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We understand the PA, DA, trust and all of that.  My question is, is there a process or formula anyone uses that shows an individual links value as to the link juice it passes. The old Domain Juice seemed to be that, but after further investigation (And Rand setting me straight)  I now understand it's not a good metric. Today, we use PA  divided by the number of external links on that page to get some sense of an individual links actual value to the site or page we link to. I understand this is a very sloppy system, but seems to be the only choice we have? It's based on this simple thought.  If you get a back link on two different pages, and both are equal in every way,  except one has 3 outbound links and the other has 30, the link from the page with 3 will be significantly stronger as far as passing juice. So...  anyone using something to determine an individual links value?  I did ask the SEO staff, and they do not current have it.

Search "Google Places Changes." My Blog, www.salesjumpstart.net/blog  is ranked first.  Has been for a week.  Why?  Makes no sense. I have been getting many first page Google results for 3 and 4 word keyword searches.  The site or Blog just isn't that strong. http://www.google.com/search?q=Google+places+hchanges&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=uFR&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&source=hp&q=Google+places+changes&pbx=1&oq=Google+places+changes&aq=f&aqi=g2g-j1g-b1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=4293l4293l0l4628l1l1l0l0l0l0l271l271l2-1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=661c0b1152c259b4&biw=1024&bih=583

It looks like they are retiring the old Link scape.  Where do we find the report that showed the Domain Juice passed by each link?  Is it in the advanced reports and we need to request and wait?

Seems to be a thought process emerging (CALL THE MEDIA!) that twiiter and facebook are having through various different paths a real ranking effect.  Is anyone now doing SEO on a clients Social media page because of this. I know they are no follow. I am not sure they don't pass juice.

We have several clients that we took over from other SEO firms in the last 6 months. We are seeing an odd trend.  Links are disappearing from the reports. Not just the SEOmoz reports, but all the back link reports we use. Also... sites that pre Panda would show up as a citation or link, have not been showing up. Many are these are not Indexed, and are on large common Y.P or other type sites. Any one think Google is removing pages from the Index on sites based on Panda. Yours in all curiosity. PS ( we are not large enough to produce quantity data on this.)

I see a lot of answers to questions in here that I would consider pretty umm, well, not all that great, not that I am one to judge, but when I ask a question I am looking for answers from experienced professionals. How do you decide which answers to take more seriously?  I check the persons profile and follow it all the way out the their site and blogs (if listed).  Sometimes I see sites that have a SEmoz of 10. How can you give advice when your site has no Ranking? I know there are going to be exceptions, and that this isn't the one and only indicator, but how do you decide how much confidence you can put in an answer here?

We have a client that provides 5 different services all under one brand and one site.  The challenge is getting good web popularity to each major brand.  It looks like this: Brand ( No real Internet traffic to Brand keywords) Service A Service B Service C Service D Service E All the services are displayed on the home page.  The SEOmoz scores are now (in general) as high or higher than the competition in the service keywords, but, of course, we are only ranking on the top for one of the services.  It's a local business. We are just finishing a re-design of the site so that each service has an internal "micro site" within the domain.  Each of the services is linked from the home page to its micro sites Anchor page.  The anchor page is linked to 2 to 4 other pages all directly related to that services information. SO my question is,  should we continue to work on building the home page popularity, or focus a mix between the Home page (Brand)  and the Micro sites Anchor pages. or just go for popularity of the Internal Anchor pages for the services? Hope this makes sense.  And thanks in advance for your thoughts.