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Check to see if they are buying links 1st. If they are, then you may be able to report them though Google Webmasters and they an get hammered. I did this for one of my shady competitors and they got wacked in the SERPS by Google.  f they are article spinning, then I don't think you can really do anything about it. Anybody can article spin.

I always ignore GWT info from GA. I think it's pretty weak. I only use GWT to check the health and other things directly related to the site, not rankings. GWT is all over the place. Even Rand mentioned this long ago at MozCon.

If you are looking for real search engine custom reports, go to Avinash's website kaushik.net. He is VERY well know in the GA world. I'm a graduate of his program.

I agree with IrishMark, read that ebook. I recommend it all the time.

Also, make sure your online marketing strategy follows your businesses objective. Here's a real example. I sat down with the owner of a company (they are my client). I asked, "What are your business objectives? I have been marketing for your company for 6 months now and we can clearly see the positive impact."

He replied, "I want to be stable so that none of us have to go back to 2008-2010. It was a horrible time. Also, I want to retire within two years."

Mohammad, as you can tell I wasn't about to do a "let's rank higher" or "let's do more SEO" approach. This company has people who have mortgages and children. I take care of their online presence. **I made an online marketing strategy that fits their business objectives. **

I haven't done link building in over 6 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND this company keeps getting higher and higher rankings. I built a community. I did CRO. I focused on conversions in Adwords and Organic. I did all white hat (well almost all white hat) SEO.

You have to find out what the business objective of the company are.

GWT > site config > settings. geo target www.mysite.com.au to AU.

As for www.mysite.com, leave it "Unlisted" under Geographic target.

This will make the AU site be seen only in AU while the .com shows world wide.

http://www.seomoz.org/directories

It was one of the best investment I ever made: http://www.marketmotive.com/internet-marketing-training-and-certification-signup?top=home&topic=WebAnalytics

Hi wcsinc, increasing page and domain authority takes time. The best way to get there is writing kick ass content that your users will love AND that web developers/bloggers will "want" to link to.

I recommend reading chapter 7 http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo.

Alan, I like most of your responses. A fat thumbs up for you! I don't risk getting my clients' websites. Imagine me losing all the income? I had a talk with my client that I can get him to the top by creating a little shady things (spam) OR I could take the long hard road. We took the long hard road which was based off his decision to retire in the next two years. We can't afford to get Google smacked.

@Gareth, not everyone spams or over-optimizes. I definitely don't over optimize. It lowers conversions because the content becomes unreadable. ACTUALLY, my sites are ranking higher now so I am glad this is happening.

I agree with Ryan. I sounds like you are very new to SEO so I am going to recommend that you print this and go grab a cup of coffee:

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/keyword-research (read this one for your answer)

super SPAM! Protein, real estate, cell phones? They have nothing in common. Please read the beginners guide to SEO. This will help you with these sorts of questions: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

@JML, partial truths? Look at my site here Ship Overseas. Facebook Likes & Comments.

I'm not joking about having Nigerians use my services. There is a market I uncovered that I didn't know about.

Well, let's see what you have. Post "your" kick ass content and I'll run OSE on it. I wasn't trying to confuse anyone or "obfuscate" the poster.

I just copied and pasted http://www.trophycentral.com/index.html into my browser. It redirected to http://www.trophycentral.com/. You are good to go!

Then I wouldn't mess with a .co unless you wanted to buy up all the TLDs for you brand name. For instance, if I were HP, then I would get HP.co for trademark reasons.

Please read chapter 7 of Rand's Beginners Guide to SEO: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

You may want to take the time to watch this video on Matt Cutts talking about Link Building and buying links. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r2vp4x-JtU

Your pro membership entitles you to watch webinars: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/effective-link-building

PS I would never sign up for that service.

It may be faster to get a response if you ask help@seomoz.org or call them.

It's been a LONG time since I used Google Base. I used to believe in Data Feed Optimization. Basically I would SEO down to the product page.

You may want to look into a service that will take your data and feed it to many other sites too. http://www.godatafeed.com

Sub domains do not give a ranking boost. While I was a subscriber at SEObook, Aaron Wall put it like this:

creditcards.com = boost

creditcards.example.com = crap

cardscredit.com = crap

Don't worry about KW in the domain. If you can't rank any other way than to rely on the KW being in your domain, you don't deserve to rank. If I were your competitor, then all I would need to do is get some real FB URL Likes and a couple okay external links.

If you are going to 301, make sure you have your .htaccess ready to go ahead of time. Also re-submit your old sitemap in GWT 1st so it crawls your site and notices the 301s. Then submit your new sitemap.

At Mozcon one of the speakers (Martin McDonald) pointed 3 million links to my site. Nothing happened. It was as if Google already knew about his sites. But the good thing is that my rankings were not affected good or bad. Sounds like you just paid for links. Don't let G know about that.  If it's a legit site, keep it. If it's a porn site or something similar, I would think about getting rid it. If it's a strong website, keep it. Only you can make that call.

I try and answer many questions here on SEOMoz Q&A, but the page load speed seems so slow I think my browser is going to time out.

I don't remember it being this slow. Anybody else noticing slow loading (especially when asking, answering, or replying to questions)?

What you are showing me is 1 paragraph with a bunch of links. It's not normal. I don't think there is an "anchor link percent" factor, but you are clearly trying to game Google's algorithm to pass link juice.

Make it natural.