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Thanks James, Excellent response.

Are you or anyone else actually building back links to the social media page?

In my limited experience it's about clarity, not density. EGOL  makes a good point, if your page is clear and well written about its subject, in general you should be alright.

Seems to be a thought process emerging (CALL THE MEDIA!) that twiiter and facebook are having through various different paths a real ranking effect.  Is anyone now doing SEO on a clients Social media page because of this. I know they are no follow. I am not sure they don't pass juice.

Isn't your Blog basically viewed as one page?

Posting on your site has some value in adding more SEOo content (Title Tags, Meta stuff) as long as its well organized.

Isn't your Blog basically viewed as one page?

Posting on your site has some value in adding more SEOo content (Title Tags, Meta stuff) as long as its well organized.

If Google can not access "shares" how did it track them in GA? hmmm

Spend the money on a well written piece of content to add to your site. Much better investment.

I have a client that has used several consultants and companies listed on O Desk with good results.  Proper screening and reference checks are important of course.

There is a new web site dedicated just to info graphics recently launched, but I don't have the url at the tip of my fingers... anyone?

In our experience if you are going to have more than a few landing pages (for whatever reason)  don't optimize them, and do "blocked from accidental indexing by robots.txt"  As EGOL  states.  You will find yourself in Optimization heck if you have a bunch of pages fighting for the same basic keywords.

The only value I can think of is if you build a unique content site on redballons.com and then optimize it.  You can then link it to the main site and have some SEO value.  We see this done often within local link profiles.  But I am not sure I would go to all that trouble, instead I would use that energy working on great content to draw traffic.

Redirecting a domain ( as John pointed out) has no SEO value, but may have some marketing or branding value.

I think most of us have given the wrong answer at one time or another. Sometimes it's in the understanding of the question.  Thanks for your response!

Great discussion.  Here is what we do with some success.

We don't do link requests, we do content requests.  Thinking what a web master wants, we can write and deliver content for them. A guest blog is an excellent example, but there are many other content suggestions you can make.  A  half page glowing testimonial about there services will often get published.  A tips page related to what they do might be very helpful for them.

Think like the web master, be there friend, an the links and citation will follow.

Good Content is specific to what ever would get the site book marked, and that is very specific to the topic and purpose of the site.  Give the visitor the information they were seeking, and you have great content.  It doesn't need to be deep or wide , it just has to tell them what they came to see.

I would be interested in how you all measure great content?  Bounce rate?  Conversions?

I agree with EGOL, and would add, we have several successful SEO clients that if you look at the keyword volume of there services, it's to low to even show up.  Bigger ticket, needs less volume.  Smaller ticker, lot's of volume.

What a great idea! You may start a new trend here Dejan.  Maybe you can add a "buy it now"  amount  and make it easy on us.

Hi Gary,

We have lot's of multiple location clients. Are you trying to get visible in Google places or organic, or both?

You are doing it the correct way. Make sure your individual office pages have unique content. You also want to make sure each office has it's unique phone number listed.  The golden rule of multiple locations on the same site is be very clear on each having a unique phone number, address, and third a page.

If you are using Google places follow there guidelines on each listing. And try and get unique listings on Yahoo local and other local directories for each office.

Just as a FYI... We have had two clients move to Word press platforms in the last month, and both had a big gain in rankings for a few days ( not sure if it was a week or 10 days, we don't check every day)  but then both dropped back to where they had been (basically).

Like others here, and I discuss this with clients often; don't pay any attention to major changes in rankings unless they last for a few weeks.  Would you let us know what happens to your clients ranking on the word press site?

I think the concept of an influential person is an individual assumption. That's really the core of the question.  I know I spend 30 minutes a day or so on the Q.A. and do try and give valuable answers.  It's not charity, it's a business culture.

I feel that in In SEO there are many who feel they want to help, but don't want to give away there hard earned intellectual property or experience, which makes sense, so they have a tendency to teach people to fish, instead of handing them a fish (so to speak).

We have used lot's of different tactics.  It depends on the the type of business.  A contractor may want to send a thank you card with a $5.00  Starbucks certificate thanking the customer and then asking them to review them on one of the various review sites.

What works better is sending an email to the customer with a LINK  and instructions.  Most sites require they sign up or in to review a company.  Let them know exactly what to expect before they click.  Our emails are several paragraphs with easy instructions.

Good luck!

I don't have the answer, but do have limited experience. We had a client mark the map wrong for the office address, and the places ranking fell significantly. I have to note, there were (as always) other things going on with the places account ( duplicate issues)  so I can not tell you this was the problem.  Certainly didn't help.