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I haven't experienced them before, but their average review when you type in "Blurbpoint Review" on Google is around 3 to 3.5 stars. I have seen their ads on Facebook and such. Just trying giving them a call. My typical saying is: "If its too good to be true, it probably is."

That's my opinion. Take it for what its worth.

Hope that helps.

You've already invested in the domains, my as well leverage them. What these would be good for is to rank for the "exact matches" as exact match domains still to this date do well in the SERPs. I would hire a Filipino or someone for around $200 USD/month. Train them a little bit, then let them install wordpress, maintain the sites, build backlinks, etc. This would be my suggestion for the domain usage. You can also most likely buy more IPs from your hosting provider. So in essence, just try and get these sites ranked for the exact match terms and funnel the people to your "money site". Lastly, if you are really worried about the "spammy" look, add "nofollow" to the links.

You can use the search line on Google: site:www.example.com

This will tell you what Google has indexed on the site.

If you are looking for a specific sub-folder, then use: site:www.example.com/forum

Hope that helps.

Have you thought about incorporating video into your message. This is a great way to keep the visitor on the site and have them do what you want them to do, like fill out a form, go to another page, etc. Video combined with autoplay, works great. After seeing many tests done on autoplay, it actually works. Anyways, suggesting that you add video was a bit off topic, but I thought I'd suggest it.

Here is the Google training for Google Analytics. Take a look at this link: http://www.google.com/analytics/education.html

I would go and test this yourself. Go on to Google, log out of your Google account, then type in your search phrase and add: &pws=0 to the end of the URL and hit enter. This will remove any customized results for you and will help you determine the accuracy of the results of the two trackers.

Google doesn't like "cloaking" type things, showing them different stuff than you show the users will get you penalized. Don't do it.

Hi Mike,

I would say go for it. What this sounds like is three-way linking right? Three-way linking will give you a non traceable link profile which will add additional benefits. The automation part may be difficult, but could work. I'd recommend communicating directly with the webmasters though as it may be against TOS of the reciprocal link networks / systems.

Let me know what you think.

I would say build a "brand" of it. Exact match domains are starting to show less significants in the SERPs. So I would say build a "brand". You can also learn some indications of that in a PRO webinar that was hosted within the past three months. You can also see some of the more recent ranking factors (including info about exact match domains) in a presentation Rand did in a blog post here.

If you don't want it to be discovered by the search engines cause it has too many links and such, block it with the robots.txt. It will still obviously be visible to the users on the site, but the search engines won't crawl it and possibly penalize it.

Email the SEOmoz staff. You can find the help desk here. That is where you will find the "actual" answer you are looking for.

Hi Anthony,

Adding "rel=nofollow" to the link to the certificate won't affect the load time, as the link is still there along with the badge and such. All that will do is make the link not pass any value to where ever it goes. Secondly, "rel=nofollow" cannot sculpt PageRank any longer. That became ineffective over a year ago with some Google updates. They basically didn't want people to manipulate PageRank on their own sites. So the best solution would be to find a different way to display the certificate/get the point across that your site is secure.

Alex

You should funnel all of your users through the main site and give them the option to switch languages to help avoid having the same content on different pages. It sounds like they want to rank in each country, now to do that, just build links and get them from relevant sites in that country. Although if you are really stuck on staying with the original plan, I would say use the robots.txt file to still block the other language pages. The reason I say that is because the search engines have done filtering to additional language pages, because spammers have actually exploited language barriers in the past for autoblogging. They would translate content from another language, make it sound right and then put it on the blog automatically. That's the main reason for me recommending that you funnel people through the main site and have them translate, which where the translation site would be in a subfolder blocked with the robots.txt file. There are obviously many ways to go about this, some will agree, so won't, this is just my two cents. I hope this helps.

Google Places has a very different algorithm compared to the organic Google Search algorithm. For Google Places, you will be optimizing their one Google Places page to get it to show up in the search results. The two main driving factors are reviews and citations, but I will go over an overview of the rough process you should do for them.

Quick definition of Citation: A listing in a local directory, online yellow pages, etc.

The Process

1. Claim and fill out or have them fill out their Google Places page COMPLETELY. Add descriptions, pictures, videos, EVERYTHING.

2. Have them proactively collecting (hand written) reviews so you can distribute them later on.

3. Go to UBL.org (Universal Business Listing) and purchase just the simple/basic package for them. TIP: Being a pro member of SEOmoz you have a group discount code that will give you great deals and instead of the basic package costing $39, it'll only cost $23. When registering at UBL.org use the code: seomoz2212. That's a great deal for you. The reason for this, is it will give you some nice citations all across the internet over the course of several weeks.

4. Collect the reviews from the client. At this point, you should be a few weeks in with the citations and you will be able to start posting reviews (DON'T EVER PUT THEM ON THE GOOGLE PLACES PAGE).

5. You will start posting reviews on the places with the citations (Yelp, Superpages, InfoUSA, etc.). How you will do this is, first scan your image and then post it to a place like Posterous.

6. Go to one of the places where your business has a citation and register an account, (on behalf of the client) and then post the transcribed review on the site with a link back to the original written review, that you posted on Posterous.

That's rough the process. Now we are posting on the citation locations because Google syndicates that to the Google Places page.

I know this may be a bit confusing, so definitely respond to this with questions and lets keep this discussion going.

This is just Google likely testing the site, you may have heard of the term "Google Dance" this is likely what it is, but also, Google tests their SERPs immensely, so you may just be wrapped up in the test. Hopefully you don't get the shaft. I'd say, just wait a few days and see what happens.

I would use your robots.txt file to prevent them from crawling the specific strings / pages. Go into your Google Webmaster Tools and you can see all the information Google has on your site and any issues, you can also specify robots.txt information in there. That would be the best route as Google is obedient with what is on the robots.txt file. If you want more information about robots.txt, go here.