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Such a script/app is against the facebook terms of service. At https://www.facebook.com/help/210896588933875/ FB states: Can I know who’s looking at my timeline or how often it’s being viewed? No, Facebook doesn't let you track who views your timeline or your posts (ex: your photos). Third party apps also can't provide this functionality. If you come across an app that claims to offer this ability, please report the app.

I am an inhouse SEO and it can be a tough challenge to relationship build and deliver inbound links to your site. We are in the luck position of dealing with a lot of universities and we are slowly getting links from their sites, by giving them high quality content and offering more from our products. We have been building case studies on each site that we have sold too, and this is gaining momentum. We look to produce content that they will want to boast about, so how they have saved money, time, cash and the environmental benefts of our products (always a good one) by using our products. This seems to be working for us. We also are looking into developing webpages that our customers can put on their sites that give their users access to a resource of information regarding our products, in that content we will embed links. I'm not hugely technical so i have always approached my seo/link building from the perspective of providing great content, simply as i don't think gaming links is a way to go , and i don't know how to do it. It's a cliche and one i have mentioned many times in this post, but put the hard work in and slowly it will pay off, great content, and good links that will last are hard to come by, but are worth it. My rankings have shot up from getting a few but select links from high authority domains.

I'm an editor for one of the categories, and depending on the catagory you're trying to listed in, it can indeed take some time. By the way, I actually don't think a link from DMOZ is all that powerful any more...just my 2 cents.

Hi Inhouseseo, Yes, I have made similar things happen for clients. Most typically, this type of results stemmed from overhauling a bad website. In one case, the client's sales (the real test, right?) shot up 125% in one year. I've had similar results with other clients. My take on all SEO is this: the strength of your efforts must be based on the competitiveness of your target industry. If my client is a quilt shop competing against 2 other quilt shops in a 50 mile radius, chances are, I just need to put up a really good website for them to beat out the other two, who probably aren't going to have hired someone like me because the industry isn't very tech-oriented. If I put a blog in the site and client uses it once a week, she will probably be going way beyond the efforts of her competitors. I'll get her Local SEM firmly in place and she will dominate the whole local scene on the web. No way am I going to have to do linkbuilding. It's just not necessary. However, if my client is a personal injury lawyer in San Francisco, that's a very different story. I can write content for him all day, and it will help, but if his competitors are all spending $3000+ a month on linkbuilding with hotshot linkbuilders, he's going to have to match and exceed their efforts if he wants to outrank them. There could be exceptions to this, but I would call this pretty typical. So, my experience with this is that the efforts one has to make for each client are unique. It all depends upon what efforts their competitors are making. In some cases, all you need is good on-page SEO. In others, it will be a combination on on-page plus Local SEM. And, in others, you will have to bring out every weapon in the arsenal, from linkbuilding, to SM, to video marketing in order to gain the visibility the client seeks.

I was expecting you! Thanks for the input

Search branded and non-branded terms for the site on Google to see how the site performs. If they aren't deindexed or performing poorly for their targeted keywords it probably wouldn't hurt to obtain a link from them. However, it would probably be better to put your guest post efforts elsewhere.

Some are; some are not. .edu is not necessarily better than some .com.  If the link is from a university's law school resources pages and links to your site on law books, this may be more valuable, than a student's page with a lot of links to and discussions about what beer is best for getting drunk the quickest. The Google algorithm does consider the trust factor on domain names.  Because just anyone of the street can't get on GoDaddy and buy example.edu, it will automatically get a trust boost. Some discussion of the different values of the .edu can be found at:  http://searchengineland.com/explaining-edu-link-value-with-examples-64012

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-8step-seo-strategy-step-1-define-your-target-audience-and-their-needs

Thanks. That was helpful.

I think Rankerizer - http://www.rankerizer.com/ - does a pretty good job of tracking your ranking for multiple keywords. And you can easily export results into a CSV file.

Unfortunately, there isn't currently a way to know which domains have more than 25 links to your site.  I would recommend that you submit a request to add this capability to OSE in our feture request forum. Here's the feature request forum we use to collect ideas: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests Thanks, Chiaryn

This sounds like something I've encountered once before. I remember I dealt with it, but I forget what the cause of the problem was. If you contact AdWords Help, they are very helpful, and also tend to respond within 24 hours.

A good place to start is SEOmoz's own list of recommended companies - http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended. I'm sure some others on here have the other companies they are willing to recommend as well.

I agree with David, find a reputable and experienced PPC company that is experienced with your situation, and pay for their expertise. Even if you are spending $1,500 per month on their services. Chances are they will also do MUCH MUCH better than you would in terms of your bottom line. Let's just ignore the time savings from hiring out a good PPC company and focus on your return. Then it just comes down to a number game, and that should help you decide on how much you can invest on hiring a PPC company. Here's an example: Let's say your budget is $4K a month on non-brand campaigns, and you're averaging 40 conversions, so your CPA is $100. If the PPC company does 100% better, you're getting 80 conversions for $5.5K a month ($4K + 1.5K service), and now your CPA is about $67. So what's better? You managing $4K and getting 40 conversions, or spending $5.5K and getting 80? And we haven't even factored in the possibility of an increase in average revenue per conversion yet! If the company can increase that too, well then... you get the picture. Now, let's just focus on just the TIME savings, and let's say you can't go above $4K in total. So the PPC company eats $1.5K, and the rest goes towards your spend. Then the PPC company would only need to do 38% better to achieve the same results and number of conversions. Hope all that made sense.

It is just never cut and dry Right so, asking somebody for a review is the first half, offering free; points, merchandise, credit, discounts, or a super nice product for the best "review" contest style, would be a creative way to develop unique content and thus I would say 100% white hat. The second half, asking for a link and offering the same sort of incentives is kin to buying a link, and IMO black hat. In this sense you are trying artificially inflate your ranking by "trading" something for a link. In this case somebody linking to you is by no means saying I like this site, they are saying I like the free stuff they give. Your question coupled the two together, but I thought it best to look at each case individually. Hope it helps.

I have seen a number of personal blogs, ones that clearly state that they get some sort of monetary benefit for reviews, that have dofollow html links to some large retailers. I was actually surprised to see this, given the recent Penguin update.