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Don't forget to monitor links you earn "naturally" and request better anchor text. That can do wonders.

I was only looking at the source code on the Conversion Optimization page and not the home page. Face Palm

This should be fun... lol Thanks for the advice!

I could certainly clean up the widgets. The navigation thing is tough though. I want very detailed nav similar to say "seatguru.com" that has multi-category dropdown. Took me forever to find a plug that does it the way I want but I'm sure there's another (better) option. Just have to figure it out. Thanks for the help! Much appreciated.

No problem Kim, glad to help.

I have heard of this problem before. I was about to pitch a client of setting up snippets in their ecommerce site but decided againt it because I didnt want to be held resoponsible when they invest in the development hours and Google refuses to display them for a year. Is this common? Anyone else had similar experiences.

Anything change in the past week?

We've announced the transition, so I can post the URL here. It's http://rcnavalcombat.com/. We're running out of HDD space on the current virtual server, so I'm shopping for a larger package, and will be setting up the new server with the latest in DNN and AF, tweaking things the way I want, and importing the existing site (and rinse and repeat about five times to get bugs worked out I imagine) then going live with the upgrades on the new server.

Please read this, from Google Webmasters Central: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40349&query=cookies&topic=&type= Make your site easily accessible "Build your site with a logical link structure. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link. Use a text browser, such as Lynx, to examine your site. Most spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Macromedia Flash keep you from seeing your entire site in a text browser, then spiders may have trouble crawling it. " Based on this, my initial thoughts are that Google will only crawl and index the default language version of the page. I would look to append something to the URL to differentiate the two language versions. I've subscribed to this thread because this is something I'm interested in too, I hope someone else with a little more experience can clarify this for us both, but in the mean time have a read of the above! I hope it helps Aaron

Managing one domain is much easier. But there are some benefits to having exact match domains. Do you want  to run a lot of stop and go short sprints, or one steady marathon?

Dan, I'm curious about what you are not communicating as much as what you are. If every site is unique, and if every site contains high quality, optimized content, and has a high quality inbound link profile / social buzz initiative, then there should be no problem with hosting them on the same IP block.  Unless the plan is to use them to cross-link to each other.  Except the value of that strategy would only come from all sites having the same related topical focus. If the goal is several sites all being related and cross-linking to each other, or to try and dominate the 1st page of search results with multiple domains for the same search queries, then they should all ideally be on different IP blocks across multiple hosts and in different geographic locations. Except that kind of strategy requires significantly more effort since every site will need quality depth of content, regular freshness of content, and ongoing link building and social efforts. So it's usually better to just have one single site that all efforts can be applied to.

0 page rank is based on the ToolBar PageRank?  Are you aware TBPR is both inaccurate and not updated more than a couple or at most a few times a year?  It's NOT the real PageRank your site has. Focus on continuing to do what you have been, and now emphasize quality link building.  Leave the TBPR concerns to others while you continue to get results and improve on them! Just a suggestion anyhow.

Adam's right.  I don't expect Google's algorithms to know intent - if they did, then duplicate content between a www.domain.com and non-www version of that same site wouldn't be a problem. It's critical to obtain a broad range of links across a wide spectrum of site types, levels of site authority, and of course, vastly different C blocks.

I have to add my vote for one I saw on that post - image optimization / alt tags. I've noticed an improvement in rankings by optimizing alt tags, plus they sometimes show up as part of the SERP snippet (when keywords are in the query) which means they have CTR implications as well.

In my opinion, Linking out to Business/Gov/Local authoritative sites can help built that trust in your brand, in the Eyes of the searcher. and Google will acquire these info about your site too. ( that u do exist and your are legit---> Trust) For example BBB badge, NLA (national Limo association), FAA.gov, Local Chamber of commerce.