I recommend to do two things. 1st follow your business objectives. If you really don't have any, then try writing it out. 2nd, and equally as important, optimize for your audience, not for Google. When I hear newbies talk about putting KWs in h1 tags and domains, they are thinking the wrong way. Don't be like me. I wasted time trying to optimize my website so much that it was over-optimized and unreadable.

I stand by my statement, KW in subdomains do not give a boost. If it did, all of us on MOZ would have done that years ago. It would have also created a lot of spam sites.

Do you have any comment on removing the keyword from the homepage content?

I don't know what your GA says. That's your call. If the keyword is not as relevant, then no. All the sites I have ever built had a home page that was about all the landing pages. Go to my site and study it (the shipping one).

I don't look at that as paying for links, although I see what you mean. As far as I know, "Likes" are not part of the ranking factor. But it is more likely that someone who "likes" or "Shares" your info may link to you.Rand wrote a post on this in Ranking Factors.

I use labels to track keywords for different Adwords campaigns within SEO MOZ. For instance, I have a label for "container shipping", "motorcycle shipping", and a "car shipping".

If the current domain is a WP site and the new .edu is going to be a WP site too, then this is easy. Export the sql file (mysql) through myphp admin so you have a back up. Copy all the files via FTP.

Upload the WP files you copied and hook them up to the same database.

You can have many websites pulling the same information from the same database. 301 the old URLs.

I personally think both are hard to remember. It's been 30 seconds since I read your post and I already forgot the domain name. There are two things I would do. The 1st one is what Dana suggests to use your "current" brand if you have one. The second one, assuming the "current" brand is too difficult to remember, is to buy an EASY to remember brand.

I am PERSONALLY in the process of immigrating my wife so I am probably almost the perfect guy to ask.

My Google search here in San Diego would have been something like "San Diego immigration services", "San Diego immigration lawyer", "San Diego legal immigration". Any of those searches can be a brandable domain. Since these are probably taken, i would contact the owners of the websites using domaintools.com and doing a whois search. You can buy many domains for less than $1000. Other brandable domains would be weimmigrate.com, immigrationlawyers.com, legalimmigration.com, greencardservices.com (because that's what it's for, the green card), permanentresident.com, whatever.com.... you get what I'm saying.

Oh wait, you're not targeting "immigrants". You're targeting people who are migrating. So now I'm a little confused; migrating out of USA or into USA (backbutton, bye!).

I was going to create a few small sites that were specific to a service. I was too lazy to do multiple sites so I only did one bigger site. Now everytime I make a new page, it starts ranking immediately on the lower part of page one for my targeted keywords. The site built strength overall. I would probably do exactly as EGOL says and redirect everything to one site.

Shanaki, check your Google Analytics. Google released an update called Penguin 2.0 around May 22nd. If you got slammed around that day, it was an algorithm update. You need to check your GA to see what sources decreased otherwise we can't help answer your questions. GA > Traffic Sources > Sources > Overview. Maybe it's only one of the sources that is bringing your site down, but you have to investigate there.

Watch this video where Matt Cutts talks about

Why does a new page's ranking change over time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzfK6isC7CA

Your 360 images are AWESOME.

You need to diversify you linking strategy. If you look at a macro viewpoint, your homepage is the only one receiving links while the rest of your site is weak. On my sites, I have very diverse linking strategies. I am never affected by Google Updates.

Sounds like you're a little new to SEO. Please read this guide from SeoMoz: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

JC Pennys got in trouble for this. Matt Cutts manually deranked them:

http://searchengineland.com/new-york-times-exposes-j-c-penney-link-scheme-that-causes-plummeting-rankings-in-google-64529

Just don't overdo your act. Throw in variations of the keyword. Try and make it look more natural.

Also, use your Google Analytics to find keywords that may actually be converting at a higher rate.

Yes this can happen. Adding your listing to  poor quality directories can bring your DA down. If you remove the directory listings from low quality websites, then your traffic may increase and your DA go up (assuming everything else is the same). Try it out and if your traffic drops, put the listings back in.

i partially agree with Chris. However, links need to be distributed to different landing pages. For god sakes, if the only page a website can build links to is the home page, then none of the other pages deserve to rank.

My best backlinks came to me. I wrote great content and somehow a couple universities thought it would help their students. And guess what? The links were FREE (my favorite four-letter-word). LOL

DO NOT DO THIS! Andrew is trying to sell worldwide. By geo-targeting ONLY in the US, he will lose ALL google.ca rankings and any possibility to rank in any country outside the US. Locations in GWT should not be set to any country.

My suggestions to rank in the US are getting links from sites in the US or in the country you are trying to rank for. You don't necessarily need to move your site to a server here in the US. I have my server in the US and I rank in google.de, google.co.uk, google.au and many more.

Why would you want to "protect" your articles? Why not rel="canonical" them?  If you fear getting scraped, put links in the content pointing back to your site.

Yoast has a great plugin so that's not the issue.

Here is one of the main reasons you will NEVER rank. Your domain is using a GOOGLE trademark. http://www.androidgadgematic.com/

It counts. One link is better than no link. Just make sure you don't SPAM. Write great content!

I agree. When I use subdomains, I start thinking about FTP. I also think about the user having the best user experience. If he wants to make one site that markets 50 states, then using a CMS would be the answer. But creating 50 subdomains would be repetitive. I his case I would use folders and if the independent partner needs access to the site, then add them as a user with limited site access.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites

You are using a trademarked name in your Domain. Here in USA, it's illegal to use a Trademarked name without permission from the company.

It's like saying appleiphoneme.com

Valery, I gave you a thumbs up.

**I have a client in a very niche industry, and probably less than 20% of their backlinks show up in OSE. **

GWT reports 100's more root domains linking to my site while Roger Mozbot only reports about 100. OSE is not by any means perfect, but it serves as competitor analysis.

Alex, don't get lost and only focus on link building. WRITE GREAT CONTENT so other sites want to link to you.

To answer this question: Do search engines only count links that have google analytics?

No. That sounds ridiculous. What about omniture and webmetrics?

You are mixing designers with marketers, not good. I have known many designers who say they 'know' SEO. Designers are designers. If I were in your situation, I would find a developer/designer AND and SEO.

I do development and SEO. I do not do design. You may be looking for two different people/companies. One definitely for you c# development project and the other a skilled SEO.