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When I took over our G+ account, we had 50 followers, and we now have more than 353K. Here are some suggestions (pretty much standard across all social media):

1. Start by observing and interacting.  Purely pushing content and trying to gain 'numbers' isn't productive, and users don't respond well. Join communities that share your interests, and begin interacting and finding out what people look for.
2. Conduct hangouts.  If you have a valuable message to share, break it down in an accessible way through a hangout. Here are some great tips from Fraser Cain  https://plus.google.com/+FraserCain/posts/PaeeynDx34L
3. Create content. Content is king everywhere and the same goes for G+.  To quote an old editor friend, "People don't want products, they want solutions."  Find out where there's a need, and create the solution.
4. Don't just share your own content with links.  Despite the grillion articles out there today touting social as a great way to 'build links' it's completely see-through when that's all you're doing.  Share other people's stuff. Post fun stuff that doesn't include a link to your content occasionally.
5. Trending.  Find out what's trending, and how you can fit in naturally.  Don't just push a piece of content and slap a trending hashtag, but see where you can fit into the trends.

Hope this helps!

Lisa

Rather than getting hung up on the 'MD' part for the Google Plus profile itself, have you considered setting up a page for 'Doctor Bla Bla bla' and then on the website for which you're establishing authorship, the user name can be whatever you want.

If you go to Google AdSense and look up 'Doctor' under people and pages, you'll find plenty of profiles that begin with 'Doctor' in the name.

You just need to establish an approved profile in Google, and you can provide extensive credential information in the 'About' section.  Then link it to their profile on the website for whatever user name you like, A la, "Dr. Bla Bla Bla, MD"

Have you tried this method?

Good luck!  I hope it works.  Whenever I'm having a hard time trying to figure out a solution, I try to find examples out there of who's already accomplishing it and back into it.  Keep me posted!

Elizabeth, think of internal links as walking a visitor to content you'd like them to read, or that you think they might find valuable as relevant to the content they're already on.

Links not only help the user experience, but they tell every audience which pieces of content you find valuable and relevant.

The anchor text you use should be intuitive and helpful for the reader.  Sometimes that means using the exact title of the page you'll be going to.  Other times it means developing the anchor text as if you are the reader i.e. why would I leave the page to visit this link?  Is it more helpful than the page I'm on?  Is it supportive research to support my story?

If you're an ecommerce site, it is helpful to link to related products within that category or collection or other products someone might need.

If you think of every page as a standalone page that someone entered from search, how would they know to get to related products?

I hope this helps!

Lisa

I think we all know by now that buying links never bodes well.  It's not sustainable and if Google catches on it could hurt worse than being patient.

Definitely submit a sitemap, and work on your long term social media strategy.

For the past three days, I've been trying to use pivot tables on a couple of reports, most importantly I'm trying to use a pivot table on the All Pages report. I'd like to pull it for a year so I can see what our traffic sources are for top pages.  I keep getting an error in Google Analytics that says, "Resource is Not Available. Please Try Again Later."  See attached image.

I've condensed my date range to a month, just in case a year's data was too much and I still get the error.  I'm unable to use pivot tables in ANY report, without getting this message.  Is anyone else having issues?EgZ25

Thanks, y'all!  I figured it out!  Yay!  You guys are the best Who knew.  I expect things to be SOOOO difficult with Google, this one was way to simple.

Cheers!

Aggie

Thanks Keri. Cue, the song, "Wind beneath my wings."  Thanks for helping me avoid self-flagellation

Cheers.

I would definitely start by removing the canonical tag.  Essentially, you're telling Google that your page is not the preferred version of the page, and that the preferred version doesn't exist.

I would ask a different question, "Why am I writing an article just for SEO?"  Search engines have cautioned against thin content written specifically for "SEO" purposes, and years ago created Panda to penalize this type of content expressly.

The better question is, what is my existing content missing?  How can I focus on content marketing? That is how do I optimize the pages I already have to be more visible, engaging and share-worthy. And, how can I market and syndicate my content in a non-spammy way?

Not knowing your website, it would be hard to determine what's missing or what could be improved.

I agree you SHOULD be ok, but not knowing exactly what you're duplicating, I thought I'd send this video from Matt Cutts on content stitching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z13-yP3Zhns