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Based on Google's own blog they ignore the revisit-after attribute. I'd still remove it since there's no purpose.

Have you considered wordpress.com? You can import your entire existing Wordpress blog pretty painlessly and then it costs $12/yr to point your domain to it (so you would retain all your URL structures). The only downsides are it can be tricky to get your users all mapped (provided you have more than 1) and you can't keep any custom templates. But it's pretty fast and very reliable, plus you would never have to upgrade your site.

Normally I'd say a 301 redirect but that's when the page has moved for good. You want domain.com to become domain.com/blog and then domain.com becomes something else. Since you're keeping the old URL I would suggest moving the page and linking to the new blog home page. Google will see domain.com/blog as a new page this way and, as long as you have new content on your main page, it's not likely to cause any issues since bots will have to spider domain.com to find domain.com/blog

Google is a registrar and it is known that they use some information to assist in crawling the internet (i.e. if you create domain.com as a site with no links or any external information, Google will still find and crawl it). I haven't heard of them using registrar information against owners, however. I have several domains in private registration and none of them are negatively affected by that either.

If you were dropped from their index that means something really bad went down. The reinclusion notice is automatic. When an actual human reviews your site is anyone's guess.

Here's an article listing the most common reasons for a complete deindex ban. I would review your site and make sure you're not doing any of them. Without any other data I can't venture a guess as to what was done to trigger it.

http://www.bigoakinc.com/seo-articles/banned-by-google.php

Have you tried help@seomoz.org? I bet you'd get a faster response.

Remember that having a country domain does play some role in ranking well in country search but it's not such a large role that it's insurmountable. It's possible to have a .co.uk rank well on .com and vice versa. A much larger role is played by the site content and where your links are from. It sounds like (based solely on your numbers) that your .com has more links to it. If those links are recognized as being UK already then it wouldn't surprise me that your .com is winning. What does Open Site Explorer show for your backlinks?

Unless you 301 redirected to the sitemap it shouldn't have any affect on this.

Is your sitemap setup in Google Webmaster? Is it linked (in an anchor tag) on your site anywhere?

Are your XML files returning a proper application type? If it's being shown as "text/html" it's possible the bot got confused.

A dynamic URL usually has something called a query string. In your URL, it's everything after the ? and is typically used to pass data to a programming language.

domain.com/index.php?x=1

domain.com/index.php?y=3

Some sites use mod_rewrite to change them to look less program related

domain.com/x/1

It's important to note that ANY change in the query string will make Google see that page as distinct, even if there's nothing else different. If you have an issue with this type of duplication you should use canonical to narrow down your pages to just those with distinct content.

If you're adding titles (like to a Wordpress blog) it's possible that you're creating pages and your CMS program makes URLs based on titles

domain.com/blog/the-best-blog-topic-ever

Is that what you're referring to?

Google will strip the HTML formatting tags out and index just the links and text. Span tags are purely for formatting so there's no issue.

A 301 xml page? That's a new one to me. Where did you hear that?

If you're running Apache, Nginx or IIS 7+ you could use a mod_rewrite to possibly set up a global rewrite but that's provided that your URLs share some structure (i.e. they both have the product name in the URL). Otherwise you'll need to set up some sort of 301s and that might mean painstakingly mapping URLs. Remember, if you don't 301 anything you'll be facing a nasty list of problems including

• Duplicate content penalty (until the spiders de-index the old data)
• Lost traffic
• Lost page rank
• Loss of hair
• Loss of job
• Loss of income

So I wouldn't try to cross your fingers and hope for the best. Get a proper 301 up or else!

301 is definitely the way to go, especially if you have inbound links to the unwanted pages. That will preserve most of your rank and transfer it to the actual page.

As far as blocking goes, you can use a robots.txt or a robots meta tag on your page with a NOFOLLOW,NOINDEX

Pip your competitors to the post

I have no idea what that is but it sounds really, really cool. If they're going to do that, what else do you need?

For engines that matter you don't need to submit anything. In fact, I would just go about getting your links and you'll be found anyways. You don't need this service.

Pursuing the Google toolbar PR is a waste of time. PR is a measure of how popular a page is, not how well it will rank. What good will it do if you have a PR5 page that ranks poorly for keywords?

The question you need to be asking yourself is "What keywords do I want this page to rank well for?"

Depends how your site is structured. I would highly recommend a 301 from index.php to / but either all your pages need to be named index.php for a .htaccess to work or you would need some meticulous work.

One thing we do is we don't give you a session on your first hit. Since your cart is tied to your session, going to the cart without one just generates a "Your cart is empty" page. If you're a customer you'd need at least 2 hits to get to the cart and once you have a session it lasts 30 days. This cuts down a ton on bot problems with the cart. Yes, this is a technical thing (and probably not something your developer can do) but I've always found it useful.

Also, I once made a newbie mistake of making an item that could be added to the cart via a GET. Don't do it! Adding to the cart should always be a POST.

I wouldn't have structured it that way myself. i would have gone with something like domain.com/productname for easier readability, but you've already structured it it sounds like. I wouldn't change it if it's already been spidered.

To answer your question, no it doesn't hurt. Google sees page.php?c=1234 and page.php?c=1235 as different pages.

I would 301 the pages and get them out of your site's index. Even if you canonical all of them Google will still have to index 1000 pages instead of 1. The 301 will transfer most of your rank to the new page and you'll improve your crawl budget.

Why take the 301s out? Just leave them in there in case there are links pointed to them.

If you're changing IPs, I would be sure to lower your DNS time-to-live(TTL) to 1 hour about a day before the move. This would make your DNS rollover much faster. Not an SEO thing, per se, but something that certainly helps Googlebot.

The general rules of thumb on international are

1. Having a local domain helps (.co.uk, .fr, etc) but isn't crucial. A .com can tank well in the UK and a .co.uk can rank well in the US. Obviously the localized domain is easier to rank.
2. Having local hosting helps as well. A site hosted in the targeted country will rank better in that country (as well as have faster response times for your target audience)
3. Your links play a large role in localization. If your links are primarily in the UK, Google will weight you better for UK searches.