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Whilst we don't have syndicated content on site, we do syndicate out with success. In November last year, google released some new tags for syndicated content although as usual did not go into a great deal of depth as to how it would all work as such.When syndicating out - there are occasions where other sites will outrank us for the same piece, but usually only for about 24 hours or so - and then they tend to pretty rapidly fall by the wayside. Although this is speculation - I would suggest if you have syndicated content on your site, if you cite source and leave the content intact, and include the tags mentioned - you shouldn't see any problems. If you whole site is nothing but syndicated content, you might rank from time to time for a day or so at best for the odd popular piece - but as google crawls it will inevitably detect who published first and credit them accordingly, leaving syndicated content to drop in ranking.

Well, we just want to show less links to Google than to the user (but the links for Google are still a subset of the links shown to users). The links we'd do as JS links are those to less often applied search filters, which we don't index in order not to spam the search index. Fortunately, if Google is smart enough in decrypting the links it wouldn't do any harm. Thanks for our ideas tough! Especially the site: thing I considered myself, it really takes ages until something is de-indexed (for us, using robots.txt did speed it up by a magnitude).

Hey, you have pretty much answered this question yourself - "we suddenly dropped to a PR1 but our traffic wasn't seriously affected". If this is the case, then, I would not worry about the toolbar page rank. Also, you have a raft of other problems, but you seem to have a handle on those. I would spend your time constructively focusing on getting your new site up and running and resolving all these duplication issues and not spend another minute worrying about your loss of page rank.

The site does not have any duplicate content and does not have overly excessive inbound links.  Anchor tags on the inlinks are reasonable distributed.  As to what took place before acquisitions I don't really know but the entire site is in the index and now I'm working hard to improve relevancy for valuable search queries and to increase conversions.

Yes MonaVie as Steve Ollington has said, once it's realised that the two are one of the same, then there is no risk of penalty!

Hmmm... the only info I found about the domain I want to purchase is this: Registrar History: 6 registrars with 3 drops NS History: 11 changes on 7 unique name servers over 6 years IP History: 21 changes on 14 unique name servers over 7 years Can this be a red flag? On archive.org I could not find this website at all, but neither mine... which is not flagged... is archive.org accurate? Thanks!

Dan, the meta description is your chance to pitch to your customer and nothing more. It is entirely possible to throw away the benefit a #1 ranking can give you in click through if you meta description lets you down. Also for me it is very important to keep within the 70 characters limit for the page title as having overly long titles can not only not read correctly in the search results but you may be diluting your affectiveness on targeting a page for a certain topic both to the user and the SE's

If your site is heavy on images, you can always ensure they are all correctly optimised. This will ensure minimum file size, thus quicker dowload times.

I did this accidentally as well recently and had 100% of my products disallowed from google shopping within 48 hours. Sounds like it's not an option. They need the crawl your images folder to make sure you have valid images in you product listings.

Since WP is all dynamic content the canonical tag is a good thing. It tells the search engines which version is the prefered version Without looking at your report or site, I'd say your ok. Work on fixing the red and yellow if possible and necessary.

Thanks, that's what I assumed (re: city targeting)

Marcus and Alan offered some very good advice. I've visited your website before and had a good user experience. I'd only add two suggestions. The Itineraries Tab could be a one-click to the Itineraries landing page. It is easy to locate individual names in the Left Nav and main events/conferences on the page. Get Google Page Speed for Firefox. Love the wealth of information and fixes it offers. I like to copy and paste the page results into Notepad. You can see scores for each issue--helps prioritize what to fix first. HTH

In my experience, the only accurate tool is goole analytics (or other analytics software, of course). Webmaster tools is helpful for sitemap and crawling related issues, but I wouldn't trust the keywords section too much. This is even more the case for insights for search, these numbers are mostly usable to see trends, but not detailled analytics. You might want to use the google adwords tool instead, probably more reliable than the latter two: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Hope this helps!