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Another example of a "bad local one box" not a spam page this time, but again, Canada is not very local to the UK... I've added this one to my tweet thread with Matt Cutts. Hope somebody is picking these up!

Really? I'm surprised! A client of ours was pushed from the first page for almost all their keywords at the beginning of this year, in favour of .au .nz and US stores like Macys. Throw in the domain clusters and the romantic relationship between google and amazon and they were left at positions...

Thanks for your response Jo. Indeed, I feel much the same. I too only like to "tell-tales" when it feels we are left with no other option. I actually received a response to this tweet from Matt Cutts last month, which made my day :) The UK sees so many AU and NZ results for transactional terms...

Hi Linda, Its happening here in the UK too. I noticed this about 3-4 weeks ago, but ive only had the chance right now to understand what was happening, Thanks to a helpful lady Miriam from Solas pointing me in your direction. Look at this: That box in the right-hand side pane sends you to the...

Thanks Phil! As i mentioned above, we have managed to do a pretty good job with search visibility by doing just that, creating town-specific landing pages for both organic and PPC. Its all going great, traffic and conversions are up. Local listings are the last piece of the puzzle for us. I...

Hi Colan, Thanks alot for such a quick reply. And thanks for linking to the page that details service areas. I tried to do this originally (i believe you have to submit the changes to Google upon adding these areas), but the changes were never accepted. Could there be any reason for this that...

Hi everyone, My name is Hayley and this is my first post here. I found the forum whilst desperately searching for some help with a local/places dilema i am facing. Ive tried all the social media communities i belong to in search for an answer so I really hope someone on the forums is able to...