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I understand your situation and am sympathetic. I am simply trying to offer you the information you are seeking. If you are performing SEO work on a site, then it is your role to educate the owner / developer on the risks associated with the site in it's present condition and to make recommendations. I am in the fortunate position where I can turn down a client. I would turn away a client who was unwilling or unable to make changes which involved black hat methods. I would not want my name associated with such a site, nor the headaches that are involved with such sites. If you choose to continue working with the site, I would strongly recommend a written document where you advised the client of these issues along with the consequences and they have acknowledged (i.e. signed) the document. As far as making other changes, you are still breaking the rules but are fixing some of the violations. The changes may or may not help you avoid a penalty.

You can link up on majestic SEO and view the top 10 results for a keyword and then pull the back links view quickly within the software. Only issue is that they are using the Yahoo link API so it is not all that great. In regards to software that pulls the top 30 rank links that would take a lot of demand.

Thanks Ryan!

Thanks Ryan! Yes, our traffic and ranks for the roor domain have dropped after this new sub-domain was added.

These 2 links are great resources. I'm actually going back over them. Thanks again.

Thanks so really with blogging and social media the client really needs to understand the importance of sharing information and  that we are not directly trying to create business.

Thank you all for the responses. I hope they start supporting it soon.

Hi I most definitely would use them.  You may want to remove "the" or other extraneous words. Also, keep whatever is before it in the url short, and preferably only one level deep.  So if you're viewing an individual blog post:  www.domain.com/blog/this-is-the-url-of-the-blog-post If they are just so ridiculously long (like over 15 words) maybe its a sign your titles themselves are too long. -Dan

NEGATIVE keywords! Most ignored area in PPC management, and does so much for improving your performance. Continually mining for negative keywords and adding them to your campaigns/groups will save you money on wasted clicks, non-qualified leads, increasing your relevance. It will also indirectly affect your QS with a higher historical CTR. And an improved QS ends up saving you more on your CPC.

I've had two situations with Google Places that might help you. First, for some reason they have chosen to use the state road number for the name of our street even though Google Maps shows both state road number and street name. The street name has been in effect for more than five years. I've tried for several months to get it changed. Places refers me to Maps and says I have to be the owner, which I am, to make changes and Maps won't quit calling the street the state road number which no one around here knows or uses. So far nothing I've done has fixed it. Second, we have a legal name and a dba for our business. I mistakenly made submissions for both to Google Places--a duh moment.  It took several months to fix it. Taking the "speed" of changes to listings in Google Places into consideration, I suggest that you wait until you have a physical location with a landline phone. Otherwise, you will have to make two changes (to P.O. Box and then to physical address) which could take a long time to happen. Verifying with a phone number is really fast.

There are other options.  For example they could post your article and then use the rel="author" and rel="me" to attribute the content to you.  Also, rel="canonical" might work. I have not used these so I can't give implementation advice. You would have to get an agreement that makes placing those attributes on their website is a condition of content use. When people ask me to use my content, I invite them to link to it as you suggest.  I don't give my content away. Far to valuable. A few of my competitors give me content because they want to have visibility in front of my traffic.  These competitors have a message to share rather than something to sell.  They also get some traffic from my site. These are competitors who are not "gunning to beat me" but just looking for as much visibility as possible.

Any Ideas on how to to receive more LIkes and Shares. First, make content that everybody everywhere will want to "like" and "share" with all of their friends. Next, make it very easy for them to like or share your content buy using addthis.com buttons or other social sharing tools.

Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable reported seeing this in April of this year at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-sitelinks-jumbo-13324.html. I think I've seen them on occasion, but not often.

Not unless you want to rank for more information on the search engines. Anchor text is one of the most important ranking factors; if your page is about brilliant bacon, and you want to rank for brilliant bacon, good anchor text would be brilliant bacon - that's if that keyphrase isn't too competitive and it makes sense to the user. It also depends what you mean by a 'normal link' - if the normal link contains your keyphrase e.g. www.randomwebsite.com/brilliant-bacon - then that will hold more weight for keyword targeting than 'more information'. There should be a good mix of anchor text linking to your pages though, as would naturally build around the web, so there's no harm having 'more information' or 'click here' linking to your page on occasions. Here's a brief overview: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/anchor-text