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My client,  a cosmetic surgeon in Lynnwood, WA was attacked earlier today on Facebook by the supposed ex-wife of a cosmetic surgeon in Arizona with whom they have no association.  The other practice has a name that is close, but there is absolutely no relationship between the two.  We promptly removed the comments from my client's wall and images and blocked the person who posted them.

Unfortunately she has posted in her work history on her own page that she works for my client's practice and blocking her has not removed my client's name, logo or fb link from her page.  This poster's comments are so tragic and bizarre I'm honestly not sure she is a real person, though the doctor she mentions in her posts does appear to have a real practice in AZ.  I could not find a way to report to Facebook that she did not in fact work for my client at any time.  I have so far had no response from her to my request to remove it from her About page and due to the bizarre nature of the comments, I don't well trust she'll follow through.

How can I have this erroneous work history removed from this person's profile page? Facebook FAQ offered no answers.  Thank you.

One tool I've begun to use more frequently is Search Queries in Webmaster Tools.  It doesn't tell me what keywords I'm not using already that others are, but it does give me insight into how people are already finding their way to our sites.  I look at the percent changes which show me trends in what people are searching for and use that information to add new content and more in depth information.

Are you selling your own manufactured goods or reselling someone elses? If you're reselling someone elses, don't they have images of their products already to use?  I think it's rare for a reseller to take all their own product images, but if you do because you feel it gives you an edge, I would use your own logo prominently rather than as a watermark.  Maybe you have an artistic presentation of goods that needs proprietary protection - that is the only case I can see for potential watermarking.

And, if you're selling your own goods, do you also sell them to others for resale?  I frequently need product photos from manufacturers for promotion by authorized sellers of their brands.

Different companies have different ways they let marketing depts retrieve images, and from my side, the easier it is, the better.  I've never seen anyone put watermarks on their images, but some create their sites so you have to go through a lengthy registration process and wait to hear back - huge pain in the kisser for me as I have to go to the client, they have to find the account, get it back to me, I enter it, oops, website says not that string of numbers, go back... etc.  Time suck warp.

Some companies make their images non-downloadable (though there are some workarounds and screen shots).  The ones I like best - just let me have the images, no mess, no fuss.  I am after all trying to sell their products.

Then, I brand a corner with the resellers logo, but not as a watermark; rather it's a notice that yes, this company carries this merchandise.  And for SEO, if the reseller branded image of the original product comes up in image search (which they do sometimes as I always fully tag out my images), then all the better.  If you're selling your own goods with no authorized resellers, I think I would brand a corner also - no watermark, just a logo, but only if for some reason your logo is not already on the products.

Do you have more information about what went wrong?  I think the first step would be an in depth analysis to try and discover why your ratings went down.  Did they just fall for the first time last Friday; did you get any penalty notifications; was it four months ago they started falling?   Why do you say your SEO company did a bad job - how?

There are many reasons a site can fall in the SERPs, and they aren't all penalty related.  And, it is possible to recover from some penalties. I've seen sites fall after algorithm changes even when a site has been doing everything correctly.  Sometimes volatility is temporary.  Google Local hit a couple of our clients pretty hard just because they no longer ranked across the county, a big disappointment since we'd successfully put a lot of quality work into getting them to the top.

Anyway, if you give more information, it will be easier for the heads here to give you good answers.

I use it wherever and whenever I can!  Sometimes I ghostwrite for clients, in which case they get the author credit, but currently I am listed as an author on probably 10 different blogs, all on Wordpress platform, though I'm not sure I've published under my own tag on all of them.  I do the research, the writing, and work with clients who get the author credit.

The more places you are listed as author, the better this is, in theory, for your Author Rank.  Google hasn't released the algorithm for Author Rank, but they do intend for you to use it consistently.  Unfortunately you can't even look up your Author Rank, at least not anywhere I've found.

I would move the blog onto the mainsite so you'll get the benefit of regular updates on your primary URL and avoid the possible penalties for having too many links from another site on the same cblock.  Use redirects to get your traffic headed from the old to the new, and in the future, add new content under your main site.