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Hello David, Maybe this article will help as a starting point How To Build Links To Your Blog - Case Study Regards Brett

Keri, There are some excellent profiles that can share your content, unlike other "services" that are paid to share, the people sharing the posts are actually reading and finding them interesting enough to share. Of course, there are some that click on each and every share button just to get the credits, but as viralcontentbuzz "pays" by how popular you are based on metrics (I think from Klout) those that share just for the credits can't do you no harm. I've used them for several posts and some ended up with tweets from high level profiles that got retweets, favs, etc. I am totally against their paid version as it could become a paid to share scheme, which ends up as a way of spamming the networks, but still, high end profiles won't share everything just for the points, they have a "reputation" to maintain.

Thank you for asking this question, kcourtem ,and thank you for answering, Federico. I had the same question about using colons in title tags and this helped me confirm that it was OK.

For one, the hreflang markup tells Google which pages are similar to this exact page in your other localizations, which is not specified at all in webmaster tools.  From my understanding, the hreflang tags will swap out a page to the correct localized version on search result pages, which is doing a lot more than simply telling Google that the content in a subfolder is localized to a specific location.

Hey Keith, Looking very much optimized for Home Page Title Tag: 66 Characters, Optimized with keyword Meta Description: 156 Characters, Nicely optimized with keywords Meta Keywords: Missing. I know Google does'nt count it but it works for Bing. So, adding them will be a plus. H1: Optimized Content: San Francisco 4 Times which is acceptable! So overall optimized! But you need to work on your other inner pages, they need some efforts as well1 I hope, this will help! Regards

Hi Daniel, Might I suggest using a tool to customize the content according to the referral?  So that you can keep the same URL and the same page will receive all the link juice if you get any back links. However, creating different pages with noindex will work too.

Hi Oren, Thanks for the great explanation. So, let me try to sum up the options I see. Option 1: Legal firm with physical offices in Delaware and California In this case, the firm can have a Google+ Local page for each physical office, linking to a website landing page for each physical office. Be sure, of course, that each physical office has a unique local phone number. In this scenario, the client has good hope of showing up in the local results for the cities in California and Delaware in which they are are physically located. Option 2: Legal firm in with an office California that will send attorneys to Delaware to serve clients In this case, the legal firm can have a Google+ Local page for their California, but not one for Delaware if they don't have a physical office in the latter state. They can, however, build content on their website to reflect the work they do in Delaware cities. In this scenario, the firm has a good chance of showing up in the local results for their California city, but not their Delaware ones. Instead, they must aim for organic visibility for their work in Delaware, and if we're dealing with the legal practice, this can be tough because there are likely to be a ton of lawyer in almost any major city. So, it's possible but very difficult to achieve good organic visibility with this content. Hopefully, I've covered the two scenarios that might apply to your client. It pretty much all comes down to the cities in which one is physically located dictating in which cities one ranks locally.

Hi Brook, Thanks for the question. As you've mentioned, there are various tools out there which can complement Moz Analytics, however the answer to your question (for me at least) is not so much about the platform you use and more about what information and message you're trying to deliver to the client. The key part of your question is this bit: "but they want to have more detailed information about each link that I have gotten for them." It really depends what you mean by more detailed information. Do they want DA? PA? PageRank? Anchor text? Number of links on a page? Ultimately, the point is why do they want this information? All of this information can be useful but in all honesty, I'd be trying to steer clients away from focusing on granular details such as these and steer them more towards meaningful metrics, the main one probably being the amount of traffic that a particular link is sending and the engagement from that traffic. In terms of presenting this, you can use something simple such as Google Analytics to gather the traffic data, Excel to export it into and put it into a table or chart etc. If you do want specific link metrics, I'm pretty sure that BuzzStream and Raven will gather these for you, from here you could export them into Excel. I'd recommend these two links to give a bit more info about link building reporting: http://www.slideshare.net/justinrbriggs/link-building-reporting-12257082 http://raventools.com/blog/how-your-reports-make-your-link-building-suck/ I hope that helps! Paddy

I would tend to side with Oren on this one. When all of this stuff was new, an agency decided that the authorship their people built was 'rented land'. First, for shame. Second, they're missing out on what that author does later. Stripping authorship is a penny wise and pound foolish tactic.

It may be that some of your destination URLs aren't tagged with the utm parameters.  I forget if you can do it in Bing, but I know in Adwords you can set destination URLs on keywords or placements as well, which will override ad destination URLs, so you may need to check on all of those and make sure they're all tagged properly.

Hi, Overall I would agree with Tommy (with the caveat that as far as I know, social signals are not a factor for search algorithms). But I'm a little concerned about so many internal links. Is the page actually that important to the site, or are you only linking for SEO purposes? You have lots of internal links and (from what I saw) no external links to the page. My question is why you have two pages at all. It looks like the content varies slightly, but is there a reason why you can't use a single page for this? You don't want two pages competing for the same keyword. If you do want to keep both pages for UX purposes, I'd recommend canonicalising one to the other (in which case the canonical version should receive the ranking benefits of the other one so it should continue to rank).

I'll just leave this here. https://twitter.com/SEOmessiah/status/425417000186150913 What is the value to you? Exposure? Traffic? Links? Duplicate content has little value in the eyes of Google. And this: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

In the olden days, before search engines, our elders judged links based upon the traffic they would send. You have to consider that someone is going to click on that link. Maybe that set's the site up as an authority in one person's mind. Eventually they will run into other people that are like-minded . Maybe these people go out and publish something, with followed links, from somewhere pretty nice. It may be a long shot, but Wikipedia tends to rank well for informational queries. The links that may follow would help later. You have content on a site with pretty high visibility. I would ask you, how is this a bad thing?

I actually show both terms graded as a C for that page. If you run the page grader again (http://pro.moz.com/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new) it actually lists out exactly what items it looks for and doesn't find and those are the reasons why the grade would be lower. If there is a green check mark to the left of the item then that means it was able to find this on your page, if the green check is missing then that is something you should focus on.

Ah I think this answers my question: ....John Mueller of Google did confirm  at Google Webmaster Forum that, if a page is made 404 or 410, links to such a page are not counted by Google.

Cheers David We are actually already in touch - but thank you!

I prefer to keep it simple. List a few references and related examples of what you can do and ask if they would like to chat with you in more detail so you can provide an accurate quote and address any specific questions they may have.

Response from google: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-translate-auto-content-spam-17524.html And yes its not okay, manual translation all the way.