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I think Google is discouraging site-wide links that are included to manipulate Google SERP results and are not for users... in your case they seems completely fine. I guess adding the link to other websites (for people who use language other than English) without the anchor text but on a flag will be a better idea. Link on a flag on the header or footer will give your visitor a clear idea of where to go if English is not the language he is looking for and as it will not have any anchor text so it will give no red alert to Google for manipulation!

When i use the same tactic as you defined in your question’s explanation i was able to see your page in the search results... Use this common in search bar to see how many pages are indexed in Google ‘site:example.com’. May be not all the pages are indexed, for that try and check the following two things: Make sure all pages of the website are follow,index for Google and other search engines Update your sitemap and submit it to Google webmaster tool and you will see the efficiency in website page index. Hope this helps!

its been going for about 5 years and the pages show up to be indexed thats why im confused

The social proof wont be the problem. Ill give the products for free to my customers, to download directly they have to Like or Tweet otherwise they need to wait 30 seconds. But will the RSS update benefit my rankings in Google you think (long term)?

I think adding images is a good one, as a glossary is load of text, adding pics would make it more presentational.  It could double up as a reciprocal link section if you link to other sites relevant to the terms, as many sites as you like for each term. Sounds an interesting idea, one of my sites sells educational products so I could do the same.  I'd be interested to know more too, could this be punishable by search engines if done incorrectly?

Hopefully not two months! I submitted some pages to Fetch as Google, but still haven't seen updates. I hope it happens a lot sooner than later.

I have found backlinks from decent quality websites with content that is relevant to my niche much more helpful than .gov and .edu sites. However, I am not saying obtaining links from edu and gov is a bad thing by any means. I recently had a guest post with follow link on a local subdomain of the BBB and didn't seem to do too much. Seems like an ideal link is from a site with a high domain rank and high quality content relevant to your industry.

Hi JT.  Here's how I found the nastiness.  I looked at your url on Open Site Explorer and clicked on "Anchor Text".  This shows you how your site is linked to.  The 6th most popular anchor text was "buy cheap viagra online" and the seventh was "buy cheap software".  I expanded the first one and saw the urls linking to you and clicked on one. Then, when I was on that page, I did a CTRL-F to search for your site.  I also searched for the words "buy cheap viagra online".  My CTRL-F told me that the words did exist on the page but I couldn't find them.  So, I did a view source.  (I'm using chrome, so I just right clicked and chose view source.) I can't remember exactly what the issue was but I believe they were positioning the words so that they are off of the screen. As far as removal goes, it may be a good idea to start a new question on this one.  Perhaps title it, "My site has 'buy viagra' links pointing at it that I didn't create!  How do I get them removed?" I have never had to deal with such an issue so I'm not sure how you would do it.  You can certainly try to find contact info for the URL but I'm doubtful that they're going to talk to you.  I do believe that you can file an reinclusion request with Google and explain the situation and they may listen.  But I'd want to get more advice on that before I did it. Also, set up your webmaster tools now!  You may not get a message, but I have heard of sites that set up WMT and 1-2 days later the unnatural links warning pops up.  At least then, you'll know what you're dealing with. Good luck!

For the most part, it borders dangeriously close to cloaking, and also runs the risk of IPs being very failable in terms of determining a location. On the otherhand, some very minor text changes, with a default, would probably be fine if they improve the user experiance. Remember that google will only see the default version, so you're not getting any potential location based ranking. If it's on a larger scale, I wouldn't bother and would work on loaction specific landing pages instead.

Whenever I notice big fluctuations in rankings the first thing I do is note what changes I have made directly to site around the time of the change. I also check for any recent algorithm changes to see if anything coincides with the drop. There's an articles on the SEOmoz blog which you may want to look at: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/identifying-link-penalties-in-2012

As long as the title is relevant to the image, iPhone 4S would be fine.. Try and keep your titles below 70 characters... If you have a URL that have multiple pages then you should have a look at this.. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html

Gareth- redirects can decrease your rankings but if done correctly it will be a minimal amount. Typically a 301 redirect will pass between 90-99% of the link juice of a page to the new page. Pretty good...not great. Shouldnt create a huge difference in rankings for your site if it is one page. What I find is people lose ranking when they do redirects incorrectly. One of the best posts I have read on this is in SEOMOZ. Here is the link: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection Redirect wisely and correctly and you will be in good shape. Happy SEO'ing.... If this helps, please let us know. Mark

I don't think it's a problem as long as the pages are unique and have a purpose, a reason to exist. Don't just think about the keywords but what they mean to your visitors and how your visitors will progress through your site (hopefully all the way to your site goals/calls to action). I personally recommend having specific pages tailored around unique offerings that target the specific needs of different customers. (In this case personal vs corporate are very different needs and it'll be worth having content that talks to the customer) As I say, it's not the titles of the pages or the keywords that they target that'll mean they have less value to google - it's the quality of the content. Make sure you answer the visitors questions and give them what they're looking for! Make sure the "what's in it for me" is obvious... As long as the pages exist for a legitimate reason and deliver some value to your visitors/customers then I don't think you need to worry too much about being "penalized by google." Hope this helps!

it should only be the first line as h1, not the content. We styled it all the same so it didn't look silly. WE did make local cities h2....not sure if that's good or bad...but it stinks to serve so many cities and only rank at your physical location. Especially when there are 20 cities with in 20 miles here in DC metro. Not sure if local "city pages" will work or how that changes the landing page experience verse a very interactive home page...Google didn't think about all of that!

Wow, ok. So this is a very tricky question with a lot of unknowns. There was a thread similar to this in the Google Forums a while back and I think the person you really need to talk to is Maile Ohyo. Check out this thread that deals with your problem (and much more). It should answer your question, but if not, you can find Maile on Google+. http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/YbXqwoyooGM