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Not that I know of. You'll have to use the tools to find websites to get the links, but it's up to you to figure out who is best to contact to negotiate for a link!

Good luck!

Because Google doesn't like people to use it. You can however, use a different third party source for PageRank and have it show up next to the MozBar so it looks like it's integrated. Hope that helps.

You wouldn't get a penalty. However, when Google gets a 404 code, it generally will check it a few more times then remove it from the index, at least in my experience it works that way. Sometimes it does not remove them, but usually it does.

I would think if you built links to a 404 and then eventually added content, and it recrawled, it'd get indexed just like a normal page.

Don't really see a way around it. Only force HTTPS on pages that need it. If you can operate at 80% HTTP and 20% HTTPS, that is much better, as people rarely link to HTTPS pages.

So yes, change it

Meta Descriptions are not used for rankings, so you would be fine by just changing out the state. However, I feel it's a great strategy and best practice to handwrite every meta description to insure the best conversion rate and CTR possible.

If I am understanding this correctly, campaign keywords are keywords you track for rankings and the on-page report shows you pages that are optimized to those keywords so you could be tracking keywords for pages that are not built, does that make sense or am I smoking something funny today?

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I do not think it's much of an issue. I don't think footer links bleed that much. I would not worry about it, being perfectly honest. Why not ramp up a few more internal links to these pages or some external links?

Generally, I would use something like the following:

"Botox Procedures in Atlanta, Georgia" for the H1 or Title tag, make sense? You just need to rewrite the content so that it is written from a geo-targeted area, does that make sense? You can't simpy find and replace to add in geo-targeting, unless you want crappy content.

Rewrite it with geo-targeting in mind. The biggest thing would be a few hyperlinks with the geotargeted anchor text, title tag, and H1 tag and some links.

Then definitely not an issue, Apple does this like you said, all the time! So do many others!

With how great the indexing and reindexing rates out with Caffeine, I would not worry too much about it. I would try and keep the title tag and meta desc the same, but changing your actual page to show a splash page wont hurt anything, unless you plan on it being a splash page for more than a month?

I've used this many times before and never had an issue!

We built an internal tool to do it for us, but basically you can do this manually.

Go to google, type in "site:YOURURLHERE" without the quotes. You can check a certain page, a site, a subdomain, etc... of course if you have thousands of URLs this method is not ideal, but it can be done.

Sure.

We do it because it's a great sales tool. Rarely do we ever find a competitor that builds W3C valid websites. In our sales pitch we talk about how our websites are W3C valid, it's adhering to a set of rules and guidelines and it's cleaner code generally which can increase load times.

We tell them they can display a W3C valid button on their site, most of them like that.

It's also a matter of doing things the right way... you can build a frame out of anything but there is a right way and a wrong way to build a door frame. We choose to do it all according to standards and best practices.

It's almost like a committment to excellence type of thing.

Allow users to review each person/company/service and give their thoughts?

I don't think that hurts your domain authority. At least, in my experience it never has.

The way to get your DA up is by getting more authoritative links, a higher diversity, and that is pretty much the basis of it.

Work on getting authoritative and hard to get links like .EDU, links from high PR sites, etc...

This is what I do for my clients and my own website:

-Forum profiles on high PR sites. Start with 100.

-Submit to all local directories recommended by David Mihm.

-Optimize Google Places to be in accordance with David Mihm and above.

-Do a slow-drip to directories.

-Do-follow social bookmarks

-Twitter/FB/LinkedIn/YouTube profiles that are active.

By that time, rankings appear and you tweak from there. I use that as a starting point.

Unfortunately, as Barry said, there is no rules being broken here. What they're breaking is a best practices kind of thing, but that wont get them in trouble with Google.

Focus on having quality writers create you top notch content, go after some high authority links like .EDU, and just keep trying hard. You'll get there!

If it'll be a couple months, a 301 makes sense. Get it fixed as soon as possible and get things setup with proper 301's and you'll be okay!

You'll lose link-juice, PR, and authority. You'll get some, but some will be lost. Especially once you redirect it back. Depending upon how long you will be doing that, you may actually want to look into using a temporary redirect.

I'd hire someone to fix it if you can't in-house, that is a big issue!

Honestly? It's easy for me. I have a swath of clients that I do SEO for and it's simple what we do...

1- Provide the highest quality content available.

2- Develop the highest authoritative and natural links possible.

3- Watch the rankings roll in.

Honestly, that works for me. Of course I do the best practices for on-page optimization, but that is such a small part of it. All my clients and my own sites rank well.

Yes, you need to focus on yourself. In due time he will be removed, it just takes patience. You can also report his website for breaking the ToS for Google, if he is doing black hat stuff. Duplicate content is not black hat, so you'd need to prove that he is doing cloaking or something similar to that.

Focus on links, a broad variety of links, and high quality content. You'll eventually get there!