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Well based on your timing I'd say you're seeing the affect of the Pigeon Update which was rolled out to the UK a few months ago. Expect to see some flux in the local pack, or possibly a culling of the 7-pack. Here in the States we've see some 7-packs reduced to 3 or some queries not showing...

If you have a domain that has a good link footprint, meaning not a lot of links or crappy links, then my advice is to build up the domain and use sub-directories for the cities you want to rank for. I?m doing this on a national level for every state in the US with URL structure...

Parallax sites....I avoid like the plague. They are beautiful but many don't convert traffic very well...at least the ones I've measured. Mostly because of the endless scrolling to find the actual content.

Great data set! 1. This is why we don't use Pinterest - declining user base, and confusing to marketers. (When Coke stops posting - that's a sign!) 2. We do promote on G+ but it doesn't deliver the referrals back. (We do get lot's of pageviews on it - and that's been growing every month) 3...

Subdomains were a great way to spam...way back when. We had "State.domainname.com for every state in the nation and absolutely ruled in the SERPS. Today the discussion shouldn't be about what juice flows to where or anything about gaming G. Instead think overall branding and pushing the main...

On an old domain that I used to manage we had a local dedicated host specific to our location, after a few years we went to shared host outside of our location. Didn't seem to matter at all to rankings.

Wow very complete, covers all the basis.

Most of the WP SEO plugins work similar, but Yoast is awesome.

Seeing this too, not logged in and incognito. Also note the the 7-pack is very top of page, not 3 PPC ads. BUT when I search for san francisco dui lawyer, I get 2 organics at the top, then 7 pack, and more organics...all SF businesses.

I'm still waiting...since last Friday.

Keep in mind that it will take Google some time to revisit your page, it's not going to show up right after coding. As for the / thing, just depends on how you want the markup to display. Lastly use the Google Structured data tool to debug any issues. Google Structured Data Testing Tool...

I wouldn't waste time reporting any PBN's as they have mostly be detuned because of the vast amount of spam that's been going on for so long now. I've always said to myself, do I want to chase ghosts - or spend time making my site the best it can be. My .02 cents.

What does the group feel about the value of SM icons showing in the Graph? I'm all about schema markup and have recently added "star review" that are now showing in the SERPS which so far has had a marked CTR increase. Many searches that show the Graph actually leads to lower CTR for...

Google doesn't owe a business anything. As you mentioned it's their product and their rules. Also agree that for a law firm it's about ethics, a scam is a scam.

"Directories of all kinds have been seriously devalued by Google." Not completely, in fact many in certain verticals have seen a large increase in visibility starting when the "flying rat" pooped all over the SERPs. Legal Vertical Examples include: AVVO, lawyers.findlaw, thumbtack, Nolo, Yelp...