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painful self promotion, but anyone would do it! We do a lot of bespoke ecommerce on our own in-house platfrom, please encourge your business partner to take a look over our website and get in touch with me if needs be? Chapter Eight Cheers, Jamie.

we submitted XML sitemap yesterday..

Set up a Campaign. It is very easy to do. Enter in your main site's URL, along with up to 3 competing sites. You can also track various keywords and measure performance between the sites. Just select CAMPAIGN from the SEOmoz navigation bar.

Thanks, that makes sense YouON. I could create interesting/funny/entertaining videos on YouTube for brand awareness, and more product/tour orientated videos on my site for  pre-selling and SEO Thanks for the advice everyone Greg

Google News does not accept individual press releases, it merely aggregates news from a variety of sources around the internet.  I have had good experience with using PRWeb from my press release distribution.  In my experience, all of the press releases I have submitted with their service have ended up in Google News, and they have brought my clients a fair amount of traffic in the process.

The only tools you need and SHOULD use are your fingers and mind. Firstly, there aren't a great deal many to have to go through so set aside a few hours and you should have covered all local yellow pages you can find. Secondly,  You want to make each submission slightly different when it comes to your business description, so you need to use your mind here to rewrite things slightly differently in each case when you can.  Google will appreciate seeing references to your website on pages which aren't identical in content.  And i've often found as your're thinking about differing descriptions you come up with new ideas and as a result end up with descriptions that read better as you go on. Thirdly, You want to ensure you can give as much information as possible on each profile you create, and each site you create profiles on will differ slightly in what they allow you to add. Some will be very basic, some will allow lots of information and different sections to be entered.  E.g. Business hours, On site parking availability, photos & images etc. Hope that helps and leads you to do it the write way

Thanks Ryan Interesting questions posed and thanks for taking time to reply. Will have a good look at this. Many thanks Gary

Thanks eunaneunan!

I think in the future it will affect your general domain ranking a little bit (Seems like a logical step for google?). But just as Ryan says presently it doesn't seem to affect it.

If you own an e-commerce site you would want to know: products viewed products purchased purchase date visits to purchase etc This data could be used to serve them with related products, make it easier to find previously looked at products ,drive behavioral targeted e-mail campaigns etc...

If it gives your brand/keyphrase more exposure on SERPs then why not? Wouldn't it be great if you could rank number 1 and 2 with different websites? I suppose it depends on the competitiveness of the keywords to an extent, so do some research there.

We really dont have the time or resources to keep up with both sites. We get about 150 organic hits to the "www.wafflemaker.com" site and only see about 20 of those come to our main site. Maybe a redirect is best since our sales site is set up to reel the buyer in. Thanks for the input Ryan

If you are going for link juice and seo alone, I would say yes.

Thanks so much everyone - great advice it seams. I will continue to work on my on-page factors and especially my link building efforts. I felt like it was a long shot and you confirmed my suspicions. Thanks again!!

I haven't used them but they were recommended to me: www.translations.com Otherwise go onto the platform of your choice - gumtree, odesk and get someone to translate it for you If you go to this seomoz video http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smx-advanced-andy-atkins-kruger-talks-international-seo-and-yandex-whiteboard-friday A number of people in the comments identified themselves as Russian seos. A few DMs could get a Russian SEO on seomoz to translate for you (for $) Otherwise: Arabic SEO companies http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies/index?q=arabic Russian SEO companies http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies/index?q=russian

We are also seeing the new format as well in Google Canada -  in English and French.

Hey MetiX, Danny Dover did a great video about brand search results. And Brian Patterson wrote about his online reputation management playbook. Hope this helps.