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Yeah we had tons of top 10 rankings and now nothing is better than 100. I thought the way I did it would work the fastest but needed some validation I guess.

Most if not all the tools listed only support Google US, UK and a few others. Any tool that supports many more Google search sites such as The Philippines? What do you think of keywordcompetitor.com?

Hi David - I'm looking at the top pages report and don't see those (but only browsed through a few pages, so they could be further down). I suspect what's happening is some sort of misconstructed redirects or links to those pages. If you use the PRO Web App's crawling functionality, you can create a campaign for kpmginstitutes.com and see not only where those errors happen, but download a CSV and get the sources of the 404s, too. You might also find this information in Google Webmaster Tools.

2 sides to this, 1. Protecting brand and 2. Just want more results for a keyword. With regards protecting brand, using other sites worked best for me. Putting YouTube content on mydomain.tv, putting company info on a .info, creating my own affiliate sites with brand name in the URL. A few of these and you can control the first page for your brand quite easily. Also with language Googles assigning a folder to a language in WMT and building links from those language sites into it seems to give me an easy 1-2 with /county/ first and plain dot com second. For getting more results in on a specific keyword, yes pdfs or other media types (either youtube videos or host my own and make a video sitemap). If you can get into Google News (depends what kind of site you have) that's good. Plus getting a few Twitter accounts to tweet about the keyword can get you to show up. Both ideas kind of overlap but I find the domains provides more stable control where as the other media varies wildy by search.

In the PRO Web App, the CSV export of your crawl includes the list of sources for all 404s/500s/etc. that can help. You'll also find these in Google Webmaster Tools for your site.

Technically no, Google will only crawl pages that are publically available. However, you could use their first click free feature - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74536 - depends how much you think you would gain from doing that or what sort of non-payment abuse it opens you up to.

"Buy" is clearly a better proactive call to action than "shop for". Anyway if you want to catch also not transactional traffic, I suggest you to include also to include a not transactional call to action. E.G.: Buy "keyword" now, and check out our offers about "category related to products"

We've had the same problem on one of our client's sites and our solution was to optimize only one of them and change the anchor text for the other. I wonder if you could achieve the same result by nofollowing the links to the page that is not for search engines.  Would nofollowing an internal link essentially cancel out the anchor text, allowing users to experience the site without messing up SEO?

It was noted in the question will the first link count more than the second and if the anchor text link is above the fold, there is also the higher propensity for someone to click on it and thus more value.

Well, that's a slightly different question In the above example, yes I would redirect them. It's the same website, same content and Google, I'd imagine, can figure out LA = Los Angeles. I definitely wouldn't have the same site on multiple domains as, generally, only one of them is going to be credited with creating the content and shown in the SERPs. Also redirect all the other TLDs to the dot com. If the site was widgets.com and I had bluewidgets.com (where blue widgets was a popular item) I may consider putting blue widget content on the second site as the exact match domain gives (for the time being) a reasonably big advantage with ranking for that term. Additionally, if I had say LALawyers.com, I may create a faux affiliate style site comparing LA lawyers and pushing my companies to the top. Unless you're putting significantly different content on the sites (and I'll again refer you to the microsite Whiteboard Friday above) I would always redirect the other misspellings, TLDs and synonyms to the main site.

Thanks Andy That was a great tip Neil

Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices

Hi Dennis Lees, I had to deal with something similar in the past, the website was about online donations and wanted to look secure. All pages were 301 redirected to the https version and it didn't seem to affect their rankings. If you are to force sitewide https, I suggest to 301 redirect all http pages to their https version and search engine spiders will do their jobs at crawling the new urls and replacing them in the search results. Don't expect this to happen overnight! It will take some time, you might see some rankings greatly fluctuate, but things should get back to normal and definitely better than having duplicate content all over the place. Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Mod rewrite .. DEF..... I am not Familiar with miva but i am guessing they have a good support from the looks of it http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/forums/forum.php I would definitely try their support if you havent. But you should definitely have an option ......