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Thanks for your answer, Joel. I think the order of priority you've suggested for B2B marketing through social media seems very logical. If there is anything more definitive/tangible about the influence of social sharing/ interaction on organic search results that you could point me to, it would be very valuable. It always helps to show some clients hard data/ case studies! Thanks again.

I'd highly recommend not using Twitter solely for higher rankings. Twitter helps you with brand management, customer service, community management, etc. If you're only using Twitter to try to game Google, you're probably going about it the wrong way. I'd focus on managing your Twitter account in a way that will benefit you as part of your overall marketing strategy.

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Read this: http://searchengineland.com/google-places-is-over-company-makes-google-the-center-of-gravity-for-local-search-122770?utm_source=pluspost&utm_medium=plus&utm_campaign=stream and watch this: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/content-for-local-sites-and-local-search

Do you have a campaign set up for that site? If you add the Facebook account to a campaign you can see that info. Check out the attached screenshot from the SEOmoz account. uQ6rt

FollowerWonk is good for analyzing certain demographics, including keyword clouds. Here's an example: http://followerwonk.com/analyze/kanejamison

Hi Gaydon, This should help you out: https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/badge/#faq-find-page-id Regards

Hi James, Thank you very much for that article you linked to, I didn't even notice that it was actually doing that. What we did now is just get rid of that orange "share" button as a whole, and only keep the Twitter/FB and G+ ones (that don't link back to AddThis). Thanks for your help!

Hi Jane, It appears that the correct authors are now appearing in the SERPs. All I did was make sure that each blogger was listed as a contributor and for each post I simply added "Written by Author Name - Author Name Google+". I linked the "Author Name Google +" to the respective G+ account and from the G+ account back to the blog under the 'Contributor To' field. Anyway, all seems to be working now - just thought I'd reply in case anyone needs help in the future! Many thanks, Brad

Sounds EPIC! but in my opinion you at least have to share your niche and goals to answer your goals... because: There are pre made codes for social networking sites already available... are you going to go with that and alter as per your requirements... What special feature are you going to make public.. Will it be mobile friendly? these are few questions.. and on basis of that one will be able to answer about the total players in the team what should be their skill set and all!

Hi Everybody, I empathize. Local is going through a major sea change right now and lots of business owners are really confused. I highly recommend that you read Mike Blumenthal's terrific step-by-step transitional guide: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/06/08/google-for-business-places-forums-wrapup/ I think you will find your questions answered by a careful read of that. Please, let me know if you don't feel you understand anything. Cheers! Miriam

Social Bookmarking is like getting a vote of confidence by individuals. Search engines are in the business of providing relevant and popular results to their users. Hence if you receive a lot of likes on Facebook, twitter mentions, interest pins, Digg posts, Stumple Upon posts, delicious, of course Google + shares and likes and the other million other options out there, the search engines will recognize this and rank you higher. The world of SEO now includes Social Media as part of the overall formula. Especially Google+

If you're not providing at least some of both of those services for your potential client you will be doing ineffective SEO and somewhat of a disservice to them.  The link building efforts should support quality content.  It will help with the dissemination.  To me spending all your money on content would be like buying a car but not spending any money on gas.

In addition to everything that Anthony said (AKA, build relationships) you can also promote the blog article through writing other guest blog articles. I know this is going to take a lot of work, but that's what inbound marketers are good at... Hustle. Find someone who will let you write a guest post for their site, and then fiind a way to organiclly mention your blog article in the middle of your guest post. This will help your first blog article rank higher in SERPS, and it will send more refferal traffic to your blog. Good luck.

Wow, Joel, Keith, Shane, thank you for your interesting contribution!

Be transparent, be yourself, and gain influence. Otherwise, suck at everything.

Personal opinion. - likes per photograph is far, far better for UX.

Thanks for the advice Guys, all noted and I will put them into action. Thanks

Hi I was planning to carry out all the normal processes of SEO to the site such as KW research, on-page content, header titles, competitor analyses, off page factors etc, I am  just concerned by using the Wordpress admin CMS that it is encapsulating the normal seo elements such as page title, description, page names- friendly urls  and was looking for any modules that provide direct access to these areas from within the admin panel rather than letting wordpress manage them . I have looked at Yoast and felt that would provide what I am looking for,  I am interested in the overall use of Wordpress and SEO considerations as a whole?   The trade off for having a user control panel to create the website - like the effects on navigation links, Javascript code encapsulation? thanks for your advice