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They have the option to purchase songs separately or in "music collections" (http://www.premiumbeat.com/collections). Pricing for individual songs is about $40/ea for permanent use. The music collections are substantially cheaper ($15/ea) so if you want a lot of choices I would go with that route.

We just set opened a new location for our business. We had to do the mailer twice: once for google places (<cite>https://www.google.com/business/placesforbusiness/</cite>‎) and once for the google+ listing of the company (<cite>https://plus.google.com/</cite>‎). Once we had both physical mailers completed the location started appearing on google maps. I hope this helps!

After posting this question I found a great article on Wistia that answered my question: http://wistia.com/blog/music-for-business-video/. One of the comments under the blog mentioned a company called Premiumbeat and they had a solution that worked for our company.

Howdy Fellow Mozzers!

My company wants to start creating video content that will be posted online (wistia/youtube/vimeo) and we'd like to have music in the background of some of these videos. I'm not sure how music licensing works, but I found rumblefish/friendlymusic but it looks like they only support small and medium companies with up to 20 employees. Our business has 150-200 employees and we'd like to know how to license music for a company of our size. Do you guys have any recommendations or can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Hey fellow Mozzers,

Just got back from Mozcon and enjoyed getting to know a handful of you. I do in house SEO for a B2B wholesaler. We have a B2C website directory for homeowners to locate contractors to work on their home. On the site we have a products section which includes tech specs but not pricing. Our contractors have been asking us to add the ability to purchase their items online, so we are wanting to add a B2B sub-domain (store.domain.com) to our website for the contractors to purchase products online. We do not want consumers to be able to purchase the items and will have pricing behind a log in. I have a few questions that I'm hoping you might be able to answer:

1. What would be the best practice to not have duplicate content errors with products that are listed on both sites? Should we rel-canonical items shown on both domains or do something else?
2. We are not against having the new site be crawled, but will Google be upset/ding rankings because pricing is behind a log-in? Are there certain best-practices for B2B ecommerce sites?
3. Do you know of any other sites that have done this/do you have any recommendations on how to best implement this?

Thanks!  RogerBot is now working.  Perhaps it had a cached copy of the old robots.txt file.  All is well now.

Thank you!

Hi All,

Our robots.txt file has wildcards in it, which Googlebot recognizes.  Can anyone tell me whether or not Rogerbot recognizes wildcards in the robots.txt file?

We've done a Rogerbot site crawl since updating the robots.txt file and the pages that are set to disallow using the wildcards are still showing.

BTW, Googlebot is not crawling these pages according to Webmaster Tools.

Thanks in advance,

Robert

Thanks, EGOL -

Until we figure out a way to monetize this additional traffic, as you suggested, the traffic we're getting is an annoyance and a cost-center since our products are for different markets (automotive vs. home/residential). Traffic is not a bad thing necessarily, but it doesn't add value until it converts.

Best,
Robert

Hi Everyone,

Our website url/brand is very close to another website url/brand. We are non-competing entities.

It appears as though this other company has begun a marketing program which has resulted in our traffic skyrocketing. However, it seems to have also resulted in our Pages/Visit and Visit Duration to decrease and our Bounce Rate to increase.

Can anyone suggest how to deal with this type of scenario?

Thanks,
Robert

Got it.

Thanks!

Thanks, EGOL -

I forgot to mention that our banner would be rotated with 5 other banners from other companies. Would that have an impact on our backlink profile if the banner is there, not there, and then there again?

Thanks,
Robert

Hi Everyone,

I have a company calling me about adding a banner for our business on a news site for a monthly fee. The fee includes the banner and a profile page. The domain authority for the news site is high (84) but the profile page that it links to actually goes to a 3rd party site (DA=65). It is from this page that I could link back to our site.

Aside from the marketing value of the 250x300 ad on a page that gets a ton of traffic, would it be better to link back to our site from the profile page on the 3rd party site or directly from the banner on the news site?

I hope I've given you enough info.

Best,
Robert

Thanks, Robert -

We claimed the listings over a year ago so we should be good there. However, the link you provided also states:

"One factor these algorithms consider is the accuracy of the business listing and the richness of the content associated with the listing..."

Would the "content associated with the listing" be restricted to the information in the listing itself, the website it links to, citations, or all of these?

Thanks!
Robert

Thanks guys!

Hi Everyone,

When you go into Google Maps and look at the satellite view, you'll notice business names on some, but not all, businesses--like on the roof of the building.

Where do I need to go to get this to work for my business? My Google Places pages are setup properly but as far as I can tell there is no setting for this.

Is it the Service Area setting? Currently I have it set to "Yes, this business serves customers at their locations." Perhaps I need to set this to "No."

Many thanks,

Robert

Hi SEOmoz Pros,

We have vendors from whom I was hoping to get links.

To make it more enticing to them I was planning to select a small number of vendors (with good site metrics-PA, DA, PR) and create a "Featured Vendor" module on some pages that would link back to the vendor's site as well--thereby created reciprocal links.

I was planning to only have one vendor to a page and only for the pages that we are targeting locally. My hope is to help boost the ranking of those pages.

Is it okay to offer our vendors to link back to their site or should I ask for a one-way link back to our page and pitch it as exposure for their brand??

Lastly, does Google penalize for these types of links?

Thanks!

We have vendors from whom I was hoping to get links.

To make it more enticing to them I was planning to select a small number of vendors (with good site metrics) and create a "Featured Vendor" module on some pages that would link back to the vendor's site as well--thereby created reciprocal links.

I was planning to only have one vendor to one page and only for the pages that we are locally targeting.

Is this a bad strategy?

Thanks!

Many thanks!

I'll be doing some linkbuilding in which I will be asking manufacturers of the products we sell to link back to our site. My thought was to have a single page for our "Valued Suppliers" with a badge that I would give them the embed code for. If the URL goes to a "Valued Supplier" page on our site where there are multiple manufacturers, will this help my entire site or only the page that's being linked to?

Thanks in advance!