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Thank you, Keri! Will try this at once.

This doesn't quite answer the question that's being asked. I'm thinking this would be fairly obvious to Google and wouldn't quite look natural to boot.

Thank you so much for your reply. Our clients are providers of serviced apartments so they want to use their social media sites to advertise available apartments etc as well as to interact with their followers etc. This is something we can easily do however, i'm just unsure as to how much time to we should be putting aside for this and how to come up with a plan of action. Does that make sense?! Sorry if this sounds vague, I'm relatively new to SEO and I find discussing these topics with more knowledgeable people than myself helps me to understand how to go forward. Thank you!

There are a few different thought processes here... If I understand it correctly social signals are not really at the domain level, they are at the page level. Social signals are to signify trending or popular items. So by doing this you are trending a page on your site with little to no content (or purpose) other than a photo to gain likes. This MAY give the overall domain credence, in the Social World, but not sure it actually will affect the process of SEO to much. Also the photos are smaller and worse quality when they are attached as a web link instead of uploaded to your wall directly so you may get less likes, not to forget that the CTR of links on FB is VERY LOW! Of course you want positive social signals to your website, but is this really the way to achieve it organically and with overall user experience in mind? Keep in mind as well that SEO/SEM are more and more everyday becoming online about brand building and Sharing the item that gets alot of likes on your Branded Facebook page can increase your brand power online. In my opinion this strategy has merit, but employing under the idea of just gaining rankings is not really a strategy it is just another "SEO trick" that will get picked up and devalued as a webpage with little to no content so the Social Gain you made will proabably be devalued in the end, so you might as well retain the power in your Social branding. w00t!

It appears that Facebook Notes takes basic html code.  The catch is the images need to be on Facebook.  You can add images from the "add a photo" but it makes it hard to place them where you want on the page.  If you want to make better design on the note then open the image in a Facebook album you already created and copy the image location or url from the album.  Then using standard html code place the image link into the note ([image: URL]).

Go for the new business pages - http://www.google.com/+/business/ Its well worth getting into using this and also think about the use of the button across the site to help with rankings as I expect them to become more and more important.

Hi! Hopefully I can shed a little light on whether to go after shares or likes. Both actually correlate well with higher rankings, but this isn't necessarily a direct correlation it could simply mean that good content gets shared AND linked to which in turn helps rankings. Originally "likes" didn't show up in a user's wall or stream only shares did, so at that point they were more valuable because the share would be seen by more people. However FB has changed it so if you "like" something, not only does it show up on your wall/stream but it also allows you to add a comment. So it works very similarly to a share. If you feel that you can get more "likes" then go for it! I hope this helps a bit. Jen

Would you know a way to find bloggers that talk about infographics via Google? Or if theres a specefic site besides the major ones like visual.ly ?

Hi! You won't find this data in OSE right now unfortunately, however you can the info from Facebook by adding insights for your domain, Hope this helps!

On Google+ you can link up to other social profiles within the about me section. You can link up to other profiles in the about section on Facebook pages or the info tab. On Twitter you can link up in the about me, but limited text. Use your main website to link up all the profiles too That is your home base for linking out to all your social areas.

John, thanks - I'll check out Adobe Indesign. Ideally I want something like the up coming infographic creation tool from Visual.ly? It's not live yet http://visual.ly/labs but if there's a running alternative that would be great!?

Thanks for your suggestion, that seems like a very straightforward approach.

Are you just grabbing Facebook's code? Or are you using a Joomla-specific plug-in?

I believe it doesn't have a huge impact on SEO as of right now but I think it will sometime in the near future. I'm in the process of making a marketing plan for my clients based on +1's. Furthermore it's not going to hurt to gain +1's now, it's better to be early than late.

I simular to john here. dont go ugly trying to cater for social media. Is you industry one that is going to benifit from social media would be my first question. Then if you decide it is, I would not have any link that is goiong to take users away from your page. A simple like button, OK

Yes, that works in some cases. I have heart

Bob, Since you don't have a lot of "likes" plus the page has been inactive for so long, I'm not sure you're going to get much traction by emailing everyone. I also don't think it will hurt anything. I know... real helpful right? If you do send an email, I would suggest making sure that you call out the name of the group or page specifically so if they do get two emails, they see it's because they belong to both. As Frank mentions, it's also good to add info about moving the pages right on the page itself. That might get people's attention more than anything. Hope this helps! Jen

Currently you have a share Facebook button, however a "like" is much easier for the user (just one click) and still shows up in the user's timeline. I'd suggest changing that to just a "like" button. It wouldn't hurt to have a link to your facebook page as well. Since your page is so new, I'd ask all your friends and family to like your page so that it looks like it has a few more interested people. I also agree with Phillip that you'll probably need to test what works best for you. There is no magic number or formula when it comes to placing social buttons. Hope this helps!

This article will likely help you: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-bing-confirm-twitter-facebook-influence-seo A single retweet is not likely to make a big difference.  However, if someone influential retweeted you (i.e. like Rand) then this is a signal to the search engines that your post is significant.  The article describes how the tweets from someone of authority are important.  Similarly, if your article gets tweeted for facebook-shared in multiple circles around the world this is a sign to the search engines that it is an interesting article and worth looking at. Tweets and shares are not the new links, IMHO, but if you write something that's good enough to get valid, genuine attention from others then Tweeting and Sharing are indicators to the search engines that your article is a good one.  So really, it comes down to producing great stuff.