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Thanks for all your good Suggestions. I will do more research now that I have little bit more information on the subject and be back soon.

I hope you will still be around.

Hi,

I will try my best to delete all wrong citations. Are their any good resources how to do this?

I aproched the site owners but most of them are not answering.

In one case it's a .wordpress blog and no contact at all. I already aproched wordpress but they told my that they need a court decision to give me contact or take the content down.

I will keep fighting on this.

Thanks for the Places Guidelines. I checked thema again and I din't know that I have to put suite number on line 2. Pretty anoing that in Spain only post card verification exist so now I have to wait for a 2 weeks for that little change (suite no on 2nd line instead of 1st adress line)

Thanks

Best Regards

Hello,

We run a travel related website and we started to run our own affilate newtwork to promote the sales of our products.

At the moment the affilate links pont to a spacific affilate url in order to tack conversions :

abcweb.com/affiliate/nameqaz

I'm wondering how is the best way to run a private affilate programm considering  SEO:

Is there a way yo benefit from those links ?

What are the best strategies to do this?

If yes, Is there any benefit from redirecting 301 those links to the original page (the one accesible to google and the one we want to rank for)  or is it better to use a king of canonical method.

Thanks a lot for sharing you experiences , giving your opinion and indicate resources.

Best Regards

Daria

Hello Miriam,

The situation is still the same. User location outside Spain no 1 and on the bottom of page 1 for the local user location after 10 days.

I carefully run though your 5 points list but I can only think of point 1 and 5 to affect my rankings negativly.

There are some incorrect old citation around that may harm local search relults. Also stange is that I have to go very far down to find the business in the maps results as the profile is pretty optimized but not spamy.

https://plus.google.com/111033204065378971279/about?gl=es&hl=de

Buisness name is Aditi Yoga Barcelona but some citations have another buissness name  but same other details. around 5%

Thank you very much.

As I said I use this guide for several years and for me it apears to work well but for SEO it's always important to stay on the top of things.

Hello,

So far I always follow the recomendations of the chocolate donuts example of Rand Fishkin on the Blogpost:  How Do I Build the Perfectly Optimized Page?

I also think that the onpage grades follow this rules.

Do you think this is still all true after pinguin?

Personally none of my websites have been afected by the update and I have an A grade on all my landing page.

What do you think about the image alt text. Is it still a good idea to use the keyword?

Are there any newer resources here on SEOMOZ  (I didn't find any with my search)?

Thanks for sharing your experiences..

Regards

Hello,

In several post and also in the webinar "all about google places" it is recomended to use Microformats to format the things like "Business Name", Adress, Phone , etc

Apart from using ths microformats on the product/corporate page footer and contact form,

would you recomend to also use microformats on blog and 3rd party website when mentioning the corporate contact details in order to increase the citation value ?

Hello,

Thanks for all those good suggestions.

So far everybody agrees that the local citations are important but this is exactly where I started. As I'm more interesed in maps results I started stright away with citation building and be in all relevant industry and local directories as yelp, qype and all the directories where google pulls data from for Barcelona local buisnesses.

I also did use Whitespark but I found it as usefull as searching for my competitors phone number and business name in google.

So I was really expecting that I would be the other way round. Having a strong position only in the local searches but it just happend the other way round.

As next step I will do some quality linkbuilding offering discounts and other incentives to attractive communities, guestblogging, article marketing and forum posting.

Hello,

The search results differ completly depending on the user location.

The websites yoagbarcelona.org  targets poeple from barcelona:

Barcelona;

User location Barcelona web is on the last position on first page:

http://screencast.com/t/ZsIeiCeLRM

User location New York  1st.

http://screencast.com/t/PzaLbwWW4xx:

Also  SEO MOZ  rank tracker is showing me that im no 1in google.es for yoga barcelona.

The problem is that this is only true for users outside the region

The site has very bad ranking in google places and you need to go down to page 10 until my yoga studio shows up in the maps results.

I did some hardcore citation building and signed up in almost all local directories that google pulls data from within one month and optimised the google places / plus profile.

Please give me some advice how I could overcome the problem.???

Especially on what part should i focus when optimising the page. ???

Are there any other good strategies for getting into google places ???

Do I need more links from local sites or how is this local serps working ???

Here an interesting article:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/getting-seo-value-from-your-affiliate-links

Is it stil up to date and good practice to create a site for each affiliate and then use rel canonical to pass the link juice to the main content page?

Can somebody give some more resources how to turn affiliate links to seo frendly links?