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302 redirects mean the page has temporarily moved. It sounds like the pages are only temporary, so that would be the correct thing to use. You could also use nofollow or canonical tags, too.

A nofollow won't stop the page from getting indexed if it is linked to from elsewhere on the web.

In most cases, I would tend to put the URL for each location - much more useful for the user.

I would rate that as unlikely. If you got a new IP to get an SSL, you're probably on a static IP, so it's not likely you got an IP that bad players are using.

There were a couple updates last week, including an EMD update and I believe a Panda refresh.

I used it years ago. I think it's effectiveness may depend on the niche you're in. I may try it again for one of my sites.

The visible PageRank is only updated about 4 times a year. How long have you been building links to your site?

Also, I notice you only have a very few backlinks to your site - you may not have enough to get PR1 yet.

45 usages of the keyword on the page is way high, unless the page is very long. Perhaps we could provide more help if we could see the URL - can you share it?

No, I would not be trying to get Google to think your sites are unrelated. I would accept that Google will realize my sites are related and may factor that into evaluating any links between them.

I decided to sign up for it again. Feel free to message me in a week or two if you want to hear how it's going for me!

I've never seen any evidence or indication that it matters what city your web hosting is in.

I'm not sure I fully understand your query, but there is a specific markup you can use for pagination: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

Yes, you want to be careful.

Keep in mind that having your websites on different IPs isn't enough to trick Google. They can also look at domain registrar info, contact info, linking patterns, etc to figure out that the same person owns the sites.

According to this post, the data is updated once per month: http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/37288/how-often-does-open-site-explorer-update-links

Here are two tools that may help you:

http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/

http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mod_rewrite-rewriterule-generator.shtml

"You would have to do it like what you were offering was a hotel. If it's clear that it's not, google will not rank you well for "hotel"."

Sorry to be blunt, but do you have evidence to support this?

Sounds like you may have been hit by the EMD update. The update didn't hurt all exact domain sites - only those that Google deemed low quality.

I looked at your backlink profile and found multiple footer links that look like they might be paid links or doorway sites. It's possible that these links played a factor in why your site's ranking was reduced.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. I would expect Google to discount the duplicate links, but not penalize you. I have had my articles picked up and syndicated across spammy site networks and get a bunch of links before - I don't think it helped me much, but it didn't hurt either.

Just focus on getting more high quality links to improve their link profile and give them a greater variety.

Eamon,

If you can't get them to change their site to HTML only, I would setup canonical tags to tell Google that the HTML version of each page is the correct version.

~Adam

In and of itself, I would not expect changes to the copy to materially impact your rankings.

Of course, if you're making changes that changes your on-page optimization and keyword usage, then that could impact your rankings.

Majestic shows 220+ linking domains, and Majestic's index is still much smaller than Google.

I think this page answers your question way better than I could: http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/24587/are-linked-images-with-an-alt-tag-equivilent-to-a-anchor-tag-with-anchor-text-in-terms-of-seo-value