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great thanks. this was my sense and as it is on my old site but given the significant change it is always worth having additional insight and experience

H Robb that is the plugin I am working with and while I see the general settings I cannot seem to find a way to differentiate between links on the same page. Perhaps I am missing something?

I recommend uploading the file providing by Google to your public_html folder of your site (assuming you use an Apache web server). I am a stickler for adding the minimum amount of code necessary to a website. This process works just as well without adding any code to your website.

I don't know that I would kill yourself trying to find a Canadian host. Many Canadian sites host in the US. Remember, one of the main reasons to geolocate is latency (you won't get less than 100ms crossing the Atlantic). It helps in geolocation, but not enough in Canada to where I'd be wringing my hands if I didn't have a Canuk host. If you were going for Europe, I'd advise you differently.

Hi Brett, Today's post on youMoz. http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-get-more-clicks-with-low-rankings Amazing one. Cornel

No problem, if you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me through private messages.

Hi Brett.  I haven't used IDX for my sites because it is not available for our real estate board.  If your board has IDX available then you should be able to integrate it into your website.  Or you can hire someone to do it for you. Send me a personal message (via my profile) and I'll tell you who I host with.  I can share some ideas with you too. Marie

Makes sense, thanks Alan

Great suggestion EGOL! There are generally two reasons folks see different rankings than what is reported in SEOmoz 1. Personalization and localization. SEOmoz takes great pain to remove the influence of both localization and personalization from it's rankings, but these all to easily slip into our browsers and Google's default settings when checking rankings. Make sure you check your rankings with personalization turned off (or in some sort of incognito mode) and set your location to the country wide setting (United States) http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-personalized-search 2. Universal Results - This has to do with the way rank is counted when influenced by things like sitelinks, video results, image results, blended local rankings and so on. The list of variables is long, but a full explanation can be found here: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20933146-universal-rankings

thanks very much Phil, the link was extremely useful

Hi Brett, As far as i am aware, Google has not rolled out this functionality yet, as the instant preview is just a cached image snapshot from the page itself, it's not an actual HTML feed or iframe. I can imagine the ability to preview vids (especially youtube videos) coming along within the next year or so, but for now you can't watch them without clicking through.

Valery's idea sounds better for you. Rather than ratings, get testimonials and make them rank by adding a link to the testimonials page from the front page of the site, get it into some bookmark sites, add a facebook Like button, maybe a G+ button and get links from a few other relevant places. Be sure to set up the page title, description and content correctly. The best part of this solution is that it is much easier to get set up and working - you probably already have some good testimonials, and if you don't, then use Steve's idea of following up and asking for a testimonial. If you have a free report to offer them, that will be good, otherwise, just ask for their help.

IMO Relevancy is much more important. of cause the best is to have both. but think like a search engine, they want to see wujho is recomeneding you for a subject. A relevant link in the content is hard to beat. i non relevant link in the footer is priobably worthless.

Google Plus has changed big time since this post but to help anyone looking. You can now circle, "friend" and use your business page just like a personal profile. Check out Google+ for business http://www.google.com/intl/en_US/+/business/

Great answer! I did know about Google personalization but the IPS was new to me. Thanks Egol!

For who you write? for example a medical article or a diet articule with just 200 words won´t rank good in Google, some times you need to be more specific when you write content all depends of who are you readers. Regards,

thanks very much - good points

they are not at the moment - the blog is hosted on wordpress so the link goes back to that site. Should i add them with HTML or as PDF to my site?

Keep in mind that "quality" is a difficult term at best, and even if you could pin down a definition of quality, Google still has to translate that (imperfectly) into code. There are a lot of factors that go into determining the value of a link. Rand had a good post on the subject here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-illustrations-on-search-engines-valuation-of-links Many of these aren't even quality issues, per se. For example, if you have a blog comment on a high PR page, but you're 1 of 300 comments, that links isn't going to count much. You could argue that's a quality issue, but it's also just simple math - the PR of that page just got split 300+ ways. Even if every single comment was relevant and topically appropriate, it wouldn't count much. There's also TrustRank (we simulate it with mozTrust), the recent Panda factors, and other quality variables - they all tackle a different piece of the puzzle. Then, you've got user factors, like bounce rate, that are probably starting to come into play. So, I don't think you can just look at it as Quality vs. PR - there's a lot more in play. Edit: Sorry, I was reading this as "link quality", not the quality of the site itself. There's no either/or - both content factors (including on-page factors like good Title tags) and link factors matter, along with social factors these days. The best approach is going to tackle all fronts.

I took a look at this site, and while I am not completely finished seeing if there is any value. You can check your analytics / webmaster tools and see if that site refers traffic, brings users, or the link is valuable enough to show up in any number of linkbuilding tools. That being said, any link that is contextually valid, and brings ANY users to your site is a win. Given that DIIGO's deal is to tag and annotate pages it would seem valid as the context is definitely related to the site it will link to. The next question would be are the links follow? can google see, crawl and index the pages? Cheers, TODD