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Hi irvingw, Thanks for your response.  We have been targeting these keywords, which is a good thing I guess. I was just thinking along the lines of 3-5 words long phrases that we could target. There may not be a way of doing it. Thanks for your help. mik

If you do searches with regular expression and you have the SEOmoz bar installed, that way you can find what should be the most powerful pages for a keyword and kind of site (i.e.: blogs). Not scientific, but the closest you can related to your question.

usually they don't have links from the same places so if you get all the links they have and more you have beaten them hands down, and then after that well I guess google is your friend

Getting the location of a searcher from their IP would not really be accurate enough for this. The place Google 'thinks' I am when searching is usually some distance away from my actual location, and unless I bother to go in and change it manually or I'm searching from my phone with the benefits of GPS, it's incorrect. Google Insights for Search (http://www.google.com/insights/search) at least lets you specify 'England' as a sub-region of the UK, however.

I am not sure to be honest. I use a lot of press release services and I've never heard of this one. Are they charging anything?

Great thread! I just submitted one with Marketwire, it was much cheaper and I know they have strong contacts. i will likely use PR web next time and I'll let you know which I found better. I think it also depends on your industry and what you are looking to get out of the press release. Marketwire is great for Canadian offline media distribution if that's what you're looking for.

I've been using Blurbpoint for a while now and liked them. They were's "amazing" but they did a good job...3 stars sounds about right to me. I have a tiny limited budget to work with and I had to put them on hold or cancel since I decided to use the budget elsewhere, part of which is here at SEOMoz. They worked on 5 keywords for me and I increased rankings well, not overnight, but over time.

Wissam beat me to the link to SERoundtable. I quote that one at least once a week in here -- it's happening to a lot of people.