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Well this system the company made is used for a lot of companies that sell a particular manufacturers products, so they have it set up this way so that when the manufacturer adds a new product it updates every site that they built.  Its a mess. I already found a company from another state that had my clients name left in their title tags from when they copied the info over. At least I got that resolved though.

I have a client who's website contains a php file to dynamically call a product xml file from an external source. I asked the web dev company if there was any way to access or change the titles and meta descriptions to be unique for each product and they said no, not with their system. With about 63 product pages is this going to hurt me trying to get him ranked locally? What is the best to handle a situation like this?

What is the best way to approach these franchise sites that have tons of location pages with 95% same content on every page? Each location has its own unique url that just redirects to the main franchise location page, but with no uniqueness or independent blog is it even possible to get a page like this ranked locally or is the best route PPC?

Thanks. I agree especially since there didnt seem to be much at stake..lol. I guess I just was unclear on the value of the internal links count in moz, I just started using the system...

After crawl I saw that dup content came from domain.com/index.php and domain.com. I was going to redirect one of them but im curious which way to go.  The /index.php has domain auth of 19, the other 17, so not big difference. Domain.com has 2 external linking domains and index.php has 1. The big difference is in the internal link counts where index.php has 76 and the other only 4.  So should I direct index.php to / or the other way around?

I do not have a need currently, I was just curious because I may need to upgrade soon and was trying to make sense of the pricing structure. Thanks for the clarification!

Im just curious why if in the platform you can add 3 social accounts, on basic plan with 5 campaigns you are able to add social accounts for each one for total of 15. However, if you pay more money for a plan with 25 campaigns, then you can only add 2 social accounts each for total of 50, instead of 75.  Doesn't seem to make sense...

Thanks everyone! What a great community, so glad I joined;)

Well they do Junk Removal. Competeing against big guys like 1800 Got Junk. I mean they do social, but barely. Like 4.16 tweets/mo and 2.3 FB posts/mo so far this year. As for citations they just did a blast on Yext and thats it! Right now they really need to do some onsite work and some link building from what I gather.

Thanks man! I was kinda thinking the same thing. I heard a statistic a while back about how many tweets it takes to actually start influencing and the number was crazy big.

If a client has budget constraints, would it help local rank more if we placed emphasis on building out a couple citations each month for them or boosting their social posting frequency? Does one carry more weight?

Thanks, I was starting to think I was way off track! Lol. They do not have a webmaster account yet, I still have to set all that stuff up for them. I just got done building their site a few months ago so still a lot of preliminary set up to do. I have read so much info on how to do initial research for a client that I think my heads going to explode, so many different approaches and techniques..lol.

#1) Yes, I did have USA chosen as location. Wasn't sure if it drilled down to county or city though. I guess not.

#2) Funny thing is they even said that to me when I approached them about it the first time. They said "In our industry it's mostly word of mouth, not many people search for us online." , but then cam eback a month later and said we'd like to do some internet marketing/seo with you! I guess my emphasis should not be so much on the traffic from rankings, but more into the citations, articles, and building the right relationships on social networks right?

I have a client that does commercial building renovations. I looked at a lot of their competitors and did some googling to see what words people were using. Some terms such as commercial fit-outs, didn't really have any search volume. I did pick out some that had some volume, Google KW Tool said anywhere from 46 local searches for something like "commercial construction contractors" to 320 for "commercial construction companies".  However, no data really shows up for local specifics like "commercial construction companies philadelphia". I tried looking at competitors in the Moz site explorer, but not too many were doing much link building to look at anchor text.

Question 1) When it says "local monthly searches", is it defaulting to MY local area based on my google info? So if im in Philly area that local area is whats displaying?

Question 2) I tried to run the same keyword list I pulled from Adwords tool  through Moz KW tool, and it tells me some of the terms don't have ANY traffic! So know I am real confused as to whether the KW's i picked are good or crap! I attached image of the stuff.

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