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why not do a search on facebook and other web 2.0 media websites find pages from other doctor's offices or even similiar "professional" professions like laywers ,accountants etc. and show him those pages as examples. These pages do not have to be local doctors, lawyers. They can be from anywhere - even thousands of miles away. Show him what others are doing.

Thanks to EVERYONE who gave me their 2 cents. I first heard of the ".co" when I saw a commercial for Overstock.co. It's interesting that they would start using this. I think that that says something. Now I'm not saying it will replace the .com but it's something to consider when a company like OverStock makes a .co purchase and campaign. Thanks to everyone! I'll be sure to post anymore info I read about it!

You are thinking of Facebook widgets, you can find them here: http://www.facebook.com/badges/ This allows you to post content from Facebook to other sites, so what you are looking for should be there.

Yep, LiquidWeb is also our hosting company. Never had a problem.

Thanks for all the tips. I came across magento and I really like some of their features. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any other companies offering similar things. I really like the Reward Points System Recurring Payment Automated Email Marketing Reminders

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Hmm, this seems about the most hassle free way of doing it Thumbs up.

See this article re merging Facebook Page and Places

Thanks Dejan! Very helpful!

Technically no, Google will only crawl pages that are publically available. However, you could use their first click free feature - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74536 - depends how much you think you would gain from doing that or what sort of non-payment abuse it opens you up to.

Well, that's a slightly different question In the above example, yes I would redirect them. It's the same website, same content and Google, I'd imagine, can figure out LA = Los Angeles. I definitely wouldn't have the same site on multiple domains as, generally, only one of them is going to be credited with creating the content and shown in the SERPs. Also redirect all the other TLDs to the dot com. If the site was widgets.com and I had bluewidgets.com (where blue widgets was a popular item) I may consider putting blue widget content on the second site as the exact match domain gives (for the time being) a reasonably big advantage with ranking for that term. Additionally, if I had say LALawyers.com, I may create a faux affiliate style site comparing LA lawyers and pushing my companies to the top. Unless you're putting significantly different content on the sites (and I'll again refer you to the microsite Whiteboard Friday above) I would always redirect the other misspellings, TLDs and synonyms to the main site.

Home run! Thanks for that.

I am with David, there are so many other important things to consider. This, I can't believe, has any influence.