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I have spent hours doing some local search clean up and have a list of all the URLs to index, about 75.

Is there a place I can dump these to get them all indexed quickly or do I have to wait for the hand of Google to come down and bless me with indexing.

I don't want to dump all these to Google +, Facebook, or Twitter; that would just be wrong. Any ideas for fast indexing. I want them to all get indexed before the business address changes in a couple years

Thanks Greg,

Super helpful video.

I have a Blogger blog and it is much harder to host it on a subdirectory and extremely easy to host it on a Subdomain. That video was extremely helpful in making a decision as to which one to use. It just saved me lots of hours of toil and pulling my hair out getting a subdirectory set up and configured, when from the horses mouth, it looks like a subdomain is just fine.

I was wondering if anyone has a good Semantic search database. I remember google used to have one built in under -tools and it would give you graphical representations of words associated to one central keyword in different circles  Does anyone know where to find that now?

Thanks,

Steve

Runnerkik, Thanks for the reply.

I agree using my above example about women of this age group going to sites about menopause is ridiculous, and was made to be to support my example only. I am not even targeting this group. I wanted to make a clear cut example, ridiculous our not, so I didn't have to drill down back and forth through multiple questions in the forum.

What I am trying to get across is that we need a way to return sites through some type of demographic search functionality to show which sites certain demographic subsets are using and where they hang out.

As online marketers we are constantly testing to learn more about our customers. Usually we guess and guess until we finally get it right, wasting tons of money and time to refine our customer. I don't like wasting time and money and just want to search for a specific demographic subset and have it return the most popular results/sites people use.

I am not a 50 yr old man, 13 yr old boy a 25 yr old women etc. and it is sometimes extremely difficult to know where you should be targeting new customers and you can't put yourself in someone else shoes that you really no nothing about . What happens is you sometimes make stupid assumptions, based on lack of evidence like the one in my previous example.

I never want make assumptions about my target group and what they are searching for, but it happens all the time. It will continue to happen until some type of search functionality is created for demographic groups.

People think they can find there market through Google Adword, which they can, but I want to go two to three steps ahead, before they even thought of what they might need to type in a certain result, and engage them there.

Great idea about the content network idea for finding your target audience, I just didn't want to have to burn money. Great idea to reverse engineer the process.

Is there a way I can search for top sites searched by a certain demographic group.

For example if I searched for:  Women 60-70 the top search results would be

1. Menopause.com

2. Retirement.com

etc.

I want to make sure I'm interact with my customer base where they are searching and engaging the communities they find most interesting and important.

I know I can search for demographic information about these specific groups, but I want to get results of top sites used by a certain age and gender.

Similar to the way you can target demographic factors in Facebook advertising.

Is there possibly some search operators I can use to return these type of results?

Just answered my own question.

Great source http://getlisted.org/ for checking where I am already listed and see what I need to update or add.

Getting close, but I don't want to have to pay for a monthly fee for something that once it's updated won't really change.

I know there used to be some services out there that were a one time fee to list on multiple citation sources. I think most of them have disappeared after they figured they could soak you monthly for something they do one time.

I did it manually at one time but it took me days and now I need to change my business address and just having to log into all of the sources is a daunting task.

I have already updated the major ones, Yahoo, Google, linked in, facebook etc.

I recently updated my company address and don't want to have to go back into all of the local citation sources and update them all, by hand.

Is there a one time, one time price update service to update my local citation info. I know Yext offers one that is ridiculously overpriced. Any other options?

The only way you can really calculate the worth of a domain is to ask the owner how much money it makes and if he is willing to sell it.

You usually buy any type of business on the basis of a multiple of its cash flow, for example if the business has $10,000 per year in cash flow, 2 times cash flow as a buying price would be $20,000. It just depends how good the business is as to how many times cash flow you will pay. Like any business you have to see the financials to know what the business is worth.

Also, a domain is nothing without the site and infrastructure that makes it generate an income. Google.com is worth nothing without the thousands of computer nerds making it better every day.

For example I know sites that bring in $50,000 per month in cash and if you look it up online it says the domain is worth $500-$1000, a total joke.

There is no way to calculate the worth of an online business without talking to people. Personal interaction seems to be getting harder and harder for individuals to do these days, but it is what it takes to evaluate an online business.

Do you need customers/users to come in on the first page? You may need to make the site, so what you want visitors to accomplish can be done from every page.

I have pages that outrank my homepage for keywords, but if I want the visitor to do a certain thing I tailor that page to generate the outcome I want rather than trying to get them back to the home page.

Also some of your pages are probably on the first page because of the uniqueness of content withing that forum.

I also noticed you haven't posted on your blog since February of 2011. If you don't think your content is important enough to talk about, then Google might not think it is important enough to index? Just a thought.

I am in the photography and wedding industry going for local keywords and it is super hard to get quality links from anybody, because they are all my competitors. I am on the first page for a few of my keywords, but I am getting tired of being at #7 and want to get to #1 ethically.

Have you seen any upward movement in rankings since you got listed in the directory?

I was thinking of paying money to be in the Yahoo directory, is it worth it?

I am looking for clarification as well. It seemed to me that you needed to go and claim you google local listing via google plus to properly transition your reviews and information correctly.

I was wondering if anyone had a guide on how to transition your existing Google Places listing to the Google Plus local. I have a Google plus places listing for my business already and don't want to loose my reviews on my Google Local listing.

So if I do a 301 redirect with the new host do I have to take all the files from Intuit and host them with the new host or can I just transfer the domain name and do a 301 without transferring the files? Never had to deal with this before.

Both sites are on the first page for most of my keywords so I am good there.

The site is hosted by Intuit. I called yesterday and they said that because of the language it is written in it isn't possible to do a 301.

I have a site I built on a wisiwig editing platform that will not allow a 301 redirect. The site has already been remade and I need to point it to another domain.

To do the redirect, can I change it to another domain host that will allow a 301 or will that make me loose the authority of the site? I may not be able to move the content of the site.

Please help.

Marie, I totally agree with you I have a site I am working on that keeps going from 2 to 7 then to 3 then to 7. It is hard to know what is working and what isn't and if it is working at all. I guess I will just sit tight for a while.

I agree, just keep making good content and you can't loose.

Dmoz is great if you can ever get them to take your listing. I have 5 different sites I have submitted to Dmoz one of them 4 times and have not got one of them listed yet over many years. I have even read their specific directions for submitting very carefully with no luck. Also, all of my pages are on the first page for my respective keywords, most at #1 so my sites are of authority, Dmoz editors are just lazy. Submit once then don't worry about it unless you know an editor who can get you listed.

Also, if anyone else knows a full proof way to get listed by Dmoz, I would love to hear your helpful insight.