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Wow, thanks guys! This is indeed an enterprise level site, so especially thanks to CleverPhD for the breakdown on trailing slash v. no trailing slash. Redirecting as we speak.

I would suggest utilizing larger content marketing campaigns geared at the industry / vertical authorities. At the same time, be careful to place too much weight on DA as a metric of concern. DA is a result of high level link and content strategies. It is great for comparative purposes, and serves as a fantastic benchmark, but search revenue, CRO, acquisition and retention for your your audience is probably more important.

I'm not surprised, OSE routinely misses many of our links. But none of the backlink checkers will be 100% accurate. Your best bet is to use a variety of sources - OSE, Majestic, AHREFs, etc. - and compile and remove duplicates to get a true picture of your backlinks.

I'm using Interspire's shopping cart system with a few modifications. There's absolutely no official support for it at this point, so I appreciate your help. The cart is a standalone php page, so I think that just blocking that off should be sufficient. Thanks!

Yes actually it could be amzing, some calcuation we could do to ad coef to our searches numbers, competition and suggested bid to prioritize our keywords !

Thanks David. Very helpful info.

Thanks, Takeshi. As it turned out, most of the 404s would not have been passing very much juice anyway. We did decide to go ahead and hedge our bets by simply redirecting the majority of them to the root anyway and marked them as fixed in GWMT.

Hey Dan, I had kind of assumed that it might be a false alarm from the Moz scan. I typically use Xenu to check for broken links periodically and it hasn't shown any. Thanks for the tip!

I had some great ideas for a response but the previous three were pretty much everything about the subject i could say. ( I thumbs upped them all) I would mention that you are getting in murky water making organic growth prediction a year in advance for an unknown company with no data. I wouldn't do it. With that said If I had to I would apply theory of business law and go with a case study and press a correlation. ie so so and in a similiar industry spent this amount of money on content development and marketing. With GOOD SEO and the same budget you can see a similar growth. Like bryan said use google insights as back up. I would even use data form google keyword tool data as well. You can argue that if you get high enough on ranking you will earn a percent of that organic traffic. Main point i would stress is correlation between $spend combined with your seo skill correlates to such and such growth. Even still that's hard to concretely present but it's a starting point.

Hi, Not sure why an & would throw an error. Maybe try encoding it like & Worth checking that the rest of the syntax is all correct and all tags are opened and closed properly in case it is not the & character that is actually causing the problem?

Hey David, Yes, it will be exciting when the new dash is fully rolled out! I do wonder if the upgrade from local to social will be as easy as they say. With Google, few things are easy, right?

Hi David, Yes, it's fine to have unique Place pages for the partners in a legal firm - you are correct. But, you are saying that they are unverified? Then, yes, I would recommend that the firm verify any listings that belong to them. This will bring the listings within the control of the account and offer a measure of protection against hijacking. I also recommend that you read some of the recent posts by Mike Blumenthal on the new rollout of the Google Places for Business so that you are aware of changes going on in the system that effect different business models in different ways. Here are a couple of links: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2013/04/02/analysis-google-places-for-business-or-g-pages-lite/ http://blumenthals.com/blog/2013/04/02/google-local-rolling-out-places-for-business-upgrade/ Hope these resources are helpful!

Takeshi, Sorry it took me a bit to get back to this post. I would appear that this issue has been taken care of, presumably either through the canonical tag OR a sitemap resubmission that I had cleaned up. However- When I do a search for domain.com/index.php in Google, it does still appear- is this something to worry about in your opinion?