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Awesome website. Thanks for doing something wonderful like this.

My little 2 cents: I posted a link to your blog post about the Ryan video on my Facebook page and our company's FB page.

The pictures/avatars/thumbnails available for the link didn't match the video. There were about 20 available: one said ProPhoto Theme, some were blank.

Since your site is probably going viral adding a custom pic might be worthwhile on pages like that. Picture worth a thousand words and all. hth

I'm off to Tweet about it.

I've had two situations with Google Places that might help you.

First, for some reason they have chosen to use the state road number for the name of our street even though Google Maps shows both state road number and street name. The street name has been in effect for more than five years. I've tried for several months to get it changed. Places refers me to Maps and says I have to be the owner, which I am, to make changes and Maps won't quit calling the street the state road number which no one around here knows or uses. So far nothing I've done has fixed it.

Second, we have a legal name and a dba for our business. I mistakenly made submissions for both to Google Places--a duh moment.  It took several months to fix it.

Taking the "speed" of changes to listings in Google Places into consideration, I suggest that you wait until you have a physical location with a landline phone. Otherwise, you will have to make two changes (to P.O. Box and then to physical address) which could take a long time to happen. Verifying with a phone number is really fast.

Our website now has enough mobile traffic to justify going mobile friendly, which it is not at this time.

I am in favor of making a separate .mobi site designed specifically for mobile phones and smart phones for several reasons. It is cheaper, faster, and easier to accomplish. I think our mobile users will have a good experience though obviously not as much info as our full site.

I would use ourdomain.mobi with link or a redirect for mobile users from from the main site.

My top three choices for implementing that are

• http://allwebcodesign.com/setup/mobi-templates.htm#detailsarea
  Template that can be viewed by mobile or desktop.
• http://www.onbile.com/
• http://www.networksolutions.com/mobile-website/index.jsp

Does this seem like a good solution?

Yes to the Google Local suggestions.

I would like to see webinars on:

• Guerrilla SEO in Highly Competitive Markets
• Small Business SEO (Including discussion of when to hire a professional and what you can do in-house)
• Google Page Speed

Great question.

I'd appreciate a pro seo opinion on this, but here's what I am doing on our website.

To Rel Canonical or 301? That is the question for  the /countries/Panama to countries/Panama/ and the other examples like that.

On the other pages, what about moving the best part of the content from a low view page to a similar content higher view page and then 301 the old page to the better page?

I did look it up and though I have a "Dedicated IP Address", I saw another domain hosted on the server with that same IP Address. It's not a bad site in red, but I thought a dedicated IP address was for one website only.

I also checked it at http://www.domaintools.com and we show up as the only one.

And our host did check it out, too.

We recently changed our domain name to match our brand. I read everything on Google and Bing Webmaster about domain moves.

I redirected (301) each page individually to the matching new page. (Ok, we moved to WordPress from html/css and used the HTML 2 Import plugin so there was a lovely list of all the redirects for the webmaster to install on the old website)

One thing I did that was bad was made a placeholder page for the old homepage informing people of the move. I corrected that and 301'd the old home page to the new home page. I should have done that straight away.

Then I used the Site Address Change tools in Google and Bing Webmasters to notify them of the move.

Ours is a smaller site (~800 pages) and site traffic moved with it.

I'm checking links now to ask external links to update our info.

These articles helped, but there are lots more if you search for Google Webmaster domain move.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en

https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/6033102?hl=en&ref_topic=6029673

I use the pipe because SEOmoz uses it. Visually it indicates something different is following. I think it more professional looking than the mere dash.

We are a small business and do most of our work in-house; however, I can share something that might help you to decide.

I agree with EGOL's take, particularly the part about risk. I looked at quite a few of the links you shared and they don't look so great quality wise. I opened them in tabs side by side and, though I am not an seo professional, it says link farms to me--cookie cutter websites, exact copies with different names, or similar looking with different names and colors.

We hired a very reputable company last year to help us rank for 10 key words, for which we received a very thorough marketing strategy report to enable us to do the work ourselves. The cost was in the neighborhood of $3,000. We implemented most of the suggestions and are satisfied that it was a useful expenditure.

They also offered to do linking and pr at  various monthly prices. We didn't do that because it was out of our price range. For comparison, the price you are paying is in the mid-range of the proposal we received.

All of that said, I find that we've gotten more value from our Pro Membership here at seoMOZ and setting up a Campaign.

I had this problem, too. Here's what I did.

1. Under Manage Keywords add the keyword/term to your keywords in your campaign.
2. Then go to the On-Page Report Card and choose that keyword, but input the URL of the page you want to track.
3. The most important step is to click Run This Report Weekly. It is on the right just above the the grade box.

You can add or delete Keywords and change which URLs you want have the weekly report for.

Hope this helps.

Harriet

PS I should add that I don't know how the terms are originally chosen by the app, but with the ability to change them is what is important.