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I've made an e-commerce (drsebagh.it) for the italian division of the brand Dr Sebagh. Now if I search the brand query on google.it (https://www.google.it/search?q=dr+sebagh&oq=dr+sebagh&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l3j0l3.1352j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8) the site is around the 3rd serp. I can't find where problems are. No duplicate content (as my client says and Copyscape Free seems to confirm that) also Webmaster Tools doesn't signal errors... Can someone helps me to do a quickly check?

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Don't you need SEO? I don't understand this statement, this is SEO. By the way, with "duplicate links" do you mean "duplicate contents"? Sorry but probably my english is poor (I'm italian).

Is domain.com/forum your site? If it is you probably missing the rel canonical tag, so the parametric urls create duplicate pages/title, etc... Is this a good point to start?

I don't think. Many sites uses CDN services (like Amazon S3), is it plausible that these sites get negative effects on rankings? (By the way, I'm not sure at 100%). Probably other 'mozers' can go deeply in the question.

Redirect all the pages from the old domain to the home/index of the new site is not a good idea, I think. You have to point (with 301) every single old url to the new ones where the users can find a similar (if not equal) content. Through GWT you can look at which old pages are still getting external links and start redirecting those. In this case, I don't understand why use two different domains. If you have a "brand" why not offer to users the chance to view the local store in NYC and also buy directly online (store.yourbrand.ext)?

The ranking of images is strictly related to the trust rank of the domain (beyond on page factors), I think. Are you sure is it a "rank position" problem? If you are getting impressions probably you are already visible. Are your images nice and big? Which kind of images your audience is looking for? Just my point of view...

In my opinion, no problem. Wait for some other expert advices.

Google will not index those links, I think. The links are shown only if a user use the searchbox, they are not visible when you open the home page right?

And probably Google will not hurt your site if you're using one of its tool correctly.

Ok I understand now, are you probably under attack? I'm sorry for that. But if this is a negative seo activity by an evil competitor, is it probably that he will do the same for your new domain?

By the way I think Chris tip is good, avoiding any redirect for now. You can restart your e-commerce on the new domain and simultaneously try clean your old web site with new content & gwt as you try until now (never give up).

I have question:
The exit from a penalty needs probably at least 6 months (it depends), instead a new domain how much time needs to start ranking well? Is it not more suitable to clean the old domain and try a reconsideration request?

Bad inbound links? Disavow tool probably can helps. If you are penalized the redirect 301 could be a suicide strategy, no?

My personal point of view

rel=canonical tells Google do not index this page because is a sort of duplicate content of this other one, the original one. I think, as I said, to optimize one tag page for 2/3/4 similar key phrases and you probably can do a redirect 301 from a couple of tag pages to the one you want to rank.

To avoid big mistakes I think it is a good idea to put original content in these tag pages. Use the tag description, and the excerpts (or custom fields) to give some original preview of the posts.

I think you have to avoid putting all these tags. Create a single tag "Night Clubs in San Antonio" and work with content (tag description, tag title) and inbound links to optimize a single page for a couple of key phrases.

If you want to set rel=canonical you can use the Conditional Tags.

Try with a simply 301 redirect /home-2 to yourdomain.ext 
Without viewing your website it's hard to understand which problems has the original home compared to home-2.

I spend a lot of time building great content for my webzines/blogs and I received quality links from other blog of my niches. So the game is done, I receive targeted and quality traffic from Google and my rankings in SERP are often good... but... there is always a "but"...

Sometimes I see some sites in #1 with competitive keyword in my niches who has built link from hundreds of trash-site. So I understand that Google has not reached his objective to fight spam definitely.

Now I decided to understand from scratch "Black Hat" strategies... brrrrrrr... 
In example i build my links manually, commenting on blog, talking on forums, submitting into directory and obviously spending a lot of time and energy for good guest-posting... as I say but... Anyone have experienced with automated software like Senuke and others? Not to become a spammer, but really to understand what is the best for us... I see also people buy links from Philippines company who has hundreds of employees who manually build links... Hope you may understand my point of view (and my poor english)...

All the best, Alessio

Matt Cutts on PDF...

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both is best

Never take down the page. Put a text above all "Hey this contest is closed!" if you destroy the page you loose all the trust you gained, don't do this. I my opinion a simple thing si to put some link from the page contest to the page you want rank for

You have to analyze your competitor to have an idea about the time, you need to do good SEO and produce good content, the domain exact match is a ranking factor but not the only

I'm italian so sorry for my bad english... I think that you may produce a few video (viral, funny or really useful) and publish them on YouTube. YouTube is great to share your brand with people. Inside the video and in the description (also in the tilte) you put your website. On your website, instead, you can publish technical/specific/vertical video which may interest only your targeted visitors.

So YouTube for spread the word about your website and your knowledge and your site for deeper content.