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Definitely from the penalty. I've seen it countless times. Branded sites that wont show up for brand keywords, ugh, hate seeing that when potential clients approach us.

Depends on how fast your pages get crawled again, which depends on your niche and your domain trust as well.

Ive gotten badly optimised ecom sites to rank by just making great onpage seo changes. In a highly competitive space, you will see less "drastic" jumps but you'll still be able to see it. Be sure to add great unique content on your category pages ok?

it's indexed for me. As for the FB page ranking, backlinks. Backlinks in mass works well to rank fb pages. Just dont forget to continue to engage your market.

the cleaner/bigger the image, the better they perform for me. I tested this in the "sexy celebrities" niche where you get to compete with thousands of new players everyday and authority sites. Ive gotten great organic image traffic just by optimising it there.

Just get those links. Consider it as a way to diversify your current link portfolio. Wouldn't that actually be natural looking vs everything being within the same niche? Plus those links are one of a kind so just don't worry about it.

If you really can't help but worry, ask for Brand/URL anchor texts with a "long-enough" description. You'll be fine

definitely dont see anything wrong with cross social shares. Not something I would even worry about.

Id make sure your site can load fast, promote engagement with social media, other posts you have or whatever, so you lower your bounce rate and improve your inbound signals. You should be ranking better than ever after that. Just keep them on the site and make good use of your traffic

You already took action, it's all in Google's hands now

I wont bother myself worrying about it, it's going to happen, and it's good that he didnt know how to spam you well.

As long as your base links are good, those links wont really mean much unless he knew what he was doing lol.

you just said it's competitive so you better start off page seo asap. You wont rank for spammed out niches like iphone cases if you dont start doing link building, unless its ultra long tail.

ecommerce onpage seo, you seem to know it already, just make sure you have some good content on your category pages, it's one of those things people forget.

If this was in wordpress, there are plugins to mass fix this or you can just do it the hard way. I would just opt to remove those from being indexed but follow them. Shouldnt hurt too much and will help in the long run.

sounds like a pain...lots of clients are lol

I would instead create a plan for training, broken down to each month as long as they reach the cost I charge.

Plus a consultation fee that is separate

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

Share it to both. Get as much eyeballs to see it, basically get enough followers. Force them to +1 it lol. Don't bother yourself with tracking them if each has their own audience

are your rankings dropping because of this? I normally wouldnt bother with monitoring my DA. Are you still building links to your site?

it's just about the code and how it's applied on your site but mostly it's not that big of a deal unless you are running a huge site. Try out Ron said though if you have time.

as long as you have the Google+ Page listing verified, it should show up already by now.

I suggest asking here http://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=us-et-new_PlacesLP_Q22013_community#!forum/business if you are really sure you didnt do anything wrong.

can you let us see your rel=publisher code? Its weird because it should be pretty straight forward

Hi

I would start with keyword research. Those keywords will always be competitive, but it's what you will have to aim for.

Start going through other words related to it(or longer tail keywords so it's easier) - make a list on a spreadsheet and start working on those to build your relevance and trust. Targeted to your inner pages. Yes, the Jules Verne example you mentioned is also something you can do at this point.

Eventually, with a properly optimised ecom site, you will start ranking for different words you werent even considering and you will have to do more for those to increase traffic even more. Never forget to build your brand and to actually getting the word out using other mediums, that will speed things up.

Tip: Be sure all your products have unique content, as well as on the category pages.

Try to read more about keyword research and ecommerce. Places like inbound.org has a good compilation

That could just be part of your strategy. Just buy the domain and create another site for it, both of them rank, you win

Anyway, if it's just local, then that is fine. If you plan to build the brand globally eventually, then it's best to start with a brandname domain. Since it's not available, something that would be short rather than using dashes (-) will be better for recall and trust.

it's just guestbook spam. It still works on local and some niches. Theres nothing you can do about it until google finally decides to hit all keywords and niches equally. For now, you have to live with it. They probably have more of these, and some other platform spam so just beat them with better links. Treat 1000 of these links as just 1 of your good links. Get enough, and you will beat him.