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Thanks Michael for your quick reply. I think I'll go with your suggestion of establishing a Google+ profile for him.

Anyone else in favor or not of Michael's opinion?

Hi folks, here goes a (hopefully) easy one for the local authorship gurus.

For our blog content strategy we currently have two inhouse contributors. Both have decent Google+ profiles and one is in the process of really establishing authorship/influence by submitting guest posts to several industry sites, sharing content in Google+, engaging in conversations in twitter, etc. Posts by this latter contributor already rank page 1 for the main keywords.

We now have a new content contributor who is a retired employee from the company and a good friend. He has written excellent content that will be published in our blog in the coming few months. He does not have a Google+ profile but he can have one if we ask him to, but he is not going to use it for anything other than writting on our blog. He does not mind having his content published under any of our current Google+ profiles.

Question: should we include this new content under our current profiles or should we create a new Google+ profile for this new contributor knowing that it will be an 'empty' profile?

Thanks in advance!

ok, thanks Egol. I shall indeed do so.

Checking at opensiteexplorer.org I can see that:

mydomain.com has has DA 26, linking root domains 1, total links 22

www.mydomain.com has DA 26, linking root domains 31, total links 89

The 22 links to the non-www domain come from the same site, which I would be able to convince to change to the www domain.

Is it worth doing it? Will it add up to better DA?

Thanks

J

PS: with only 32 root domains I think I have to do some serious link building...

Thanks Marcus. All 26 listings are classified as "Needs Action" and all are flagged as "Needs ActionUnverified bulk upload. May not appear on Google. ".

Since all of them had the same basic structure in their details, I've tried different approaches: with/without categories, with data in Spanish (for some Spain listings) or English (for all countries), with the link pointing to mysite.com or mysite.com/country/city, etc.

But no luck so far.

Thanks PSV. That's what I've rad elsewhere too, that's it might take much more than the official 4 weeks.

Nevertheless, any idea about how should I proceed with the three items mentioned above?

Thanks

J

I've created Google Places entries for the business' 25 locations in 8 countries. It's been 7 weeks and Google hasn't validated my bulk upload yet.

Which of the following would you say might do the trick?

• URL: I have pointed to http://site.com/country/city for every location. Should I point to http://site?

• I've created categories in English, but being this about local I guess I should do it in the local language of each country...

• Should I cancel the bulk upload and do one country per country? My list of countries include Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia so I don't know if manual verification is done by google centrally and that might be a problem.

Otherwise the entries are (IMHO) well written, detailed and all. But I'm kind of desperate now because it's 7 weeks already...

thanks for you help