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Unless the layout was changed or things went wrong, no. I've migrated maybe 50 websites over the past year with no ill effects. Any that did, occurred because something went wrong (htaccess issues, extended downtime) or because there was a design change. In the case of the latter, rankings return any time between a few days to a few weeks. (Assuming the markup/content is still good)

Sounds like the best solution is to alter the template & eCommerce system you are using to allow for that functionality. Anything else would be a hacky workaround that violates the 'Is this for search engines, or users?' rule.

Looks like you are running an ASP-based solution. I'll be of no help there

Quality at a value doesn't really work out, if you're looking for an agency. (The pick one: cheap, good, fast concept applies) Agencies may provide great ROI but they have a high initial cost, and we aren't sure what your budget is.

Without giving a budget and more information on the project, it's impossible for anyone to help further than sharing personal experiences. On that front, I'll share mine: consultants are generally the most cost effective. Finding them is easiest if you network among your local business chamber. A good candidate will list a few references of businesses they helped similar to yours, and make sure you follow up by calling each of the references.

Get a contract written, of course.

Yes, it displays pricing information in your listings as seen here.

If you are asking if it's worth doing it, ROI wise, then yes. It makes your listing stand out more. There is the argument that competitors might have a lower price listed in the meta data, but organic listings aren't really used for price comparison. That's what apps / Google Shopping is for. You'd be surprised at how few online stores are even showing this meta data, anyway.

In addition, Google isn't the only service using the meta data. You will also get included in shopping apps that crawl this data.

As far as hard numbers, I don't have that or know of blogs that have published similar data. Including meta information overall has increased CTR in my experience, though.

Yeah a page like this should be noindexed. You can do that in robots.txt, which you should be able to modify within your CMS or at the very least upload via FTP.

Nofollowing the links will not doing anything for you.

Pagerank sculpting is long dead. Technically you can still do it through some creative JavaScript, but the real issue here seems that you need to noindex these pages. What kind of pages are we talking about here?

Are you using a CMS where you can easily edit permalinks? It's worth reviewing the longer ones if so.

This is intended functionality in Magento. It's supposed to help the user experience, as a user can navigate to a page even if they aren't sure on the casing of the words.

Of course that's bad for SEO. You'll need to put in the concept of canonicalization. Here's a free extension by Yoast:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/canonical-url-for-magento.html

Cheers.

Update: seeing your response, your solution of putting in redirects wouldn't be possible. You'd have to cover all combinations of caps/non-caps, and well, that's more work than you should want :). As for why this happens, the uppercase character is being lowercased when checking if something in the database matches the URL. Again, this is intended functionality.

You make connections with editors any way you are able. Following them on social media websites, commenting on their blog, and in this case you'd be very interested in this:

http://www.wired.com/services/feedback/letterstoeditor

Of course, they probably won't appreciate spam. Only get in touch if you are genuinely sure what you want to promote is worth their time.

It's more of a proactive cause, than retro. Don't expect the editor to add in a link post-publishing unless it's critical.

The idea of promoting your website is not spam. Often the method you take to achieve this goal is.

Are you stuffing keywords into copy? That's spam. Are you building a large amount of long-tail exact-match links for those terms? Yeah, that's spammy too.

Honestly those numbers are too low. You should be focused on more broad keywords, and then if you're still concerned with local rankings by the time your domain is authoritative, rank for the city (cities?) where the business is located and nothing more.

A notice is just a notice. If it was a warning or error, that's when you start getting worried.

There is nothing wrong with the amount of links in your navigation. In fact, it's perfect. You can do a lot worse.. I've seen big names have well into the thousands of links per page because of navigation items. (This, too, is OK because of their higher authority)

So at this point you have nothing to worry about: notice or navigation-wise, anyway.

In my experience, yes, these are still valuable links. Although for BOTW I first check the subpage, because their entire directory isn't always indexed.

In general, any directory that has a good index rate, a good link profile, and visibility for the subpage you'll be listed in is an excellent purchase. It still takes some selective choice to weed out some bad eggs, but you'll still find great value from directories.

Again, this has been my experience (even recent!). I see Mr. Andrews' opinion but I'm not sure if that's just an opinion he's heard or experienced firsthand. Maybe he can chip in

Giving away free SEO is a bad idea. You should never really give anything substantial away unless it's a non-profit organization receiving the 'donation.' If you want to go this route, the most I would do is give a free consultation (these cost around $1k where I'm from, so it's good value) so you aren't bound to a project you aren't getting paid for.

My opinion would be that giving money or credit away is bland. Why not brand something and give away a lot of them? For $250 you could give away small branded items to many followers, and now suddenly many people have a reason to remember you.

Just some thoughts. Best of luck.

If someone wants the content, they will get it. You can't stop them without making your content uncrawlable or severely limiting the user experience.

As long as you are publishing the article first, I don't see a problem with the situation. Duplicated content is a problem, sure, but for those that duplicate it. Unless Google has a problem finding the original source, you're fine. This has happened in the past but is rare.

Have you noticed a measurable difference in a controlled study?

I think you're looking for Microsoft Excel

You might try an issue tracker like Redmine. Beyond that, no, sounds like you would want a custom tool, since there isn't enough demand for this kind of thing.

Check the subcategory you'd be listed in, personally. Does it have PR? Is it indexed? Any backlinks? Then yes, it's a good spend of money if the price isn't too bad.

Honestly I'd even be fine if it was only indexed and didn't have the other two qualifiers. Google really came down on directories, but only the SEO directories that only existed to boost rank. An easy giveaway was that all these directories used the same script and appeared to be the same markup, with minor differences.

The directory has good stats. I'd say go for it.

It's not a penalty, but rather an algorithm change.

I'd be interested in hearing about your link building / anchors. You came out on top in the end - broad keywords are better in the long run.

Are you able to change any of the current links with pertinent keywords to the inner page? That's a good first step. The real solution would  be link building to the inner page for relevant keywords. Adding a couple more links from the homepage to the inner page would also help if done correctly.

As a quick fix, you can do two things. The most logical would be to show a flyout advertisement-like block that links to the inner page from the homepage. This will make sure anyone looking for Arabic interpreting will at least be able to get converted in the mean time. The alternative would be to get referrer data and automatically redirect, assuming referrer data is available (it may not be, in the majority of cases).

It'd help if you gave the URL for more specific advice.

Your categories shouldn't go more than two levels deep if you can help it. Cabelas does a good job of this, considering they have many thousands of products (http://www.cabelas.com/)

Category pages should be paged in some sort of manner, showing 20 products by default. Any links from filtered navigation aren't bad, those are mostly ignored.

Cabelas has 458 links on their homepage, so it's not terrible to get in the higher range. It's just not recommended, because you are splitting up the authority so many different ways. In their case, Cabelas also has extremely high domain authority, so they can also get away with it more easily than smaller guys.

http://pingomatic.com/ is a very popular one. Keep in mind that many platforms such as WordPress do this automatically for you.

If you need a larger list, you should write your own script to do so. Pinging a list of URLs would be very easy to do. Ping O Matic should do the job, however.

As far as using a browser addon, why would you need that?

Correct! I show a teaser preview from the actual content on the homepage. The excerpt I write as a brief summary of what the article is about. Best of luck!