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It shouldn't make a massive difference, but...

Dashes are typically treated as separators

Underscores are typically joined

Right from the horses mouth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQcSFsQyct8

Re ideas for content, start by finding out what people actually want to know about the product.

For example try using Google's auto complete feature <-- link to screen shot examples.

Find out what is already ranking for those keywords, then produce better content than those results.

You can take it up a notch by using http://ubersuggest.org

Good luck!

Check the plugin settings, you may have specified to add that to the end of each title.

If it's a post check <a title="Click for Help!">Post Title Format:</a>

If it's a page check <a title="Click for Help!">Page Title Format:</a>

The default setting is usually %post_title% | %blog_title%

So if you blog title (in Settings > General) is Acme Widgets Inc. it will be added to the end of your post title.

Let me know if that helps.

IMO I would keep all of the content on one page, that way you are creating one (hopefully) great, unique content filled product page, instead of watering it down with a number of weaker pages per product.

This list includes some paid directories http://www.seomoz.org/directories

However, it looks as though it has not been updated for some time.

Technically it is gaming, but it happens more often than you think.

I, personally am a bit of a perfectionist and wouldn't be able to put my name to anyone else's work.

I think you know the answer and hinted as much. If you were to create new pages, you'd be creating those sub-pages purely to try manipulate rankings. Considering they are just keyword variations you'd probably end up with very similar (duplicate) or low quality content on them. You'd be better off creating one awesome page and optimizing that with an instance or two of each phrase

Good luck!

If you had a list of the URLs you could outsource the job of actually contacting the sites using a template link removal request. However you might find that a lot of the low value sites that accept articles from UAW and similar are highly automated, so the chance of getting a reply / link removed may be quite low.

Some people argue that it's better to host your own feed, but I like Feedburner as has some good customization options, gives you access to some nice stats as well as giving potential subscribers a number of ways to subscribe to your feed.

"Create up to 100 personas with dozens of social accounts each."

"It's the software with the broadest coverage: up to 100 Twitter accounts, up to 100 Facebook and Google+ profiles, thousands of forum and blog accounts"

"Make one-click bulk announcements to all social sites"

If it looks, sounds and smells like spam...

Regarding bit.ly, from their FAQ:

_bitly works by issuing a "301 redirect": a technique for making a webpage available under many URLs. When you shorten a link with bitly, you are redirecting a click from bitly to the destination URL. A 301 redirect is the most efficient and search engine-friendly method for webpage redirection, and is what bitly uses. Because bitly doesn’t re-use or modify links, we consider our redirects to be permanent._So you're fine there. Re your own short links, you'll have to check whether they are redirecting or using cannonical tags.

Here are a few tools that dig for contact details:

http://www.rmoov.com

http://www.removeem.com/self-serve.php

Hi Michael,

Question: Should you be selling services you don't know how to deliver?

Follow-up question: What if someone (unintentionally) gave you bad advice here and you acted on it?

Typically a business hires another business to provide a service they are experienced in delivering. I realise the only way to get experience is to do, but perhaps you should be learning on your own sites before moving on to clients.

To touch on your questions, local directories may be a very small part of a link building strategy, but they're definitely not the only part. Also, you are going to be extremely limited in the types of links you'll be able to achieve building to a 'coming soon' landing page. It also means you can't build deep links.

I would recommend reading, 'Starting A Link Building Campaign' here for starters: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

If, after reading that you don't know if you can deliver a quality link building campaign, perhaps look at outsourcing the job to another SEO until you're up-to-speed yourself.

I don't mean to be come across as an ass, I'm honestly concerned for both you and your client. I hope this helps.

You can grab the video URL (or click share on youtube to copy the URL) and paste it in Google+, just like you would a normal status update. It will then embed it for you

Sounds like a waste of money. Simply pinging search engines is not going to influence how likely they would be to index your content. It may help discovery, but you can use free tools to do that (pingoat, pingomatic), Wordpress has the function built in.

Try adding &gl=(country code) to the URL at the end of the Google search query.

For example:

&gl=uk for United Kingdom

&gl=us for United States

&gl=au for Australia

Looks like a custom Google search on a domain, probably running adsense.

These are just search results and are not going to help your rankings.

You can have multiple admins and you can transfer ownership, I believe there is a 2 week period before they can remove the previous admin.

Checkout: http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2380629

http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2380625

http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2380626

At this point in the game it's really not going to make much difference at all. It's one link that was at one time, thought to be critical. Now, not so much.

I guess it depends on the budget you have to work with and your long terms goals. I'd be gunning for both!