Thank you for a very detailed reply.

Is there any advantage to using moz local as oppose to doing it manually yourself then, apart from saving time? I mean for example, websites like localeze is premium but would be included free in moz local?

Bright local charges $2-3 per citation, so for 7 citations as Moz offers that's a max of $21? Surely much more economical?

I'm trying to see the advantage of using moz local.

Thanks

I have some variance in my company name (spacing/nospacing) and even my web address, www/non-www so I want to consolidate all of them. On top of that I need to build up my local citations so need to submit to more local directories.

Will Moz local take away the job of local directory submission from me? I understand they use like 5 data aggregators, I understand they are the directories of directories, so does that mean these 4 will submit to local directories for me? How many local directories is moz local suppose to get you on?

Also I understand it can take a month for your listing to show. In this case, would it not be better to just do it manually? I mean if I submit to yell.com now it's going to be there instantly, on top of that If I don't have the time I can outsource the work to India for very cheap and probably cost less than £84?

Thanks

Update to the above. Just checked that the results also apply in Yahoo and Bing, in that I rank first page for .com but 2-3rd page for .co.uk. As I understand setting geographic target in WMT would have no bearing on this? Seems .searchengine.co.uk really prefers .co.uk over .com?

Sorry, when you say keep .com and do a 301 redirect to .co.uk. Do you mean I duplicate the website at .co.uk and redirect all pages from .com to .co.uk accordingly? Would this cause a significant SEO drop as all my past backlink work have been towards .com?

Thanks

Edit: I misread, I believe you just said do a 301 from .co.uk TO .com. Correct me if I'm wrong

Thanks again

I bought the .co.uk a while ago and was actually debating which one to use, .com or .co.uk. In the end we went with .com.

Would it be worth transferring the website to .co.uk now and setting up a 301 redirect at .com to .co.uk?

Yes, I only just set WMT to UK today, will that suffice?

My Website has a .com domain. However I have noticed that for local businesses all of them have a .co.uk (UK business) TLD (check plumbers southampton for example). I have also noticed that on checking my serp rankings, I'm on page 1 if searched on Google.com but page 2 if searched on google.co.uk.

Now being UK based I would assume most of my customers will be redirected to google.co.uk so I'm wondering how much of an impact this actually makes? Would it be worth purchasing .co.uk domain and transferring my website to that? Or run them both at the same time and set up 301 direct on my .com to .co.uk?

Thanks