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Thank you so much for your answer Miriam. That is precisely the question I was trying to get answered.

So I have a question. I'm working on an auto dealer's website and we're trying to gear their service center toward the general public (rather than just one brand - IE Honda, GMC, Buick).

We have created a subdomain for the service page, and I was wondering if we could create a unique Google Plus page for it, in an effort to help its rank. Since the auto service center is on site at the dealership, I did not know if this would hurt us.

Does anyone have experience dealing with this issue?

Thank you!

I'm going to reach out to our vendor to try and resolve the issue. In your experience, what would be the best way to explain this problem to their tech team and try to resolve it?

User-Agent: bingbot

Crawl-delay: 5

User-Agent: msnbot

Crawl-delay: 5

User-Agent: Googlebot-Mobile

Allow: /mobi

User-Agent: OmniExplorer_Bot

Disallow: /

I found this in several of my clients Robots.txt

"User-Agent: OmniExplorer_Bot

Disallow: /"

Right now I cannot grade any of them that are on a particular platform that has that written in.

Would this block the keyword grader?

Thanks!

I'm having an issue with tracking some conversions in adwords.

Google Adwords is saying I have 20 estimated total conversions in an account and 26 phone conversions.

Adwords is saying that the phone conversions are included in the total, so I am confused as to how the part is having a higher total than the sum.

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks!

Hey Guys,

I need to do press releases for two brand new stores I'm doing work for. What are the best five press release services that one can pay for in your opinion?

Thanks!

Thanks for your help guys!

I was wondering if articles written about questions people are asking will help my website rank better.

For example let's say I wrote an article answering the query, "What Hair Dye Does Angela Merkel Use?" or, "Is Hillary Clinton Thinking of Running for President," and they rank well on google, and in turn they get viewed a lot by searchers because it answers their queries. Would this help my website as whole start ranking better?

Thanks!

They're different profiles within Analytics.

I'm in the middle of a log jam with linking google analytics to google adwords.

I have a client whose account lists properties for five distinct websites.

Company A

www.website1.com/
www.website2.com/
www.website3.com/

There are individual adwords accounts for each property that I'm trying to link up.

Here's the issue I"m having. I can link up Website1.com Analytics to Website1.com Adwords.

Then I'll link up Website2.com Analyitics to Website2.com Adwords. This will cause Website1.com to be linked up to Website2.com's Adwords.

How do I fix this?

Keith,

Thanks for your quick response.

Do you recommend share buttons or like buttons that have a count next to them on the website, rather than the ones that do not?

So here's part two of my question.

I work mainly for auto dealerships and we do have buttons on them that have the facebook logo, the twitter logo, etc.

I've noticed that by contrast there are buttons on sites with a share, or retweet count on them. Do those serve as better calls to action to encourage people to share or like, etc?

Thanks!

I wanted to know what the best practices are for getting people to re-tweet, like, share, and google plus your website.

What has worked best for all of you, and what has worked not so well?

Thanks!

How do I get a cumulative tally of all the goals reached in google analytics? I've been using the percentages currently, but I was wondering if there was an easier way.

Thanks

I've been reading into tags, and I would like to know what the best ways to do them for a local search are.

Right now I have a title that reads similar to, "Keyword1 and Keyword2 in City X"

Would I make a corresponding tag that reads "Keyword 1 and Keyword 2 in City X,"?

Or would I do "Keyword 1," "Keyword 2," and, "City X," as separate tags?

Thanks!

I'm trying to do youtube optimization for some videos right now. I wanted to know what the maximum length of a title should be, and what the maximum description should be as well.

Are there any other best practices I should know about?

Thanks,
James

I want to know if there's a workaround to grade my individual pages for multiple keywords in a more efficient manner.

Let's say for example (this is an extreme hypothetical) that I'm targeting these keywords: "Red Castles" "Blue Cars" "Green Bottles" on one page. I want to know if there is a way to run three grade reports at once for the single page that they're on with the Moz tools.

Thanks a bunch!

http://www.pricetoyotaservice.com/explore-services.html

Okay here's a page in question that we're working on. The first one uses the hidden text div. If we view it with Javascript turned off the div does not uncollapse and they can't see the content. Is this really that big of an issue?

http://fandicoach.com/products

Right now I have these accordion things on the website. Are they bad for google in terms of being an SEO best practice? I want to avoid doing anything black hat.

Thanks!

I have a client that I would like to do a Meta Geotag for. They have two locations. Am I able to do two meta geotags on their website?

Thanks!

That's actually one solution I was thinking of. I just wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas.

Hi,

I'm working on a site and I'm having some issues with its structure causing duplicate content.

The first issue is that the search pages will show up as duplicates. 
A search for new inventory may be new.aspx
The duplicate may be something like new.aspx=page1, or something like that and so on.

The second issue is with inventory. When new inventory gets put into the stock of the store, a new page for that item will be populated with duplicate content. There appears to be no canonical source for that page.

How can I fix both of these?

Thanks!

I'm having one issue with my SEO rankings.

If I target let's say four cities in the same state for one keyword in a title, it ranks well.

let's say one of those cities ends up being outside of the state though for another landing page, then it usually ends up on page two.

Does anyone have a solution to this issue?

Thanks!

Thanks for your help!

I was wondering if there was a certain number of times you had to repeat a location to help your page rank well.

Thanks

I'm using this in my title,

"Used Cars and Used Car Loans in _____"

Is this a good practice since they're similar but different keywords?

Thanks!

My issue with duplicate content is this.

There are two versions of my website showing up

http://www.example.com/

http://example.com/

What are the best practices for fixing this?

Thanks!

My question is how to avoid having a spammy title.

Currently I'm working on a project where a business serves four cities, but two of them are out of its home state. I'm trying to create a title tag that is appealing to the eyes, and meets what I need it to do at the same time.

I was wondering what everyone though of this sample

Brand X Dealer Serving Newark, DE; New Castle, DE; Glens Mills, PA; and Springfield, PA

I know that too much repetition can be a bad thing, but this might not be a big deal since they are separate instances.

Let me know what you all think.

Thanks!

Thank you for getting back to me, vzPro.

So if some one linked to me let's saying, "Ram dealer," that's the only way Google would calculate keyword density. Just as a ram dealer, and disregard the other three brands?

Here's my hypothetical. I'm working on a car dealer site. And it's a Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram dealer.

Would "Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram dealer," count as four keywords rather than one? My goal is to make the website show up for either Chrysler Dealer, Jeep Dealer, et cetera.

Thanks!