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Hi Benjamin, Are you saying you want to use a different business name on your Google+ page than you are using on your Google+ Local page? This is not a good idea, as the chances of Google becoming confused about your identity are pretty high. You should brand your business with a single title.

Yeah we managed to get it to pick up the products for us, normally seemed to take a day or so after the crawl to reflect the change in the serps, although that was going from not showing it to showing it so not sure about the other way around. But yeah 'items' and 'products' seem to be the words which trigger it, although there may be more... Best, Stuart

http://www.worldofbooks.com.au The cache is now showing as not found at all

One of the examples scenarios Google gives is: Your pages have broadly similar content within a single language, but the content has small regional variations. For example, you might have English-language content targeted at readers in the US, GB, and Ireland. Tough call, you might have to do some research to see if this solution will help in your particular scenario.

Hi Benjamin - it looks like you have a real challenge - you could drop your branding to help cut the size down as Irving suggested, however you are still going to have an issue with books that have long titles, as I am sure you have numerous that surpass 70 characters. In this situation I think you will just have to exceed it as this has to be the case for your competition as well - anyone selling books is likely to have long page titles. Have you checked your competitions tactics? I would have a look at Amazon if I were you...

And it's not allowed by Mechanical Turk, either. https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies <a name="#violation_examples">What are some specific examples of HITs that violate Amazon Mechanical Turk policies? [excerpted]</a> HITs that directly or indirectly promote a site, service, or opinion HITs that violate the terms and conditions of an activity or website (for instance asking Workers to vote for something) HITs that generate "referred" site visits or click-through traffic HITs that ask Workers to take action to manipulate a website's behavior or results

In general - tools like this are rarely worth the time or hassle at all, as has been said - however, thats not to say that all directory submission is a waste of time. If a directory stands up to scrutiny - then submission can be worth it, for example: It has a good DA and the subject section has a good P/A It has a relevant section to your niche It will actually give you a link and not strip it out after you post it. The page on which you link is displayed is not buried deep in the directory structure (like dmoz) The directory and its pages are not stuffed with adsense or advertising The directory is not full of dupe content. The chances of any bulk submission software or tool finding a significant number of directories that meet the above conditions are virtually non-existent, and the handful that will apply to your business and be worth getting a link on will be reasonably easy to find yourself.

Back in the day I would say it's two datacentres being queried. Then again I've seen algorithm testing do the same thing. Latest observation was the PageRank stuffup by Google and it was interesting to see results jump up and down as they were recalculating it. Not a factor guys huh! Think twice

I really don't think that the answer is in these numbers...  I would simply... -- improve content -- sharpen the optimization -- get more backlinks -- make social sharing easy

first you need to compare search terms to see if your e-commerce conversion rate fell for your top terms.

You should definitely bring your blog over to your own domain for all of the reasons you described already. Something like www.domainname.com/blog would be pretty ideal. This white board friday you should watch as well. It's really relevant to your question http://www.seomoz.org/blog/mixing-viral-content-with-business-content-whiteboard-friday

Perfect, thanks.

see how little I know

Thanks Ryan - just what I needed to know.

Hello Benjamin! Let's start from here: When a site have a good combination of some things like Page Rank, Authority and Trustfulness, Google looks to this site as a relevant one on the Web. So, imagine if this site links to yours using the rel="nofollow" (the link needs this attribute to make the "juice" flow  http://www.w3schools.com/html5/att_a_rel.asp), the Search Engine thinks: "Well, if it's a good site sending to another, this second one must have some relevance too!". Now, your site is going to be seen from a better perspective by the Search Engines. The "juice" is like the relevance, and so to "link juice" is when you kind of share it to another one. And this can be done using yours site internal links too! Linking your Homepage to another for example. But, of course it's not to be going so great as another site linking to you...you can imagine, if you talk about what you are is good, but what do other people talk about is much better. Google thinks also that way! But in the end, link juice can be talked as when a site passes relevance to your by linking you with nofollow. Hope it helps!  =]

Understood - thanks Dan, perfect.

I see. That's tricky then. I suppose offering currencies for the relevant countries would be a start. Then get links from websites in that country, and build pages for those countries. Thanks.

Thanks Steve, might as well go for it then. It is a friend of ours. Thanks.

I've added a picture of my crawl errors in SEOMoz Cq3he