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One of the nice things that was added to LinkedIn is the company profile pages, and being able to create your own groups.

"thought leadership on specific groups"

What is the specific group you are trying to target? It would be possible to create a group on LinkedIn, around your subject matter, and invite your contacts to join. If I remember correctly, you can only invite 50 people from your contacts once the group is set up. By posting good relevant info, I dont think you will have a problem getting the exposure you desire.

Info on linked in company pages:
http://business.linkedin.com/marketing-solutions/company-pages.html

Info on linked in groups:
http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1164/~/groups---getting-started

Hope this helps!

You'll need to request all ad groups in the campaign and choose the one with the same name.

It is possible to get adgroup id. It is part of AdGroupAd type, and can be retrieved using "AdGroupId" as selector name. Then you would retrieve the field as $googleAd->adGroupId. More details here:

http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/reference/latest/AdGroupAdService.AdGroupAd.html

Lots of questions come to mind.

1. How old is the site? (how long has it been live?)
2. How optimized is the content? New doesn't mean good.
3. You mentioned there aren't any bad backlinks, are there any good ones?
4. Does a sitemap exist? Has it been submitted in Webmaster tools?

A few things I noticed:

I ran the site through SEO-browser.com, and saw you have headings above your first H1. This tool allows you to see your site the same way a search engine does. There isn't a lot of content on the home page either, only 1 paragraph above the fold, and most of it is bullet points.

The blog page only has 2 posts. One has a broken image path. The blog on this site does not seem to be used effectively.

On the pages I looked at, there are not a lot of internal links encouraging people to explore the site. I have noticed that Google tends to not like "dead end" pages. Consider adding links both internal and external from your pages, and expanding the content.

Even though you have the Google+ link, authorship is not set up for the website. I would add more validation links to existing citation profiles, or if they dont exist, create some. In the "Extracted structured data" there is required structure missing for that snippet to work properly.

Site appears to be focusing strongly on finance, might want to expand to the active term, "financing", and check google trends and keyword tool to see if that is more popular.

Footer location info is not marked up in rich snippet format. You can view how to do this here:
http://www.schema.org/Organization

Site index shows a default wordpress page being indexed:

All pages have a page title with the company name, rather than focusing on the subject matter page is about.

No keywords in backend seo.

That should give you a good start. Hope this helps!

Sometimes its about what you cant see. Backlinks, and other sources may exist that factor into a higher ranking.

There are a few ways to look at this.

As long as you have to resources available to properly optimize both sites, and provide distinct, separate content, then no, there should not be any adverse affect to your seo or ranking.

I think it's wiser to invest your efforts in one site, but I can understand the cause for a separate site, particularly if it is using a keyword-driven domain name.

Sorry to double post, but I went and looked and they also have one specifically for local business.

http://schema.org/LocalBusiness

I think adding the map by itself couldn't hurt, but I would combine it with schema organization or business markup  for the best results. You can specify where your physical location is with either of those two mentioned.

Just wanted to add, no I don't think there would be any adverse effects on ranking, unless the site was compromised somehow. Since you are on a completely different system, you should be fine with a resubmission.

On a side note, since you are on WordPress now, make sure you have the right file permissions, and shell access turned off. Hackers love a WordPress site that is unprepared.

Best of luck with the new site!

Sounds like they have a super old page cached in their system. Do you have caching turned off in the new WordPress site? Most people turn it on, but I have found if you have gzip compression and css compiling turned on, it's not needed. To me, caching can create more headaches then solutions. (personal opinion)

You could also go into your webmaster account, and do a fresh "fetch as google" for the root domain,  and all linked pages. This way they will have the latest version of your site in their database. Google downloads your site so they can reference the content quickly for the search queries entered. Could be they are still on an old download. Have you ever resubmitted the site since you rebuilt it?

I don't think it's a big deal not to have it, but for something that can be done in literally 10 seconds I'd play safe than sorry.

To explain what I meant about the duplicate home pages, you can often have multiple versions accessible to the public. For example:

Yourself.com

www.yourself.com

www.yourself.com/index.php

I haven't looked at how you have it set up, but all should go only to one version to prevent home page duplication, and the final version you decide on would be the one you include in the sitemap. Hope that helps!

Nothing he can do? Lmao what a terrible answer. On the old site, you should still have Ftp setup. In that account, go into your htaccess file and add the rule that redirects all traffic  to your existing domain, or the one you want to get indexed. Also add a robots rule denying any access to the old domain ftp.

Option 2 is to delete any and all old site files in the domain Ftp you want to get rid of, have the site urls return a 404 error, and do a url removal request in webmaster tools. Option 1 would be safer imo, but doing option 2 will get rid of the old domain for good.

I'm not sure if I would do it that way.

First, look at your analytics for each language, and see which ones it makes sense to accommodate. Remember, it's not just setting up all the profiles, it's also having to update them all separately. Extra time spent for how much of a return? Also, because of your business type, will people really interact with the social side of your business? Or are you setting it up solely for search engine validation purposes?

I'm not an expert as this, but I'm betting most platforms have a translator built in. Here is a link I found for Facebook. You probably want to check out the others for yourself and see what is available.

http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-moves-into-international-translation-efforts/

Look in your site map file, and copy and paste one of the other url snippets. Change out the url for the url of your homepage. Make sure to double check the urls that were included, for any unusual urls. With cms-based sites, site map plug-ins can include non-sef urls, that you don't want indexed.

I usually make my sitemaps manually. You should include plenty of info, including creation date, last modified date, etc. If you need a template or would like me to send you a sample site map with the correct structure, let me know.

And to answer your question, yes, I would include the home page url. While you are at it, make sure your site cannot be accessed with www and no www.it should always go to one or the other. Same goes with index.php for the homepage.

Hope this helps!

Personally, I'd leave them in place. I don't think it does any harm to have the bread crumbs in place. Now if it was creating additional URL's I would say you may have an issue but I don't think you have anything to worry about. If anything it could provide a benefit

I don't think so, if anything there is a benefit. The only thing I don't like about press release sites is that you don't have control over where they submit your release. You pay them a fee, write your release and then how for the best.

I haven't seen any negative effects from doing press releases. Just make sure what you put out there is something someone will find helpful or useful.

Just wanted to add:

Do both urls show up for a page? Meaning if you had a page about dog treats, can that page be accessed through both urls on the Web (manually or in serp results)? If so, you need to redirect the domain you don't want to use immediately to prevent duplications. Just parking one on top of the other usually will not take care of replacing the other url. You don't want to have both indexed at the same time.

In addition to parking the domain, did you add a parked domain htaccess rule? In addition to search engines, make sure your visitors are getting to the right place, without duplicate content.

After a while, all the new urls should replace the old ones, but I have seen this process take up to 6-8 months.

I agree. Get rid of all the links that do not offer any benefit. Remove external links that don't point to good, relevant info. Disavow inbound links from any banned or questionable sources. Even if the links pointing at you are no follow, the links can still get visited. Remember, it's up to Google to respect the no follow rule. In some cases they may ignore it, if they think it's a relevant link.

I have never used PR leads, but I have used sbwire with some success. Seems to be the same type of distribution. I believe sbwire also owns digital journal, which is one of the places your release will be published.

I'm interested in others response to this as well.

Sorry if there are typos btw, doing this from my mobile. Let me know if I can be of any further help. I'd be glad to provide more insight.