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I've seen a lot of business owners mention that their website is on Google+ Local but they say they never added it.

Does anyone know which companies Google buys databases from and lists the businesses and unclaimed?  And how often do they do this?

I've read a lot of information about duplicate content across web pages and was interested in finding out about how that affected the header and footer of a website.

A lot of my pages have a good amount of content, but there are some shorter articles on my website.  Since my website has a header, footer, and sidebar that are static, could that hurt my ranking?

My only concern is that sometimes there's more content in the header/footer/sidebar than the article itself since I have an extensive amount of navigation.

Is there a way to define to Google what the header and footer is so that they don't consider it to be duplicate content?

Hello,

A fellow business owner recommend that I signup for Moz to ask questions about local SEO.  I just have a few questions, but please excuse my ignorance since SEO isn't something I'm very familiar with.

My company has locations in 3 different cities in the state of Arkansas.  I've noticed that when I type in certain keywords on Google such as "web design", I see a lot of organic listings from web design companies in my local area - but if I were to search from another city, different listings show up that are related to that city.

I have 3 different pages on my company's website for each of our locations that gives a little bit of information about them - such as the general manager, storefront photos, and the employee of the month.

What can I do to get each of the pages to rank higher on Google in their respective cities?

I've heard a lot of different things mentioned such as having the name, address, and phone number listed.  Including Google Maps on the page with our location.  And some other stuff such as including stuff such as a "KML file" and a "schema markup".

If anyone can give me a list of definitive suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,

A fellow business owner recommend that I signup for Moz to ask questions about local SEO.  I just have a few questions, but please excuse my ignorance since SEO isn't something I'm very familiar with.

My company has locations in 3 different cities in the state of Arkansas.  I've noticed that when I type in certain keywords on Google such as "web design", I see a lot of organic listings from web design companies in my local area - but if I were to search from another city, different listings show up that are related to that city.

I have 3 different pages on my company's website for each of our locations that gives a little bit of information about them - such as the general manager, storefront photos, and the employee of the month.

What can I do to get each of the pages to rank higher on Google in their respective cities?

I've heard a lot of different things mentioned such as having the name, address, and phone number listed.  Including Google Maps on the page with our location.  And some other stuff such as including stuff such as a "KML file" and a "schema markup".

If anyone can give me a list of definitive suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated.