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Thanks for the response Gregory. I like the first idea. We are about to go through a redesign so perhaps I'll try implementing your idea

Glad I could help.. sort of.  And thank you for following up and replying back with the solution.

djlittman, We've had a couple clients use Reputation.com for their services. None of them really had any bad reviews, but they had several locations and wanted to make sure they were covered. Internet insurance, essentially. In what we have heard from them is that they aren't directly doing work to your website and if they produce a link back to your website, you have the right and ability to request them NOT to link back to your site if they created a blog article or a biography residing on another domain or external post. What they do is "bury" SERPs by trying to rank a positive review or a biography articles to rank over the negative reviews, thus pushing down or "burying" the review to Page 2. If you are considering them, get a consultation first, ask lots of questions and even ask for examples to help you understand more clearly how the approach this strategy to help you and more importantly, remain Google friendly. Hope this was helpful. - Patrick

Although our index is large, there are a number of reasons why we may not have data for the page you've requested. These can include: Recency of Page Creation: Mozscape crawls the web constantly, but we update the index only once every 30-40 days. Thus, pages and links created since the last index update won't be available until we've seen them. A typical timeline for getting a page/site included in Mozscape is 45-60 days, sometimes less for very important or well-linked-to pages. Deep Down in the Web: Our crawl focuses on a breadth-first approach, and thus we nearly always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these. Blocked Pages: If our crawlers or data sources are blocked from reaching your URLs, they may not be included in our index (though links that points to those pages will still be available) No Links: The URLs seen by Mozscape must be linked-to by other documents on the web or our index will not include them. Hope this helps!

I completely forgot, I sometimes use this http://www.sharedcount.com Can be helpful if they have shares etc.

It could be a coincidence, have you tried doing it over a different time period.  Bounce rate and exits from start page are slightly different.  If you have interactions tagged on the page such as Events and the user triggers them then leaves it will not be a Bounce but will be an Exit. Also, if you are not using premium, GA uses sampling so expect differences. In Web analytics tools in general I expect up to a 5% difference for the same metric in different reports, that's why it is all about trending over time and comparison rather than absolute numbers. Hope that helps?

They are looking at the number of likes a page on your site has, such as a blog post that gets 17 likes on that particular URL. They're not reporting on the number of likes your page on FB has.

Splenta is right Searching on Google for site:example.com will show you whether or not any pages for that site are indexed. You can also try "site:moz.com seo" this will narrow your results to show any indexed pages on MOZ that contain 'seo' in the page. Extremely helpful if you are trying to find an exact page or set of pages.

Do you mean the link in the description? Or the overlays if you're partner? I don't see any reason why you can't put a 301 on either, but why not just link to the actual site itself?

The best (most surest post-panda) and more time consuming and expensive method would be not going with YEXT and custom creating each local listing description and creating your own listings. Having said that, in the local SEO world many will still agree that quantity of listings over quality still prevail, even in the post-panda current state of SEO. Hope this helps

Since this discussion discussed problems with backlinks I want to refer to a great article and tutorial on locating unnatural links that could be damaging your site ranking and how to correct that. Ultimate Guide to Google Penalty Removal

Thanks too Mat for your feedback. Yes, I can see it displayed for that search too. In fact testing further if you type "things to do in portsmouth" it shows for that as it does for "things to do in <location>" so that implementation seems consistent.</location> I haven't found any carousels displayed for service type searches in a location, e.g. hotels bournemouth. In that case it still just shows the Google Places results, but I guess carousels for that may come. Thanks again, Peter

I use overseas development team but generally for small fix &  maintain issues. After working with different developers now I have a good contacts that i work with but I did have pretty bad experiences in the past... such as messing with codes and not fixing it, leaving the task half and once I had to pay double to get it fixed etc.. You need to be very careful  with overseas agencies as it is not easy to reach them as it looks. However, working with local agency doesn't mean that you will get a good quality job. One of my client, worked with agency in Brighton, I can easily say they weren't good at all and company lost quite a lot money for small fixes and maintains until they move to another agency. I think the best way is to work with an agency who has a good reputation and good reviews. It seems it won't be a inexpensive project. I know couple of good developers in Turkey, just to get an idea if you want to get a quotation i am happy to drop them a line to find out for you.

Do not become discouraged or get mad at yourself about this situation. A new paradigm is emerging, Google will not supply info about the visits that are coming from its search engine and we are obliged to work on this completely new environment, trying to find ways out and palliatives, in the meanwhile. All of our proposals are to "overcome" this current situation for 100% not provided. Our obligation is to move forward and find alternative ways of coping with our clients’ needs and our thirst for info. You (actually we) should start a new approach to Bing & and other SERPS from a different perspective. As Fishkin told in his WBF (actually Tuesday) it’s a matter of Google´s monopolistic situation, they are driving us to Adwords, and the only way out is to find other means of information different from Google´s search engine. Come on, lets give Google a "damn good battle to fight" ( actually I do not mean any  battle, nor  fight but let us move forward) Cheers

Thanks a lot for your help! I will definitely have a look at the list and the PR section. I'm already familiar with a few of them, but not all. If you remember the great one you were speaking with, please let me know ! Thanks again !

Hi there, I do not see any bylines on your site, nor content where there would naturally be a byline (e.g., feature articles and blog posts.) Authorship is, well, for individual authors -- while Publisher is for brands. Do you have a Google+ brand page? If so, you could verify it and add the Rel Publisher code to your page. This would increase (but not guarantee) your chances for showing up in the Knowledge Graph. To establish Authorship, you have been given a lot of good advice -- but you need to create content that is appropriate for Authorship as I mentioned. Hope that helps!

The way you are doing it is the actual/perfect way to do it. There is no automated way to do it, and if at any time a tool appears allowing you to make the exact same research and outreach, then you can forget about guest blogging as being helpful for SEO. Advise: keep doing it your way.

Yep.  Use of  a quotation-marked portion of your questions (in different variations) without the site: operator will provide a list of sites/communities where the questions are being asked and then you can dig deeper into those communities using the site: operator.