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That's a great list Keri - thanks for sharing that. (bookmarked). Charles - check out http://www.stockvault.net in particular from the page that Keri sent through, I had a quick look and some of the free images on there are pretty good for standard blog posts.

Thanks Kieron, This definitely helps! It looks like guest blogging in terms of link building is significantly more effective.  Still it would be great if someone had figures on traffic/links ratio... as I’m guessing this would be more accurate than amount of articles to link ratio.

You are welcome, Charles. Yes, lots to learn...and the learning just continues because of the ever-changing nature of Local. The more you learn, the more you will be able to put your know-how to work for your business. Good luck! Miriam

Hello Lindz1, Firstly the anchor text is widely considered by leading SEO experts as one of the most influential factors in search engine rankings.  This is supported by search engine representatives.  Why? Because the anchor text shows the search engines what the page which is being linked to is about. The fact is If there may be NO visible anchor text detract or even eliminate the link value in the search engines.

It would be nice to see the weekly search impressions a keyword gets. It's good to know if you are ranking and how many hits you get from that keyword but what would also be nice would be the search impressions on a keyword. At first glance, a 100 clicks on a keyword in a week could seem good but if you had 10,000 impressions then you can get more easy traffic by upping the ctr