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Sorry I thought I marked it as discussion - is there a better way to define?  Sometimes these concepts are hard to explain...I get questions from clients...how many directories did you submit to to later find out they meant did you claim our listing on such and such site...

I am having a really hard time clearly defining this for folks, I am hoping for some help here.

Directory Websites: sites such as www.abcdirectory.com, these are typically lower quality manual submission websites with little user interaction

Citation Sites: These are websites with business location listing such as Manta.com or yellowpages.com and involve locations with no links but the citations are valuable to ranking

Local Search Sites: These are sites like Google Places, Yahoo Local, Yelp, etc and they sometimes offer reviews and user interaction, and are a hybrid local/social SEO component, you can create listings on these sites but if you want them to appear in search you need interaction with the page/listing.

Oh I guess I should add some other answers - the 75k errors are really every single issue, minor or major according to Microsofts 2007 SEO toolkit - from the MOZ I get over 8000 crawl errors , 31k in warnings and 2k in notices as far as the errors the vast majority is dup page content and for the warnings over 9k are too many links and 3k in overly dynamic urls.  The old SEO person I took over from had installed the SEO toolkit I believe - and checked the conical link ad in the notices on the moz I see 1733 of those.

admittedly the technical side of seo is my weakness - surprise surprise, I am sure I am not unique.  I can say what to do but how to do it is sometimes hard for me to describe esp in wordpress.

Oh I guess I should add some other answers - the 75k errors are really every single issue, minor or major according to Microsofts 2007 SEO toolkit - from the MOZ I get over 8000 crawl errors , 31k in warnings and 2k in notices as far as the errors the vast majority is dup page content and for the warnings over 9k are too many links and 3k in overly dynamic urls.  The old SEO person I took over from had installed the SEO toolkit I believe - and checked the conical link ad in the notices on the moz I see 1733 of those.

admittedly the technical side of seo is my weakness - surprise surprise, I am sure I am not unique.  I can say what to do but how to do it is sometimes hard for me to describe esp in wordpress.

Thanks everyone...and the cononical tagging IMO is the best bet here, and I totally agree that the Yoast plugin looks like the best thing to help with that task but to be honest I am super afraid it will break the website.  And yes, no index is what I meant, so meat to say Noindex and follow in the meta tags - and/or using cononical URL priority setting in the meta tags where ever I can.

Migrating is in the plan - I am just impatient and I have been only link building to the homepage in the meantime, but even that is a challenge because obviously I feel like I have to do it 2000 times over to add value.

I posted a question week ago about a client with really awful SEO errors to the tune of over 75k violations including massive duplicate content (over 8000 pages) and pages with too many links (homepage alone has over 300 links), and I was thinking, why not try to nofollow the product pages which are the ones causing so many issue.  They have super low domain authority, and are wasting spider energy, have no incoming links.  Thoughts?  BTW the entire site is an ecommerce site wth millions of products and each product is its own wordpress blog post...YIKES!  Thoughts?

So one of my clients has a really really bad website from the technical perspective.  I am talking over 75k in violations and warnings.  Granted, the tagging is done well but any other SEO violation you can think of is occurring.  In any case, they are building a new website, and I am on a retainer for a couple hours a week to do some link building.  I am feeling like I am not getting anywhere.  What is your advice?  Should I keep on keeping on or advice the client to put SEO on hold until the technical issues are resolved.  I feel like all of this link building isn't having the value that it could have with a site like this.

When evaluating a site to decide whether or not to peruse a link, how do you decide if it is passing enough link juice to peruse the matter?

I really don't think she has author markup but that is a really good theory, and one I will look for in the future and that I didn't consider, but your theory does make me want to ask, if you know any good resources for the specifics around author markup and how to add it.

Hi Steven, I am back.  So here is my thought and to be honest, part one doesn't directly answer your question in approach but it is another way to get to what you are looking for backwards.   I don't think there are any search operators that would help you.  I have to assume you are doing this for a client, not because you want to put up a website that targets women from 60 - 70.  So for the client I would build out a very basic keyword list and I would opt into the content network.  Once in the content network within Google Adwords I would look at the websites that are sending traffic to your campaign.  I would look to see if those sites are converting and I would call those the websites online where your target consumer hangs out.  The reason I would look at converting is because in the content network you get irrelevant clicks a lot.  You could just look at where your ad is being displayed.  Now keep in mind that these sites are being placed based on the words you set up in your campaign, so really what you can do is set up a campaign using words that would appear on the website that targets your market.

If you are just looking at websites that this demographic frequently visits you can try a think tank like Conductor or another market research organization, but I would challenge you to better define your market as well.  Simply saying that women of this age group go to sites about menopause is ridiculous.  That is like saying 20 year old women go to websites about PMS.  Get real.  We are online shopping and reading perezhilton.com, or reading mom blogs.  Where do you hang out?  You see my point.  My mom is in that demographic you described above and she looks at sewing and quilting blogs and sites, gossip columns, yahoo news and news sites, and she shops for toys and clothes for her grandchildren online.  That is just here though.

Anyway I hope I helped in some way.  I would look at it from the other end.  That is my 2 cents.

Hi Everyone,  So I have a client and when they are logged in the "Contact Us" page ranks as the number 1 page.  She sends me screenshots when she is looked in through the corporate Google account, in a panic because of this...I am guessing she is frequently visiting the contact us page while logged in, which is why this is happening but I can't think of any other reason.  From a ranking factors perspective there aren't any reasons for this.  There are barely any links pointing to this page.  I just don't know what to tell her.  I can't duplicate it.

I really want to respond to this because I have an opinion, but i am holding a sleeping baby now and using hunt and pack typing. I will be responding in the next several hours though.

How much SEO weight do sites like Judy's Book or even Angie's List have.  I do see the links in the linking reports but I am not sure if I should classify them as paid directories for inclusion.  Also a second part of the question is do most of you still recommend the use of paid directories for link building?  Yahoo Directory, BBB and so on?

Different for sure, but use a keyword in the title and in the alt text.  Alt text should really be pretty tied to the actual video.

Maybe it is just me, but I tend to follow a basic method, but branch much wider than the template approach you have provided above.  The major issue I see with an approach like you have provided above is that it doesn't leave room for the long tail of search.  Granted to be fair what your talking about from a meta tag prospective is merely following best practices, I do try to be consistent between my tags and my content.  So back to my point about the long tail.  The long tail approach might lead way to character issues if you stick with a template approach.  I would create a huge spreadsheet, get a large group of people and keep on keeping on, but be different and don't try to use excel to concatenate to get it all done.

I feel like this article explains the breakdown of the edgerank factors pretty well.  But before you click and I am hoping I am answering your question, likes are only one piece to the pie.

http://www.digitalorganics.com.au/seo/facebook-seo-and-edgerank/