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Ok, thank you.

Thanks Donna. Very insightful.

If i understand correctly, if the nature of my business has kws which do not map to a local business category (which means i can only hope to rank organically) then placing location in title tag will not help to rank for non geo queries.

correct?

Thanks Patrick! Some key tips that i will most definitely keep in mind. Thanks.

Oh cool. I heard about that, before my time though.  Thanks again!

Thanks Keri for the tip - just asked again.

Great to hear our sweatshirts are keeping someone warm - 'tis the season.  We don't send it out to just anyone you know.  Must be one of our real fans

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Hi. Wanted to know if targeting local traffic online and the search volume of KWs in the area do not include the local names (according to KW planner) does it still help to keep the town names in the title tag? does google deliver local results based on location names in title tag if query didn't mention it?

Hi. I know a lot has changed since this response.  However, generally wanted to know if targeting locally however kws in local area do not include the town names, does it still help to keep the town names in the title tag? does google deliver local results based on location names in title tag if query didnt mention it?

We have on the home page of our charity site a section called "recent donations" which pulls the most recent donations  from a database and displays them on the website via an asp write,  (equivalent of php echo) . Google is crawling these and  sometimes displays them in description tags  -- which looks really messy. Is there a way to hide this  content without it being considered cloaking?

Thanks Tammy for your response! We do plan on adding the hreflang  tag to the different versions.

That being said  - I've seen many seos advise to use  set up # 2

but I’ve seen many brands do it differently

for example:

apple does it like # 1

ikea like # 3

so I wasn't sure whether there is any real difference.

Regarding tld .ca -- we  do own it and plan to redirect it to our subfolder. At the moment we prefer to use that route so we don't split up our link juice among two different sites.  Evnetually we can always separate them if we feel it will be better for use

Our organization is currently only operating in the USA but will soon be entering the Canadian market.

We did a lot of research and decided that for our needs it would be best to use  a subfolder for Canada.

Initially we will be targeting the english speaking community but eventually we will want to expand to the french speaking Canadians as well.

The question is - is there a preferred version in setting up the subfolders:

www.website.org/ca/ -- default will be english

www.website.org/ca/fr/ - french

www.website.org/en-ca/ - english

www.website.org/fr-ca/ - french

www.website.org/ca/en/ -english

www.website.org/ca/fr/ - french

Thanks

A page that has a no index on it still gets crawled  and therefore the rel=canonical directive is still "seen" by the bot --- so why wouldn't the rel=canonical pass the credit over?

Thanks Tammy for your response! We do plan on adding the hreflang  tag to the different versions.

That being said  - I've seen many seos advise to use  set up # 2

but I’ve seen many brands do it differently

for example:

apple does it like # 1

ikea like # 3

so I wasn't sure whether there is any real difference.

Regarding tld .ca -- we  do own it and plan to redirect it to our subfolder. At the moment we prefer to use that route so we don't split up our link juice among two different sites.  Evnetually we can always separate them if we feel it will be better for use