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Thank you all for your replies! I've passed these on to our developer, I'll be back with an update shortly. Thanks!

No manual action. I have seen some fluctuation in rankings, and I am trying to figure out if it is Penguin related. Thanks for the help.

If you are starting i would recommend you to focus on long tails,generic terms are generally harder to rank. Btw, another good tool for finding long tails: http://keywordshitter.com/, found it out last week, it´s really interesting ( in combination with Google keyword planner ):-)

Hello! Our devs are working on a way to allow unwanted page grades to be removed from campaigns and we hope to have a solution ready very soon. As for the URLs session Ids our crawler will follow links as they are linked from the source code of a referring page and javascript can add those parameters as our crawler cannot parse javascript links that well. With AJAX content like this, I know Google's full specifications: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/specification indicate that the #! and ?escaped_fragment= technique works for their crawlers. However, Roger is a bit picky and isn't robust enough yet to use only the sitemap as the reference in this case. Luckily, one of our wonderful users came up with a solution using pushState() method. Click here: http://www.moz.com/blog/create-crawlable-link-friendly-ajax-websites-using-pushstate to find out how to create crawl-able content using pushState . This should help our crawler read AJAX content. Let me know if this information works for you!

Many thanks Laura, A Very comprehensive answer to my query. I was referring to local organic search results with reference to  whether citations would help with them as opposed to maps etc but I think by what you're saying is that they will. I will read those articles you kindly linked in as well. Many thanks Peter

Thanks for your time, Ryan. I appreciate it.

Hi There, I hope all well and you are having an amazing day! This is a tricky one to answer without a bit more information, it does appear that we are pulling this H1 tag so if you can let us know where you are seeing this result we would be super happy to help. Thanks again for being super amazing and if you have any other questions in the meantime let me know. Have an amazing day and I look forward to speaking with you soon!

There is a ton of passion about this topic online, and often between marketing departments in countries. In a perfect world, for Google, you would have local content (unique by country), local domains (.ca and .com), local addresses and phone numbers, and the physical servers would be in the country. This has to be balanced against multiple investments, management of the two, existing rank of a domain or domains, plans for multilingual in both countries (spanish, french), expansion to new countries, etc. If you already have a .com domain (or .ca) which is well performing in both countries, don't split it. Build a sub off of it (.com/en-ca, .com/en-us, etc.). Building off of one domain, with folders beneath it, provide nice flexibility for management, and can reduce costs. Additionally, you can target the content well. You may, and emphasize may, lose some SEO value, but this can only be quantified at your business level versus effort. Mozilla shows a nice example of one site with languages per folder. (No you are likely not Mozilla, but you get the point). Your best efforts are to focus on content, solid architecture, great conversion rates, and ensuring localization of targeting and linking. These will have larger impact than folder v. TLD. (IMHO).

Thanks all for taking time and answer my question, have a nice day!

I don't know that you need to add permission, can you add a picture of your robots.txt file?

Generally, you want to provide the same experience for all customers. There could be some compatibility issues between browsers, so if you had to do something technical for compatibility that should be ok.

Yes, the combined quality and quantity of links pointing to a mobile (or desktop) site is a major factor in its ability to rank.  See: http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors for more factors.

If you serve a different content to the crawler, that's cloaking and you will face the wrath of google (de-indexing). If you serve different content based on user-agent/screen-width etc... It should not de-index you for cloaking. Google has very precise instructions on what a site owner should do in your case, and serving different html and css based on user-agent is perfectly fine, as long as you follow their instructions on how to supply google crawler additional information through http headers.

Hi Laura, Thanks for your valuable input however our mobile sites(both old & new mobile sites) & desktop site will have same url across devices & browsers. The only difference is of content & design on old & new mobile site. Will this still be considered as black hat. Regards

I found out how you can lose social authority (and maybe more) on your website. If you will read this post with 100% attention you will like it: 1. You need a ?utm_source  2. You need a full page cache add-on like Lesti_Fpc Result ? Incredible. If you enter mywebsite.com/product1 and you like the page you give social authority to right page. If you enter mywebsite.com/product1?utm_source.... and you like the page you give social authority to ?utm_source....  Well, most of us did not see that, cause facebook ads like page work good even you use a ?utm_source.... But if you use a full page cache, you have the chance that you index (cache) the page of product with ?utm_source That why, i write there: How i can lose likes from Facebook on a category page. Mystery solved. Anyway i found out a way to explain the Facebook button to write on correct page and not on ?utm_source page and i removed the full page cache at the moment. If you do not believe me you can check your self here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/ Like your page without ?utm_source and like it with ?utm_source With respect, Andrei

As far as I know site.com and site.com/ are two different pages of the same domain for google. That's why one of the very first thing in any to-do list when setting up a new website is to configure url rewrite to secure only one version is served and the other is redirected.

great thanks Chris

Without being able to view stats on the domains in question, it is impossible to give you the best advice. Generally speaking, subfolders get better results than subdomains, but there are many other factors to consider. If you can't move to a subfolder structure, then skip this issue and start down the list of other technical optimization best practices. With time and traffic, I'm sure you'll gain in your organic rankings for selected keywords. In my experience, a domain name is but a small factor of the overall picture. The issues you'll have with these subdomains are more of a marketing cost than an SEO cost.

Hi Richard I checked both of your listings and the services we submit to are correctly updated and accurate. Here is a full list of the partners that are currently supported: Infogroup Acxiom Nuestar/Localeze Factual Foursquare Superpages Best of the Web Anybody not mentioned above, you'll want to manage manually.