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Could you clarify what you mean? Are you implying that Yahoo sponsored search is intentionally different?

So if you misspell something (no dns to connect with... unregistered domain as an example) on a browser that uses a Road Runner connection, it takes you to a search engine 'powered by yahoo search' which searches for whatever you typed in.

Anyway, today we noticed that the website of one of our clients isn't coming up in this 'Powered by Yahoo Search' via roadrunner but comes up in Yahoo Search for the same query. In fact, we noticed that our clients website (10 yrs + established site) is missing in yahoo powered by search but on all other engines.

Any clues? I thought this should be generally the same across Yahoo / Yahoo Powered / Bing / Bing Powered.

Could this be using something pre-bing merger?

I've seen a few companies pop up offering 'facebook likes' for sale. I'm assuming these are all dud accounts that are subject to get deleted in a second if facebook catches on.

Anyone else have something to add?

No contests, 14 posts a month on twitter and facebook - 3 blog posts as an example.

Can you throw some numbers at me? $1,500 - $5,000

Hi, my friend's boutique seo agency in the USA is recently diving into social media and he's wondering how much to charge monthly for social media marketing to be competitive for medium sized businesses. Facebook / twitter interaction + maintaining a blog.

I know one big company in the USA that charges monthly at $1,500. 
Can a few people shoot some numbers at me anonymously without saying who charges what?

Thanks! 
-Bob

That's what I figured. What a waste of money.

I would hire an internet marketing agency, but since we are an internet marketing agency, it doesn't make much sense for us to hire ourselves to do this.

Is anyone here a channel partner with Localeze or has subscribed? Any thoughts?

http://localeze.com

They want a yearly fee and to me this doesn't make sense as all it is doing is sending information to the local listing sites and this should be a one-time deal.

I use linkscape but I'm looking for a tool to manually add in backlinks and make sure they're still active. Linkscape also has a level of filtering where only some domains end up crawled completely.

What solution do you use to keep track of links that you have acquired or purchased?

I edited the question to make it more clear.

It looks like google (regular organic) does not index individual posts from facebook pages often, more likely the wall of the page itself or separate pages. Can someone confirm this?

"You is not happy with link?"

"O K. No probleming. I give you 10,000,000 Free Directory Submission last night, now you will have top google. U pay now?"

For us, any indian/3rd world linkbuilding vendor - do NOT hire them, they will ruin your link profile. If you give them very specific directions & find the right company/guy they can be decent for guerilla (blog/forum/etc) linkbuilding.

What are your experiences?

Make sure that anchor text with your business name is solid part of your link profile.

Our experience as well, generally months on end and an endless stream of duplicated listings. I'm at least looking forward to the listing separator tool they're supposed to release spring/summer '11.

Hi,

On Google Places we have clients that have bad data (incorrect name, address, #) on aggregated sites (citysearch, merchantcircle, yelp) which prevents those sites from pulling into the Google Places accounts. We've been manually correcting listings for a while and many times it still hasn't pulled into the Google Places listings for months on end despite the data matching.

What are your experiences with correcting aggregated Google Places data, how long has it taken for this data to pull into your places accounts?

How would you focus on it anyway? Just sit and wait.

Is the age of a link a ranking signal?