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I have to seo several sites like these and normally what i do is I make sure that the one page is fully optimized and then I add a blog section to the site which allows me to add more keywords naturally.  This I have found to be an effective way while still maintaining the site integrity and design.  It also allows you to provide fresh content to the site which makes the site not stale, which Google loves.  Just remember to have a schedule of adding fresh content to the site, make sure the content is over 400 words and just keep plugging away at it and you will increase the amount of keywords you are ranking for as long as you are keeping your back linking strategy and not only doing onsite optimization.  Hope that helps.

I can't do the url but I have access to everything. Traffic is up since that happened, it hasn't hurt us at all. No landing pages have lost traffic. We got a completely new site in early November, is this just that site going away and being replaced with the new one?

If you can export all of the URLs you want to check into a list, there's a few tools you can import them to to check the response code. I think Screaming Frog does this, but a web-based solution which is quick to use is this one by Tom Anthony.  You can also define what user agent you want it to test as. All your 301s will come up listed just as that, same for 302s, 404s etc.

You can use hreflang & Alternate tag to solve this CCTLD duplication issue. http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077

Hi there, Google or for that matter any legit organization should be very cautious with their privacy policies and stuff like that. Its part of their legal requirements. They try to implement these with whom ever they work for or with. From an individual's stand point these may sound silly but its a best practice to have a privacy policy statement, an About US page and a page of Terms and Conditions for all your web properties. These pages can instill the much needed trust factor among your visitors.Hope this helps. Best regards, Devanur Rafi.

Thank you all for your assistance on this. I was never looking for a guarantee of placement, more for a guarantee of a growth in organic traffic that could be traced to something they did. I realize that placement these days varies by user so a promise of #1 ranking really is suspicious.

Have you seen a corresponding drop-off in the ListFinder pages over that time. If the canonical is kicking in, you should see some of those pages fall out as more ConsumerBase pages kick in. Is there a reason your canonical'ing from the more indexed site to the less indexed one. It could be a mixed signal if Google things that ListFinder is a more powerful or authoritative site. Cross-domain can get tricky fast. Unfortunately, beyond NOINDEX'ing, it's about your best option, and certainly one of your safest. It's really hard to predict what the combo of cross-domain canonical plus link would do. From a dupe content standpoint, it's risk free. From the standpoint of creating 80K links from one of your sites to another of your sites, it's a little risky (don't want to look like a link network). Since you're only talking two sites, though, it's probably not a huge issue, especially with the canonical already in place. Google interprets cross-domain canonical heavily, so it can be a little hard to predict and control. Interestingly, the ConsumerBase site has higher Domain Authority, but the page you provided has lower Page Authority than its "sister" page. Might be a result of your internal linking structure giving more power to the ListFinder pages.

I can't say there's no risk, but this is pretty blatant, and Google is generally good about detecting that. This was done in an automated fashion only on blog comments, and probably in a very short time-frame. On top of it, many of the comments are nofollow'ed, which means they weren't paying attention at all (they just sent out a bot and let it go). If Google took action, it would probably first be against the phrase (and I'm guessing you don't want to rank for "buy cocks" anyway). Your link profile isn't quite as strong as I'd like to see, so there is some risk, but my gut reaction is that this is probably a short-lived attack that won't have much impact. A few suggestions/possibilities: (1) Keep an eye on it. People who fire off these low-value attacks tend to give up easily, but if they persist, that's a bigger issue. (2) Notify the webmasters, as Syed said. (3) Disavow - via Google Webmaster Tools - some of the worst links (really bad/spammy sites, etc.). Unfortunately, this is link by link, or domain by domain, at best, so it's not always a viable option.

The one thing I would check with is making sure that your contest follows the rules of FB for a contest. The last thing you want to do is bring more attention to it and then discover that it's against FB's rules.

Brilliant, this is exactly the answer I was looking for. Doesn't matter if it's only a small amount passed on, I think targeting this one over the other two will be far more beneficial.

Hi Chris, I, too, am not sure why something as branded as "coca-cola" would not display the expanded sitelinks. Here is the link to the question I asked a few months ago, there may be some more answers there. http://www.seomoz.org/q/my-site-has-sitelinks-in-serps-but-they-are-small Good luck! If you find the secret, be sure to share.

thanks - we did some more research on our end and our developer found this -- The problem with the title, description and keywords is because we updated these for just Wyoming, West Virginia, Vermont, Maine and Florida. I made the mistake of assuming the URL would always have the proper case of the state in the URL but as we have discovered that was a bad assumption. The code was looking for those 5 states with the first letter capitalized and the link from Google was not so it defaulted to the format for the other states that we haven't changed yet. I have fixed that code so now those 5 states will display the correct title, description and keywords regardless of the case of the state in the URL. I will update the live site in the morning so this issue will be taken care of. We will still need to discuss the  how best to handle the URLs that Google is getting with the incorrect case.

At least you are going into this with your eyes wide open. Good luck!

_Sorry to say but it appears your website is hit by Penguin given the types of links you have got for your website. Example - _ _Blog comment with exact match anchor text –  http://www.louisesteiner.com/do-follow-no-follow-do-follow-blogs-list-doesmatter/ Blog comment spam http://evilpundit.mee.nu/why_communism_is_always_violent Forum signature with exact matched anchor text -  http://www.warriorforum.com/members/justinthomsony.html http://www.affiliateseeking.com/forums/members/j ustinthomsony.html_ _http://www.tophosts.com/forum/marketing/43700-what-some-efficient-search-engine-optimization-methods-3.html http://forum.orbitdownloader.com/viewtopic.php?id=63792http://forum.mamp.info/viewtopic.php?p=30222_ Did you get any mail in Webmaster Tools let us know. After that, it will be easier for us to suggest you the next course of action. But it appears that you need to start with spammy links removal.