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Thanks Andy,

This is very interesting, regarding editorial earned content vs self posted content, its self posted content although its vetted by moderators prior to going live so its not an 'article submission site'. The majority of the sites range for pr7-4 and its not uncommon for the actual article or profile pages to have a pr2.

Regarding finding additional link opportunities, this is only a small part of our outreach and along side this we have lots of earned editorial on our projects, although that too is often re used content as we are in fortunate position that our content is often very well received, often republished 100's of times due to a mixture of outreach and from there it going viral within the niche, which makes it hard to scale to every piece of content being unique.

Is it the consensus that Google can evaluate wether a site is purely editorial or user submitted content ?

In our niche there are lots of specialist 'profile / portfolio' sites were we can upload content (usually project case studies. These are often quite big and active networks and can drive decent traffic and provide links from high ranking pages.

The issue im a bit stuck on is - because they are profile / portfolio based usually its the same content uploaded to each site. But im beginning to get the feeling that these links from within duplicate content although from high ranking sites are not having an effect.

Im about to embark on a campaign to re rewrite each of our portfolio items (each one c. 400 words c. 10 times) for each different site, but before i do i wandered if any one has had any experience / a point of view on with wether Google is not valuing links from within duplicate content (bare in mind these arnt spam sites, and are very reputable, mainly because once you submit the content it gets reviewed prior to going live). And wether a unique rewrite of the content solves this issue.

Note : For the background of this question please read the preface below.

Ive been researching responsive image options the main issue i can see with them is that they are not semantic html so bots may not index them correctly. For instance many of the responsive image plugins use data-src for an image rather than src.

Does any one have any experience with this and if it impacts on SEO ?

Does any one know of a client side responsive image soltion that uses a normal img tag with the image stored in the src and with the option to set an alt attribute ?

**Preface : **

Ive got a site we are currently developing, the site has a large full width responsive image slider.

To serve images that wont be pixilated we are making the width of the images 1800px wide (which should cover most screens, but isn't actually big enough if the site was viewed on a 27" imac) these 1800px wide images weight about 350kb - 500kb per image and our image slider has about 20 of them. As you can see this would be a problem for anyone with a connection slower than c.10 mbps.

This is especially true for mobile devices that will be downloading an image 1800px wide although only require a much smaller one, this coupled with a 3g connection will make the site really slow.

Hi Matt, Its a press release that i submitted, but i believe they are taking the info in the press release and generating another piece of content from it rather than copy, pasting and publishing.

When we have submitted releases in the past i would say 80% if not more go for the copy, paste and publish approach, is this / could this content be seen as negative by Google ?

Im working on a site that has some press coverage due in the next couple of days from quite a big site in the niche. The press outlet has requested that we link back to the content they post about us, they said the link can be rel="nofollow" if we'd prefer.

Id really like to get the full benefit of the link back to our website, obviously if i did a straight link back to the 3rd party press site the links would be reciprocal and cancel each other out in terms of "link juice", but i was wandering if we make our link back to the 3rd party rel="nofollow" will we still get the full benefit of their link to us in terms of link juice ? ie. having the link back to them, but nofollow wouldn't been seen as a reciprocal link. ?

(Obviously either way there is still benefit of having the link even if it reciprocal as it will send traffic to our site, but just no "link juice")

Note - Ive used the phrase"Link Juice" for lack of a better term, any ideas on how else to refer to this ?

Ive got a site thats currently ranking #2 in the local 7 pack listings for the search term : "garden design [city]" but is not ranking at all for "garden designer [city]" (note the "er" at the end of designer). The search traffic for these 2 terms is pretty much the same, and id like to get the site ranking for "garden designer [city]".

The only thing i can think of is thats different is that in the <title>tag for the homepage of the site we have "Garden Design [City] - .....", is there any other way i can try and up the local 7 pack ranking for my site other than changing the title tag ?</p> <p>Im thinking of running a link building campaign for the phrase "garden designer [city]", but apart from that i cant think of anything else that could help up my rankings for this, any ideas ?</p></title>

Would changing the file name of image, not the alt attribute nor the image itself (so it would be exactly the same but just a name change) have any effect on :

• a) A sites seo ranking
• b) the individual images seo ranking (although i guess if b) would be true it would have an effect on a) although potentially small.)

This is the sort of change i would be thinking of making :

![Red ford truck](2554.jpg)

changed to

![Red ford truck](6842.jpg)

Thanks Miriam

Thanks Miriam,

Ive implemented the dashboard in that article, but still not getting any local traffic showing up.

It seems to be tracking map traffic only, rather than google places 7 pack (or other) traffic.

Ive attached 3 screenshots : google analytics organic traffic, google places impressions and clicks, google analytics dashboard from previous article.

None of the data in them seems to correlate, any ideas ?

Is my google places traffic currently being reported as organic traffic in google analytics ?

Organic traffic from google analytics : http://i.imgur.com/ssu5XMu.png?1

Google analytics dashboard from article : http://imgur.com/dh1m9Iu

Google places impressions and clicks : http://imgur.com/FaNodvQ

(apologies, not sure how i can post images inline)

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Is there a way to see Google Places traffic (traffic from users clicking through the 7 pack listings) segmented in Google analytics ?

Normally is it just lumped together with the organic traffic ?

Can you see the search phrases used to find your site, or do they also show up under 'not provided' when from Google Places.

Im aware i can see some limited data in the Google Places analytics, but these seem to be 2 days behind when ever i view them.

Ive finally got a site quite high in the relevant Google places listings, after a year or so of trying.

What ive noticed is that the auto generated street view image of the business is showing a row of garages round the back of the building, rather than the building entrance.

Is there a way i can update the auto generated street view images of the business without risking the google places ranking / need to submit a move of address.

Has any one had any experience with doing this in the past ?

Does any one have any data about how users interact with the local 7 pack listings in regards to position to CTR ratios, do everyday users tend to scroll past it to the normal SERPs as they might do with adwords ads (as the local pack is formatted slightly different to normal SERPs) ?

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Ive got a site with some good Google + Reviews and some other good reviews on other sites that id like to be able to publish on a testimonials page on our website, but im worried about being penalised for duplicate content. Any idea of the best way to get these reviews on to our website, i was thinking about placing the text in as an image, but id prefer to do something semantic if at all possible.

(I know that some review sites have javascript widgets you can use to pull in your reviews but for most of the sites we are reviewed on they dont)

Most of the keywords / phrases we are targeting have the city (London) appended to it ie. service name London, service name in London etc.

The business of the site we are working on is located in London, but not in central London. Because of this i think the site is not being ranking as well as it could be (compared to other sites that in the centre or nearer to the centre with seemingly lower profiles, including have no reviews on their Google + Pages).

The site itself is relatively strong fluctuating between 3rd and 5th spot for the target phrases in the organic listings, but because of the local block which sits under position 2 our site always towards the bottom of the first page.

We've submitted the site to all the relevant local directories and listings sites, got 3 google reviews on the Plus profile and added the correct local html schema markup to any of our sites pages where our address is mentioned, but still we are sitting at around #12 on the local listings block (when you click Map results for...) at the bottom of the 7 local listings. So the site dosnt seem far off being on the front page, but I feel ive exhausted the optimisation i can do, any ideas how i can make any gains in these local listings ?

Thanks, what do you think of the trickle down effect regarding smaller publications who (who may still have decent DA say 30-40) who may just chose to copy and paste the press release, all the way down to the bottom rung publications that will just be rss aggregating content from other sites.

These are the sites im more worried about as there are more of these, between them all there may be 20 - 30 copies of the original press release hosted on different sites.

Can this still be harmful as they will have links back to you within duplicate content ?

With all the changes to the seo landscape in the resent years im a little unsure as to how a press release work looks in the eyes of Google (and others).

For instance, you write up a 500 word press release and it gets featured on the following sites :

• Forbes
• Techcrunch
• BBC
• CNN
• NY Times
• etc ...

If each of these cover your story but only rewrite 50% of the article  (not saying these sites wouldn't re write the entire artcile, but for this purpose lets presume only 50% is rewritten) could it be negative to your backlink profile, ? Im thinking not, as these sites will have high authority, but what if once your press release is published on these sites 10 other smaller sites re publish the stories with almost no re writing, either straight from the press release or straight from the article in the mainstream news sites.

(For clarification this Press release would be done in the fashion of a article suggestion to relevant journalists, rather than a blanket press release, via PR Newswire, mass mail out etc. Although i guess the effect with duplicate content backlinks is the same.)

You now have c. 50 articles online all with very similar content with links pointing back at you, would this have a negative effect or would each link just not carry as much value as it normally would.

By now we all understand publishing duplicate content on our own sites is a terrible idea, but dose have links pointing back to your self from duplicate (or similar) content hosted on other sites (some being highly authoritative) effect your site 's seo ?