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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?

I have a client that has two local listings in google for one suburb. My client only has one office in this area.

In the below two local listings no information has been completed except for information scraped from the yellow pages by google

Option A
One listing has a review that is 8 months old and shows in the blended local search results position A. However the address details are incorrect as info is from an old yellow pages ad. To verify this address it can only be completed by postcard as does not provide a phone number option.

Option B
This listing has the correct address as per the yellow pages listing and has been verified and has no reviews. in position I

All other competitor local listings are not placed except for one

Should I edit Option A's address to update to the current address and delete Option B from the local listings. Verification can be completed by mail only

Or should I delete Option A with the incorrect address with one review and keep Option B as has just been verified and can start woking on this listing immediately.

I think I should use Option B, as in the 2 weeks I would wait to be verified I could gain more ground with the current listing.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks all that is perfect info

Should I use the same email address for two offices in two different locations for google places registration or am I better off using two different email addresses?

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

I got hold of google to review the details. It started working however just before google had a look. I think there was an issue on the developers end, but happy it is all resolved now

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?

If you have 404 errors when Google crawls your site does this not also impact your rankings?

Andrew while I agree with what you say, is there not a greater risk if your blog is hacked and then a hacker may gain access to the server where as on a sub-domain the blog can be on a different server?

Agree that blogs are best in a sub folder BUT if you have an ecommerce site it is best practice to have your blog on a subdomain

This is purely for security reasons, if your wordpress blog gets hacked, the hackers will not gain access to your eCommerce site as it is on a different server

Thanks Francisco,

I have not been able to track the conversions for a few weeks, so trying to resolve what could be the issue?

Thanks

Arthur

Hi, all. I am having issues with a clients website.

They have their website developed by a company http://www.flowerstoreinabox.com.au/ my clients website is http://www.flawlessflowers.com.au the google adwords conversion tracking code has been added to their site.

It measures all details as far as ads clicked on, etc.. the only part that is not been measured is the conversions of the adwords campaign. So I cannot see if the ads are successful or what their conversion % is.

I have looked at the code on the thank you page and the google adwords conversion code is present on the thank you page after the sale.

I am not a coder and so not sure what to look at if all the details on the checkout page exist in the code to measure the adwords conversion ecommerce transactions correctly.

I have provided a link to the source code of the competed order page. If someone could look at the code and provide any assistance I would appreciate it.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16973368/7 may adwords flawless flowers.txt

I am also happy to provide you access to the google analytics account if required just give me your email address to set it up.

Thanks for all your help

Regards

Arthur

Hi I have a business that has two offices each servicing a different local area.

On my website I have both address locations on one page. www.company.com/contact
Is it better to have each office on a separate page for local seo

• www.company.com/location1 and
• www.company.com/location2

Thanks

Arthur

From my sites it is only pages that are over optimized have been hit, pages that were not highly optimized or not optimized at all are now ranking

Thought someone may be able to have an answer as, I guess i missed the part that this community is only SEO related. Now I got it

Hi,

I have a client that wants to design an ecommerce site like http://www.wanelo.com/ initially they want to set up a first release to test their market using just he basic functionality thereofre you see a picture click on it add toshopping cart an buy.

Does anyone know of a theme that can be used on wordpress or any other ecommerce system that has a pre defined theme as http://www.wanelo.com/

Thanks
Arthur

Hi,

What analytics package can i use to track ecommerce transaction besides gogole analytics that is free of charge?

Thanks

Arthur