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MailChimp seems to the preferred email client these days for small businesses, but there seems to be a new email client popping up everyday now.  
i'm not that familiar with Joomla, but if you're looking to set up an email newsletter here are a few questions you should ask.1) Do you already have an existing email base?  If you do that's awesome, if not you need to ask yourself what are you going to do to get these emails.
2) How many people are you looking to get signed up and how much are you sending?  MailChimp seems to be the best and easiest email to use.  It's free if you only send once  a month and have a small fanbase, but once it gets over 1,000 users it can get pricey.
3) What email client fits your needs?  Most email clients have plug-ins to use for most CMS' including Mailchimp, iContact, and Constant Contact
4)  Do you have enough content?  If you don't have enough content to share with your customers you probably should not be emailing them.

Anyways, hope that helps.

Depending on your business I would think less of mobile SEO and more of building your local citations.  Remember that most people who are using tablets are using it for simple things such as finding a perfect restaurant or finding things to do.  Even Yelp is tied to Apple's new Maps system.
Make sure that you're on every review site possible such as Yelp, Urbanspoon, Google local, G+, and all the social networks that are relevant to your niche.

It should always be a picture of you.  Take it from a social media point of view or even a cock-tail point of view as I tell my clients, your brand doesn't talk to clients you do, so you definitely want to put your face/picture out there.

It's up to you, but I have to agree that using different emails might be the best way especially if you think you might be losing the accounts later on.  
Handing them over might be an issue in the future if you only use one account.  Who wants an angry and nasty client, after all?

Our research seems to agree with Hugh, you have to have a huge Google+ audience to have a custom URL.  Also Google has stated that you might have to BUY custom url's to use them in the future.

To answer your question though is their any SEO benefit?  Not at the moment, however their are branding opportunities available by having your own custom URL.

Agreed. We just brought on a client who was hit by Panda because they were essentially plagerizing their own content. Meaning they would post the same exact full press release on their site that they would publish elsewhere. And they have 100s of these press releases. What we're doing to help is going through them all and cutting most of the content and including a link to the press release site as "Read full story"

Thank you Miriam, I will look at those.

Yes that is correct.

They have different phone numbers. The business is bail bonding. Yes, client is showing up as OtherGuy in search results. Which is a problem because Client has great reviews that are now boosting OtherGuy's brand.

Ever since Google Places started merging with Google+, my client's business listing is now showing up in local search results incorrectly under another business name who shares the same address as them.

Has anyone else encountered this problem or a way to correct it?

I would think that the links have more value than the likes, as Google still isn't able to truly crawl Facebook.  Like George said, I'd hold off from following any of these quick get rich schemes as they might hurt your website in the log term.I would instead say you should engage your audience and get them to comment on your posts and talk back to you more.  Having a more engaged audience will have more benefits over a bunch of quiet followers long term.

Tiffany,

The sharing and retweeting of your images will definitely help you gain edge rank, the specific applications, but if you're looking to optimize your site using both Facebook and Twitter you have to remember that Facebook is mostly closed off to Google.

Twitter has started closing off other companies as well, but it still does get crawled a bit from Google.  What I would suggest is Tweet a picture then also attach your brand's name to the Website.  Maybe like this, "Like this? :insert image:   It's available now at Tiffany.com"  It won't give you a lot of link juice but it will give you some especially if it's shared a lot.

I would agree with Marcus on this one.  The first thing that you would want to do is plan ahead think about your niche and think about who you are advertising too.

I would definitely suggest creating a wire frame of what your website will look like, what pages will social media links(if any) will be on your website.

The most important thing you can do is plan accordingly and create a wire frame then a sitemap, and go from there.

The reason why many people have an on site blog is that when Google then crawls your website they will see that your website is updating and adding fresh content which it likes.

Are you talking about creating your blog as a subdomain?  If so that'll work, if not I recommend keeping your blog on your website.

You mentioned that your blog has a few things wrong with it, so you might be able to fix these issues in the same amount of time that it will create to get a new blog implemented on your website.  Also you might want to rename your blog and give it an overall theme, such as Free Giveaways or company news!  People will like a better defined news section than just a "blog".

I've never experienced any issues, except for on occasion and SEOmoz has always been helpful in fixing them.

Well the keyword checker tool is down, I would also suggest two tools that you might want to check out: Open Site Explorer and their new Twitter tool FollowerWonk.

Christian,

I don't have a true answer for you, but here are a few things that you might want to look into if you haven't.

1. Have you done a link analysis of your competitors?  If your problem has to do with organic searches you might be being pushed down in the search rankings.  I would suggest that you, do that.

2. You mention that most of your hits came from "images", I'm curious if these were images that showed up in the SERPs and are not now?  I'd look into that.

Hopefully that helps.

Well, first off I would say that SeoMoz won't help you build traffic to your website, but it will help you gain the knowledge that you need to build traffic to your website.

If you're new to SeoMoz here are a few tips:

• Participate in the Q and A's, which it looks like you're already doing.
• Be sure to read the blog and YouMoz  Blog regularly.  Always come back for the WhiteBoard Friday vlog(on Fridays), as I find them very useful.
• Check out the SEOMoz tools, those will give you plenty of help on link building that will help your website rank better.  A few tools I like in particular are Open Site Explorer, which shows a website's back link portfolio, their keyword analysis tool which shows how competitive a keyword can be and as a social media lover I like the new Follower Wonk

Agency.

Define a "blog post on Facebook".  Are you using an outside application on Facebook?  If so it might be generating the issue.

We've had issues with Facebook spammers, but they spammed us with messages which we quickly deleted, but that was nowhere near the 4,000 comments you received.  If you did receive 4,000 comments I would quickly delete all the comments and leave the followers alone, unless they continue to spam you.  If that's the case, I would delete them.

We're fond of Zappos.  They have awesome linking both internal and outbound.
http://www.zappos.com

Chris,Donnie hit your question right out of the park, but one suggestion that I always suggest to all of my clients is spend some money and become a vendor/affiliate for other sites/companies.

For example, with your company Why don't you see if you can get a review on the food channel?  Or how about parterning with some wedding companies to provide wedding cakes?  This will allow you to get a link on your website and also help you sell orders.Also maybe looking into other online wine review sites.  Gary V's winelibrary.com springs right to mind.I hope that helps.