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Screaming Frog handles this really well. Just do a scan of your site and sort the columns by Status Code. Find the page in question and there is a tab at the bottom for "In Links" that will tell you which pages it is linked from.

1. Look at your competitors and what they are targeting
2. Google Adwords Keyword Planner
3. Semrush (which you say you can't use)
4. keywordtool.io (gives you Google Autosuggested Terms around your keywords)
5. Scrapebox for even more in depth keyword research. With the list of terms this generates, you can gather search volume with the Google Adwords Keyword Planner and group them into related sections using the Adwords Editor.

As I said you can setup a new view with an include Filter to only include your blog directory and view the demographic data through that.

Another method you might try is under Admin > Content Grouping, This will allow you to group blog posts together and when setting up the report, you will be able to select the Content Group under Filters.

If this is something you will need on an ongoing basis, it might be best to create a new view in Analytics with filters to just show the blog data.

Use the subfolder. The problem with subdomains is that they can be treated as a separate website and if that happens then the strength/signals do not pass to the rest of the website.

Where are they linked FROM? Are they pulled in a menu or a sidebar or are they linked internally somewhere else? If they are not being used, you simply need to delete links to them and they will disappear.

The og:description is Open Graph and used for sharing, the other should be

While Moz has many great tools with lots of features and benefits, I am not aware of anything from them to check for external duplicate content. You may try http://www.copyscape.com/ or copy and pasting sections of text within quotes to search Google for duplicates, or this tool can help as well http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/

It sounds like you are looking for a link manipulation guide. Don't buy social media links on fiverr. You also should not worry about link velocity if the links are natural.

More information on the business would help, but in general go ahead and claim profiles on social media and web 2.0 sites as this will help establish your brand. If you have a physical address, make sure you get your Google+ business profile and submit to the major data aggregators and other NAP sites. Look at the backlink profiles of your competitors or do a bit of searching to find sites in your niche where you can acquire links. Submit a press release about the launch, maybe do a few interviews if the site is something people would be interested in.

You're more likely to get help if you are more specific. Post one of the sites and I'm sure someone will take a quick look and see if there are any on-page issues. You could also take a look at your Google Webmaster Tools and export the links that have come in to look for spam, or maybe check the sites with ahrefs.com and look at the type of links and anchor text being used. If the SEO was using some sort of automated directory submission software, you should not only see these links but probably a graph that looks suspicious like a lot of links within a month and not much after that.

Can you go to Google Analytics and go to Behavior > Site Speed > Overview and see if there is any particular browser that is loading really slow and throwing off the data? It could be that the mobile version is not well optimized and this makes up a lot of your traffic, or that cell service is slow in the market, or there may be some browser specific issues.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/c7KWrp/www.nyc-officespace-leader.com

I just ran a test and got a load time of less than a second for your site. Now this may be without much server load, but it looks like you already use caching and I don't see anything too out of the ordinary. It may be that your server slows when it gets loaded down. Maybe look into caching pages into ram or an ssd on the server side, but I don't think there is much more on the website side you can do to help.

Go ahead and create the redirects but you also might want to submit a change of address in Google Webmaster Tools.

I'm not sure what would be causing this. It looks like the pages did exist on the services subdomain at one time. Maybe try adding the subdomain in Webmaster tools and removing all pages. You might also want to add a robots.txt to the subdomain and disallow bots from crawling.

As the parent company, I would want any individual work done to benefit the main site and as a store owner, I would want to have some benefit from the parent company as well. There need to be policies in place to prevent bad practices, but it should be all stores and the parent company helping each other. If they want to be treated as a separate entity then they should probably build a website themselves on a separate domain. Most major retailers have the stores in subfolders. Go check walmart.com as an example.

Best for SEO is with a subdirectory. Subdomains can be treated as separate websites.

First thought is a plugin from your antivirus maybe? Try with addons/plugins disabled.

A quick look and it doesn't seem like you have a lot of links yet, which isn't surprising since you haven't launched. You will have some work to establish your brand in Google. It might help to grab a business Google+ page, as it looks like right now you have a personal one. Also, in the link to your G+ profile, never use the /b in the url, this is part of the admin page url. Getting ranked for the term zing means you have to show Google that if people search zing, they are looking for you. I think this will be a difficult task with the word, but as was mentioned start with social profiles before launch, after launch focus on NAP listings, a press release for sure, and niche specific links. If I named a company Michael Jordan, even if I did everything right to establish a brand, it's not likely I would rank when people searched Michael Jordan, so just keep that in mind. There are many other sites using zing in there name or even having the domain zing.com. You have an uphill battle my friend, good luck!

Great answer Oleg, I would just like to add that on top of the social presence that you should also be looking at NAP listings for the company.

Short answer: yes. When you append the location to the title tag (along with other key areas to make the page more focused in an area,) then you are telling the search engines that your target is in that city. When searching without the city name, as long as they are in the area, they will likely see wikipedia, some news, and some other big sites but you will also see some local results mixed in, sites specific to that area. If set your location to another city in another state and search, you will not see the same ones that are local to your market, but ones that are specific to the city you're searching from.

If everything is done properly as in redirects ready to go, as good or better on page optimization and internal links in place then you should see no drop at all. If things are done better on the new site you can potentially launch with higher traffic.

Are you trying to check a lot at once? if not, just use the site: operator, i.e. site:abc.com/page

Fix the alt and title tags on the images, and while you're at it rename the images so they are relevant as that was likely not done. As far as meta descriptions, that will not help you rank, but can affect clicktrhough rates in the SERPs. My thoughts are you probably have a lot more cleanup to do and adjusting meta descriptions should be a lower priority task.

In addition to Monica's response, under search tools you can set your location. So set your client's city and see what they would see without any bias towards account or history preferences.

You might try pinging the site out or just building a link to the site.

In Google: site:competitorsite.com yoursite.com

In screaming frog: set custom as your yoursite.com and crawl the competitor's site, then under the custom tab should be any links that refer to your site.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /example1/
RewriteRule ^example2/(.+)$ /$1 [L,R=301,NC]

Try this.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-bold-titles-19331.html

A post from about a month ago.

Screaming Frog http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

I would start by cleaning up the on page. There is a lot wrong from ridiculously long title tags, no H1 tag, and missing alt and title tags on the images. A lot of the subheadings you use could be h2s as well. Also, don't forget to use internal links in the blogs back to other pages.

I would also make sure the articles you are writing align in content with what people are searching for.

Chain redirects just mean that a page redirects once, and then redirects again to something else.

An example might be a site that was originally in html, then php, and now has no file extension.

If the redirects were left in order each time a site was upgraded, you might go from page.html to page.php to page.

The easiest way to clean them up is to make sure all redirects go to the current version of the page.

Normally a traffic drop like this is because someone failed to do 301 redirects of the old pages to new pages. I can't imagine the new site having enough technical issues or things wrong with on page optimization to cause the drop. It is also interesting timing, as the latest Penguin update happened recently, so the new site may not be the problem at all, but instead could be toxic links.

Took a quick look and the first thought is that you have no unique content on the pages, so they are likely being hidden by Google because they are duplicate content. This causes your main page to show instead, and not rank as well as the artist page, which is more targeted to the search term.

I would recommend awrcloud as you can set the location for your search and track different things like map results along with organic.

Could be that you used the same or mostly similar content on the city pages so Google isn't showing them. It also could be that your main product page is the one where all the links are pointing and none on the city pages, and probably in the menu or even the footer of this product page you have the city name pages linked as well and Google is simply weighting all the factors and determining the stronger page that may only show the city name once is more relevant than the city page which would be better optimized.

I'm sure you don't want to rewrite all the pages 1 at a time, try the following to rewrite the entire folder.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.)product
RewriteRule ^(.)$ product/$1 [L]

Just copy a couple sentences and paste them in Google surrounded by quotes. i.e. "content"

My first thought is that redirects were not done properly. Check the wayback machine or Google Cache and check some of the old links and see if they redirect. Also if there were any previous versions of the website (before the most recent,) then make sure those are redirected as well.

It depends on what you need. Some companies will have more experience in certain niches and be able to turn-key the linkbuilding since they know all the sites where you need to be. Others may be better in your local market since they will already know any local listings where you can get links and likely have contacts at the local newspapers and magazines as well. Just make sure the company has a strategy that they can explain to you before you start.

On top of Lesley's recommendations, both google and bing have url parameter exclusion options in webmaster tools.

Quick fix = do the redirects.

Best practice = do the redirects and try to get the inbound links changed as well.

It is best if you can get the links changed, but always be sure to do redirects as well as there may be other links that you are not aware of.

The larger the site and the more different kinds of areas to look through such as profile pages, blogs, forums, products, categories, etc will be more expensive as you have to check each for different types of problems.  You can probably glean a few improvements you could make yourself from SEO audit articles, our most recent is here: http://www.theedesign.com/blog/2014/seo-audit-design-doesnt-bring-you-traffic

Then of course there is:

http://moz.com/blog/how-to-perform-the-worlds-greatest-seo-audit

As an addition to what Tom has said, you should also setup parameter exclusions in webmaster tools to make sure pages with these appended parameters do not get indexed.

I would recommend Screaming Frog as well, but a couple free alternatives were recently mentioned in a YOUMOZ post, http://moz.com/ugc/conduct-a-backlink-profile-analysis-with-excel-case-study

I see it working now as well.  Also Spencer, if you ever want a good laugh go check out the H1s for the Moz Recommended companies.  I believe at least the first 5 on the page either have multiple h1s or none at all.

I can't even access your content on the site.  I see home, mobile, and desktop as text and when I click desktop it just highlights mobile again, so nothing changes.

The page in this case is /red, the #desc is a bookmark on the page.

Check out their learning section: http://moz.com/learn/local/local-search-data-us