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What benefits do you see for using both as opposed to just one? Regards,

Thank You Joao... I am currently taking your advice, and removing the link (sitewide) to the homepage from the text 'Panama City Beach Hotels' and just leaving it on the business name instead. The site has a .xml sitemap for google, and a html sitemap for users. Google places is OK. I have replicated the search in google for the business name, and I see the places listing at the top of the page, so it seems active. I will make updates to our information as you suggested though, and resubmit as "corrected" as you suggested. I appreciate your time to help Thanks again!

The text is picked up using a text only browser so I would suggest that Google won't have a problem crawling the content. Here are the current guidelines from Google Hope this helps

hehehehehe I loved it: google hey, i want humans to come. Very good.

Hello there, Craigslist is probably the way to go. I seen yahoo.com and even google.com posting in some IT category, and professionals posting their resumes as well. www.careerbuilder.com got peoples resumes by geo. Good Luck

Hi Tom, I'm not sure if you are still looking for an answer on this but this link should help https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5264 cheers

Gyi Tsakalakis I actually went to management with three sites that ranked on page one of Google for our most important keyword and asked them to verify that the companies were our competition. Management countered me by printing out some pages from a competitor that they knew of but ranked no where near the top of Google. So I think they kind of missed the point of what I was trying to prove. So I've had some difficulty even getting off the ground.

There's a lot of shades of gray to this question. The more spam-like versions most likely would be discounted, while guest posts on strong websites would still drive link value. For example, if I wrote an article or story that was picked up by the mainstream news and placed on a site like ESPN, USA Today, NYT, etc. the link in the story would be valuable. If the site that picked up my article or story was a paid repository of low quality content then the link would likely count for much less or could possibly be considered spam if the website was considered a bad neighborhood in regards to linking.