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Hi Michelle, It's common to have latest news displayed in a set area of a select few pages, but I would not recommend this being a footer element. Footers have long been used for spam purposes, meaning that Google has a habit of disregarding their content or taking it as possible manipulation if it sees something undesirable in this area. Absolutely no problem having a regularly occurring piece of navigation on pages, but perhaps reconsider placing this latest news section site-wide, especially in the footer.

Hi Matthew, From your description, these appear to be your client's options: Rank locally (in the local pack) for their single physical office via NAP, content and SEO work on the website + their Google+ Local listing and citations. Rank organically for other cities in which they vend properties via content, on-site SEO and linkbuilding. PPC may be a necessary component, too, given how competitive this market typically is. It shouldn't be a goal for the client to rank locally for anything but their city of location, and it's forbidden to list for-sale properties in Google's local product, so this isn't a way to get around the lack of location either. Basically, it's going to come down to the organic strength of the business to build a presence for the various cities in which they sell properties. You'll be cleaning up duplicate content and developing new, unique content for each of their major cities + wanting to earn links to this content. A blog could be a BIG asset here if the client has the resources to blog in a hyperlocal fashion about properties and local communities and on-topic subjects like buying/selling a home. I think you're receiving some good advice on this thread. I hope my suggestions are helpful, too.

Thank you Keri, problem solved.

Hi Jenny jStrong is correct. Subscript (_{) and superscript (^{) tags are not going to have any effect (positive or negative) on SEO.}}

Andrew thank you for your response.  Our next hurdle is that they are wanting to leave the .net up while the .com is also up.  Two different designs, similar if not the same content on every page.  I'm pushing for internal IP only testing then launch in the middle of the night so we can roll back if there are issues.  I mean with thorough testing there shouldn't be but I know anything is possible.

Well, I would make the company page be the rel=publisher and the author page to be rel=author and would share in the way that I proposed. In this way, everyone gets some authorship I think. Does anyone else have some insight on this?

Thanks Phil. I had tried seaching for indexing figures and those numbers are relatively recent which is positive. I'll give another few weeks before becoming too concerned. Regards

No, the two systems operate separately. I would let this ride out a bit longer before you jump to too many conclusions. There are many variables that could have influenced this situation such as new competitors entering the PLA's, a slight algo update wasn't in favor of your site, or seasonality depending on what you are selling. A mix of good organic rankings and PLA's/PPC usually has a 1+1=3 effect because you have more "real estate" on the web, hopefully on the first page.

Hello, since most of the hosting providers use CPanel, I will just point you to a tutorial on redirects on CPanel. http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/ReDirects So what you would do is redirect your domain.us to domain.com.us following the steps provided in the above link. That's it! Since you are trying to shift your entire domain, make sure you will be adding a 301 (permanent) redirect. Cristian

Hi Maja, Thanks for your question. It can be hard to diagnose without looking at the site in question (the links you provided to Webmaster Tools won't work for anyone not given access to the account) so I'm shooting in the dark a little. Gut feeling says that this is a technical problem. Did you make any technical changes to your website around those dates? A few other suggestions: I'd suggest going back and double checking your code for Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools code to make sure they are working correctly. You can use a Chrome plugin such as Google Tag Assistant to do this. Check the hostname in your Google Analytics report to see if any other domains (not your own) are showing up in your reports. This can happen sometimes if someone has started using your Google Analytics code and your data can get very messed up. Here is a more in-depth article which may help you: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2300842/Google-Analytics-Hostname-Report-Great-for-Troubleshooting Use tools such as Spyonweb and Nerdydata to search for your Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools code snippets to see if other sites may be using them. Narrow down the problem by adding in landing pages to your Google Webmaster Tools report. This report allows you to see which landing pages people are landing on and may help to de-bug the problem a little bit more. I hope that helps! Paddy

Sean, What is the URL for your site?

I have seen this happen with sites that have been redirected. For example, I redirected site A to site B once - including all of the content from site A - and site B inherited the Titles and descriptions from site A for several months. It was very irritating because I didn't use the words anywhere on the page, and I was using NOODP and NOYDIR tags. I even told Google the site had moved in GWT. Eventually it sorted itself out, but it made me see how difficult it must be fore Google to keep everything straight on so many sites with so many different site elements, especially when redirects are involved. Both sites had content and were in the the same niche. Site A had stronger signals, and was a year older than site B. However, I wanted to redirect to site B for branding reasons. I suggest you do some digging around to find out if any other site has been 301 redirected to your site. If so, did that content ever appear on it? Good luck and let us know what you find out!

Yes !!! I recommend using the brand name at the end of a title tag instead, and there are times when this can be a better approach. The differentiating factor is the strength and awareness of the brand in the target market. If a brand is well–known enough to make a difference in click–through rates in search results, the brand name should be first. If the brand is less known or relevant than the keyword, the keyword should be first. Personally I think Brand on titles are good for the following 1. Brand Exposure (User point of view) 2. Reputation Management (Google point of view) Google also started putting many site's name in the title. I think the reason Google started doing it was to distinguish many of the same titles in the SERPS. Lots of sites, me included, just put "Build Blue Widgets" in the title and the SERPS looked a bit silly with 5 of the top ten having the same title. Nowadays, if anybody searches for your brand and you don't have your brand name in your title tag, google ignores your hard coded Title Tag shows Brand name as your title Tag in its serp. If Google wants to add site names to the title who am I to disagree with them. P.S - However if you do your seo right and you rank on important keywords, everytime user searches in google and find you and see your brand on the google serp, you are spreading Brand awareness and you are building your brand for Free ! and gradually the user will know that this brand sells this product and then if you are not ranked on top the user will still click on your link. So you are killing two birds with one stone. Free Traffic + Free Brand building... Happy Selling !