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I would highly recommend getting an individual to do it on elance. You can look at their ratings from previous projects and how much money they have made from this line of work. This way you can be sure that you are getting a proper writer to do this work. Additionally I would say - good job on the rewriting - this is necessary!

I really like account groups. Account managers that make money are sales people and can't answer questions or make estimates. They always take notes and have to get back to you. The goal is to make money and this maybe a more profitable way to operate. But on the other hand happier customers is more business. I like this idea: Account contact and a group of tech/ specialists. Any of these people can be contacted. Your question: account manager should usually be the primary point of contact.

Not sure on get satisfaction but based on what you are trying to do I would recommend creating social platforms for your company. Start with a blog, add a facebook page and add a twitterfeed for starters. This creates connections and interaction between your company and customers.

Seeing the great links roll in, watching our pages crawl up the serp's, and finding a creative way to get my sh*z done with the limited resources I always seem to have

Hey Frank No date as far as I know but the rollout post on the Google Webmaster blog states that it will be coming at some point soon: "We will continue testing and refining the change before expanding to additional languages, and we’ll be sure to post an update when we have more to share." http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-quality-sites-algorithm-goes.html

It is in Albany, NY

The linkscape is complex. Most of the time, the answer is "high quality content and many authoritative links". Other, complex times, it's not. When is it Not? I'm competing with two sites that quite simply suck for a relatively competitive keyword phrase. Neither provide useful content. Neither have much content at all (one has 10 pages). Neither have very many links. Both stuff targeted keywords into their pages, and receive high LDA scores. One benefits from a long history of being listed in DMOZ for this targeted keyword (rather than their company name), the other benefits from being part of a sizable parent company and receiving regular links resulting from various real-world resellers of their product. Neither have performed any article marketing, content marketing, or link building over the last year. How do those two sites compete with mine at all? It's not their content. It's not their authoritative links. (I'm assuming it's a mix of their high LDA, their extremely natural link profiles [with almost no linkrot over 10 years], and their ranking history. Anyway, my point is there are exclusions to the rule about content and links.)

Hi Rick, I just needed the same kind of data for a book I wrote, so I know a few resources that can help you, although I'm a bit uncertain if they meet all your needs. http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/ http://www.seomoz.org/dp/free-charts http://www.slideshare.net/randfish (update - forgot this one - Rand usually has tona of data in his slidedecks, so if you bother clicking a lot, I'm sure you can find interesting stuff in these ones too) Hope they can help you a little. Best, Thomas

So anyone out there disagree with the consensus and think it doesn't matter or else is particularly advantageous to be forthcoming with client specifics?

"Does Google update often?" Google unrolls minor algo updates roughly every two weeks. "Is a jump from a PR of 0 to 3 reasonable?" Maybe this will help you conceptualize what PageRank is and how it behaves: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/ "If my site does go to a PR of 3, will I see a noticeable change in my keyword rankings?" Since PR is only one value in the overall ranking algo, the answer to this question depends on how strong your other signals of authority and relevance are in comparison to those competing for the same keywords.

Afternoon Elias. I've added a link to the survey now :¬) Many Thanks Sean

Thanks for asking. A few ideas: 1. Review of link-building services or networks. Rate each on cost, size of network, page rank of network, spammyness, etc. Any of them worth the trouble, or is the whole group to be avoided as grey/black hat spam? 2. How to get .edu or .gov links. 3. Find a small site that ranks higher than the wikipedia page for the generic keyword category the small site is about, and then offer an analysis of how/why the small site is able to rank higher than such an authoritarian site for that keyword/category. 4. List of top 10 article databases offering do-follow links and their requirements, if any (min word count, links per article, is the directory human reviewed, etc). 5. How to cost effectively have video testimonials made (by actors not working at your company), and then top 5 sites to post them on once you have them.

E-Dreamz, That's not the case from what I am seeing. This update is completely wreaking havoc on numerous e-commerce sites which leads me to believe that there is more to this update then the original content and low editorial profile topics being discussed.