Hey fellow Mozzers,

Just got back from Mozcon and enjoyed getting to know a handful of you. I do in house SEO for a B2B wholesaler. We have a B2C website directory for homeowners to locate contractors to work on their home. On the site we have a products section which includes tech specs but not pricing. Our contractors have been asking us to add the ability to purchase their items online, so we are wanting to add a B2B sub-domain (store.domain.com) to our website for the contractors to purchase products online. We do not want consumers to be able to purchase the items and will have pricing behind a log in. I have a few questions that I'm hoping you might be able to answer:

1. What would be the best practice to not have duplicate content errors with products that are listed on both sites? Should we rel-canonical items shown on both domains or do something else?
2. We are not against having the new site be crawled, but will Google be upset/ding rankings because pricing is behind a log-in? Are there certain best-practices for B2B ecommerce sites?
3. Do you know of any other sites that have done this/do you have any recommendations on how to best implement this?

Thanks, Robert -

We claimed the listings over a year ago so we should be good there. However, the link you provided also states:

"One factor these algorithms consider is the accuracy of the business listing and the richness of the content associated with the listing..."

Would the "content associated with the listing" be restricted to the information in the listing itself, the website it links to, citations, or all of these?

Thanks!
Robert

Hi Everyone,

When you go into Google Maps and look at the satellite view, you'll notice business names on some, but not all, businesses--like on the roof of the building.

Where do I need to go to get this to work for my business? My Google Places pages are setup properly but as far as I can tell there is no setting for this.

Is it the Service Area setting? Currently I have it set to "Yes, this business serves customers at their locations." Perhaps I need to set this to "No."

Many thanks,

Robert