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No problem! Well I would imagine you are targeting some specific area/keywords with each blog post, so it would be a good idea to get them to link to the post itself. I have also found that this is more often the case. Obviously you will end up picking up links to both through these methods and you should see an increase in both page and domain authority. This will lead to improved rankings and more traffic. Good luck

NP! Best of luck to you

Usually it took me 3 weeks for Google to show up my pic in search results ! so i would suggest you to wait !

That was terribly unclear, I apologized. We linked to a new blog post from our Facebook page.  Posted through Hootsuite, but that's never been an issue before. Because it's a fan page, there are no followers, and the same number of "likes." Thanks for the help.

You can also check their link profile.. Do they have a natural back link profile or are they over optimizing. Also check the onsite work, do they have a site that is trying to manipulate spiders (footer links, hidden text, stuffing keywords). Do they have a blog on their site? when's the last time someone posted on this blog? dare these blog posts shared? Is the sites social media activity real? If they have a good site with a good linking profile and If the site is active (frequent posting) and it has real followers on twitter or likes on Facebook with interaction/commenting then it is a good company to link with.

...it's perfectly acceptable to link and then attribute the image. This is incorrect.  This is theft. ...it seems to be acceptable. It is not acceptable.  Can cost you $150,000 and the copyright holder does not have to prove financial loss. You better be careful.

http://hashtags.org/ - Give trends for the more popular hashtags. In your case, I just popped both into search (can do it on Twitter too) and just see which has been getting more results (in this case, I'd go with #carpics) If someone knows of a better service (maybe checks synonyms, related terms, etc) to choose the best hashtags possible, I'd also be interested.

I would highly recommend it and there are a handfull of opportunities available when utilized properly. Three good articles. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-every-marketer-now-needs-a-google-strategy http://www.seomoz.org/blog/authorship-google-plus-link-building http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-plus-the-ultimate-you-sourced-search-engine

Hi, Social shares are now more important than keywords, social signals correlate highly with good rankings. Five of the top six signals are social: Facebook shares, Facebook total, Facebook comments, Facebook "likes," and tweets, so quality of FB likes and shared are important.

Yeah I have no idea how I missed this haha - I think because I couldn't see it in the rich snippet testing tool.

Intresting. I know that searching for upper case and lower case keywords do bring up different results. But that is keywords, I wasn't sure how url's were effected by upper / lower case.

Yeah, if you have got your target audience right and taken time to build a relationship with appropriate influencers I think you are on to a winner in any niche...

You have endless possibilities for content!  Here are a few just off of the top of my head: 1. Facts about snow.  How do we know that every snowflake is different?  Why is every snowflake different?  What kinds of snow are there?  Why does some snow pack and and some doesn't?  You could either have a huge article section or have some cool infographics about snow that are likely to be shared. 2. Trivia about snow - what country gets the most snow?  What places has it snowed that usually never see snow at all? 4. Videos - You could put together so many cool pages about snow.  You could easily compile youtube videos and make pages like - Top Ten Tobogganing accidents, Coolest snowmen.  (There's another idea....pages and pages of ideas of things you could make out of snow....funny ways to make snowmen.), Top ten extreme skiing videos, top ten snowball fights. I could go on and on.  Speaking of snowball fights, you could have pages on snowball fight strategies.  You could also have pages on cool ways to make snow forts. Man...I want to change my niche to snow.

Would love to know the answer to this.  My feeling is that the +1's do make a difference regardless of linkage of profiles.

Thanks John, I will read through these posts. I appreciate you taking the time to bring them to my attention. Chris

This method does not hurt nor boost your SEO directly but is a great feature for the actual users on your site. This is a great way to promote your posts on your site and inform your audience of your social media accounts. It also gives them a taste of what you are doing on social media. So while it will not directly affect your rankings, it can bring you more "likes" and "followers" that will see your posts on social media - driving more return traffic to your site and more chances to obtain links and shares.

p.s. you may have to cick the back arrow to go back to the Funco page.

Have you considered allowing guest posts from professionals within the industry. Make some contacts with some top authorities in prescription drugs to do some guest posts and offer them some sort of incentive (doesn't have to be a link back). Also, try to set up an interview with a doctor, pharmacist to talk about current issues or events within your industry and post the interview to the site. Or even try your idea of going on a tangent of saving money on prescription drugs and interviewing a financial consultant but have your questions pertain industry related topics. There are many things you can do to get your site ranking and rolling!

@Kyle, That's an interesting point of view, thanks! Anyone else some tips, advices?

Yes the Google Author tag lets Google know that you are a reputable source. It gives you as a user authority/credibility. IMO your Google + page has a PR and even though there is no case studies on this yet, I would bet that it helps your site gain authority. Heres more about it: http://www.slideshare.net/blindfiveyearold/google-plus-seo-and-authorship