Each page is to stand alone and hopefully rank well for the neighbourhood name and in conjunction with another relevant keyword phrase. There is no 'duplicate' version of any pages. *

On a site there are numerous pages that provide real estate listings broken down by neighbourhood. Each containing similar content, a abbreviated version of the listings, often spanning 2 or 3 pages.

These are 3rd level pages.

Properties->Calgary Neighbourhoods->Evanston

The title tags created are:

Evanston Homes For Sale - NW Calgary Real Estate

Panorama Hills Home For Sale - NW Calgary Real Estate

Etc. for about 15 or so pages.

Then they start again for another area of the city:

Sagewood Homes For Sale - Airdrie Real Estate

Woodside Homes For Sale - Airdrie Real Estate

At this point there is no text on the actual page outside of the listings...an example of similar listings on another site - http://www.experiencerealtygroup.com/BaturynandDunluceHomes.ubr

Do you think the SE's will see these as 'proper' use of the Title Tag or duplicate or other practices they tend to frown upon?

It is a logical way of creating the title and obviously creating a unique version for each page would not only be tough to scale on some sites with 100's of these pages, they would become a little silly and not much use to the searcher in the SERPs

Thanks for any help!

kyegrace