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For the first month we have planned to do around 20 bookmarking, 3 articles each to 15 article directories, 30 directory submissions (priority to niche based), business page listing in hot frog etc, 3 articles each submitted to 10 web 2.0 properties, 1 press release to 15 pres release sites, some Q&A links and few blog comments, 10 video submission and 1 guest blogging.

Scrap all of this and use the time to learn seo. These tactics may have worked 5 years ago, but you will mostly be wasting your time doing this. I advise totally against 'submitting 1 article to 15 press sites' or the articles. Learn about duplicate content.

1 high-quality, engaging article submitted on a relevant industry website will be worth way more than spun articles on low quality article directories that probably do not pass any value. Sorry the above strategy just seems weak and ineffective, you need to spend your time learning about seo and content strategies and SEOmoz beginners guide is a good place to start.

I think I answered the same question you posted before, but did you try and use canonical tags? As I said using noindex and nofollow is probably not the best option if Google doesn't know that it should show http: instead of https.

Have you tried searching for http versions of your site listed? Are there any pages that are just http listed?

A banner ad can be a legitimate link source, it will be an arrangement between the site owners and not done through an ad network. It would just be like you coming to me asking for a link on my site, but instead of anchor text using an image. Not using a no-follow tag is against guidelines, but you could argue it's not a banner ad and a legitimate link.

Link juice is definately not passed through banner ads on ad networks such as adwords/doubleclick or affiliate banners as they bounce over an adserver first.

Data merging: No and I feel your pain as I once worked for a client that had 3 profiles I had to keep going back and forward to from 3 different time periods.

Email: Yes. In your main Google account screen (your Google account where you find googleproducts etc.) you can add more email addresses that enable you to login to your Google account. So you can add a corporate address that would enable you to login to your Google account where you can access Analytics.

You can also add a separate user in Analytics with a corporate address and delete the original primary email address.

Setup a subdomain blog. on your site and a /blog directory and then use SEOmoz competitive link analysis. You will see it shows different DA, Google sees these as completely separate entities.

I do believe there is some value passed on, but from my own experience /blog ALWAYS wins over blog. and I've done numerous tests on this.

I've noticed a drop in external links for some clients too. I wouldn't worry about it, it is the fallout from Penguin/Panda where Google has devalued certain links. Those 30k links or so that came from 5 domains could have been sitewide blogroll links or footer links of low quality that Google has removed from their index.

I would assume your right about DA, but I wouldn't worry about it that much unless your rankings are seeing a massive shift.

Google essentially sees those 5 domains as individual sites and will list each as individual sites in results.

Follow the guide bjgomer liks you to, you need to set up your .htaccess file to resolve www and either finishwith a trailing slash or index.html the former usually being the better. You also need to decide first whether you want your site to be http://mysite.com or http://www.mysite.com.

If Analytics is properly set up and connected to Adwords the first steps I would take are to review each campaign in Analytics and Adwords.

You should be able to cross-reference each campaign in Analytics with Adwords to review click/visit data. This way you may find a discrepency in a particular campaign - check landing pages, do they have the correct Analytics code?

It is most likely down to either incorrect or missing Google Analytic codes. Check that first.

Use this tool

http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-finder/index.php

Generates Google syntax queries to help you find links like that.

Change them to your brand. Avoid using exact match type competitive keywords like 'web design by..' Google does not penalise exatc brand mentions so much as most commercial websites are expected to receive numerous exact match brand links anyway.

try adding this to your .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^princetown.in
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.princetown.in/$1 [R=301,L]

Even if a keyword has 1300 exact match search volume research shows that you will likely only get around 37% of that through click throughs in an ideal situation.

This also fluctuates based on your title and meta description. Think how many times you've searched for something and skipped the first result because it didn't seem relevant or appealing to your search.

Check your meta title and description, is it in line with what others are using in that SERP?

What do they rank for and what are their main keywords? Find out the main keywords for the site and business and then go from there. Find the main competitors within those searches and then scope them out using SEOmoz competitive analysis tool to find out how they stand against your client.

I found that majesticSEO picked up most of the links from these sources, although you may not find all of them. Export all the data you can if you have majesticSEO, I think aHrefs will also pick this data up.

You can change your page file names to your keywords. Make sure they are relevant to the actual page and not overly spammy.

so for example your kitchen quote page could be renamed from:

http://www.enchantingquotes.com/kitchenbath.html

to

http://www.enchantingquotes.com/**kitchen-**and-bath-quotes.html

The way to do this is to rename the actual files, you will have to remember to change all links and also add 301 redirects to each new page from the old. You can learn more about how to do that at http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/url and http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection.

I don't think that is good advice at all, those that think that SEO is not worth doing or impossible in certain sectors either are too lazy or do not know how. Simply throwing money at PPC is an option, and does provide short term benefit, but it's not a long-term solution for continued ROI.

Sitelinks are not a top level natural ranking for a domain they are part of the universal results and only appear on certain rankings some of the time (mainly rankings for brand that have a high CTR % or terms Google sees as having most relevance and CTR). So no, organic sitelinks do not show as a ranking and I don't think you should consider that subdomain as a ranking result because it may not show 100% of the time.

Sorry about your drop in rankings, it can be frustrating when this happens but I think you'll have to give us a bit more information to try and discover why your rankings dropped. Have you had a look at your backlinks? You may have had a drop off in the number of links pointing at your site, particularly low quality article/directory links that Google is devaluing.

Have you changed any content? Had a look at your robots.txt file and make sure nothing is no-indexed? You need to have a look at all these things before jumping to a conclusion.

Try this:

RewriteEngine on

<code>RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*\/index\.html?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html?$ "/$1" [R=301,L]</code>

I saw "look for a job in an industry that is not as developed", I agree totally with you point regarding attacking long tails on PPC. This is a good strategy, but to recommend looking for a new job in a less developed industry is almost like saying just give up and try something easy.

Look at subdomain metrics on open site explorer. Although you should give it time to crawl and discover links.

The risk is still there if Google manages to find a connection. You ideally need different C-Block IP hosts as mentioned to link sites together to gain benefit. Although I would avoid the whole 'Blog network' and 'link wheel' idea, don't try and only link your sites together in a wheel. I have seen sites do this - shoot up the rankings brag about it and then never to be seen again.

The best solution is to be consistent and keep it in context, don't start stuffing title and alt attributes with brand terms as you need to realise the real reason for alt and title tags for accessibility. Use alt text to describe the image, you can insert keywords but don't overdo it.

Another good option is to name the images with keywords as long as it is relevant. For example if your image is a size 10 blue shoe then name it in the format:

size-10-blue-shoe.jpg

This will help when it comes to universal results, the amount of times I've seen my images list in search and actually got traffic through it.

You really should delete the old content that you are redirecting to a new page. If you have forgotten to de index the old page then because it physically exists Google may list that page which technically redirects to page #2. Not good.

The purpose of 301 redirects is to redirect users trying to access a deleted/moved resource to it's new location. I don't see why you would keep the old content where it is.

I use 'Ultimate SEO' plugin and find it works wonders, has everything there you will need. Frameworks are indeed overrated, as long as you've got a good setup and proper url structure with a good seo plugin then you should be laughing.

If you've changed a significant amount of content then Google has obviously re crawled your site and to it may look like a different page.

You may have over-optimised your page with too many keywords.

You may have put in too many internal links.

You may have fundamentally altered the html code to become less seo friendly.

You may have built links to your pages from low quality sources that harmed your site.

You may have altered the meta titles/descriptions that were ideal in the first place.

Your competitors could have been enhancing their seo activity at the same time.

I could list hundreds more but that's for you to work out as you've not given much information other than your site has dropped one place.

Remove your adsense until you get traffic and rankings. Your link profile is horrible as well, massive amount of comment spam with exact anchor which isn't doing anything for your rankings. You also have a massive percentage of nofollow links because of this, this doesn't hurt your site but obviously it seems part of your marketing strategy. You should try building content that can be shared out on social platforms etc..

Have you Blocked the m.domain.com from being indexed? If you are using a true mobile redirection that redirects traffic based on user/browser agents then you don't need the m.domain to list in Google as your normal domain will re-direct to the mobile site.

Are you using wordpress or some kind of blog CMS? I have seen my posts shoot up the SERPS almost immediately after I post and then slowly over a few days creep back down and unless they start getting socially shared or linked to fall off the front pages. It's to do with how Google counts fresh content.

If I were you I would most probably nofollow those links in the footer. It also depends on how you link them, I would avoid any exact match anchor text that links the sites in the footer as this does not provide any value and Google is known to target this method.

If it were brand sites say on different cTLDs like .co.uk, .com, .ca etc. then it would be ok to not use the nofollow, however as you mention they are largely unrelated. Cross-linking within the footer (sitewide) without a nofollow may end up looking like a link wheel or network.

If there is relevance in having those links, keep them but nofollow them and avoid using exact match anchors.

Do you mean Google Places?

Set yourself up with an account from there you can 'edit a data file' and all you have to do is enter the multiple addresses in a spreadsheet and upload. More information on uploading multiple business addresses here http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107528

There is no better method they do not affect rankings, it is purely personal preference. However you must implement proper redirect rules to resolve http://mysite.com to http://www.mysite.com or vice versa which ever one you choose.

I tend to always go for www. as it just looks better to me.

The best practice for places is just to input as much detail as possible. For each 'place' page there is possibility to add images/videos/opening hours and more. Use as much of this available info as possible. You should maybe start with one business location and experiment with what info you can put into it through the place page.

Remember that the main aim of the Google place is for local users to find your business, you want these listings to show up with your [keyword] x [location].

Once developers have implemented a block go into Google Webmaster Tools and find Crawler Access. You can then test the implementation. Make sure you select 'Google mobilebot' and try and crawl the site.

If the mobile site domain is blocked you should get a message saying it failed.

In general terms there is no significant benefit to hosting in country, it was thought that it mattered more ages ago.

You should though host on different IP's, if you have a hosting package hosting all of your multiple .tld domains on the same IP there will be little or no benefit to link building. So in essence it would be good practice to host on different servers and why not in country if you are hosting that domain?

Matt is right, but you may also want to use a .htaccess solution. Add this or get your devs to add this to your .htaccess file

<code class="htaccess" title="in your .htaccess file">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]</code>

If you use this method plus Matt's then you may find you end up with a redirect loop. I personally use the .htaccess rule, but each to their own.

I have never seen an example of a .co.uk ranking well in the US market. The logical approach is to use a .com TLD and use Google WMT to set the target to US. You can't set a .co.uk as far as I believe because it's main purpose is to serve the UK market anyway. I have been in situations where a .com and .co.uk have both targeted at the UK and they basically end up cannibalising each other until one wins and one disappears.

Your best bet is to create a US-separate site (with different content!).

In my personal opinion you will never reach #1 with a .co.uk on google.com, I could be mistaken though and having a US IP address, US links pointing in may help.

Chenzo is correct, install the SEO Ultimate plugin as this does wonders for deep editing of titles and descriptions for categories/tags and more. There is a setting that you can rewrite the URL from categories in the url to a specific post url.

I usually avoid having categories in the URL due to the issue you describe above of having multiple categories, I use a rewrite to just have a url such as /blog/post-name/ instead of /blog/category/tag/post-name/.