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Ravi, Sorry to tell you the same message again - the problem is not that your images are not getting indexed. They are indexed, as you can check on site:www.urbandazzle.com/ (put on tab Images). The goal of the sitemap is to help Google discover images as they are published o****n your site. The images you list in the sitemap do not exist on the site on the url you provide in the sitemap (see example above) . As long as there is a mismatch - Google will continue to show that 0% of these images are indexed, which technically is correct. If you want to use the sitemap to see the % of images that is indexed - you'll need to change the (url of the) pictures used on the site or to replace the (url of the) images in the sitemap by the correct images. rgds, Dirk

My experience improving page copy tells me the ranking improvement is not dramatic and the exact amount depends on a variety of factors, as far as I can tell the biggest of these factors are domain authority and keyword competition, if you change content on pages of a domain with a high DA, the ranking of those pages will improve more if compared with the improvement you may get with lower DA pages. Also the improvement seems proportional to the previous SERP position, in other words it's easier to go from pos 20 to first page, but much harder to go from pos 3 to pos 2; considering all other factors the same. Of course if you have a page with a a lot of backlinks and a decent ranking despite the content being thin, or poorly related to the keywords you are targeting, improving it will gives you the biggest jump. Anyway that's just my experience, no golden rule. EDIT, now I read EGOL answer I can see I totally missed the real core question. I have never seen a page ranking improve just because a new fresh content replaced the old one. Only because new better quality content replaced old poor content. And when I heard and read about fresh content boost, they were always talking about new content in new pages, and that depends on the query being searched. If you browse old whiteboard friday from Rand you will find one on this topic which explain that. In one sentence, if you publish new fresh content about a sport event the night of that sport event you may benefit from freshness boost for query related to that sport event. For obvious reasons google believe new content about a recent event is more relevant than stale one.

Is the content staying the same? If the content is staying the same, and just the url structure is changing, and if the new url structure is not depriving the url of the relevant keyword for the page content... If all these conditions are satisfied, in my experience moving few websites, replacing only the url structure (theoretically improving it), nothing changed, I mean I didn't experience any traffic being lost in GWT or analytics, I didn't even notice any unusual fluctuation. Of course keep in minds the traffic is moving, from the old urls to the new ones, so depending on your report and your new url structure you will see it in different places.

Strange, it's probably a bug in their subscription system. The free trial is free, they don't charge for it. I'm not sure if support is working during the weekend, so probably you will need to wait till Monday for a reply. I just checked in my account - upgrading once you have a paid subscription is pretty straightforward, and the calculation of the remaining credit for the current subscription / amount to be paid for the new plan seems correct. Rgds Dirk

The obvious problem would be that their website address hasn't been verified and linked to their Google + profile... Linking them together in GWT and Analytics would help too. After checking those things I'd check other settings, like use Google + as site.

Wonderful, thanks Ryan!

I agree with you Massimiliano, Overall that is a great strategy and yes, just because they get more volume does not mean they are the best keywords. Different keywords are used at different stages of the buying cycles. In this case I was just telling Tamir how I would choose the order from those specific combinations of the same 5 words. Assuming he has done his research and those are the keywords he is going to target. Getting traffic is one step in the game, converting the traffic is another important step as well. Best Regards, Joe

oh and just a note, no actual redirection is happening, the plugin is simply adding a query string to the end of the URL when the page loads.

Highland's analysis is correct. You should only be using the disavow tool carefully and with a measured approach, and usually in dealing with penalties.

OK. Hopefully will be fixed fast! thanks

i don't see any reason, in your exposition, to choose any different route than first option check the domain authority of the second level domain your client is currently using and evaluate how much time and money you need to replicate the same DA to a new domain, then ask yourself and your client if it's worth it. Don't forget to mention all that work to rank for the new domain is not going to help the old one, and when same DA is reached you will still have to face duplicate effort to improve DA of both. of course there are other factors which could still weight in favor of the separate domain, like banaly if she want to take distance from her main practice, if the existing domain suffered from penalization, etc... but without knowing much I don't see a reason to go that way

You could use a tool like Xenu to check that all of the urls on your clients website do indeed now redirect to https, or to be extra sure, you should add a redirect to the websites .htaccess (or web.conf on windows hosting) to force a 301 redirect on all http pages to https. As for indexing http, if they redirect to https correctly when you view them, then you'll just have to wait for google to catch up. No harm done in the mean time.

Thanks everyone, every bit of info was very much appreciated!

Ryan has great ideas for answering your question. This "industry" is one that has heavily and historically depended upon outbound marketing.  So, site-targeting, remarketing, and behavioral-based ads will be other methods to consider.  You gotta take the message to the donor.

Hi Ben, Sponsoring events is a great link building tactic. As the link will come as a side-effect of the sponsorship rather than from direct payment, Google will not penalise you for this. Imagine the reverse - companies would be far less likely to sponsor events, support charities etc if Google were to start penalising them. Here are a few posts you can look to for reassurance: http://moz.com/blog/5-link-building-tactics-to-improve-your-local-rankings http://www.wordtracker.com/blog/33-seo-experts-share-their-most-effective-link-building-strategies http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2064922/131-legitimate-link-building-strategies

If the filters are working via parameters you can go into GWT and add them to the exclusion list.  Robots.txt might be able to apply if you were able to serve filters via a folder through a bit of URL rewriting.  Mostly it's a question of getting Google to ignore the duplicate content so research specific to your clients situation there will be a good start.

As has been suggested you can request the removal of pages in GWMT and you should keep any wordpress site and plugins up to date. To add to this, you might want to look at something like Cloudflare as an extra layer to protect your clients site. We've been using it for a year now and its made a massive difference, both to performance and security.

All of the answers above are a good start. I would also suggest trying keywordtool.io for every celebrity name you want to talk about, and see what types of things people are looking for about those celebrities. Ubersuggest will perform this task as well.