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It really depends on who you go with. Personally I prefer to be in it for the Long Haul and 18 months seems like just about when the going gets good.  You can probably get away with doing a tiered profit sharing arrangement.

Is it better to submit all sitemap files contained in a Sitemap Index File manually to Google or is it about the same as just submitting the Master Sitemap Index File.

I have seen some larger websites do this as long as they put effective 301 redirects in place. Especially when they have deep directory structures and the marketing team needs a way to market to a specific sub segment of the website.

The best approach would be to focus on building core links to your main website, as the new urls will not likely have any pagerank to leverage and 301s still degrade link performance. It simply depends on what you are looking to achieve. If you are looking to market to specific website sections after a build, great but I would probably just try to keep your IA as clean and short as possible. Planning to shortcut URLs in would seem to take away focus form the importance of a clean IA - which in the long run will deliver you better SEO over time.

Now conversly to this. If you were auditing a client's website would you reccomend removal of an Author Meta Tag and Footer link...

I agree with Shelly. No follow is simply a hey we are not vouching for this external website. Google still follows no follow it just doesn't pass the page juice. It certainly is a good lead mechanism and if they syndicate then you may even have more than one link.  I would applaud yourself and keep on moving forward.

They are secondary contact information details (additional locations) address, city state etc...

My Concern if the page's Primary focus is about the Business Information and name and locality as a modifier placing additional localities on the page de-focuses the primary locality of the page.

-Phil

I guess it depends on the nature or intent of your website.

My top suggestion would be to try to get links from those government websites for your primary keywords. I guess I need to do the ABC 123 assumptions that you have relevant keyword  permutations in your content title tags etc..

Include your priority terms with your information architecture and get a few highly relevant websites to link to you with those targeted terms.

-Phil

I have a particular Page which shows primary contact details as well as "additional" contact details for the client.

GIven I do not believe I want Google to misinterpret the focus of the page from the primary contact details which of the following three options would be best?

1. Place the "additional" contact details (w/maps) in Javascript, Ajax or similar to suppress them from being crawled.
2. Leave "additional" contact details alone but emphasize the Primary contact details by placing the Primary contact details in Rich Snippets/Microformats.
3. Do nothing and allow Google to Crawl the pages with all contact details

Thanks,

Phil