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You have a lot of options actually

1. Start with your most basic ones, which are social platforms. Advertise, promote, SEO, reach out. This gets the ball rolling quick for new sites with a competitive niche like this

2. Content creation and marketing - create an infographic, start an epic storyline post or whatever that your target market would like. Segment them first. For example, there's a good chance someone looking for the service is dating someone. Why not create a content piece about the best ways to impress a girl he's dating with things he can do along with a "surprise" flower delivery.

3. Promotion and contests - maybe you can do a weekly special, like customising certain products for the receiver.

4. the usual SEO - this is probably the longest in terms of ROI but it's the most important long term.

There a lot more you can do which is limited to your imagination and budget. I know other mozers here have other creative or traditional things in their mind that will also help a lot.

I actually got a good boost, mostly from sites with minimal (to no) link building. Just great onpage. So it's possibly a Panda. I havent really researched it much yet due to time constraints

Much like for Facebook, we usually recommend to do so. A main one is probably needed. It's for the general audience, to send out company wide promotions and stuff.

1. Should i stop worrying about backlinks that i once had and now the websites is down or page is 404

• I would, because if it's a lot then you lost a lot of links there. Usually a sign of blog networks

2. The link is nofollow

• No problem with this one

3. Also i have 60% of my site links few root link and many articles/blogs links pasted in sites without any anchor text, should i worry about them?

• copied? Scraper sites are natural, the important part is that you keep track of them. If it gets out of hand, be prepared to disavow them or email them to remove them

Hi Joni

I would definitely recommend to optimise for better CTR. My lazy way is to just Buffer(app) the posts, see how the reaction is and the CTR, and republish it with a tweaked social media title and image. Image is king on social so I do tests for that.

I saw an article here on moz some days back, which is one of the better ones ive seen recently about Facebook http://moz.com/blog/forget-googles-games-make-social-a-primary-traffic-source you might want to take a look.

i cant really answer that because i do not see the purpose of other sites. Reciprocal links arent really needed but you might just be thinking of maybe the 3 will pass link juice back to the main site. Honestly, you can just do it. It's just a few and it doesnt really matter at this moment. Just focus on other link building work instead of worrying about it

Good luck Gagan

EGOL is correct, Gordian.

Start fixing those. One the content is brand new and reindexed, it's a waiting game from there onwards. It might make you wait for the next update or you might need to look at your site structure further to find other culprits.

There's really not much Panda 4 did differently. It only improved the original Panda so the same stuff applies so hopefully, you'd get back when you fix the current issues.

from all my years, there's really no difference for me. I would suggest using the "-" for your internal content url structures since it would make it easier for readers to understand but i would advice against the dash on the main domain name.

if you think you think you can add more to the topic, then just update it. If the content is very good and has been driving consistent traffic for a long time, i would make it to a static page (same permalinks) then make sure it's very visible throughout the site.

I really don't see any problems with it based on experience but I would suggest sticking with acquiring eyeballs, engaging and getting them to share if for you instead of having each post getting shared on the same accounts. That "might" be a potential problem down the road, especially if you have a lot of them, including the pliggs..ughh.

I would ignore that problem since its a pretty small niche. Google wont even think of doing anything in a very small niche since it wont be able to show much relevant links so its forced to show your site no matter what. But like Chris said, it generally, youll need to do it for building relationships and citing authoritative websites.

That's right. You might want to check your analytics. See if your traffic on those thin pages dropped. You might also want to check your indexed pages on webmaster tools to see if it dropped.

If you see signs in any of those, then you found your main problem.

That's the only thing I would work on right now actually. Edit them or redirect to meatier, relevant pages.

One thing I'm sure of is that this isn't Penguin as you never really did create any links to it

definitely go with long tail branding on the front page. I would create a specialty page for the specific service to "further elaborate" on what we do and what they get or something like that. You homepage will give those pages a boost and you can even get 2 pages to show up.

Definitely not something Id be worried about, as long as you set the proper rules and restrictions on what they can post/how long it is/how they link

Main thing I'd worry about is anchor text so just set proper choices for them.

Did you mean G+ communities or Pages? Moz can track G+ pages, not communities though.

I think Moz analytics is more interested in your actual engagement on your page and leaves the stuff outside it, to you. I would advice the use of Circloscope to manage circles for communities but In terms of tracking each move you make in communities then http://www.circlecount.com/communities/ might help a little. Not much, but you might find it useful

Thanks

Hmm, usually, it's a map or something big that pushes worthy sites down. Im assuming you are at Page 2 ATM. I will ignore the fact of links for the mean time.

Im also assuming that you are working on a local business? So do you have local citations built and are the competing sites mostly inner pages of strong domains? Is your domain new? Or newly redesigned?

If it's a very tight niche with similar or related categories, Id just go with a post name. It's cleaner and easier to promote.

I go the category route if it's a different set of products/topics or ecommerce site.

Both works

Like Takeshi said, it does affect with long tails, especially if you got a good deal of traffic from that before.

Aside from that, I wouldn't really mind too much. If it's a good site, it'll get some good comments again.

But yeah, disqus is a pretty good alternative but you probably have your reasons for going with Facebook only.

Good luck!

Most likely a breach to your wordpress. If it's an old, outdated version, had vulnerable plugins or the server security was brute forced.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.batesmillstore.com/*

filter with Buy or Cigar

You'll see that it has been there for a while.

Secure your website, server. Check your backlinks for cigarette links and don't worry about those 404's too much.

that's a pretty cool tool Daniel

Those you mentioned have worked for me along with adding schema to show the description.