You can install on windows but its more complicated than Linux.

The main thing you need to do it make sure the new URLs are the same as the old URLs (play with the permalink structure). If you do that, rankings shouldn't be affected.

If you can't get the URLs to match up exactly, make sure to set up 301 redirects from the old URLs to the new ones. You may lose traffic temporarily while Google adjust to the new URLs, but should bounce back within 2 weeks.

If there is custom coding involved, you'd need to convert to PHP.

Yep, had a similar case when we moved a clients blog from blog.domain.com to domain.com/blog. Not only did rankings for blog terms increase, so did the rankings for the pages on the main site. Glad to see this holds true in other scenarios.

I'm glad I stuck to my guns when clients asked whether they should move. I was skeptical after MC released that video that basically said there is no difference.. but you need to read between the lines. He would make a great politician haha.

Go to webmaster tools and do a "Fetch as Google" 

If you see the content in the source, it will be crawled.

I'd just swap it. Make the breadcrumbs H2 (or just regular paragraph text) and product title H1 on the product pages. Having the same text for H1 & H2 should be fine, just don't keyword stuff.

If that is the only place where "Picture frame" appears on the page, then yes.

Usually, ecommerce sites have the product title within the product section (where you can view images, description, add to cart, etc) and that is what should have the H1 tag.

I remember G saying that you should include links you've removed in disavow as well. You can add a comment before you list all the removed links but I don't think G manually reads disavow files anyways.

Since it's algorithmic, you just need to disavow/remove all those sitewide footer links and fix your anchor profile. Check out this case study as it is very similar to your situation.

I'm assuming you received a manual penalty letter.

I would do the separate subdomains (if this is a complete list and new ones aren't being created) since it shows more effort and won't discredit any links you get from legit .blogspot blogs. Be sure to include the domains you've successfully removed in your disavow file as well.

If this is a problem that will continue (more people will create new sites with your footer link), you might have to disavow the whole domain.

• Check if domain is indexed
• Check the anchor profile of the domain - too spammy means it would affect your current site's anchor profile and possibly penalize it
• View the site via archive.org and make sure it was good site. Spam/porn/hacked sites will probably do more harm than good.

Also, the best 301 strategy would be to link individual pages to specific new pages on your site. I would focus on the pages that have external backlinks and do a catch-all redirect to the homepage for the remainder.