If anyone else tries to figure a way to organize twitter followers into lists AFTER the fact, here's what I did....

I DO NOT work for socialbro.com nor social oomp.

I simply signed up for the socialbro.com service and the tool provides the ability to filter twitter followers (and people you are following) by search keywords (across bio and tweets), geolocation, and several other fields. This capability made it easy for me to search for users and then apply to specific lists we've recently established.

Moving forward we are using social oomph to assign new twitter followers to lists as we acquire them. In  Social Oomph, followers can be assigned automajically based on keywords or through manual selection.

Thanks for the link Chris. I did see that earlier but didn't quite address Twitter lists specifically. I did end up trying this and was successful in downloading the data, but there's nowhere to update lists specifically that I can see. Will keep trying.

I have a list of about 3,000 Twitter followers and would like to segment my followers into separate lists for "emergency preparedness" and "travel." Is there a tool that can help me automate this without reviewing each profile one-by-one?

We have a particular blogger that provides lots of links to our website every day. Can you recommend tools that provide data/analytics about other sites that might be similar as compared so we can partner with them as well?

Thanks.

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Did you test on the rich snippet tester? I would but no link to example provided.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Should Meta descriptions and meta keywords be different on every page?

Meta description tags should be as unique per page as possible.

Is it bad to have the same meta data repeated on the site?

Yes

If it has to be different does it have to be totally different per page of just slightly different?

Slightly different at a minimum. Common examples might be a service that is done in multiple locations and you tweak the description to highlight the different location, but the service itself is the same.

Should the description contain keywords is there an advantage to that?

Absolutely, just don't stuff words in a way that is, well, disgusting. Remember that "meta description" may be used as the summary of the page in your search result for the given page.

Don't use meta keywords tag.

1) Search engines don't really pay attention and 2) your announcing to your competitors the keywords you are trying to opitimize for.

Referencing this post, I also recently added this code “_gaq.push(['_setSiteSpeedSampleRate', 100]);” to my Google Analytics script in order to track page load on all page requests instead of 5% (roughly). I may not do this permanently but for now I'm getting tremendous feedback from Google Analytics regarding Page Load time using the report I just sent you

http://p.barker.dj/sitespeedtips

If you are using Google Analytics, check under Content >> Site Speed >> Page Timings and you can sort by the largest load time first.

Here's a directory theme with 572 purchases and over 350+ comments to review http://themeforest.net/item/directory-portal-wordpress-theme/3840053

Double slashes only hamper SEO if there are links connecting to that content. If there are no links then its a non issue.

Here's some code to place in .htaccess (if applicable)

Prevent double slashes in URLs, e.g. //Blog and /Home//About

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.)//(.)$ 
RewriteRule . %1/%2 [R=301,L]

Here are the links in the site footer. Missed them: Site Map | All Cities

They've obviously optimized a page for each service in each town.

I am not seeing them show up #1 for various services within towns but I'm in Maine so not sure what affect that has on local search.

Looks like the "?all=categories" forces a different display in the content region of the page. The default homepage does not include this information as you noted.

"?all=categories" is basically a landing page that drives the google bot to town-specific pages dedicated to their services. If you note the copy they've customized each page to drive local SEO to the specific town.

Don't forget to log out of Google or use an alternative browser that you never log into to see anonymous results for your search. I sometimes have to remind myself of that.

There sitemap.php file is empty so not sure how that ?all=categories" link is getting indexed as I can't find it in the navigation either.

Competitor kind enough to share keywords he's trying to optimize for:

  <meta name="<a class="attribute-value">keywords</a>" content=" <a class="attribute-value">Snow Removal,  Sanding Services,  Roof Raking Services,  Fall Cleanup,  Lawn Mowing Service,  Fertilization Services,  Dethatching Services,  Tree and Shrub Care Services,</a>" />

Tools like PRWeb can definitely drive traffic to your website and potentially drive conversions. However, garbage in, garbage out so the content of the PR you are sending is EVERY bit as important as the conduit itself.

Your copy must be compelling enough for users to read and hopefully publishing editors to post on their news/blog websites to get you the most traction. Use best practices of content marketing to write high quality, compelling copy. Many great examples here at seomoz.org, hubspot.com &  copyblogger.com.

Hope that helps.

Hi Dana, in case you are using a platform like Magento, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc. this functionality may all ready be built in to your theme without having to reinvent the wheel. Can you share a URL and I'll see if I can help you?

The link building/PR tactics provided by Takeshi Young are excellent as well as Agents of Value content marketing suggestions are both excellent.

I've been in your shoes before and it's certainly different developing something for the start vs. something in progress.

I'll offer a third and different perspective. In evaluating social media, analyze the most recent posts of competitor(s) and follow some of the users that might meet one or more of the "marketing personnas" you are trying to target (I try to create twitter lists with friendly names to organize these users). Begin to monitor their conversations and chime in when you can add value to the discussion. While monitoring, pay attention to the hashtags that these tweets include.

Hashtags are a GREAT WAY  to acuire new followers, conversations and potentially....customers.

This is one of many tactics and could similarly be utilized with Facebook, but not quite as easily. Don't want to be creapy.

Hope that is useful. Best of luck.

For smaller twitter "brands" you can simply evaluate the users that are following your competitors and perhaps

1. You can follow some of those users to create the opportunity to casually converse with them,
2. analyize the hashtags that users are utilizing when communicating with your competitiors. I use HootSuite to monitor these hashtags and then  contribute to the conversation in a constructive way.

These are simply 2 tactics in an basket of MANY.

For larger Twitter brands, I use the "what have you done for me lately" mantra and just monitor the most recently active conversations for the given competitor.

If you choose to utilize #1 I strongly discourage aggressive in your face tweeting with these folks. I look at these as long term investments in conversation and relationship development.

For smaller twitter "brands" you can simply evaluate the users that are following your competitors and perhaps

1. You can follow some of those users to create the opportunity to casually converse with them,
2. analyize the hashtags that users are utilizing when communicating with your competitiors. I use HootSuite to monitor these hashtags and then  contribute to the conversation in a constructive way.

These are simply 2 tactics in an basket of MANY.

For larger Twitter brands, I use the "what have you done for me lately" mantra and just monitor the most recently active conversations for the given competitor.

If you choose to utilize #1 I strongly discourage aggressive in your face tweeting with these folks. I look at these as long term investments in conversation and relationship development.

Use if it truly is a point of emphasis in the context of the copy. Another reason not to do it has been mentioned in several recent posts.....It gives away the keywords you are trying to optimize to your competitors if you are too obvious.

How about the fact that there's a "-" in the domain name. Isn't that a potential red flag as well?