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I noticed a good link in another Q & A on here that talks through linking the two up

http://www.seomoz.org/q/facebook-page-vs-facebook-place

There is an article linked to from the above page that seems like a good walkthrough at

http://allfacebook.com/facebook-places-business_b17578

Hope this is useful to you,

David Harland.

Hi There, its worth having a look at this not quite whiteboard friday from Rand which covers your question in more detail at the end of the Video but also in the comments section with a useful link to working with Yandex http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smx-advanced-andy-atkins-kruger-talks-international-seo-and-yandex-whiteboard-friday

Hope this helps

David Harland

Try a local business page for each site and one company or brand one to cover general company things that aren't specific to each office.

Definitely get the links to go to your site - you are paying for it so say what you want for your money

Tread carefully because they can see you as a threat because there is obvious overlap. Some PR companies welcome a team approach, others certainly do not - guess it depends on who they are and how well defined everyone's roles are.

It's obviously great news for the client if all can work together towards a common goal - i.e. their success.

Our experience is about 50/50.

Good luck

What's the best way to stop Wordpress spam?

We don't let comments go live without moderation, so the spammers don't succeed, however it wastes time going through the comments.

A captcha code could work but a lot of software can crack it. Are there any good captcha solutions or could something else work better/in conjunction?

Also, is there anywhere to report spam IP addresses? Not sure much happens when you mark a comment as spam in Wordpress.

You could also tweet  a link or use other social media channels to encourage Google to crawl your site a bit quicker

@NotThatFast - You are correct there and with the Google freshness update, having the blog on your site would be a good thing.

@Dharam Kalra - I don't know what you are on about.

Perhaps you could try putting the unbranded version on your own site with some embed code underneath it making it easy for people to add to their own sites. If you have good numbers already coming to your site looking for a poster it seems the sensible place to put it.

Use the embed code to make sure you get a link back and put alt text on the image so that search engines can find it easily and show it in their image search results.

An amusing take on it here: http://www.xydo.com/toolbar/15421107-eu_cookies_directive_-_what_it_means_for_you by Dave Naylor

It's good that you are looking to build quality sites and I'm sure they will work for you in time. I would host them on separate servers though.

I don't see why you couldn't link between some of them if it seems a natural thing to do.

Would say that a valuable network is one that engages and influences a lot of people. They will take quite a long time to build up though, especially if you are doing 30.

Good luck

Better to produce great content on the site so that people +1 you naturally.... If the site isn't up to scratch then you won't get many conversions anyway.

If black hat is defined as using techniques to fool the search engines, then yes. If not, it's at least grey.

What about writing a guest post for a decent related site?

Even if your rankings temporarily drop, in the long run everything should work out better for you with more conversions.Make it the best site you possibly can and your visitors will appreciate it.