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I recently attended a webinar by ETNA Interactive on local search SEO. The presenter recommended including the name of your town in the title of the blog to increase local search SEO.

Is this OK? Ive always been concerned that it is such an obvious attempt to rank locally that Google would consider it "spammy" ? black hat, "sketchy" or otherwise manipulative.

Have the rules changed? Is it OK to do?

Brooke

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I have an 8 year old plastic surgery website with my name in the url. I have just released a new website with a generic local plastic surgery url without my name.

However my google authorship photo is appearing in listings from both sites with different URLs.

So far Google is listing pages from both sites on the same google page result for similar search terms.

However I am concerned that eventually I may be punished for dup content since I am the same author for both pages?

The practice and the practitioner are at the same location, is there anything that I can do from my end to speed up the process.

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Upon trying to Validate my Moz Local this error keeps appearing "We were unable to validate the following listings on either Google or Facebook Places."  I have checked both of these accounts and all of the listings are accurate and up to date?  Is there something that I am missing?

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I am trying to list my business under Moz Local.  I have filled out all of the documentation and had no errors.  However I am stuck on Validation.  It says "We were unable to validate the following listings on either Google or Facebook Places."  I have checked both my google and facebook pages they are up to date with the most current address.  Any ideas where the problem may be?

I have been hit hard by Penguin 2.0. My webmaster explains that I have many links to my articles (a medical website with quality content) from "bad sites." These sites publish my articles with my name and link to my site and it appears I have posted my articles on their site although I have not posted them-theses sites have copied and pasted my articles. Is there a way to prevent sites from posting my content on their site with links to my site?

My son has a degree in Marine Bio. Has developed a keen interest in SEO and internet marketing.

He wants to make a career change.

He does not want to go back for a 4 year degree in computer science.

Are there graduate programs/degrees that will admit someone with a biological science degree?

He wants to have a career in Internet marketing.

Upon trying to Validate my Moz Local this error keeps appearing "We were unable to validate the following listings on either Google or Facebook Places."  I have checked both of these accounts and all of the listings are accurate and up to date?  Is there something that I am missing?

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