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Finding a UK based SEO firm will help immensely....Dave's great - but a google for same shows there's thousands who will come up...just pick your shortlist with some degree of expertise...and DO inisist on getting references you can check!!!

well...then again (this is the programmer in me speaking!) you could always "force" submission compliance by building in scripting to ensure that ALL those items are completed by the submitter themselves - else the SUBMIT button remains grayed out....

would work. have built them myself. you could eLance or oDesk it too....

What Keri said...works!

Depending upon the channel - the 'name' on the content can count BIG time....so I get your slant on this.

Me? I'd just put the CEO's name on it, period. If his rep carries that much channel juice, then you should ALWAYS go for the most you can get...i.e. just put his name on it....the author obviously works for him so no problem...

Hire someone Mark that you're "comfy" with would be my answer....

Email me for more info....I've a couple of CA contacts you might want to consult on this for candidates too!

Course same value to the reader of that post if you just LIST the URLs, and do NOT make them real live links...

Value passed on still, eh!

WAY too little info here to make a definitive counsel - but if you think - believe - know that this site will one day "be" a player in that channel - then I'd say YES! As it grows, so grows the link-juice you'd receive and the longer you're a "part" of that IBL type linking, you're going to be a happy camper.

That said - MONITOR it all the time - save the URL where the link is and then revisit it as should that site "go south" and lose any real value - it'd then be on that disavow list....this is good advice I believe for ALL IBLs...save 'em in Excel and then revisit to prove value....

Been right there and here's what we did...

We got an alum of the university to put it on their own page - that they'd attended and found the Seminar a great one...and we ensured that the alum pages (we got 3 attendees to say what a great event it was) were all FOLLOW links too!

YMMV but that's what we did! And do!

I'd check over on Alan Bleiweiss's site...IMHO he's the best audit guy out there and if memory serves, he's got a checklist of some type there too...including a detailed post on same....

Yeah....been there and done that too....for a client with again a series of various brands in the outdoor network...

And after all was said and done we left them all on a single IP server hosting too...made no diff to any search engine as they were all ranked individually with no penalties etc...

So I'd say pass on that....unless you need something to do....

Me? I'd do a full web audit...find all those IBLs....then disavow 'em all....incl the ones you've yet to find when you do!

Best to start with a completely new slate IMHO....

One more thing...

That you may also find helpful the leaked Google Qualaity Rater Guidelines - it was leaked to us SEO practitioners last July or so...

Google for that term - but here's my own blog posting on it - http://www.canuckseo.com/index.php/2014/07/shhhh-google-quality-rater-guidelines-2014-leaked/ - and there's a link there too to download the 11 mb .pdf....

Here's the iconic post on just that area - http://moz.com/blog/local-landing-pages-guide - from Miram who's on staff here at Moz.com...

And she addresses that too....well worth the click/thru eh!

BI - business intelligence is an important tactical advantage if you can establish what a competitor is doing SEO strategy wise that is..

So if you wish to tell the world exactly what SEO keywords you're targeting then sure go ahead....

It's a "not-too-smart" idea in my SEO world tho...

Thats - as Keri and I and Miriam already said - not how it works.

Local search is for bricks&mortar businesses...hence the use of the word "local!" - as Miriam pointed out, you want "organic" search to work for you...& not local!

Go here - http://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors - and read what the globes top local search experts have to say on what 'count's for local search ranking factors...