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Thanks for that.  What you are experiencing by the way could be because the server does not have a reverse dns entry.  A lot of servers do not come with those and that could also be affecting your ability to send out email.  Also be sure that your spf records are setup correctly so that they are viewed as credible.  I had a similar issue a while ago, and it had very little to do with my ip and very much to do with a lack of a reverse dns.  Also, you should run a blacklist check on the mail ip to ensure that it is not listed on 1 of the 150 spam lists.  I use mxtoolbox to check that.  Hope that helps.

I am currently in the process of migrating a site, the domain will stay the same, it will go from example.com to example.com.  The only thing that is changing is the IP address and the host.  The server's will still be in America.

I have done research on this question and have gotten varied answers, some saying that the ip change will affect the SEO rankings depending on where country is, and some saying that Google only looks at the URL not the ip address in terms of rankings.  Does anyone have an answer so I can be prepared and mitigate as much damage as possible?

What I have noticed with clients and others is that traditionalists tend to have a harder time to move over towards digital, where as digitalists have an easier time adapting to changing environments.  However, this is also dependent on the person themselves.  If the traditionalist has a drive to explore the digital side, and they will need to have one otherwise your digital efforts will go to waste, then go ahead and hire that person.  If they do not, i would recommend you hire a traditional SEO and push them along as most traditional SEO's have to deal with change everytime Google does an update (about 500 times a year). Those are my two cents.  I hope that helps.

So yesterday google webmaster tools has over 5,000 links linking to my site.  I get in this morniing and now i have 16 links linking to my site and no rankings minus brand terms.  I do not believe that I have been penalized but I might have been.

After digging further into this it seems that my www.domain.com and domain.com are separated and webmaster tools is tracking www.domain.com and majority of links are to domain.com.  Is this possible or am I wishing to see something that is not there.

Any help and recommendations would be absolutely appreciated.

Jimmy, private message me with a screen grab of your footer.php file so i can see if i can find it.

I don't see anything odd.  To me it looks to be located in the footer file.  Go appeance/editor/footer.php look for that snippet of code and delete.  It also looks to me to be the only bit of html in the footer.  Don't forget to update your file afterwards.

Highlight the portion of the footer you want to remove, right click the highlighted portion and "inspect elements". This will tell you exactly what the code for that snippet is.  Hope that helps.

Yes that is correct.  Also, when you remove it, don't forget to update the file, simple but people tend to forget.

just to clarify, are you talking about having a wordpress site as in "mysite.wordrpess.com" or just using a wordpress CMS on a domain you have such as "www.example.com"?

Hey Sorina,

I had a similar problem a while back and just rebuilt my sitemap, that seemed to take care of the problem for me.  However, if that doesn't work for you, Google offers support via its "help articles".  Here is something to look at: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35738.

I hope that helps.

socialbro is good and is free, you can create your list in twitter, upload it to social bro and do it from there.  If you use google chrome you can download it as an application for chrome.  Hope that helps.

P.S. I am sure there are others, this is the best free one I have tried, and it tries to limit you on how many people a day you can follow, you can chose to ignore.  If it doesn't display the second page, just hit page 1 again, useful workaround.

I am considering the use of searchmetrics and would like to know what other people's thoughts on the tool are.  Any insight would be appreciated.

It is not bad, just not best practices because Google will still index the URL's if they are mentioned on other pages.  Just to quote them:

"While Google won't crawl or index the content of pages blocked by robots.txt, we may still index the URLs if we find them on other pages on the web. As a result, the URL of the page and, potentially, other publicly available information..."

What I would do instead is either use rel="canonical" or 301 redirects.  I hope that helps.

I have included a Video on how to do just that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1aCmHYkIsI&feature=youtu.be

I have not seen any better tools for Traffic segmentation mainly because most people use Google Analytics because it is Free. However, be aware that Advance Traffic Segmentation will give you the results you are looking for if the rest of your analytics is set up correctly.  Meaning, if you have an ecommerce site that is not being tracked correctly the Traffic Segmentation won't give you the results you are looking for because the information it is pulling from wasn't set up correctly.

I hope that helps.

The sercice I have been most impressed with is this: http://www.removeem.com

However, there was a recent moz post about this exact issue: http://moz.com/blog/google-disavow-tool

I hope that helps.

From what I have noticed, and this is not carved in stone, Google defaults a url with a "/" on the end.  Meaning, example.com/page and example.com/page/ are considered the same URL. And if you type example.com/page in Chrome, it will give you the example.com/page/ URL in address bar.  However, in Bing, this is not considered the same.  In Bing, example.com/page and example.com/page/ or two separate URLs.  I hope that helps.

Hey Jason,

Great Name :-). Your PR rank is lower and than the root url of ukpaintball.co.uk. You are a PR 1 and they are a PR 4.  Also, the domain looks to be older than yours and thereby has more authority.  I hope that helps, this was just after a cursory glance and what you were asking.

Social Sharing will not hurt you, it will be great.  You don't need to create the extra channels for sharing, but using the social media that you already have and sharing and liking and tweeting (oh my...) will help with visibility, mainly socially, a long time for organically.

You should also encourage your followers/people who like you to like the article on the page so that it will show up in multiple news feeds thereby hopefully garnering more traffic to your website. In terms of SEO, congratulations on the PR links.

Hope that helps.

Yes there is. Go to:

http://www.google.com/business/placesforbusiness/

type in the account you used in order to create your google places. and it will tell you the amount of impressions per keyword. This will give you a general idea of your rankings in places.

Then check your SEOMoz rankings because it delineates whether your ranking a places or a link in the SERP.

Hope that helps.

Agreed with everything Takeshi just said, but only left out one thing.  Once you combine pages, make sure to 301 redirect the old pages to the new url.  If you don't want to combine remember to use rel=canonical to delineate which type of permalink has the authority.

Hope that helps.