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Thank you!

Makes sense.

Thanks!

Hello!

I want to track calls on mobile devices from a website.

I was able to successfully set up an event with Google Analytics that tracks when a user clicks the phone # on the website, however, as you know, when someone clicks a phone # using iOS it prompts a display of the # and gives the users two options, Cancel or Call.

My question: is there any way to track when the user clicks the 'Call' action?

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You could try using Schema to mark up the address on your website.

Does it show up when [brand name] is searched on it's own?

Chris is absolutely right.

Here's a tip: For each Google+ Location create a separate landing page on your website to associate it with and in the 'website' section on Google+ use the landing page URL, instead of simply your domain name. This is standard best practice when dealing with multiple business locations.

Wesley,

Have you tried adding the suite number to your listing? I would try to add that and then also build more citations around the web with the exact same Name, Address (with suite #) and Phone Number. Use the MozLocal tool to find opportunities.

Also, when dealing with multiple locations, you should set up specific pages on your website (let's call them 'location landing pages') and associate those to each corresponding Google+ page. I see that you have the 'thetattaway.com' listed as the website for both Google+ pages I could find.

100% agree. It's going to take some time. Right now Google doesn't really understand that term as a brand name and the search results are a bit wacky in my opinion. You shouldn't have a problem moving up.

The more backlinks you earn with 'primepair' as the anchor text, the better off you will be.

Good luck!

Keszi is correct.

This happens frequently with WordPress and having brand names in the title tag. Google will often push a brand name (or whatever it believes is the brand name) to the beginning of the title tag.

Sorry I missed this!

If you have your website architecture set up well you can always request Google to index a page and all pages that it links to. You'll see this option when you click the Submit to index button. You won't have to submit a substantial amount of individual pages this way.

I personally would keep an eye the pages of most value. These are the pages you are optimizing for that show up in the search results and are generating traffic.

Hope this helps.

I'd say go with whatever you believe is best for the user. For e-commerce, you most likely do not need the physical address to be on every page, but I guess there could be some exceptions. I do believe you _should _have it somewhere, like you mentioned having it on a contact page.

Go with your gut!

If you have internal links pointing to the page with the new/updated content Google will eventually find it, however, the quickest way to have this happen is to request a crawl in Google Webmaster Tools.

Under Crawl > Fetch as Google

Once the status of the page loads, you should see a button labeled Submit to index. Click this to submit the page to be indexed.

There are free tools available to find out the last time Google indexed (crawled) a specific page. I personally use the free SEO Book Toolbar. I believe Moz's free toolbar does this as well but I could be wrong.

Hi Gary,

I would go with the exact keyword matches in these scenarios. I don't see a problem with it because it looks like you are optimizing pages for a very specific product. Whatever you think makes more sense for the user usually makes sense to search engines. I also don't think your URLs are too long.

Did you check out this weeks Whiteboard Friday on Information Architecture? It might clear some things up.

Hope that's helpful!

First situation: for both options, in theory, you will be maintaining the same link power, however, I would choose option two. You won't have to worry about GoogleBot crawling the old URL to find the new one. Depending on the keywords you are targeting, you might lose some ground by changing the URL structure. If the old URL structure fits into your new web navigation model, I think you should stick with it to maintain the same results.

Second situation: if you feel that the pages aren't of valuable on their own I would 301 them to the one URL. If they made sense to keep from a user experience perspective you would want to add "rel=canonical" tags pointing to the one URL instead.

Hopefully that clears things up!

Hi there,

Q1. I would monitor the amount of links you add and also make sure that you aren't overusing the same anchor text. This could potentially come up as a red flag to Google even if the links are quite natural.

Q2. That technique does sound a bit spammy. If you are trying hard to relate back to your website just for links, this too might be seen as shady by Google and other participants in the forum. I would continue to contribute but only mention / link to your website when it's absolutely necessary to make your point.

Hope this was helpful!

Are they completely not showing up at all or just not in the "page one 7 pack" or carousel? (depending on the industry/query).

You may have to wait a bit. To accelerate the process I would work on auditing all local listings for the business to make sure the NAP (Name, Address, Phone Number) is consistent across the board. Reviews also might help!

Good luck!

Hi there!

187 does seem quite high but it really comes down to the purpose of the pages. For some sites it might work, for others it won't. What type of website is it?

When doing a site / content audit I think it's important to understand what sort of value each page brings the user. You should consider looking at any analytics data you have for those pages to make a better judgement.

For example, if you find that the pages have a high bounce rate you might consider restructuring the pages or repurposing the image content for other areas of the website.

Hope this gets you thinking!

Hi Carl,

If you have absolutely no way of adding a canonical tag or meta noindex tag to the individual pages then I believe, for now, disallowing the indexing of pages using robots.txt or the Remove URLs tool in GWT is your best option. You could also 301 redirect the duplicate page if you can edit an .htaccess file, although, this too should only be used as a temporary solution.

Here is some additional info about robots.txt if needed: http://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt

Hope that helps!

We agree with Hutch42.

You'll get the most out of your blog if you set it up as: www.domain.com/blog

Happy blogging!

Doesn't have to be identical across all local citations. NAP and categories are more important. It's okay if they are similar but you should really tailor each description to the audiences that are engaging on each platform.

Hope that answers your Q!

Best you can do is report the website for 'cloaking' via Webmaster Tools:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform