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No, to count as duplicate content the text on the page needs to be largely the same. Googlebot is really good at parsing out navigation and thematic elements of the page separately from the content.

This matters mainly because of the potential for link dilution - most people agree you won't be explicitly penalized. See http://www.herseo.com/blog/2009/05/30/how-important-is-it-to-htaccess-redirect-to-www/

The best way to address this is to set up a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file. I recently did this for my own domain with the following code:

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine on
  # Redirect adoptionhelp.org to www.adoptionhelp.org
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.adoptionhelp.org [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.adoptionhelp.org/$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>

Add that to your .htaccess file and drop it in your root directory.

Meta Refresh can pass link juice, according to Matt Cutts:

http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml

But as Ryan Purkey suggests, a 301 is the accepted best-practice here. With Meta Refresh you need to be careful to avoid looking like a black-hat to a picky google algorithm. Some more discussion here.

You want to go through each page of your old site and if it had any links or authority at all, create a 301 redirect for it. That tells the engines your page has permanently moved, and tells them where to find the new page. This will preserve the majority of your authority for every page.

If you 302 them all to the homepage you're telling the search engine "this content is related and is a substitute, for now". However, you want -all- your pages to continue being indexed with as much authority as possible, not just the homepage.

After you've got your 301's set up correctly, then you can focus on creating a 404 page that is helpful to your users. Usually this means suggesting content based on the keywords in the URL, or including a search or link to the homepage.

It depends on how your site is structured.

For example if you have a page at

http://www.yourdomain.com/products.php

and this shows different things based on the parameter, like:

http://www.yourdomain.com/products.php?type=widgets

You will want to get rid of this line in your robots.txt

However if the parameter(s) doesn't change the content on the page, you can leave it in.

You should either get the old 404 page back or create a new one. A good 404 page can lower your bounce rate significantly. If you redirect what should be a 404 to your home page, you could end up with engines indexing those pages with the homepage content, setting yourself up for a duplicate content situation.

301 redirects should be used if you have content that is moved. It shouldn't be used to redirect non-existent pages somewhere else, and it should be kept in your htaccess until there are no more links pointing to the old URL.

I use a very simple litmus test: Would I personally find this directory useful?

My answer for this site is no. I can't think of a point at which I'd want to browse sites from around the world loosely based on an industry. Frankly I'm surprised this directory has so much domain authority. My guess is their value in the SE's eyes will continually drop.

Hard to say because its not clear where one ends and the other begins. A good link-building strategy will include a social component. I would say you should plan to spend time on:

• Making sure your content has social features like share & like buttons

• Creating great content that functions as link bait

• Reaching out to similar sites to build relationships

• Monitoring and responding to facebook posts and tweets

The first one is sort of initial setup, after that is in place divide your time equally between the last three, and make adjustments as it makes sense for you.

<base> allows you to set the default attributes for links on the page. For example if I set <base href="http://www.mydomain.com/"> then I can make a link to and it will point to http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.html

I believe this magic happens on the web server before the page is sent to the browser, making it a safe practice for SEO.

Before I say that you are correct in your guess, let me preface by saying its probably a bad idea.

You are correct in your guess

From everything I've read Googlebot doesn't count iframe content as part of the page its looking at. However, if your site is bogged down by the amount of ads, chances are you're overloading your pages and getting docked by the post-panda google algorithm. Sites with lots of ads have seen decreasing rankings. Also, putting content in an iframe could be seen as suspicious by Google, further devaluing your site in its eyes. This isn't to say you can't make this happen and still rank in Google, but re-thinking your ad and revenue strategy could be the best long-term bet.

They both point to the same location on the server? So there's not a different folder for the subdomain?

If that's the case then I suggest adding a rule to your htaccess file to 301 the subdomain back to the main domain in exactly the same way people redirect from non-www to www or vice-versa. However, you should ask why the server is configured to have a duplicate subdomain? You might just edit your apache settings to get rid of that subdomain (usually done through a cpanel interface).

Here is what your htaccess might look like:

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine on
  # Redirect non-www to wwww
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mydomain.org [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.org/$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>

To the best of my knowledge this has no impact on SEO. Googlebot doesn't like it when you hide content, but that only applies to overflow:hidden and display:none as far as I know.

I'm guessing you'll get some good responses from this forum. If not, try doing a search for SEO and your city, or SEO and your industry (ex "SEO retail"). Those at the top of the results have already proven they can rank for their target keywords, so they should probably be able to help you as well.

Good luck!

The campaign crawler shows URLs with rel canonical tags as a notification, not as an actual problem. In other words, the crawler goes over your site and reports "Hey, btw, these pages all have rel=canonical tags on them, just thought you should know". The crawler is not saying "there is a problem with your rel canonical tags". On this metric, the more the better in my opinion.

1. You should move your content from your old blog into your new wordpress blog.

2. Then you should 301 redirect all the old URLs to the new URLs. This is done in your .htaccess file on the old server

3. Submit a new sitemap to Google and also take advantage of their change of address form.All done in Webmaster Tools.

4. Keep your old site with the redirects up as long as is financially or otherwise viable.

5. Consider asking site-owners to update their links to your new URL, but be careful and polite on this because you don't want to lose the link altogether.

I would suggest finding a niche market and going for that. As one example, you list wordpress, drupal, and joomla as your area's of expertise, and go on to say you can provide expertise in any other CMS. You may find more success in picking one, and becoming a recognized expert in that CMS specifically. Also focus locally. You still haven't reached page 1 for "web design cork", so that'd be a good first goal.

I also noticed some spelling errors and non-transparent colors in your logo, little things that would stop me from contracting business services from someone. I mean no offense, but those should be fixed asap.

Value is relative so instead of telling you if you should buy it or not, let me help explain what you are buying. Each link you buy will pass some authority to your domain. This alone won't help you rank for anything, you still need to do on-page SEO; If your page were up against some hypothetical page with the exact same on-page SEO score, the authority of the pages will determine who ranks higher. So buying these links will add authority to your site, the higher the authority of the linking page/domain, the more "link juice" is passed to your site. Here are the mozbar scores for the guides you listed:

Yahoo's directory: 93 Domain Authority, homepage 72 Page Authority

BOTW: 73 DA, homepage 46 PA

GoGuides: 65 DA, homepage 34 PA

For me, its worth being in Yahoo's directory, but best of the web and goguides are not so clear cut.

Check out http://www.seomoz.org/top500

I'm not sure on the exact scheduling, but the rankings are only updated periodically. You should see your rank updated by tomorrow at the latest.

A cleaner way to do this is to use a print css file. In your HTML you call it like so:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="our-print-version.css">

Then you have only one document for both print and screen, and you can 301 one of your duplicates back to the original.