But I’m just beginning to wonder how many of these are just reposting the same thing over and over again?

I have 3 photo accts (more if you could work and personal for some of those), several pages that have links to my other social media.

Links on my blog, links on facebook, links in newsletters.

It took me 2 days to make sure all of my webpages were updated! But do I choose flikr over picasa? Linked in over plaxo? MyBloglog or Dipity? Slide or slideshare or docstoc?

You COULD do this on your own by creating a page on your blog, however in my opinion, 99.999% of blogs are not nearly as aesthetically pleasing as the two options above, so it’s a matter of preference.

So, couldn’t you basically do this for yourself…creating an interior hidden page that lists your profiles and a brief bio…and speaks directly to the type of visitor who are checking it out? It would give you a way to let people connect with you however they chose, while still sending them to your main blog and capturing the link love.

But for someone like me who is currently directing all of my efforts towards getting people to my business blogsite, this would require an extra click from visitors wanting to find out about me and many people will bounce off this card instead of clicking through to my site.

Also, doesn’t having the links from the profiles going to my website help my website with Google? Wouldn’t I be loosing the link juice if I directed them to this business card instead?

I DO think it is a good idea, just not for someone with only one website/blog.

Next project is new photo and freshening up profile info.

Thanks Ms. Lani.

Not sure what you mean by “optimize dormant domains”. But I *think* you are referring to what Selena is doing. (which is a good idea by the way, but – only do it until you are ready to put your site live. Also, use a 302 (temporary) redirect. That way when you turn off the redirect, all the “link juice” will flow to your new site.) If you are going to redirect ONE domain to your online card, there really isn’t anything else for you to do. If you want to use more than one domain, make sure that you use 301 redirects for all but the first, otherwise you will be creating duplicate content on your domains. That’s bad.

These “cards” are not something that you put on your regular sites, but rather you link to them from various places. As such, the number of profiles the card links to does not matter.

As for doing bulk updates of the same stuff to every profile on every site – STOP! Three good reasons to not do that:

1) Most sites have a unique personality, and the people that congregate on them expect information to provided in a certain way, using a certain “voice”. Doing everything the same on every site wastes your time – and theirs. You will likely turn off most of the people on most of the sites.
2) You will have a certain amount of overlap in your audience – why punish them by forcing them to read the exact same text 30 times?
3) Imagine you are a new visitor, you start clicking links from the online business card, and everywhere you go it is exactly the same stuff – kinda looks like you are a robot…who wants to work with a robot?

Hope this helps.