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If anyone else is interested in this topic, Enrico Altavilla pointed me in the direction of this Matt Cutts video, which encourages the practice. The comments are pretty damming, however.

watch?v=znOqJu3le2g

One of my newish hobby sites has began to attract some crappy links - as per Google Webmaster Tools, Links To Your Site report. The typical .ru and .pl kind of crap that seems to seep into all somewhat successful sites' link profiles.

I have not received any notifications or penalties, BUT I am considering proactively disavowing these, but wanted to bounce this idea off some other SEOs before proceeding.

Cheers!

Thanks for your reply, the issue is our in-house designers have very keen eyes and don't settle for anything less than perfect, so even a little bit of blurriness of the text in the image is an issue. Highest my work screen res goes up to in 1200x800 but the designers are working on high-end macs.

Asked the designer about the image res, his reply was that everything they did for the web was at 72px so that shouldn't be the issue. However, if you (or anyone) has any evidence to the contraryt, I'd be happy to take it to him.

Re the article, it suggested creating the image at half the dimensions, which I assume would only compound the compression issue.

Thanks for responding!

Does anyone have any tips on getting a super crisp cover image uplaoded to G+?

I have a clear image, full dimensions of 2120 x 1192, but once I've uploaded it, G+ appears to compress it and it loses sharpness / quality. I have turned auto-optimise off, and and tried both JPEG and PNG files - PNG seems to work better, but still not quite there.

Example: https://plus.google.com/116325067504054061939 (scroll up to see blurry text)

Thx!

I don't think standard tags get used much by visitors. Related posts, especially if acompanied by thumbnail images, perform much better in my experience.

To put it simply, the more (decent) content you have, the more opportunites you have to rank for keywords in search.

My opinion, if you're going to do it, do it properly.

I've had great and affordable results hiring translators on Odesk. Get them to do a sample and have another, or multiple native speakers review it. If you can't afford to translate an entire site, consider just doing a mini version of the site or just core pages in another language.

Great question, I'd love to hear some feedback from mozzers who have used woocommerce affiliate plugins.

I asked a similar question a little while ago, there were some suggestions there including: AnalyticsSeo and SEOanalytics, I haven't used either of those, but maybe check them out.

You might want to wait and see how the new Moz analytics performs, how the reports look. I understand Raven Tools are also working on something new atm: raventools.com/simple/

I'm quite eager to get my hands on both!

Don't be disheartened, get back on the horse and continue to write regular, awesome blog posts. You might consider some guest blogging to increase visitors from referring sites, and to assist with rankings for more search traffic.

Good luck.

Without you providing additional information, basically you need to start working through your list and addressing the issues, based on which are the most pressing. You probably want to take a look at the Moz SEO guide and make sure you're following best practices in optimising the site overall.

I wouldn't be too concerned, Google is clever enough to identify page elements, like header, nav and content serparately.

Once the redesign is live, do a crawl as Googlebot within Google Webmaster Tools to make sure it can crawl the entire  page.

The other consideration you might look into is site speed, have a look at how the redesign impacts load time, you can compare within Google Analytics (Content > Site Speed report), and/or use an external tool like http://www.webpagetest.org.

I suggest using rel=canonical on those pages, but be aware that they may still show up in the moz report.

In the case where the client wants the product page removed from the site, we've had custom programming to implement 301 redirects, up one category level, so that the customer is take to relevant products in the same category that they were seeking.

Return a 410 http status (page permanently gone, disregard links) on that URL, move the content to a new URL.

If you're using tags internally to help organise content, you could just stop them from appearing on the front end of the site.

The alternative is to keep them on the front end, but to no-index the tag pages.

I don't beleive you will get in trouble for favoriting too many tweets as it doesn't breach any of their T&Cs, guidelines.

If you used some kind of automation software to interact with Twitter, that may be another issue.

410 will kill the link equity. In cases similar to yours, I have implemented a 301 to the category page of the product removed. This gives users products similar to the one they were looking for, and retains link equity.

Raven Tools has a social media monitoring tool. I haven't used it myself in a while and I beleive they recently updated it. Check it out here: http://raventools.com/tools/social-media-monitor/