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Clever!!

Strategy:

• Add value to visitors from those specific cities. It's the only way to do it right.

Ideas:

• Provide a resource for "where to buy" within those cities. CityGrid/CitySearch, Yelp, Foursquare will provide the locations through their API's. More here..
• City knowledge graph, demographics, what's trending, what's hot, authority social profiles. Help define your market, with transparency.
• Price comparisons between physical stores & online store. Pricebot? hmm..

PRweb & if money isn't really the issue, go with BusinessWire. The PRweb.com link itself will probably be the most valuable from a PRWeb release though, unless you get picked up outside of the typical syndication network. BusinessWire works the same way, but has a better professional image.

If you have the money and do not have newsworthy announcements, look into facilitating an outreach campaign or buying some friendships of authoritative sites within your industry. Donating to relevant foundations, sponsoring local events (with websites) and work harder to get known online, digitally within your industry online.

There are tools & strategies that will help you identify the resource-related authority sites within your industry too.

It's beyond editing template files.. did you vote for it, here:

http://vbseo.uservoice.com/forums/25627-vbseo-plugin/suggestions/2296381-pagination-with-rel-next-and-rel-prev-

I tend to see links from webmaster tools containing a sizable number of actual links. Their index is bigger than any other service like OSE or Majestic. If you're watching the latest links, they do tend to be accurate as well. I'm a subscriber to OSE, Majestic & Ahrefs. On my big sites, I always turn to WMT's now for the total # of links.

OSE still provides metrics with integrity. Majestic and Ahref's pickup fresh links before WMT's displays them. Google may actually find them first, but they do not push out fresh link data every day.

You're also going to miss out on clique hunter, competitor links and you'll risk spending a lot of time in Excel should you opt-out of the third party services.

Argh, don't make me pull up archive.org!

I see they are bogus, but have they always been bogus? Did you recently update the descriptions? When was Googlebot last on these pages?

There are several other issues with the site & URL structure I would address before fretting about meta descriptions.

The /ezine dir is still working for me. If I can access it, surely Google still can.

Here are your options:

1. Robots.txt - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93708 - easy option.
2. Noindex tags - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-noindex-behavior/
3. Removal request - https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=59819

1. finish blog posts.

2. get links.

3. if your items are unique to you, funky and in-demand, I suggest looking at sharing (social) at the product-listing level.

4. get up some pinterest boards. Apparel is HOT right now.

5. listen to the rest of the responses specific to on-site. Long-tail is a good strategy, especially now when you have no domain authority. Get tracking, spend wisely and watch & learn on your campaigns successes and failures.

Work on links now, get some fresh links coming in & then focus on the rest. Nobody will link to you just because you have a PRweb release, have competitive pricing, decent product & a beautiful site. It does happen occasionally, but the reality is (for the majority) it is all about gaining momentum, building your digital footprint and networking.

First question, it's personal preference. Just be sure you decide early on what you want to do, then stick with it. Changing it after the fact is where you're going to lose out a  bit.

Second part, if you're using web publisher, look at the long-term strategy for URL structure before making the switch. ID's will probably still be necessary/recommended, but that's not to say you can't spruce them up with article titles and page numbers as well.

I guess I need to brush up on my Danish

It came up as something completely different in the English translation.

Some recent ones I have been using is:

Einet.net (PR8)

JoeAnt

BOTW

V7N (often have discount codes in the V7N directory forum)

Galaxy

And I would LOOOVE if someone returned the favor by suggesting more high-authority paid directories in the $15-$75 range too!

A "Unique View" defined:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=36c600b76eed8740&hl=en

It's old, but probably still pretty accurate. It's a heated debate with all signs pointing to an inaccurate form of measurement. Most of the blog posts you read about this stemmed from that discussion I do believe. Such as, http://www.atlantaanalytics.com/practicing-web-analytics/how-does-youtube-video-view-count-work/ and http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/07/22/view-counts-on-youtube/ - Note the deeper analyzing happening at 308 views.

External or Embedded Videos Counting Towards View Count:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=26f5093fbce9f85a&hl=en

Simply put, Yes, they certainly do.. the legit ones count anyways!

I think knowing why you want the follower counts would help us provide a better way to obtain the data.

For example, I look at profile metrics/authority when I'm setting a new profile up in a specific vertical. BUT, I know that I can use Topsy's twitter search to identify those authoritative tweeple. They have a nice hover-over feature that will show you follower stats for each user talking about the search query. I can also use TweetAdder to do this manually. I don't need to slow down, neigh,  I would rather not slow down to record or even read a list of follower counts.

If you truly do want the data for bulk processing within a site, some sort of new tool.. then pulling it directly from Twitter may be the answer. It really depends.

PRweb & if money isn't really the issue, go with BusinessWire. The PRweb.com link itself will probably be the most valuable from a PRWeb release though, unless you get picked up outside of the typical syndication network. BusinessWire works the same way, but has a better professional image.

If you have the money and do not have newsworthy announcements, look into facilitating an outreach campaign or buying some friendships of authoritative sites within your industry. Donating to relevant foundations, sponsoring local events (with websites) and work harder to get known online, digitally within your industry online.

There are tools & strategies that will help you identify the resource-related authority sites within your industry too.

Here are your options:

1. Robots.txt - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93708 - easy option.
2. Noindex tags - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-noindex-behavior/
3. Removal request - https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=59819

I just noticed on the Linkscape calendar the update that was supposed to happen yesterday is pushed back to the 6th.

It would be better not knowing. Is this a possibility? Or use the calendar internally, I don't care. Credibility in any announcement or claim looses muster once you do not do what you say you are going to do over and over again. Just a thought..

Maile Ohye stated (at SESSF 2010), when an image is linking out, the alt img text is just as important as anchor text is in a contextual link. That is something to keep in mind when you are going through your link profile..

Are both pages serving the same purpose?

I would NOT 404 it. I'm a firm believer in not deleting pages. If anything, it sounds like a job for the canonical tag to me.

Hi Brent!

Sure,

Ontolo does this fairly well with data from OpenSiteExplorer. It is also possible to do it with excel &vlookups, this will probably be the only option that won't cost you more $$. The domain comparison is an often overlooked little trick, even SEO Elite included this comparison view back when we were all pulling links from Yahoo's index.

If you run the clique hunter in MajesticSEO, you'll even get a pretty little bubble chart though