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Matt Cutts covers this in some detail on a Webinar.  If you can fix it, do so, but it would appear that Google do try and make allowances for e-commerce sites where content is duplicated across size colour matrix, being the product description is often duplicated without any other option.

Check Youtube for Matts webinar

Bruce

Hi Pascale

If the content is visible to the "not signed in end user" then it is visible to google. If it is not, it is not visible to Google.

I might have this wrong, but it would appear that you have a pinterest style site and that you want further content only be visible when the user is logged in? This then would be a site settings and not crawl issue.  This is a trgger on the website server to require the guest to log in after XYZ.  The whole site is opened to crawl but you set these parameters for the guest user in your sites back office

I think it is a case of either or, not both

Bruce

edit typo

If the content is for Logged in Users, why would you want it crawled?

Google crawls sites open to the public, therefore if the site is behind a login, then google will not crawl it. If google crawls it, then the content will show up in search results, hence making the login process redundant.

If you want to offer subscription content, then this is a marketing issue, not a crawl issue. You will need to have open content available that the viewing will perhaps then make a call whether to subscribe to your site or not.

Remember login is a cloaking devise, designed to stop unwanted visitors viewing the content, hence why google will view this in the same way.

Hope that helps

Bruce

No it only transports approx 90-99% of the power.  You lose some in the redirect.

Bruce

I vote Old:

If you start with a new domain, then you will have to build all the rankings basicaly from scratch, give or take a few possible redirects etc.  Providing the penalty has gone then you should be fine on this.  Google doesn't from what we know keep a token penalty on the site because of a past problem,  once the main penalty has been lifted its lifted

A new site can take quite a while to settle in and therefore you could expect many months of patience waiting for the site to get to the level of the old one.

Bruce.

This is always the challenge for buying multiple domain variations.  Matt Cutts mentioned this on one of his webnars.

As long as the 301 redirects are working and also rel canonicals are in place and href lang tags where appropriate then Google will know which site is the primary site and that they are related. But you may in my opinion loose some quality as this will be shared between the different .com sites.

Google would really prefer that you focus your energies on building "One" strong site and develop links to that site. I am not sure why you would want loads of .coms active though.  I can understand brand protections, so buy the domain but leave them dormant.

If it were (edit typo) me, I would only 301 local domains to the .com site and not .com to .com.  This for me is confusing for the end user.  301 redirect for "www.brandservicename.ca" or www.brandservicename.de" with the right heading href etc. but not  www.brand-service-name.com to www.brandservicename.com.

Other Mozers' opinions will be useful too

Bruce

Without know what kind of site you have it is hard to gauge.

Ecommerce Keyword ranking swing wildy as these are often used in conjuction with Adwords and bidding. So whilst you might have a great keyword, if this is a seasonal or on trend product then the competition changes dramatically.

If you have a blog or a company site, not in ecommerce, check what is happening in the industry and see if your keyword has gone on trend.  For example: Blue LED.  a few days ago this was not the hotest topic around, but since the Noble Prize has just been awarded, this phrase will be more volatile, but will drop back once the excitement drops.

So in essence for the above, if you keyword was rankng well, it might be that you where in a niche area and ranked well even with other SEO issues present.  Once competition hots up, others might well outrank you.

If you can give us some more info about your site, that would be a great starting point

Bruce

It depends on how often the keyword is used elsewhere.  The recommended level of all keywords relating to a page is 15, nicely placed amongst the URL, Meta description, h1, and text etc.  As long as it is balanced.

The URL is the first indication of the page content relevance to a searched for keyword, and then the others all build up a great picture of the page.  However, URL is not everything.  Quality content is the most important element of a page as Google will look at the page too to make a decision (edit typo fix) "in conjunction" with the URL.

Keyword stuffing is when you have far to many instances.  The best way to tackle this is with a thesaurus and a good keywork tool to find great variations of the Keyword that are also used.

Bruce

HI William

Are you taking about your site promoting your Ecommerce services, or the actual E-commerce sites you are developing?

Thanks

Bruce

Hi Demi

Is the blog on a sub-domain of the main site or a separate domain.

If it is on a sub domain, then this counts as fresh content.  if it is not you might want to think about moving the Blog to a sub domain.

Can you let us know

Bruce.

No expert, but I suspect that Google is on this one already.  In Googles world i guess, they want you make your Golden Ticket, not some-one else from the past. Google crawls your site and will decide in the fulness of time how good the site is and will rank accordingly.

My major concern would be building a castle on sand.  The sand is the high ranking domain, and unless you can convert this sand to concrete fast, then it will slowly blow away with the wind.

Bruce

In essence I would agree with you.

Domain forwarding is a redirect, but it is not going at add value if it is new and also it is not really the right way to use domain forwarding.  There are many more experts on this subject than me, but domain forwarding from my understanding is meant to direct a domain name to a hosting service, a regional territorial domain i.e .co.uk to a com or to forward domain variations to a parent site.

These should then be used with href lang and also rel canonical in the page headers where appropraite

I think Google would really prefer that you build good links and unique content around the  "keywords social skills" and rich content in your original site, creating a page with the URL including xyz.com/socialskills, rather than Domain Forwarding.  New traffic and links built up over time to the main site will be worth the time and effort.

Hope this is useful and I am sure others will qualify some of my points ref Domains if I am slightly off the mark.

Bruce

Agreed.

Find new unique angles to keep the site content unique and fresh,  For most business's seasons, annual or quarterly events either in the business or outside can provide insites and a great reason to add more current content to the existing content already provided.

If you are a bit stuck, let us a bit more about the industry so we can perhaps give a few more angles to help give you some ideas.

Bruce

Hi Dan

What are you wanting to get out of the advertising?

CPC advertising on Facebook is straightforward enough, so if you can elaborate a bit more, that would be useful

Bruce

A Couple of things:

New Google Shopping for Adwords, if you are list products on Google.  This has had a dramatic effect versus the old Shopping on Adwords

Also check Google Places, now Business.  They had an update in August, so this might be a place to look too

If neither of these are likely, give a bit more info about your site, so it helps with some clues.

Bruce

Go to the On Page Grade tool, Grade the page and then follow the output reports recommendations, below the Grade Boxes.  This will answer your questions

Fix the problems and then regrade the page.

Hope that helps.

Bruce

There are loads of answers to this question, but in essence here is a couple of reasons..

Moz will only crawl a high ranking site regularly and therefore if your site is not high ranking and any links to it have not been fully crawled, you will not see in OSE (Open Site Explorer) all links.  When Moz finds your site and crawls it, then they will update your links etc in OSE.  This can be months apart and not regularly as in the monthly crawl.

Google can crawl billions of pages due to their huge scale, whereas Moz and others don't have this level of scale, therefore it is always recommended to use other sites such as Hrefs to get a fuller picture.

Moz is brilliant for giving us great insites into our own sites and where to improve and therefore by using their tools effectively then you will start to get higher ranking links, which in turn will result in due course to you being crawled by Moz monthly.

Hope that answers a bit of the reason

Bruce.

Have you checked your Google Business pages.  Google just launched a major update which is driven by Google Local pages.

This might be a possible source.  If your local searches dropped off then it could be that you have not got your Google Business, (was Places) up to date etc.

Keep us posted as this is interesting

Bruce

Your home page content is the front door to your business or blog.  No front door..no visitors.

Google has to make decisions about your site from the front door onwards and if there is nothing to work with, then nothing will be worked with

Hope that helps

Bruce

First of all, Matt Cutts Head of Spam Team Google, is very clear about great content on Google search, therefore if you do a couple of searches for Matt Cutts Disavow, you will see that in essence, if in doubt disavow.

But you are right to be cautious and also that some links can have a valid relationship with your site, so do be thorough with your research before disavowing.  Also double check via Google Analytics to see if you can find out a bit more about the link.  Some linking in domains can appear a bit odd, but can be something as simple as a Cable TVs internet shopping channel.

Bruce