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"Does any of that make sense?"

No, lol.

Could you clarify on the last paragraph.

No worries... as a quick tip, Google some stuff, look at where the reviews originate in their places listing and then you'll know which sites to get reviews at

Yes, exactly that

You mean Google Places/Maps right? If so, much is about the reviews and mentions with them... least so the actual Google maps reviews and more so the third party review site ones.

You can just remove your location in search settings -> preferences.

Ah okay lol.

Well in that case, just go into search settings and remove your location data, it will stop assuming you want to see local results for everything

Well, don't forget that the age of the link means it gains some value too... so that would counter the issue (if it is an issue, I'm not all that sure). I would do it if I were you... the fact that they're in content and from different domains is great, and some of them might turn out to be awesome links if the sites do well

Why the two threads? The other one didn't even get an answer yet.

Link placement is pretty much the whole point in block level analysis so it's definitely important. But all I know is that links from within the body content surrounded by relevant text wins against footer, side bar, and links page links. I "think" but could be wrong, the only link worth more is a link from the main nav... but I assume that would only be for internal links anyway?

Looked at it a bit further and found another video from earlier on with Rand and Todd discussing it...

Rand: Matching Title and H1 is fine

Todd: Matching Title and H1 is bad

Conclusion: Rand says "We should test it"

But no results on the video I'm afraid lol, so still none the wiser but that does make things interesting. I wonder if the test was ever carried out and if so, what were the results?

Rand??

BTW I hope you and Todd don't mind me adding these screenshots.

h1-title2.jpg

I would have to disagree with that. To me, if there were no SEO in existence then the title would be a title and the H1 would be an H1, which as it is named is a heading. Title and heading are two different words because they mean different things (albeit only slightly).

Also, to have them both unique and that being SEO gamemanship doesn't make any sense to me, I mean, how many keywords is this page being optimized for that would allow that to work positively for SEO??

I'm guessing it must be pretty close to fact if it's those guys over at MM. They must get their info from somewhere... anyway, apparently it's because the pages may appear over-optimized if the title and h1's match, which makes sense I think. The recommendation given is that in the CMS (Joomla for example) there is often an option not to have it display the title in H1 too, it's recommended to use that option and add your own H1 unique to the title tag.

Found it

It's actually under a section about common CMS problems.

h1-title.jpg

I'll check the vid I got that from when I get home and post the reason, can't remember why it is now I just know it was described as a big "Don't Do It"

Whoah! You definitely don't want that...

Ah sorry, I had completely the wrong end of the stick... I thought you were talking about the mixed local .com domains, such as ".uk.com"

In that case ignore everything I said lol

It's not that, it's just that it's potentially damaging (sorry, I'm quoting that Market Motive seminar again... been doing that a lot lately lol) to have an H1 and title tag that match.

Good idea, or have it in an iframe!

Ah, tricky situation. Well, if no links have been built to any of the domains and one is ranking at no.1 for this particular keyword, then it would lead me to assume that it would be very easy to get to no.1 for it with the other domain once you have a few incoming links for it.

Therefore, it would seem most logical to build some links for the domain you want to use, and do like you said with the 301 until the proper site domain hits no.1

I don't know the answer to the actual question but I do know that you should never have the title and h1 match... or have dupe meta descriptions but you already know that