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How can an out-of-town company compete with local competition? – Video

14-01-2011 14:29 In a search environment where local is becoming increasingly important (and more full on the SERP), how can an out of town company compete with the local based (and locally housed) competition without lying to show up in these local results? Bryant D., Lansing, MI Learn about service areas in Google Places here: http://www.google.com Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: http://www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like this

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How can an out-of-town company compete with local competition? - Video

Can you explain what Google means by "trust"? – Video

Can you talk a bit about ranking signals like trust? We hear these mentioned from time to time by Googlers but there's no official documentation available from Google on the topic

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Can you explain what Google means by "trust"? - Video

How does Google determine page speed? – Video

How does Google determine page speed?

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How does Google determine page speed? - Video

Can a site's downtime affect its ranking? – Video

Last year, one of my client's webservers went down for over a day. Would this have affected the site's PageRank at all? Hypothetically, what if this had happened for longer--could it actually drop the site from Google's index?

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Can a site's downtime affect its ranking? - Video

Will changing the code and layout of my pages while moving to new URLs affect their rankings? – Video

Hey Matt, Thanks for doing this again! I'm changing the platform of my blog. All old URLS will redirect to new ones

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Will changing the code and layout of my pages while moving to new URLs affect their rankings? - Video