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Comment on GravityStream Does Local SEO: Now Fixes Store Locator Pages by Chris

Chris — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:56:47 +0000

Ideally, one should go with B - host the locator pages on the client’s own domain.

Stores definitely should also optimize their Google Local Business Center pages, too - companies should care less about page views and more about using all channels possible to get clients to shop with them. Google Maps is convenient for many to use, therefore you want to rank well and have useful info in your Google Maps page, too.

Yet, there’s no reason why each of a chainstore’s many listings in Google Maps couldn’t link directly to the full profile page for that specific store on the company’s main site.

Comment on SEO Best Practices - Correlation Testing by Igor

Igor — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:14:20 +0000

It is very funny to see:

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at the end of the post “SEO Best Practices - Correlation Testing” especially if it is a post about SEO BEST practices.

Comment on Top 25 Things Vanishing from America: The Yellow Pages by Stacey Smith

Stacey Smith — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:53:08 +0000

I just left a sales career in the Yellow Pages of 13 years. I won the awards and had a great time. I saw the decline first hand. They are doing everything in their power to hang on to the millions of dollars in revenue. Here is a fact the Yellow Pages in Phoenix for Dex has had approximately 30% declines now for the last three years. This makes it a smaller booked revenue than we have here in Albuquerque. Faster markets have caught on. The action has shifted to the internet and is bigger than ever because everyone has Google either in there hand or close at hand.

Comment on GravityStream Does Local SEO: Now Fixes Store Locator Pages by hsk

hsk — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:27:37 +0000

Great post Chris.

Question 1

For a large blue chip client with multiple stores across a country, what would you recommend:

A. Use a third party and host the locator pages on their domain and urls

B. hosting the locator pages on a clients own main domain

Client is a brand within its set of customers.

Question 2

Should a client use Google Local Business Centre - after all that takes away a potential page view from the store locator pages

Many Thanks in Advance.

Comment on LinkedIn, But NoFollow Link Love by Dr BDOA

Dr BDOA — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:07:28 +0000

Perphap its just as well that I didn’t bother to create many fake friends on linked in. Gaining relationship just for link love, is someone not in keeping with linkedin businesslike style.

Comment on Using Flickr for Search Engine Optimization by sanjay austa

sanjay austa — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:37:35 +0000

very informative artile on how to get viewers to your site. I am a photographer and need people to see and comment on my pictures. I am also part of flickr.com . This is a help. Thank you.

Comment on Inbound Deep Links Benefit Page Rank Distribution Sitewide by BM Models Services

BM Models Services — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:06:30 +0000

This is a really useful article and we have benefited from it significantly since we started deep-linking from external sites to 2nd and 3d level pages on our site. This way we managed to pass some link juice to our services and individual models’ pages.

Many thanks

Comment on To Have WWW or Not To Have WWW - That is the Question by Trillionaire Domains

Trillionaire Domains — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:35:14 +0000

Twitter is “no follow”, so it doesn’t really matter how your link shows on there, it isn’t passing any pr to your site anyway. Also twitter is a small fish compared to some of the huge players out there that are using it.

I have probably read 100 articles on this debate by now and the funny thing is I’ve heard several reasons for choosing www that could have strong positive impacts on your site, but the most I have heard for the no www argument is that it is cosmetically better looking and fashionable. So, really it seems obvious in my opinion which one you should choose www all the way.

Comment on Relationship Between Link Growth And Indexation by Bunker Insurance Group

Bunker Insurance Group — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:22:02 +0000

Thanks so much for the informative article. We’re trying to work on local SEO optimization for our insurance site and have often wondered what the relation between indexation and link growth is. Keep the articles coming, there great.

Comment on Extreme Local Search Optimization Tactics by Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa

Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:58:06 +0000

Google Local Listings is getting out of hand in many areas.
I recently had a competitor actually “name his company” after one of my Goolge Maps Pictures!
This allowed him to steal my content!
The listing was removed, probably by him, but now Google is still associating MY content with him!
He has popped back up with a totally phoney name, and a an address that is not his either.
I have posted in the google help forum, no replies.’
How do you get Google to stop this ?