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You can find potential new backlinks to your site by monitoring all the referrers to your site. This will sometimes allow you capture links before Google actually indexes them, but it limits you only to links that actually bring traffic.

Hmmmm okay I'll try that and send it to the programmer. Thanks!

Sadly, I'm in Montana, and have very few bushes around, so option D) is out of questions How is the new domain ranking for other keywords?  Maybe like 4 slice toaster, or whatever phrase gets a lot of traffic?  If it's ranking high for other phrases I would use it as a temporary test dummy.  Pretty up the website, and find out which phrases, designs, etc. convert the best while you improve your original /toaster website.  Once you have all the data you need, and a highly improved /toaster page, just 301 it over. However, if you don't have that much time, I'd just 301 it over, and go on with your day.  There's always room for hopes and dreams, but this whole 24 hours in a day thing can get in the way if you don't have help. If you choose to redirect, I would definitely put it on the inner /toasters page.  It looks like you already have a good amount of links pointing to your home page, and not many to the inner page.

The first thing I would do is login to my webmaster tools account and submit a reconsideration request. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?pli=1 this goes a long way with Google. Just explain everything as it happened and confirm that the problem got fixed. I hope that helps!

If publisher who you are an affiliate of allows for any custom variable to also be sent with the visitor you can include this and hopefully query it in your reporting from the partner.  This is the case for CJ, Amazon, and eBay but often times private affiliate programs have limited tracking.

One thing you can try is reaching out to your Adwords Account team (or reach out to Google and request an Adwords Acct Manager, if you don't already have one). They are often able to get you additional Youtube perks.

Hi We have used a few different systems over the last year finally settling on snap engage. This system is particularly useful for proactive chat where a small pop up appears after a specified time on specified pages. We have found that this is improving conversions. It uses skype or google talk and has quod functionality whilst remaining simple to use and install.

We use Boldchat. I've not seen any drags on loading and it seems to work well. CSRs don't complain about it anyways.

Sounds like you are agreeing with me, Ryan. As I mentioned, if you go overboard with "optimizing" you end up having a site that is not linkable or attractive enough for other people to link to you naturally, so although you will get traffic for using the keyword rich content, title, etc, you are getting it at the cost of future links. That's lacking a long term strategy. I would never link to a website that looked too keywordy or spammy even if it wasn't one and I am confident there are many others like me. That being said - if you have smaller "satellite" sites, and those sites are meant to cater to a specific niche and their main objective is to get traffic to your main website rather than create new leads/sales on their own, then its a different story - I would go for optimizing first in this case. I would make sure most keywords that I care for are covered. User experience is still important (or they'll bounce) but not as much as it is for your main MOTHER site.

Maybe even a robots.txt for a particular page like "advanced catalog" for ecommerce sites.

I would stick with the old URL structure.  If you redirect there could be some loss of anchor text on inbound links and perhaps in linkjuice.  If you are making nice money and these pages have external links don't walk the tightrope just to get  tidy file names.

One of my websites got knocked off the first page. Another website got listed on the first page. We believe Panda is rewarding sites that are optimized, updated and continually improved using white hate best practices. We are confident that in the long run, Panda is making it a level playing field for legitimate websites.

Our recent experience with the AddThis buttons/script - is that it slowed our page load time down tremendously, so we removed it.  Did not try loading it asynchronously, which may have helped.

I'm endorsing EGOL's comments but I'm going to add that it's a really tough call. I think he's right that those links can dry up (especially over time). I also think that exact-match domains are losing some of their value, and Google may start pushing that harder. Clearly, though, they still have value. I think a lot depends on the content similarity between the two sites and how much you can maintain new content that's relevant to the old links. If you can really support the old site's audience and selectively 301-redirect (on a per-page basis), you've got a better shot. If you just buy it for the domain name and then gut it and 301 everything to the home-page, you'll start losing that link-juice fast. Of course, it also depends a LOT on the price-tag, IMO. Any domain change carries risk, though.

Your idea of offering links to other content written by the same author is quite sound. The question is how to best implement that idea. You specifically ask about writers who have an extensive content history. You could use a system simliar to what Matt Cutts uses on his blog. If your writer has a similar history to Matt, I would prefer having the 2005 - 2009 entries grouped by year rather then by month. This change would consolidate 50+ links down to 5.

Thanks for the reply! It's definitely tough to kill content (especially when you paid a writer to do an interesting story or event coverage). So using your suggestion, I looked at a minor section, thats new, but has suffered over the past 30 days. 130 articles  73% bounce 73% exit 1m TOS 26k pageviews of those, 35 articles have 100% bounce rate, under 10 pageviews, under 1min TOS. I assume applying a simple metric such as this, site wide, and unpublishing articles that fall under this category, would help clear the brush away from the newer content?

Hi Eric, I'm so sorry you haven't gotten an answer by now, I'm not sure how this slipped by everyone. In my understanding, yes, it would be like moving to a new domain. If you're still in need of an answer, go ahead and create a new question and I'm sure you'll get commentary (and I'll go ahead and close this question if you do so).

Of note, you can also customize your built-in internal Google site search: http://www.google.com/sitesearch/ "Customize search box and results using XML"