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I guess I might try that. I was concerned 40-50 links on an internal page (very internal = No PR) would kill that page and any chance of the internal pages ranking.

Brian's right. My brain thought automatically about expired domains so I messed up a bit.

You might check out this YouMoz from Movoto Real Estate and look at some of the work they've done for inspiration. http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/getting-down-to-basics-building-a-blog-from-the-ground-up

It's generally best practice to link in a way that's best for the user. As Nigel noted, it's common to have more than one link to the same page - especially if one is a navigation link. There's nothing wrong with this, but keep in mind that Google puts more weight on the first link to a page than second or third links. Instead of stopping link-juice to your Contact page, how about making sure that link juice flows back to your most important pages? You could easily link to top resources on your site that your audience may be looking for, and this could benefit both your users and how Google views your site. (nofollow link sculpting was a practice popular a few years back, but it's not really used anymore by most SEOs) Since you're leaning on-page SEO, here's a video Rand did you might like: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/getting-onpage-seo-right-in-2012-and-beyond-whiteboard-friday Hope this helps! Best of luck with your website.

Ripoff Report is itself a ripoff. People who write negative reports are usually unwitting dupes. (in a few cases they may be competitors.) In any event, Ripoff Report's real business is extracting fees for "mediation services"  and "customer satisfaction" programs to get negative stuff removed...even though it says it has a non-removal policy. It is a very bad company that has been the subject of many lawsuits -- but stays just within the law to do its dirty business. One court called its business practices "appalling" -- even as it upheld them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripoff_Report Do not attempt to rebut negative reports on the site; this will just increase their prominence. Under no circumstances contact Ripoff Report or anyone claiming to have the ability to mitigate bad reports. It's like dealing with blackmailers. You just encourage ever higher fees. The only solution is to adopt a "publish and be damned" attitude and then do the hard SEO work to get the negative review pushed down in SERPs.

I do not have the website otherwise by looking at the trend I might have helped you better but the situation you told me is possible only when You competitor is very smart Your competitor is really dumb I would build links to my social profile (Infect I have done that in the past) not because of the juice or link value or anything similar but i was more focused toward attract real and targeted users to my social media accounts from where I can build relationships that later can be used in multiple ways...and at the same time this activity opens more door for link opportunities. I would love to build links for my Google+ profile as I am pretty much sure that author rank is going to help a lot in the future. So, if your client have a long term strategy when it comes to social or inbound in general and have some really smart people doing SEO for them then he is using this activity to get more exposure in the targeted audience and he actually wants to invite people to calibrate and engage with him and his business through social media channels. But what if he is dumb! He might be thinking the same that Building links for a social media website like twitter and facebook and then adding a link of a website on social media profile give him more benefits as twitter and facebooks are authentic websites in the eye of Google. If this is the thought... then this is not going to help achieving want he really want to achieve from this activity.

I never see links from internal pages linking back to the main page. I see internal pages linking to other internal pages. I don't normally see people targeting their root domain with links from internal pages. Is this bad practice? It goes to reason if the main pages passes link juice to six secondary pages that it would be good practice to pass it back. The navigation bar has "home" on it. Does that imply that every page on the site passes juice to "home" and every link on the navigation bar? Does that then mean that it's good practice to have a good number of links on the navigation bar to spread link juice from the entire site back to those specific links? So each link on the navigation bar should be a page I am trying to rank for a keyword. My site has 10k pages indexed. Mostly real estate listings. The pages are all PR0 so likely pass nothing along to the navigation bar links... A good practice would be to chose all the pages in my navigation bar and SEO each one. Get each internal page on the nav. bar to a good PR so it passes it's link juice to all the other pages on the navigation bar and back home. Right? The navigation bar should be links to all pages you want to rank highly for because you can (with above strategy) rank them well together by ensuring a good few internal links. I do a lot of blogging. I get back links that way (duh). When I go on a blog and make a post, I should make a comment using my root domain. The next time I comment on the site use one of the internal pages on my nav bar, then another one. This way one site is feeding link juice to each of my internal pages which then feed my other internal pages/home. Right? Main point: I won't get a huge return for getting 10 links from one site. Each will pass juice but it will devalue in volume; however, I can get 10 links from that domain to 10 different internal pages at no devalue then pass link juice from those internal pages at no loss.  Right?

Hi Joseph, I want to be sure I understand your question. I believe what you are asking about is why it is uncommon for a business with a local ranking (with the grey lettered pin) to also have a first page organic ranking? If I'm misunderstanding, please let me know, but I'm pretty sure that this is what you are asking about. Let me give you some history on this. Prior to the Venice Update in March of this year, it was quite common for strong local businesses to be able to dominate the search engine results. A single business might have a pinned local ranking, one or more organic rankings, video results and citations (from places like Merchant Circle and Yelp) all on page 1 of the Google search engine results. After Venice, however, there was a pretty obvious change in this that was noted by lots and lots of Local SEOs and Local business owners. Suddenly, if you had achieved a Local rank, you were very unlikely to have a second, organic listing on page 1. In fact, for some months, I could not find a single business that was achieving this multi-spot dominance any more. However, we started to see some changes in this a few months away from Venice. Linda Buquet and some other Local SEOs managed to get double rankings by optimizing a secondary page of a client's website in a few instances. Adam Steele of Nightlight Media wrote a piece on this topic, which you can read here: http://www.nightlitemedia.com/2012/05/organic-and-google-places-ranking-on-page-1/ Definitely read that to see if it helps. However, I believe that things have changed again. I am encountering enough instances of businesses being able to get multiple page 1 rankings these days to believe that there has been some tweak to the environment. However, I will add that where I am seeing these double rankings tends to be in smaller towns with modest competition, though there are some exceptions to this. I would not advise you to build 2 different websites for the same business. That would likely lead to confusion on Google's part and a possible loss of trust in your profile/loss of rankings. Rather, it's important to understand that when you achieve a local ranking (in the pinned local results) you haven't actually lost your organic ranking; it's simply been subsumed into the blended/local ranking which is comprised of both organic and pure local factors. Nearly all results I see these days are blended results, drawing on both organic and local signals. Very, very few are the old Pack results any more. So, what can you do? Don't knock a high Local ranking. Heatmap studies indicate that more eyes are drawn to the local listings than the organic ones. But, do build the strongest site you can, ensuring that all pages are properly optimized and that all of your Google Local participation is violation free. And, expect the display to keep changing. I could hit publish on this right now and wake up tomorrow to discover that Google has again changed the ratio of businesses getting double page one rankings. This stuff is constantly in flux. Hope this information helps!

I agree with Reload that tracking rankings isn't as important as it once was due to the ever increasing personalisation of search results. We keep track of the rankings for our SEO clients but usually keep that data in-house (unless a client requests them) because oftentimes clients will become fixated on the current ranking of a particular keyword. Instead, we provide data on the visits from each keyword, the number of different keywords that generated organic traffic, conversions/sales and ideally all of those numbers will gradually increase over the long-term.

sometimes you need to not worry about if/then SEO factors because that's how we end up falling into magic trick traps.  Sometimes it's truly more valuable to allow other reasons to be the decider.

Hi Joseph, Like Corey, I'm reading your question as being about getting a high local ranking. If this isn't your intent, please correct me. Corey has linked to the Local Search Industry's premiere annual report, which surveys some of the top Local SEOs in the world. It's an extremely helpful document, and it outlines what participants feel are the top local rankings factors. Now, the 2012 report (I'm a yearly participant) was undertaken before the rollout of Google's big new local product - Google+ Local - which basically replaces the Google Place Pages of former times. So, be aware that there have been some major changes since publication, though the basic advice remains solid. Local SEO is the practice of obtaining high rankings both in the blended/local packs of results (the ones with the lettered pins on them) as well as high organic rankings for local terms that don't bring up the actual pinned local results. The lettered local results' rankings are derived from a combination of both organic signals (like the strength of the website, link profile, etc.) and local ones (like having a violation-free, complete Google+ page, number of citations from other local business directories, proximity to the centroid of business in a given city) etc. To qualify for inclusion in Google's local products, a business must meet all 3 of the following criteria: Have a unique, dedicated physical street address (not a P.O. box, shared address or virtual address) Have a unique, local phone number in the city of location (not a toll free number or shared number) Have in-person transactions with clientele either at the place of business (like a restaurant) or at the client's place of business (like a plumber) If any of those 3 things doesn't match the business model, then you cannot seek inclusion in Google+ Local. Most Local SEOs consider Mike Blumenthal to be the leading expert in the field, so if you're just getting into this, you should start reading his blog on a regular basis: http://www.blumenthals.com/blog You might also find a couple of recent articles from my blog to be useful in getting you into the right mindset about this unique field of SEO: The Zen of Local SEO http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=1314 The Rudiments of Local SEO http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=1344 The main thing to understand about Local SEO is that it is constantly changing...arguably even more so than traditional SEO, so constant study is a must in this field. It's a really dynamic area to work in. Hope these resources help!

Marking the question as answered is appreciated, but I also just did that. Will never turn down a thumbs up, but we don't go looking for them either in Q&A. If you do 200 links worth of guest posting from one domain, we won't show you all of that, but you can still look in Google and Bing and see the links there..and you'd probably have a couple of tired writers on your hands, too.

it's essentially the same however if you go through go daddy's reseller service they have a specialized dashboard to assist you. More info below: http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/reseller-hosting.aspx they also have a nice comparative chart however i would suggest double checking the pricing with hostgator and blue host as they keep updating it: http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/reseller-hosting.aspx

I really need the ability to "search" social platforms for keywords. Hootsuite does this... Sadly, HootSuite is more concerned with HootSuite then with their clients. They put their little owl symbol and "via hootsuite" on every post they post for you. This is completely unacceptable. I really need to search social platforms for keywords. This way I can engage people on social media that are talking about my client's products. I would like a sofware that will private message groups of people and/or post on their walls

This post by Peep Laja might be helpful for you: http://conversionxl.com/dont-use-automatic-image-sliders-or-carousels-ignore-the-fad/

Joseph First of all, there's business value in doing that right ? Otherwise, you wouldn't be doing it. Right ? Now having other websites browse your website in an iFrame, I'd say yes, the browsers and the bots know it's your website they are browsing, it's just the frame around it that's from that other website. I would research to look into if there's a way for you to make it into some sort of a White Label (Powered by) kind of solution. Are you providing this solution for free or for a fee ? You'd also have to worry about ease of implementation etc so I understand why you are considering an iFrame because from an implementation perspective it's probably the easiest route. Honestly, I would think more from a business perspective and do it if this means more business or branding for you. I hope this helps. Maybe, maybe not.

Excellent response. I am committed to writing great content in my niche. I know when people read it, I will indeed get a lot of real shares/likes. My primary concern is making sure people read it through a social push. I've read about the Facebook "edge algo." I need comments and shares to make sure the blog I am sharing gets on people's news feed. I can't get real shares/likes if I don't have traffic to the blog. I respect your response. Can you give me some advice on getting traffic outside of social media shares? I am not able to generate through organic rank yet. My site is on real estate sales/technology (seo/webdesign). Yes it is different.  Please advise I value the way you don't dismiss the idea but instead explain that another activity would be more productive. Please continue to assist me!