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I'd say noindex, follow them - many SEO plugins can do this for you, Yoast SEO for example. That way Googs can still crawl them, which may assist with discovery, but won't index them.

You might try re-submitting your sitemap and the fetch as Google / submit to index tools via Google Webmaster Tools to try to speed it up a notch.

Have you tried posting a job on an outsourcing site like odesk?

Agree with Kane, 301 individual URLs.

You mentioned you're using wordpress, there's a plugin for that, checkout redirection.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

There's no set time, typically it can take a week or two, I've seen it take a month or longer though to completely noindex all desired results on bigger sites.

There's no harm in re-submtting the site,  try submitting URL and all linked pages via webmaster tools, it may help get crawled a little faster.

I would have to say, checkout The Beginner's Guide to SEO, specifically chapters 4,5,6,7.

Good luck!

I asked a similar question a while ago: http://www.seomoz.org/q/project-management-program-for-seo

There are a number of products discussed there. However, the consensus seemed to be that while there are a number of options available, no one product seemed to nail it for SEO specifically.

Don't get me started on trying to contact Yahoo re their directory listings!

They sent us an invoice for a listing I wanted to cancel, when I replied to their email I received a reply saying the emails don't get checked and another email to try. That one also failed. They also supplied a link in the email to edit the listing - the link was broken.

I found a support page, the captcha for the email for was broken. etc etc

Agree with Broadbeach on this one,

"Waste of money and time."

IMO If you want to recover from Panda, building content on crappy free-for-alls like Squidoo or Hubpages isn't the way to go.

If you're going to create some new unique content, make it awesome and post it on your own site OR create extra-awesome content and try and score a guest blog on an authority site in your niche.

Technically it is gaming, but it happens more often than you think.

I, personally am a bit of a perfectionist and wouldn't be able to put my name to anyone else's work.

My initial thought was along the same lines, the legit way: Adwords, Bing Ads, Facebook etc, all of which have geographic targeting options.

Try a combination of Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools and OSE. (If you had access to Majestic why not mine that source also) Throw all results in a spread sheet and remove duplicates.

I've noticed the same thing, while the initial 'insta-change' may be alarming, when you check back just a few mins later the QS adjusts.

Today I was pausing a bunch of low quality score keywords for a client, the thing is, once I paused the keywords, the quality score would immediately change.

For example, a number of keywords that had a QS of 3 while they were running, immediately changed to 1 once paused. Out of curiosity I un-paused one of them and it remained at 1.

Has anyone else experienced this and/or have an explanation?

Cheers

With Wordpress you can no-index category pages, tags, author pages, archives etc.

Most of the SEO plugins let you do this, I know Yoast's plugin does it for sure.

Also make sure your site is using canonical tags and you should be good.

Try adding &gl=(country code) to the URL at the end of the Google search query.

For example:

&gl=uk for United Kingdom

&gl=us for United States

&gl=au for Australia

In short, no. But checkout http://www.opensiteexplorer.org with SEOmoz Pro you'll have unlimited access to it.

SEOmoz tools don't report PageRank, but they have a similar scoring method called Domain Authority (DA). Enter a URL and checkout the linking domains report, it will give you a listing of linking domains in order of DA.

It doesn't tell you whether a domain is a blog / wiki / dir etc - that would be quite difficult for a machine to understand. You can often get an idea by the domain name, or check them yourself manually.

1. Can googlebot see the text?

Login in to Google Webmaster Tools, go to Health > Fetch as Google This will show you exactly what they can see.

2. Could you be penalised for it?

If it's just keyword spam, yes. Make sure the content isn't there just for bots, but is useful for visitors and you should be fine,

What was the source of the traffic?

Did a popular site mention you?

Did a competitor run an offline campaign you may have benefited from?

Can you ask any of the converted visitors from that time frame how they found your site?

Had been using, and was happy with Google Website Optimizer, but since they retired it and moved to Google Analytics Content Experiments we've had mixed results with it. For some experiments it seems to work with a hitch, but a few of our experiments have been problematic in terms of accuracy. Have a look at the Google groups product forums and you'll see many, many people having issues with it.

We're going to try Visual Website Optimizer next, it has all the features we need. We also looked at Optimizely, but from what I could tell it doesn't letsyou run experiments by simply supplying the URLs you want to test, you have to create your variants using their editor.