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Is it a good practice to submit a page linking to my site to expedite google finding the link or is it better to wait for the google spider to find it?

Thanks,

Ron!

I've heard that fresh content helps boost your position in the serps.   If i wrote all new unique content on some of my pages that havent been changed in several years, would i see a boost in the rank? If so, how many positions?

i've been told that it is possible that google discounts the weight or page rank passed in footer links of websites and my website has the navigation to many  of my  pages in the footer of each page.  My whole website is about 20 pages so each page has links to the 5 most popular pages at the top and the rest of the links are in the footer of each page.  Am i losing page rank by having these links in the footer?  Should i make my navigation different?

I have lots of articles on my site so i thought it might be not only helpful to my readers but give my pages an seo  boost if i placed in context links in the body of my articles to other pages of my site. Does this sound like a good idea?

Thanks mozzers!

Thanks mozzers!

My business address is a residential listing as I run an onsite service business and don't have an office other than my home office.  how does Google differentiate legitimate home offices like mine and fake residential listings from spammers?  am I in danger of being banned because I have a home office?

are the related searches at the bottom of google highly searched keyword phrases and hence good to optimize other pages for on your website?

Ron

They would be residential addresses.  It sounds like a bad idea if i am risking being banned.

My competitors have been listing the general addresses of office buildings in different cities without listing an office number.  I know for a fact these are bogus listings and they don't actually have an office in these office buildings.  Can i report them via a SPAM report to Google?

THanks for the help Ryan!  Another question,  I have some of my workers living in some of the cities where my services are performed and was wondering if i could list their address in those cities as my business address in those cities for a google local listing.   They would be able to answer any letters that google sent those addresses to verify them.  I could then use moz local for the citations in those cities using the landing page on my site specifically for those cities.   This way, i'll have local listings coming up in the cities that i service helping customers to find me.  I see my competitors doing this a lot and it works wonders for them.  Is this a good idea or bad idea?

If I put my address on my website, does it help that page to rank for local searches?  especially if it's the same address that i am using for moz local and all my citations?

I want my other pages to rank in different cities as well as i have a service that travels to all cities in my state.  Will that address of my home town on my home page make google think that i don't service other cities?

Thanks,

Ron

Also, can i use a deep page on my website instead of the home page.   We provide services all over Texas but there is a deep page on my site dedicated to the city location of my business that would be better to list on the local search results.

I used your "check my isting"  and i see a lot of my listings that have the name of my business wrong.  When i use Moz local, will it correct all those listings for me?

what is the best tool for finding what people are using as search phrases for my product?  i used to use the google adwords keyword suggestion tool but that tool is gone now.  Is the google keyword planner now the best tool to use?

Thanks,

Ron

I saw some test results of no follow links from some years back and it seemed to indicate that Google still counts the anchor text in no follow links provided the page is already indexed and has do follow links pointing to it.  The test results seemed to indicate that Google does count the links and uses the anchor text to cause the page to rank higher in the serps for those key words.  any truth to this?  If i don't expect any traffic whatsoever from a no follow link should i not build it?

Take care,

Ron