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I would agree that the offer is low, but the company's small size and your length of experience should certainly be considered also. Overall, it doesn't sound too low for a recent graduate at a small company.

I would only make the comments dofollow if you are going to police them carefully and delete links to any poor quality or shady websites.

According to http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188484 "All items must be able to be purchased through an online purchasing means."

"Google watches how long a person uses a page to gauge it’s value"
Perhaps, but I wouldn't stress about that metric in particular. As you correctly pointed out, a visitor who is looking for a specific item and finds it will leave a site rather quickly.

Is the content unique or duplicate?

EDIT: According to a quick check on Copyscape, your content is duplicated across other sites. You definitely need unique content as a starting point.

That's the Google directory, not Google Web Search. I think Google directory still pulls their listings from DMOZ.

Article spinning is certainly not the best way to achieve top rankings. In general, I would consider it "probably  spammy" depending on how it is done. Google is actually starting to crack down on article marketing in general a bit with the recent Panda/Farmer update. There are definitely better strategies to focus on.

I would recommend continuing to work on the bigger keywords like Denver CO Homes for Sale as a long term goal, while working on the smaller keywords for short term returns.

It used to be that you could embed images on your site from another site (like Picasa) and your site would show as the source. I don't know if this is the case. I would probably put them on my server anyways.

The most accurate numbers you'll get from Google Adwords are using the Keyword Tool set to exact match keywords.

Tyler,

I would not be very worried SEO impact, but it could hurt your brand, etc. Affiliate links typically don't pass link juice, and Google usually doesn't penalize you for bad links, anyway (they usually just discount them).

If you go to http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#link-building you'll find a list of the most recommended (mostly white hat) link building methods.

Timon, if your links are organic white hat links with varied anchor text, etc, you don't need to worry about building too many links.

"40k links from 140 root domains"

Sounds like a bunch of sitewide links...maybe Google is discounting them more heavily than SEOmoz.

Trevor,

One possible explanation is that their PageRank doesn't reflect recent changes (since the public number I only updated about once a quarter).

For a difference that large, though, I would strongly suspect that Google is discounting some of their inbound links that SEOmoz isn't.

Depending on what the pages are, I would let them get indexed so they can be ranked for any longtail keywords, then perhaps 301 redirect them to the main sale page. Or leave them up with a notice that product is no longer available but display related products.

In my experience, the best hosting companies aren't the best design firms and vice-versa. I would tend to choose one company for design and another for hosting.

Or better yet, like chocolate ice cream and hot fudge sauce. Mmmm.

Yeh, that would do it if all the pages had tags saying the homepage was the canonical url!

Apparently I either didn't notice them, or you had already deleted them when I looked at your page.

OK, here is what I see:

1. You don't have a robots.txt file, so it's not that

2. As Tyler mentioned, you have quite a few pages indexed: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aenergyacuity.com&num=100 although most seem to be in the Newsletter subdirectory. THe main pages of your site don't appear to be indexed.

3. I checked several pages of your site and found no meta tags that could be causing the issue.

4. Your links are not nofollow, so it's not that.

One possibility is that Google just hasn't gotten around to indexing the pages yet, perhaps because of your site's low backlinks/PageRank. Are you sure your entire site used to be indexed but no longer is?

It is partially duplicate content, yes. As long as you're creating a unique title and unique on page text for the new category, you should be fine, though.