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Hi mozzers! i play in a band that is based in Austin, TX but travels to all cities across texas.  I've been told i need to have citations in place to help my organic rankings in the cities across Texas that i perform in.

1.  What are the best ways to get citations to rank locally in each city for my band?  i have a page set up on my website for each city that we perform in.  Do i set up accounts on local business directories in each city that i perform in with a link to that city page on my site?  I have performers that i hire in each city and can use their address for the local address on each business listing but my business phone number would be the same for all cities.  I don't want this to look black hat to google by filling out business listings for many different cities with the same phone humber but my customers are in fact in all these major cities almost more than in my home town.

2.  Since i can only fill out a google places page for my home city, what other ways can i get citations to help my organic rankings in all the cities that i perform in?

Thanks in advance for everyone's input!

Ron

If someone links to my plumbing site with this link as the anchor text:

http://www.plumbers.com/austin-plumbers.html

does the key phrase "austin plumbers" get counted in the anchor text by google or is this a sample of anchor text that google ignores?

Thanks mozzers!

Ron

If I write a press release that goes viral and is syndicated all over do each of those links to my site in the syndications of the press release count and pass page rank with Google?

Or does Google only count the link in the original press release?  I heard that Google counts all the links for a time then eventually counts only one link from the original content and discounting all the other links as duplicate content. Any truth to this?

Thanks mozzers!

Ron10

Thanks so much Ross!

One more question on relevance, is guest blogging for links worth the effort if it's an irrelevant blog but your post is very relevant to your site?

Will  the promised "do follow" link you can earn from SEOMOZ hurt your rankings for your key phrases if your site is not an SEO site?

Hi Ross!  I'm honored that you made a video response for my questions,  thanks so much for the extra effort!  You said i really needed to be more specific, so here's what actually coined my questions.  I have a rock band site that i'm promoting and to get some high authority links, i was planning on creating a page that had lots of employment resources for music students and then email the music colleges in my state this information to get them to link to this employment resource page from their employment resources page and then funnel the page rank to my bands promo pages.  Is this a good idea or will Google now think that my band site is an employment site?  Thanks in advance for your input!

Take care,

Ron

do links from unrelated sites dilute your rankings for your key phrases?  i've always heard don't get links from unrelated sites but if that mattered, then how would sites with totally diverse pages such as newspaper sites, sears, and other catalogue sites rank for these diverse subjects on their site?  How does Facebook rank when it gets 100,000 links a day from sites that have nothing to do with a social media site?  I'd love to hear everyone's opinion on this.  Also,  Do links from unrelated sites give less push than related links?

Take care,
Ron

I wrote some articles for Ezine Articles a few years back and i still see links in the ose to my site that are from these articles that were borrowed  from the Ezine Articles bank.  Do the links in these articles still count toward my site including link juice and anchor text or does google discount them as duplicate content?

I was told that Google counts these links for about 3 weeks and then discounts them as duplicate content so it's like they don't exist.  Any truth to this or should i make the articles on my site available for people to copy and paste into their blogs as long as they keep  my links intact?

Thanks,

Ron

I'm not the greatest writer but want to do some guest blogging for links and traffic.  Are there any businesses out there that write world class guest blog articles for subjects that match my business?

Also, i've read that doing this for links is really moot because the blog posts get archived and become pagerank "unranked" thereby offering little link value after about a month or so.  Once they get archived do they still get counted by google and does the anchor text and page rank still count?

Thanks in advance mozzers!

Ron

i only have about 4 reciprocal links, the rest are one way.  I left these reciprocal links up because there is good anchor text in the incoming anchor text.  Does google penalize my site by a small amount if the site i'm linking to links to a casino site?

I have some link exchanges with some sites to get web traffic but when i ran the bad neighborhood link checker, i found that one site links to some casinos and another site has one link to a porn site.  Is this getting me penalized?  should i remove the links to these sites?

Thanks,

Ron

I've heard that reciprocal links don't count anymore.  If i stop linking to a person that links to me, will that link to my website start counting?

Do reciprocal links count at all in google? Anchor text?  anything?

Thanks in advance!

Ron

When i decide if a paid directory is worth listing in, do i look at the page where my link will be placed and judge it based on how many incoming links that page has, or looking at the page rank, or looking at the mozrank? Or is it just the overall rank of the home page of the directory?  I notice that page rank gets less and less the deeper you go into a directory until the pages are unranked.  Does that mean that the page is not crawled by google, or is considered an irrelevant page and would not be worth paying for a link there? Also, how many pages deep into the directory is too deep to mess with?  Also what are some good directories that offer deep links?   I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts....

Thanks in advance!

Ron

Hi!  i was wondering how does PRweb bring stability to your rankings?  is it just from the in text links from the press release or from the backlinks that the press release generates?  i play in a band and am performing at an American Heart Association Fund Raiser and considered using PRweb to announce this fund raiser. Is that something that someone would pick up or is it too localized?  The event will be held in Houston, TX.  Would the link in the press release help my site in the serps?  Thanks in advance for your input!

Ron

Hello Mozzers!  My band is performing for an American Heart Ball in a month and I was wondering if i could get any decent links to my band website being as i am the main entertainment at this event.  I'll ask the webmaster who is in charge of the event website for a link but was trying to brain storm on ideas on how to get more links from other sources as many people like to post on their sites supporting these events.  Are press release links dead?  I see lots of these events announced on prweb and a few other press release websites.  any other ideas on how i could garner links from this event?

Thanks in advance,

Ron

What is the best tool to find out what key phrases to optimize my site for? I have been using Google's Adwords keyword suggestion tool for a long time but thought there might be something better out there.

Thanks mozzers!

Ron

I have a few page rank 2 articles on my site.  Will placing links to other pages on my site with appropriate anchor text in the body of these articles help the other pages to rank higher for the anchor text i place in these links in the articles?

Thanks in advance!

Ron

one of my sites got hit with the exact match domain algo change in google.  I was wondering if it would be trouble or beneficial to add about 10 directory links in the the highest page rank directories in the seomoz directory list.  It looks like i only have about 17 root domains linking to my site so far that are natural links and not directory links.  i have no directory links as of yet.  Will this help or does it spell trouble getting this many directory links in a few months?

Thanks mozzers!

Ron