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It depends on the type of home services.  For flat rate work that can be estimated fairly accurately, I think Amazon would seem the best.  That is also true of Custom work because they allow their clients to interact with the home service provider and negotiate the price of the project.  Also it likes they allow territories by zip code, and even exclusivity.  Don't know what the fees are yet.

I wouldn't choose Facebook or Yelp due to a lack of integrated shopping products to go with the home service.

When it comes to Google, I don't see them making a big splash and it would seem to me they would be taking money out the Google Adwords pockets and putting elsewhere, mostly due to Handyman projects.

My thoughts only,

Vernon Wanner

I have a concrete contractor that I do a site for.  He has many reviews from Home Advisor.  So I created a Structured Data Markup using HTML5\. I put the the AggregateReview near the bottom of the About Us page at [http://www.skv-construction.com/about-us.html](http://www.skv-construction.com/about-us.html).

Question 1:  Should I also put the AggregateReview on the home page, or on specific project pages.
Question 2:  How will Google use the data now if the About page is NOT searched or displayed in SERPs.  Does Google display this markup when and where they want to?
Question 3: Siince this is a Local Business, should I embed the AggregateReview within the LocalSearch tag.  I passed the Google test as it is for the Aggregate Review!  But I have the review wrapped in the HomeAndConstructionBusiness tag.

Here is the code:
"http://schema.org/HomeAndConstructionBusiness">

# Quality Workmanship w 50 Yrs Experience

"http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
4.37 stars-based on 
54 reviews at ["http://www.homeadvisor.com/rated.SKVConstruction.18028291.html"](<a) 
target="_blank">Home Advisor
"http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
10005 Fair Lane
<spam itemprop="addresslocality" union=""></spam>
IL
60180
(847) 364 0161
["http://www.skv-construction.com/contact-us.html"](<a)>Contact Us
Price Range: All Jobs Custom; Call for Quote or Visit Web Site 

Would appreciate any help.  This markup is so vague, I can see why few people are using it.  Maybe you should do a Video training or extended training on how to's.

Vernon Wanner
815-332-8062

A major non-profit with 360 locations just completed a new program.  The non-profit has updated its site at URL www.mysite.com.  Each of the 360 locations has a subdomain site with URL   http://mylocation.mysite.com which reflects the branding of www.mysite.com and has a Drupal content management system.  The company is asking each location to transition the top level domain of each location ( example www.mysite.com to http://mylocation.mysite.com).

The subdomain location sites are tied to a CRM system, which initially hasn't worked.  But the long term objective is to gather CRM data via the subdomain location sites.

The main site has an Alexa Global Rank of 30,400 and a US Rank of 7900.  The main site has 2600 backlinks, and is a pretty powerful site.  Some individual locations in large metropolitan areas have decent backlinks, but most don't.  The PR of most local sites is 3 to 6.

The SEO experts at www.mysite.com have maintained that the power and authority of the main site www.mysite.com would propel the local rank of each location to a position of high visibility.

Using Market Samuari and Majestic SEO, a test on each of the 360 location subdomains was performed.  It was determined that Page Rank did pass from the main site to the local site in 15% of the cases.  However, 85% of the subdomain sites had 0 Page Rank.  Page Rank did vary from 2 to 5 on the 15% that passed rank, but there was no cross checking to see if the subdomain location had the same page rank as the locations top level domain.

Referring Domains Domain (RDD) was usually -1; Referring Domains Page (RDP) was usually 0; Page Backlinks (BLP) was usually 0; Back Links to Domain (BLD) was usually 0; Google Cache age was all over the map from unknown to 58 days.

Questions:

1. Anyone suspect why some sites pass Page Rank and others don't;

2. Should we continue on the path towards using the subdomain sites, or should each location keep its top level site and work on improving their local search visibility there?

3. There is no way to check Google Analytics (GA)  on the subdomain sites without having to access GA on the main site www.mysite.com.  Right?

4. Will Google Places and Bing Local honor the subdomain URLs for their respective Local Search pages.

5. Would there be a compelling reason or reasons to abandon the subdomain sites?

Thanks much for your comments!!