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Thanks Miriam,

You have been a great help.

the places with the address 22 Market St, South Yarra VIC 3141 only offers to be be verified by postcard, the issue is that is the incorrect address so how do I then get the listing verified and then merged if I cannot receive the verification postcard? Are you aware of another way to obtain verification if you can only use the address?

Hi Miriam,

Thanks for your reply

The following are the details, if you go the http://www.google.com.au/maps and search for "flawless flowers"

The listing flawless flowers in Melbourne is the listing that has vanished from the places rankings

There is a duplicate listing for this company at 22 market street (these details are wrong) but this is in a different location. Will merge this listing once verified with the address at 22/163 commercial road

I just noticed that my full address does not show for the melbourne listing but the complete address is completed in the local listings page. The complete address for the shop location is Flinders street station, shop 5 melbourne victoria 3000

This could be the issue?

Thanks Mike that is excellent news

I have two local google places listinggs unlaimed. Both listings were ranking in the blended search in 7 pack.

Once I claimed the local listings for the business both listings rankings have dropped. And one has totally vanished from the search rankings.

Is this normal as it appears local places that are not claimed are ranking higher than local places claimed?

Thanks Mike, this makes sense but then this means that the web address in google local places that people see will be http://www.example.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google-local

is this correct?

I have read many articles on how to track google local places through google analytics. Each article I have read show a different way of setting up google analytics and using tags in google local places.

Wondering if anyone as up to date information on this and what would be the best practice to track data from google local lisitngs in google analytics

Thanks

Arthur

Thanks Alan, great answer

I am setting up pages for an SEO campaign. This campaign will focus suburb/area focused keywords to the home page and an inner page talking about the local area.

My keyword I am targeting is "flower delivery brisbane"

The keywords pointing back to both pages will be made up of brand and variances of the keywords so that is ok

What I would like to know, am I know over optimizing the inner page extension "flowers delivery brisbane" as it is an exact match of the main keyword to rank since google penguin. I did  this prior to google penguin and it worked well.

the site address is 
simpleflowers.com.au

inner page is:
simpleflowers.com.au/flowers-delivery-brisbane

Would love to hear your thoughts

Thanks, appreciate your thoughts

Hi I am developing an ecommerce site and want to place text on all category and home page. The challenge is that 300 words of text for the pages does not fit into the design appropriately especially on the home page. If I were to use a show/hide element with javascript would this be seen as spam or a trick to the search engines.

I do not think it is spam as it will be actual content for the site and the visitor can view it if they click on the show button.

Would love to hear your thoughts?

Which wordpress framework would you use for SEO.

From what I have had a look at:

Thesis is good but you cannot use other SEO plugins with it such as yoast SEO as it is not compatible

Genesis or woo framework are good and a plugin like yoast SEO works well with them.

What are your thoughts?

I have reviewed ashop and pinnacle cart, this was about 12 months ago.

I ended up using bigcommerce for is's ease of use, support, customization and growing list of add-ons included in the price. Also well structured for seo