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Clever!!

Strategy:

• Add value to visitors from those specific cities. It's the only way to do it right.

Ideas:

• Provide a resource for "where to buy" within those cities. CityGrid/CitySearch, Yelp, Foursquare will provide the locations through their API's. More here..
• City knowledge graph, demographics, what's trending, what's hot, authority social profiles. Help define your market, with transparency.
• Price comparisons between physical stores & online store. Pricebot? hmm..

PRweb & if money isn't really the issue, go with BusinessWire. The PRweb.com link itself will probably be the most valuable from a PRWeb release though, unless you get picked up outside of the typical syndication network. BusinessWire works the same way, but has a better professional image.

If you have the money and do not have newsworthy announcements, look into facilitating an outreach campaign or buying some friendships of authoritative sites within your industry. Donating to relevant foundations, sponsoring local events (with websites) and work harder to get known online, digitally within your industry online.

There are tools & strategies that will help you identify the resource-related authority sites within your industry too.

It's beyond editing template files.. did you vote for it, here:

http://vbseo.uservoice.com/forums/25627-vbseo-plugin/suggestions/2296381-pagination-with-rel-next-and-rel-prev-

Argh, don't make me pull up archive.org!

I see they are bogus, but have they always been bogus? Did you recently update the descriptions? When was Googlebot last on these pages?

There are several other issues with the site & URL structure I would address before fretting about meta descriptions.

The /ezine dir is still working for me. If I can access it, surely Google still can.

Here are your options:

1. Robots.txt - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93708 - easy option.
2. Noindex tags - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-noindex-behavior/
3. Removal request - https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=59819

1. finish blog posts.

2. get links.

3. if your items are unique to you, funky and in-demand, I suggest looking at sharing (social) at the product-listing level.

4. get up some pinterest boards. Apparel is HOT right now.

5. listen to the rest of the responses specific to on-site. Long-tail is a good strategy, especially now when you have no domain authority. Get tracking, spend wisely and watch & learn on your campaigns successes and failures.

Work on links now, get some fresh links coming in & then focus on the rest. Nobody will link to you just because you have a PRweb release, have competitive pricing, decent product & a beautiful site. It does happen occasionally, but the reality is (for the majority) it is all about gaining momentum, building your digital footprint and networking.

First question, it's personal preference. Just be sure you decide early on what you want to do, then stick with it. Changing it after the fact is where you're going to lose out a  bit.

Second part, if you're using web publisher, look at the long-term strategy for URL structure before making the switch. ID's will probably still be necessary/recommended, but that's not to say you can't spruce them up with article titles and page numbers as well.

I guess I need to brush up on my Danish

It came up as something completely different in the English translation.

https://dandomain.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Title-tag/132397-15889

Translation sucks a bit, but I think it's saying it can be set at the page level in the CMS dashboard.

Here is exactly what you should do:

1. Read: SEO: The Free Beginner's Guide From SEOmoz
2. Go live here: Learn SEO  
3. Take in Webinars: Watch Webinars
4. Sign up to receive RSS alerts whenever a new YouMoz or MozBlog posts come out.
5. Start tracking your keywords in the Rank Tracker.
6. Monitor and view competitor links utilizing Open Site Explorer.
7. Let Moz analyze your site and take action where recommendations provide helpful.
8. Post specific questions here in Q & A and get very good recommendations from the community.

It's nice to think you will have a plan/strategy you can just stumble into. However, that's far from reality. You can't. Each industry, each business, each person is different. You need to do what you are best at & what works best for your specific business or client. It may be curating content for social audiences, it may be forums, perhaps content network advertising is your thing, or, it's good ol' fashioned SEO.

Good luck!

Some recent ones I have been using is:

Einet.net (PR8)

JoeAnt

BOTW

V7N (often have discount codes in the V7N directory forum)

Galaxy

And I would LOOOVE if someone returned the favor by suggesting more high-authority paid directories in the $15-$75 range too!

A "Unique View" defined:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=36c600b76eed8740&hl=en

It's old, but probably still pretty accurate. It's a heated debate with all signs pointing to an inaccurate form of measurement. Most of the blog posts you read about this stemmed from that discussion I do believe. Such as, http://www.atlantaanalytics.com/practicing-web-analytics/how-does-youtube-video-view-count-work/ and http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/07/22/view-counts-on-youtube/ - Note the deeper analyzing happening at 308 views.

External or Embedded Videos Counting Towards View Count:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=26f5093fbce9f85a&hl=en

Simply put, Yes, they certainly do.. the legit ones count anyways!

PRweb & if money isn't really the issue, go with BusinessWire. The PRweb.com link itself will probably be the most valuable from a PRWeb release though, unless you get picked up outside of the typical syndication network. BusinessWire works the same way, but has a better professional image.

If you have the money and do not have newsworthy announcements, look into facilitating an outreach campaign or buying some friendships of authoritative sites within your industry. Donating to relevant foundations, sponsoring local events (with websites) and work harder to get known online, digitally within your industry online.

There are tools & strategies that will help you identify the resource-related authority sites within your industry too.

There are so many variables now.

1. Data centers - Many different DC's showing different results. One could have had a new update/refresh pushed through, the others may not.

2. Increased activity in rankings (up & down daily)

3. User-error, especially when taking in geographic locations, personalized results and history.

Rank trackers have been through hell. You have the brand-related SERP pages with three less total listings as well.. just this last week.

Out of the thousands of keywords I watch daily, many will show substantially different rankings for WEEKS before I see it here. The good thing is, I look like genius since I have identified the pattern between data centers and, within reason, can predict our ranking change within a few days.

I just noticed on the Linkscape calendar the update that was supposed to happen yesterday is pushed back to the 6th.

It would be better not knowing. Is this a possibility? Or use the calendar internally, I don't care. Credibility in any announcement or claim looses muster once you do not do what you say you are going to do over and over again. Just a thought..

It's like checking your own reflexes. You just have to somehow blindside yourself while in tickle monster mode. But those of us who are not compatible with tickling should start our own linkedin group.

Are both pages serving the same purpose?

I would NOT 404 it. I'm a firm believer in not deleting pages. If anything, it sounds like a job for the canonical tag to me.

Maile Ohye stated (at SESSF 2010), when an image is linking out, the alt img text is just as important as anchor text is in a contextual link. That is something to keep in mind when you are going through your link profile..

Hi Brent!