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Hi Dana,

Not that I'm aware of.  The only way to respond to an action via the browser is using javascript in some way.

Dan

Hey,

Microsites were typically set up to take advantage of an EMD, Exact Match Domain. Since the softening of EMD relevance in search, microsites have lost their efficacy.

Although there still may be a need for microsites, I don't think they should be considered if it's simply to rank a keyphrase/s.

Dan

Hi,

Depending on the nature of the blog and size of your site, I would consider creating the blog as a folder within your site. Having a blog that refers to your business quite a bit is best found under your domain as it provides a great deal of long tail keywords, will provide a lot of internal linking which done right improves usability and most importantly it gives your site breadth and depth,  giving it an air of authority.

As for mass uploads and reduced man hours.  Firstly, in my mind the only blogging platform that excels at optimised layout is wordpress.

Although you can copy paste content from editors (like word), I would highly recommend you give the relevant parties their own author logins,  teach them all the editing options and style requirements and have them draft everything in wordpress. For added consistency, have an editor (a nominated person) look over it to ensure each article has the same look and feel before publishing. If it is simply pre written documents,  I would suggest copy/pasting them into a plain text editor eg. Notepad and copy/paying them to wordpress.  This will remove the formatting. To save on the man hours, employ someone of oDesk to do the grunt work.

Articles uploaded from Word and other word processing applications often paste poorly as they have a number of hidden tags that leave a mess of styles.

Dan

Hi David, In my experience no... Although a screen shot would help to see the layout of what you have described, having a title at the top of the Page and a subheading below the folder giving additional information to the product is perfectly acceptable. As longer as the layout and information support the usability of the Page I would be confident that you would not be penalised. Dan

Hey,

I would most definitely run the blog in the folder (mydomain.com.au/blog) over the sub-domain...

Sub-domains are considered a separate site, and therefore offer little SEO benefit between sub-domain variations. That said, it is great for branding and breaking up very distinct elements of a business.

Hope this helps.

Dan

Hi,

I assuming you are talking about the keyword tool found incorporated in Google Adwords, https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool 

This, although an estimate, is the most accurate source of data of keyword search volumes. I have compared these values to impressions given for consistently ranking keywords in webmasters and they match up.

Make sure when you run these searches in adwords, you have your desired country selected, and I would suggest selecting "exact match" instead of broad. The other thing to consider when examining this data is that the search results can be seasonal. The data provided is simply in the last month, so a trending topic (Oscar Pistorius) OR a seasonal one (Christmas Shopping) may not give the results you might think. Google Trends can help you realise this...

Dan