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I really like account groups. Account managers that make money are sales people and can't answer questions or make estimates. They always take notes and have to get back to you. The goal is to make money and this maybe a more profitable way to operate. But on the other hand happier customers is more business. I like this idea:

Account contact and a group of tech/ specialists. Any of these people can be contacted.

Your question: account manager should usually be the primary point of contact.

The best way is to have second in commands and account managers. This will allow the manager to focus on growing the business. Give each employee a high level of autonomy and allow them to make reasonable decisions that will benefit the company and the customer.

Each of these second in commands and account managers can have teams. One person that is skilled in a specific area. Another approach is to have account managers that report to separate teams of technical people. This can be annoying to the customer because the account manager is not technically savvy.

The most important thing is that the customers are satisfied.

You should create a dedicated domain. I also recommend going after hosting in the languages' country that you most want rankings in. Check out Bruce Clay's International web - http://www.bruceclay.com

The top is best. The keyphrase will take a phrase out of your longtail phrase. So instead of

domain.com/dodge-viper-car.html

you get

domain.com/car/dodge-viper.html

This is also good for information architecture. It keeps things organized.

Hello,

I know that if its good for the user, its not a bad move. But for this question I am specifically asking for how it affects my ranking.

Does it help my ranking to link to appropriate authority sites?
Have you done any tests to see if linking out to authoritative sites like .gov info pages, industry leaders, etc. help with a sites ranking.

I am thinking about taking of all of these outgoing links and just link to my important pages.

Thank you,

Tyler

For paid advertising:

If I say this keyword is phrase match:

red cars

Will google or bing show the ad for keywords:

cars that are red
cars with red

Do they include "Stop" words?

Thanks.

I have to say OSE is very conservative with the links it lists. I'm not completely sure why, but sometimes major links will not be listed. You can see this if you compare the results of site explorer in yahoo and also the links:domain.com google backlink research method. It's probably not time, OSE, just doesn't like these links.

For example, right now Yahoo site exporer is showing Seomoz.org has 964,000 links to it and OSE shows 24,000. So I recommend trying the yahoo and google approach for assistance.

Zendesk is becoming very popular and large companies use it. I like it a lot.

I have seen this same issue. I like also using yahoo's site explorer which is a lot more generaous on reporting links than both seomoz and google. FYI search links:http://www.... for google backlink report.

The ways to leverage paid advertising is to buy links that are follow link, but also can drive traffic. Think of link building as advertising. Try to get good links that will also drive traffic. I would have a good content for edits to link to. Also writing a guest post is a good idea.

Also if you are sending traffic to your site, then those visitors may want to link to you.

google doesn't execute javascript - definitely go after simple html for links.

- 75,000$?

Don't worry about these widgets. The major issue is keeping your page speed down. That's the primary issue with these widgets.

I don't know if you looked here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/partners/find/solution-partners/united-states/

But this is the route I used to find my service provider. I would go to the last page and start there with professional providers not enterprise. They will work on the free community version without too much trouble.

The biggest question when talking to these people is "what kind of companies do you normally work with" - if it sounds similar to your situation that's good!

If I answered your question please mark "this answered my question"

Thanks

That sounds like a push strategy = posting articles. That's marketing your content. web 2.0 is about pull. It's about engaging with customers. Answering questions and being responsive. So yes I would say, if the ROI is there, get your average out of college person, young and hungry to monitor what is happening on these platforms. Also using search.twitter.com can allow to find people that are talking about your industry or co. I recommend checking out @garyvee - he talks about interacting in his new book and also in his first book - both are great.

Hello,

This Q&A section is for and between seomoz members. This question would better be answered by contacting seomoz directly: http://www.seomoz.org/about/contact

Thanks! It's weird that it has been seen but doesn't show as being cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.flowerpetal.com%2Findex.jsp%3Finfo%3D13&pws=0&hl=en&num=10

Hello,

You have identified my two favorite ecommerce platforms. I opted for magento and am very pleased with the site, usability and seo. I think you will find asp.net a good choice too. Either way you will need to find a good provider. The provider list at magento is long and there are some good ones in there. Mostly asking around 4,000$ and up to work with them. Both Magento and Asp.net as excellent choices and will fit any store owners needs. Don't worry about integration down the road. Unless there are some technical things you need done.

The best way to see see the strength of a link is to run that url through open site explorer: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

There's no number for links from google "larry page's page rank" but seomoz has that 1-100 number you're talking about. It more ransk a site, not a link. I love the seobook toolbar for firefox, to get to know how strong a page and site is.