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say: "I can do this for you, can you do this for me, or would you be interested?"

your going to need to give a little more info about your tactics, link building, etc.

people know what link building is, but have they ever done it - and has it ever actually helped them? I think there a lot of factors that go into it.

-How influential are you on your industry?
-What kind of SEO do you do?
-Do you do SEO for yourself, or for your clients?

• A Gazzilion more things to consider

So many different angles at SEO, hard one to pinpoint, but people that have been there and done that. An expert would definitely be someone that is making money for themselves off of their own SEO expertise. Beginners and Intermediates fall short of that.

Hello, I was just wondering pretty much what the difference between a static HTML page for your timeline is and what the apps are. Is this something that is going to be wildly popular. What should one focus on when creating these static pages or custom apps?

It seems like outreach and insights is going to be big for Timeline as well. What are the best practices for switching over in a timely manner while staying somewhat slightly ahead of the game?

what is the best practice for this? Right now everything is under many different passwords and logins, yet conforming them all to one comes with a bunch of loopholes and bumps along the way.

Does anyone know how to get a few clients under the same username and password (linking the AdWords and Analytics for each of them)?

I was curious to know what everyone thinks about CSS positioning so that the spiders will read a optimal bulk of content first - before it reads the others. Say I have some Tab's set up for navigational purposes, where the content in the last tab is actually what I want the bots to see first. What would be the best practices for accomplishing something like this?

ty Dignan99. We concur on the campaign ideas you mention...we are looking at this as supplemental.

Let me clarify. We are all set with growing organic visitors for likes....but like direct mail sent to a large demographic, it is hard to discount that buying 5,000 or more from any type of reputable service is a bad thing, unless the list is bogus or comes of misleading and causes brand damage.

I mean if i could buy a 50k list of SMO CEOs and execs and 80% of them left, i would still have a good target to nurture. So, i guess we are wondering if anyone else had tried the mass market approach to build their "opt in" likes/list/followers

Hi Everyone,

Has anybody ever bought traffic using a site like visitorboost.com?

What are your thoughts? What other services are there?

We are trying to supplement our "like/follower" campaigns, while we wait on our organic methods to build followers. Think of a HVAC company just starting out in social....they dont have time to build and nurture a list, (although we will for the future) they need sales now...so they trun to radio, print ads, etc.

If we could buy thousands of followers in a demographic that made sense and it was affordable, is it worth a try to get the word out?

Thanks in advance guys!

Hi Everyone,

I am looking for some assistance on our packaging for social media.

I am worried that my piece reads too much like a contract and not a sales piece.  I would like to get some input before I run it by my boss and I felt like you guys were the best resource.

If you would be so kind as to Private Message me I can send you the plan and we can go from there!

Thanks in advance!

awesome, thank you for your help!!!

cool, understood.  So what would be the best way to optimize?  Encourage users to post their experience on these venues and hope that Google picks them up?

Blarg! How annoying! Thanks for the examination, that helps a lot, especially knowing we are not alone!

Sorry for the confusion but they are two different questions....

All,

I understand HOW Google does it, but I want to know WHY...

When I search for something benign like "air conditioners" without providing a city or state, it automatically tells me what is in my area.  Which is great for those who are not doing research, but for those of us who ARE, this makes it very difficult and frustrating.

What gives?

Good Afternoon all,

So I am trying to figure out the best way to optimize my Google Local ads. I know I can use Google Boost and it will behave like a ppc ad but I would like to find an organic way to optimize these listings.

Any help that you call can provide would be much appreciated.

Thank You!

Thanks. Very insightful.

We work mainly with SMBs, and not retail. For them to go beyond FB and twitter is a stretch. In fact they can barely handle the idea of those two, so we dont want ot scare them off

LI seems more of a personal networking tool, the corporate pages are automated by LI and many areas (SUCH AS OLD EMPLOYEES) cant be removed without a lot of headaches. WE need something easy and affordable...probally based on the blog feeding all SM platofrms that we choose. I think options to add slideshare, scribd are good ideas. 4square, prob not viable for us at this time.

(This coment is form IWS owner, not my SMM, i thought id chip in and tell you how much i enjoyed your feedback)

Hi Alex!

Thanks for your response!

A couple of items:

How effective do you think Linkedin is?  We havent been terribly successful with it.

Myspace? Still? they are talking about shutting down...

What do you suggest for apps for photo sharing? Color? Instagram? or shall we stick to flickr?

What about for location based?  We are pushing gowalla because the icons are larger on facebook and it syndicates to Foursquare.

In gowalla you can commission them to make custom badges, how do you feel about that?

grouped in or beluga? or none?

fwix or whatser?

tumblr or blogger? or none? just stick to wordpress? or a combination?

groupon or living social?

bump or cloudcard?

for brick and mortar clients should we be making foursquare or yelp offers for check ins?

slideshare or hub pages?

squidoo or scribd?

these are just a few examples....

Hello and Good Morning,

I have a tech convergence question...

In our social media package we have listed that we will subscribe to hubpages and scribd.

a lot of these services do the same thing (twitter vs identi.ca, color vs instagram, gowalla vs fourquare, ect), what are some of the better services to use and why? We have our favorites but they may not necessarily be the most effective.

thanks!

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