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Hi Everybody, I empathize. Local is going through a major sea change right now and lots of business owners are really confused. I highly recommend that you read Mike Blumenthal's terrific step-by-step transitional guide: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/06/08/google-for-business-places-forums-wrapup/ I think you will find your questions answered by a careful read of that. Please, let me know if you don't feel you understand anything. Cheers! Miriam

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.

Use internal links, I´ve seen a lot of pages that use their internal power to increase their rankings. Make sure that they point to the same page and that it looks natural (not over optimizing). I would also recommend you to start a blog, write posts with good content for your keywords and voila! you have content that drives traffic to your website. And, you can also use the blog for internal linking. In a long term, I would recommend you to rebuild the site and use flash for design and user experience, and ordinary html for navigation and presenting content. Good luck!

My apology , but i disagree only on one thing "...  you can almost guarantee yourself ..." On a topic that is perfectly on grey zone like this (where not even the Google Webmaster prohibited it directly) , i know that i wont be able to guarantee it myself (even when it is backed with huge amount of correlated data) All I am saying is, PERHAPS based on the correlation data made by mad scientist in SEOMOZ, the effect for links coming from Comment on Blog is not correlated to high rank , but as said by many correlation is not causation .. Again many on-going debate is running for this kind of discussion but no one can say "i guarantee it " (unless if uncle google decided to participate in this discussion himself) xD my 2 cents

Hi Steven. Depending on the type of business and geography it caters to, I generally advise clients to start at local and branch out. This helps establish your business as a bonafide, real business with a physical location. I believe it helps build significant trust. Be sure to align your phone numbers, physical business address and other details (synchronization) between profile accounts. In terms of links always build the most authority links you can first. For obvious and unobvious reasons. Authority links build trust faster and allow more cushion in terms of both profile build rate and the types of links you can build moving forward. Also, more trusted links in my experience actually help improve the weight or other links in parallel in the campaign when built correctly. Hope this helps, Todd

Or if you are looking to post your articles on a reliable PR service which usually shows up on Google News I recommend - http://www.officialwire.com (yet it is a paid service) for a free service I recommend http://www.prlog.org

It is really just a way to distribute your blog content to social media networks you have been neglecting or you aren't currently feeding content to on a regular basis. Because i work with photographers, it does help the bottom line, because as we gain followers we generate more clients. Is it a magic solution, no. Was it worth the time to implement, yes.

I understand, we can format the pages on the blog as we want. That is the answer that I was looking for.  Thanks!