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You need to keep it for local SEO. Although Google has decided this is a separate product now, its role will certainly change in the future. They have already made changes to the Google Plus app If the listing has good customer reviews, I would not delete it. There are brand pages aside from local pages. It really depends on how this was set up. Brand page or local? You should be able to transition it. See this article as a reference. http://localu.org/blog/google-now-allows-brand-pages-become-local-pages/

I dont see noticeable bumps because Im usually ranking at 1 already when the box shows up in the serps for me I would assume that it does get more clicks. From my stats a couple %'s doesnt count for me.

This is perfect! Thank you so much.

I am also interested in finding the best sources for reporting on the effectiveness of using social media. I know that Google Analytics allows lookup of social conversion, assists and last interaction analyis, but I feel like I need more proof. That is, it would be great to say that social media account x, had a conversion rate of x, and that a specific post, tweet, photo, infographic, etc., was the catalyst for the conversion. Follow?

This is exactly what I needed! Thank you!!!!

You can submit your blog url or each RSS feed you have one time. That's sufficient, though it's not necessary to get added. They're looking for content in a blog format, so any videos or photos contained within the post will automatically be found. Regular site pages wouldn't be appropriate to submit.

Yes, I have seen it only 2-3 times ever since it launched. I guess the way we all search or the kind of searches we have, don't have short answers

It looks to me like in the "web" listings on Bing's TV section that they always only show the top 2 listings, which seem to consistently be the official website for the show & then wikipedia. So if you can get the #2 ranking on that SERP, then it looks like you can be included on Bing's TV page.

I think Margarita is referring to tracking in Omniture, rather than Google Analytics. Margarita, have you tried tagging your destination URLs with a campaign parameter that you've specified in Omniture as paid? This post might shed some light:http://blogs.omniture.com/2009/03/10/organic-vs-paid-search-detection/

Found an answer to my own question. Omniture doesn't count the clicks from the content network towards paud search: https://omniture-help.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/669/kw/measuring+display+network+clicks

If you have the time to run a forum, go for it. If not, then find someone who will or don't do it at all. Also, a more important question would be, what is the purpose of starting a forum? I don' t know what FB's paugin has to do with a forum. Are you trying to get registrations and or subscriptions? Are you trying to create backlinks from the forum to your own site like people do when they try pointing links from their blogs to their homepage hoping it will rank higher?

I haven't seen a solid test of this. From the SEs standpoint, the canonical source and target should be identical, so it wouldn't matter. Of course, they honor canonical tags on non-identical pages all the time, so we no practically that there are differences. My gut is that a canonical probably won't cut off a crawl path, but the links on the non-canonical version are unlikely to pass link-juice. I would not, just on general principle treat a canonical like a NOINDEX, FOLLOW. If it's important that the links on the non-canonical version be followed, then either: (1) The canonical tag is not an appropriate solution, (2) Those links should be added to the canonical version. If you could give an example (don't need URLs - just explain the nature of the two pages), I could dig deeper.