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Can't believe you being an Interactive Marketing Manager fell for a cheap looking fake review affiliate site.

Except A Small Orange, the others are crap. As horrible as you can get in the hosting industry.

Not necessarily. Just remove it from the existing WMT account and ask the new owners to add it in theirs.

If you wish to leverage black hat for quick ranking improvements, I'd still suggest private blog networks. A few on BlackHatWorld are still effective. Google always has trouble handling 6 million+ domains of the SAPE network so I'd suggest that as well. Just make sure you don't buy links on a hacked site etc. which could lead you to legal complications.

Artificial but contextual links still work, provided you know what you're doing, and keep the spinning quality good (or manually spin them altogether) and focus about anchor text and other footprint variations.

Hey Bob,

How about making things a bit simpler for your potential customers? I'd suggest expandable bullet points, and you can include a piece of text within a point and have it function with the help of JavaScript. It'd look a lot more neat and clean.

I'd also show off others' testimonials, what others think about me and my services, and more importantly, what results I've achieved for others.

Best of luck!

Your process is pretty much on the right track. You might want to check these:

http://moz.com/blog/google-disavow-tool http://www.searchenginejournal.com/removing-16-month-google-penalty-hope-yet/

Swap the 302s (temporary redirect, no flow of PageRank) with 301s (permanent redirect, normal flow of PageRank). Same functionality. As googlebot won't be logged in, it will get 301 redirected.

Hey Gary,

I'm not worried about the main content on the site.

At the moment Google is like removing 10 URLs per day from their index. The cached copies are creating issues, I think. Forgot putting 'noarchive'. Surprisingly, also the crawl stats show that the average crawl rate decreased. I placed the noindex,follow tags on September 28th and till now Google merely removed 80-90 URLs from their index solely based on that (without manual intervention).

The behaviour might seem artificial to them. I have seen people use the 'noarchive' tag, but only when they want to speed up the removal (from Google index) process. Plus, I didn't entirely get what you're trying to achieve.

You can use Twitter + FollowerWonk or Google (the search engine) + custom queries.

You can type things like these on Google to find potential guest posting opportunities:

"keyword" + "guest post"
"keyword" + "write for us"
"keyword" + "submit your post"
etc.

You might be interested: http://findmyblogway.com/finding-guest-post-opportunities/ (discusses about some unique ways)

Nah, it doesn't matter. It's still the same as when you put it at the end.

Hey Bob,

How about making things a bit simpler for your potential customers? I'd suggest expandable bullet points, and you can include a piece of text within a point and have it function with the help of JavaScript. It'd look a lot more neat and clean.

I'd also show off others' testimonials, what others think about me and my services, and more importantly, what results I've achieved for others.

Best of luck!

Nah, it doesn't matter. It's still the same as when you put it at the end.

Hey Lucas,

I'd suggest you to try WordPress SEO by Yoast and no-index especially archives, tags and if possible, categories. Once they're no-indexed, search engines won't care about duplicate content. It's the duplicate content in the search engines' indexes that they care about.

You also have to look for the root of the issue - what caused the sudden rise in the number of indexed pages.

If you wish to leverage black hat for quick ranking improvements, I'd still suggest private blog networks. A few on BlackHatWorld are still effective. Google always has trouble handling 6 million+ domains of the SAPE network so I'd suggest that as well. Just make sure you don't buy links on a hacked site etc. which could lead you to legal complications.

Artificial but contextual links still work, provided you know what you're doing, and keep the spinning quality good (or manually spin them altogether) and focus about anchor text and other footprint variations.

Not necessarily. Just remove it from the existing WMT account and ask the new owners to add it in theirs.

It's really a choice of Googlebot.

Generally, rel=nofollow doesn't mean that Google won't crawl the linked page. It's just useful because when you add a rel=nofollow attribute to a link you don't pass PageRank, trust, authority or any other positive signal to the linked page.