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There's quite a big factor for not ranking yet which is easy to overlook when you've put your heart and soul into what is a decent content page.

Look at the competitors - e.g. if I google 'Moving Tips', you're up against Buzzfeed, Goodhousekeeping and the BBC for starters.

blog.storitz.com DA: 27. Buzzfeed DA 94.

Looking at most of the first page and a bit, they've all got higher Domain and Page Authority. Without having the time to investigate right now, my first suggestion would be to run some of the specific competitor ranking pages/sites through Open Explorer and see where they are getting links from and how it compares to you. Creating great content is a requirement these days, not a complete solution - you still need to encourage traffic and links...

It depends on the competitive nature and how ethical the industry niche is as a whole. You tend to find certain areas of bad practice get cleaned up more effectively than others - and don't forget that there was supposed to be a major Penguin manual algorithm update rolling out since the start of the year which has been continually been delayed before it moves into constant rolling auto updates - so unethical practices may be even more risky than before in the next few months.

If you're in position 3, I wouldn't worry too much - there are some studies which show positions 2 & 3 can actually get more clicks than 1 depending on user behaviour, and the increase in PPC slots at the top of results pages only confuses things further (Especially as reports today indicate about 50% of people don't even realise there are paid ads at the top of search results).

I'd agree with Dmitrii that for the time being, it's best to concentrate on what you're doing, and making sure that you won't get caught out by any algorithm updates, then wait a month or two at least to see what affect the next rollout has... Obviously in the meantime, you may be losing some business, but it's potentially more cost effective to invest in some PPC in the short term to see whether that has a bigger impact than moving up organically...

If you go with a single domain, you can use hreflang to cover duplicate content targetting each location, which works for same-language/different country.

From https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

'Some example scenarios where rel="alternate" hreflang="x" is recommended:

• You keep the main content in a single language and translate only the template, such as the navigation and footer. Pages that feature user-generated content, like forums, typically do this.
• Your content has small regional variations with** similar content in a single language**. For example, you might have English-language content targeted to the US, GB, and Ireland.
• Your site content is fully translated. For example, you have both German and English versions of each page.'

I can't recommend an SEO specific project management tool, but I have used a range of the different ones out there to manage marketing, including SEO.

In terms of tools, the best solutions I've found have either been to merge several tools together - in my case, I use Slack as a communication tool which then pulls in updates and info from Trello, Asana and a couple of others. It's a bit of a pain to co-ordinate, but having Slack as the central hub helps to keep everything together, and most team members are able to see what they need fairly quickly and easily.

The all-in-one solution I've preferred has been Liquid Planner, which has a huge amount of stuff for both workflow and team management etc. It works really well for larger teams, and offers the flexibility for freelance and client access in addition to internal management, combining tasks, timekeeping, payments etc.

Hopefully the situation is already resolved, but having recently had to do this for both clients and my own projects...

First, make sure that the email address used for your Youtube account is added as a manager to the G+ page you want to be linked in the future.You then need to go into Youtube settings and click on the option to DIsconnect from Google+.

This will remove the link to the unwanted page - it takes about 20 minutes plus for the change to take effect across Google+ and Youtube.

You can then go to Advanced under the Name section of the Youtube Settings and click to link your desired Google+ page.

I'd recommend checking everything is all working, then finally go back into Google+ with your original Youtube email address and delete the now extraneous and unwanted page.