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Copyright notices are really just a signal for the users, and to say "don't steal our stuff" in somewhat of a non-forceful way. People can generate the year automatically, but sometimes they just forget to include it.

Is it a big deal to have an older date? Probably not. Google has a number of other ways they could check a page's freshness aside from a completely arbitrary copyright date.

An interesting note about copyright, you don't really have to display a copyright notice in the first place. As soon as you create something, it's already considered "copyrighted."

Tagging posts provides a good user experience, allowing them to scan through a number of related posts. It does create a number of duplicate content issues though.

To solve this on my own wordpress websites, I've added a noindex tag to each of the "archive pages", which includes tags, categories, authors, and dates. This effectively cuts out the duplicate content areas and I haven't seen any unusual fluctuations in search traffic.

What is the size of a retargeting pixel and who places it on the site ? Is it the retargeting company ? Can we place it ourselves ?  Does a code have to be added to the site ?

The retargeting pixel is simply a way to record a cookie to the users computer. When you setup the retargeting campaign either through google or some other method, you should be given a code to add to your site.

What do you mean by burn pixel ?

When a user converts and you no longer wish to target them, you can send another pixel (cookie) to identify which users have already converted, somewhat disabling the previous cookie.

How do we come to know that a burn pixel has fired ?

The burn pixel is placed on the users computer in the same way that the original pixel was placed, they load the screen with the page with the "burn pixel" and it's stored on their computer.

As long as you aren't targeting the search engine spiders and giving them special content, you shouldn't have to worry about "Cloaking". To my knowledge, all incidents are reviewed before they penalize a site so they would probably see no harm in simple split testing.

Asking for a review won't get you in any trouble, but offering some reward for a positive review may cause problems.

A lot of people, myself included, will check a places ratings on services such as google places or yelp in order to decide whether or not it's worth trying out. More reviews also lead to more trust.

We don't assign any session ID's, but I did find this post that I think I could use as a starting point.

http://robertmaldon.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-search-terms-did-they-google-to.html

Of course, I would be performing a different set of actions, and would like it to work for Yahoo/Bing as well.

We receive lead forms from interested visitors that include their name, email, grade level, and academic goals, and we would like to also know which specific phrase they used when searching for us.

I need to find a way to grab the referring keywords and pass them as a hidden form field.

Can this be done, and are there scripts available that can do this?

It depends on whether you want your homepage or those subpages to be ranked on the given keyword.

"Link Juice," or the value of an inbound link, decays with each step. The more pages it has to pass through, the less value it will provide. If you want the homepage to rank for all 5 phrases, then link to the homepage using those phrases, otherwise link to the subpages and allow them to creep up in the SERPs.

I don't think that google would penalize one site because it shares a common owner with another site of poor value. However, it's likely that the common owner utilized the same tactics across all sites and something THEY have done could have caused the penalty.

As far as the ban on AdWords, again, I don't think it would negatively affect a site right out of the gate.

If you've been banned from AdWords and you have multiple sites suffering a penalty, It sounds like there's an issue with the overall approach to SEO.

"Link Juice" passes from one page to another based on the number of links on that page. Here's what the SEOmoz basic guide to SEO says about it;

Number of Links on a Page

According to the original PageRank formula, the value that a link passes is diluted by the presence of other links on a page. Thus, getting linked-to by a page with few links is better than being linked-to by the same page with many links on it (all other things being equal). The degree to which this is relevant is unknowable (and in our testing, it appears to be important, but not overwhelmingly so), but it's certainly something to be aware of as you conduct link acquisition.

So the more links you have on a page, the less value each link passes.

The SEOmoz optimization report says to avoid "Excessive" internal and external links, and I think that number is somewhere between 100 and 150.

I don't think that you should get to a "maximum" number of links. Instead you should aggressively reduce the number of links to find the minimum. See also: Link Sculpting

That refers to the number of inbound links, linking domains, and linking C blocks that point to a specific page.

Basically getting more links to your page about blue widgets will increase that pages rankings.

Our site is doing the same. EZWatch-Security-Cameras.com

Restructuring allows you to organize your content into "Silos" and eliminate some of the unnecessary links through JSON objects, iframes, and nofollows (some debate there on which is optimal).

The Downfalls: There will probably be a 30-90 day dip in traffic but if you do page-to-page 301's it won't hurt nearly as much. Anytime you change URL's you are likely to see some inbound links drop off, but that happens when the pages don't change, so it's going to be minimal. Sure, 301's might drop some of your PR during transfer, but only a minimal amount according to matt cutts.

The Benefits:  Organizing your content into silos and pruning cross-category links will allow you to control the flow of pagerank and anchor text much more effectively. Bruce Clay has a huge amount of resources on this, and they even cover it on their blog.

Will it be painful? Yes.

Will it be worth it? Yes.

If you use the Asynchronous tracking code it shouldn't cause any noticeable lag in page load times

Placing the code inside the body tag won't validate through W3C. There's really no reason I know of to place it anywhere else.

Using CSS Absolute Positioning.

You need to add a hook to the P tag, such as a class or ID. Then make room for the paragraph at the bottom of the page by placing some sort of spacer there, like an empty div with fixed width and height.

I don't think that google would penalize one site because it shares a common owner with another site of poor value. However, it's likely that the common owner utilized the same tactics across all sites and something THEY have done could have caused the penalty.

As far as the ban on AdWords, again, I don't think it would negatively affect a site right out of the gate.

If you've been banned from AdWords and you have multiple sites suffering a penalty, It sounds like there's an issue with the overall approach to SEO.

Google says they don't count nofollowed links, but of course they say a lot of things. If it's a link you really expect absolutely zero traffic from, don't waste the time working for it. That being said, if you're building links that will never drive traffic, maybe you should rethink your link strategy.

Recently google has really downplayed the importance of exact match domain names. If the domain name is newly registered it probably hasn't earned any links yet, and therefore wouldn't pass any SEO value.

Copyright notices are really just a signal for the users, and to say "don't steal our stuff" in somewhat of a non-forceful way. People can generate the year automatically, but sometimes they just forget to include it.

Is it a big deal to have an older date? Probably not. Google has a number of other ways they could check a page's freshness aside from a completely arbitrary copyright date.

An interesting note about copyright, you don't really have to display a copyright notice in the first place. As soon as you create something, it's already considered "copyrighted."

The most common services we see through addthis are actually facebook and email.

zharriet has a good point. You could really do the same thing with a few icons and skip the javascript.

I've seen some minimal numbers, probably just a few +1's on my company's homepage. I think as google+ becomes more popular (which I think it will), people will start actively using the +1 button.