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How long have the items been showing an error? Webmaster tools seems to be a little slow some times. I made a small mistake in my markup that caused me to have errors. It is now been fixed but it has just slowly been declining for 3 weeks and still has quite a ways to go.

Everything Jeff has there is the best way to combine the domains. You definitely don't want to mask and end up with duplicate content across .info, .org, .net, etc... Just send them to .com and use canonical tags

djlittman, We've had a couple clients use Reputation.com for their services. None of them really had any bad reviews, but they had several locations and wanted to make sure they were covered. Internet insurance, essentially. In what we have heard from them is that they aren't directly doing work to your website and if they produce a link back to your website, you have the right and ability to request them NOT to link back to your site if they created a blog article or a biography residing on another domain or external post. What they do is "bury" SERPs by trying to rank a positive review or a biography articles to rank over the negative reviews, thus pushing down or "burying" the review to Page 2. If you are considering them, get a consultation first, ask lots of questions and even ask for examples to help you understand more clearly how the approach this strategy to help you and more importantly, remain Google friendly. Hope this was helpful. - Patrick

That sounds fine. I would choose either google apps or zoho for custom email. I have not heard of Hostasaurus up to this point. Hope this helps

Claiming a site on Alexa isn't a bad thing. I'm not too sure about paying for their certified metrics though. But if you claim your site then there are a few small sections you can update to make it a bit more visitor friendly instead of just a bland listing. I use it to keep a quick tab on global traffic rankings but its not something I find that I'm really using on a regular basis or digging deep into. Some other here may have a different opinion of Alexa. I'd assume those sites in the 100k and better range would be more likely to want to use the certified metrics.

Hi there, has your question been answered?

In this case, capitalization doesn't matter, Danielle. The SEOMoz tool will treat both upper & lower case the same. Paul

Seems subjective to me; I would make the call based on whether you're really tracking multiple campaigns or one.  Are all of the keywords related to a single core business or marketing plan?  Keep it together.  But if you have distinct businesses or major product areas that happen to live under a single domain, those would be good candidates to be broken up into separate campaigns here.

I agree with having some consistency with blog posts. It will allow your  to know when to come back and look for a post if it is there around the same time on a certain day or days of the week. I would consider having your various social media accounts post at a different time during the day that way you can touch people who may have forgot to check back at the blog. It will even help get new subscribers down the road.

Hello, For Me, you can answer well to your question. My question is that have you noticed any drop in traffic and other changes for which you're thinking about this bakclink? I suggest you to renew your listing on that directory as this is well known directory and Google still not intimated on directory submission. They have against only one thing LOW QUALITY / SPAM CONTENT.

Hey, This is a hell of a question and in honesty, there is no 'best' strategy and the best strategy is the one (or many) that works for you and your business. There are two main link building strategies from a pure performance in the search results perspective: 1. Manual Link Building You actively seek links from sites that will allow you to link back to yourself. In this category we can have everything from article marketing and press releases through to guest blogging. Even the lowly directory can feature in this approach. Some ideas that fall under this category topically relevant & local directories (that are high quality) - article marketing (squidoo) - press releases - infographic submission directories Really, we are looking at places with little to no editorial control and that have a fairly low impact when it comes to moving the dial. You will also hit a wall with these approaches and whilst there is really no limit on how many articles you could submit to squidoo there is a limit on how much value they pass. (obviously, if your squidoo stuff is super awesome and gets tons of links it's better but really, if it was that good it should be on your own site). This approach also does not scale awfully well so by all means, pick the low hanging fruit but don't expect it to be particularly sweet! 2. Content Based Link Building Next up we have all the ways we can use content to build links and this includes various strategies (some of which we covered above but) guest posting (the fashionable one) - getting interviewed if possible - blogging - big content - infographics and directories - ebooks Now, with content based stuff, we are seeking to identify useful and in demand content and hoping that it generates links. Well, it would be great if you could do that and it 'just worked' but the reality is that it takes time and effort to get to the point where your blog is in such demand that people are tripping over themselves to share and link to it (but you can get there). There is no reason why you can't look at the easy options or even guest blogging but it is not a process you can scale very well and it can be a slow, painful process to build links in any volume whilst maintaining quality. To put this into perspective the textlinkbrokers people offer a high quality guest posting service - I have not tried this but it is like $800 a pop. Now, I don't know how many $800 links you want to buy but clearly, whilst there are other options, this is going to get pretty expensive pretty quickly. My suggestion would be some kind of long term structured approach starting with a six month program. An approach that focused on identifying at least two to three pieces of big content that you can use to attract links and then using social media to help promote that content. A process like this has been pretty well covered here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-link-building It includes social outreach to build a network, identification of link targets, identification of influencers within your niche that you can use to help seed out your amazing content and techniques and strategies to help build relationships with the people you are asking to share your content and link to you. This is not a paint-by-number approach, you are going to have to use some smarts to help identify valuable content but all the tools are out there. Ultimately, I expect people to dive in with the usual content, content, content approach and that is right to a point. But what you really need is great content and a well established network of people that you are going to get to share your content and link to it. (think blogger buddies). Point I am trying to make here is that any one 'strategy' is not going to win the war. You want diversity, you want scaleability and true content driven strategies like infographics + guest post on an established site, ebooks + guestpost on an established sites, ego bait, social outreach etc will help you take great content and give it the audience it deserves. If you follow this kind of approach for six months or longer (try to think 2 year strategy if possible) and build up a great social network winning links can become easy. A client we work with who has gone through a similar process can pop a blog post out, promote it via the social channels, see a large number of retweets, likes etc and expect several links. A recent piece of content that hooked into halloween generated over 30 links from a single, fairly pedestrian piece of content. Summing up Really, you can't replicate this kind of scale or success by manually building links and you can't get to this point over night but if you hunker down and play the long term game, build a big social network, develop content people are actively seeking, blog and network with blogger buddies then long term you can get into a position where the external portion of the SEO should take care of itself! Hope that helps! Marcus