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Submitting to 20 or 30 directories should not have any negative impact at all. Another thing to remember is that the engines will not find these links at the same time anyway. They will be found when each of those pages are crawled which could be days or in some cases weeks and months. So no, no problems at all.

Are they paid directories? If so, probably not worth it. There are very few directories out there worth paying for. So many free ones you can get decent links from, just worry about those. Only pay for a directory if you think it can actually bring you quality traffic. Never pay for perceived link value as it's usually very low anyway.

Hi Mark, You might want to ask this in a new question. Currently, Q&A admins are the only ones who can sort questions by most recent activity, so your comment isn't going to show for people just browsing the recent questions submitted to Q&A.

The answer is NO, there is no inherent risk of ranking loss or credibility loss when redirecting old URL's. Think of it like the post office, lets say you move a lot and as a result you have become very familiar with their change of address form. The post office isn't going to delay the delivery of your mail just because your Dads in the military or your Mom keeps moving to escape old flames. Relocating is a part of life and when it comes down to it the Post Office and Google, for that matter, thank you for 301'ing your mail so it doesn't stack up and clutter the Index with undeliverables.

If you have a site that has been matched with a brand then Google will rarely remove your site entirely from the index. Take JC Penny for example. They didn't suffer any rankings for the term JC Penny. They suffered rankings for other terms that they had been building bad links for. Monitoring your keyword rankings and noticing large drops in positions on a per keyword base might give you a better idea if you have been hit with a penalty.

Normal. Don't be surprised if you are 15 tomorrow and in the 60's next week. Think of your rankings as being like the weather. Right now the trend is weather getting warmer, but some days it will be really hot and some days it will storm and get cold. Overall these are just flukes in the general pattern. Your rankings will do the same types of fluctuations. Only get concerned if your rankings drop and they stay there for over a month.

It's usually best to use your target keyword at the beginning of the description.  Users will not always read the full description when scanning the SERP. Search engines seem to give the to give more weight to the keywords at the beginning of the description as well. So the closer to the front the better. Okay, that being said, you have to make sure you are not trying to jam all of your keywords at the beginning otherwise it will turn off the user. Choose the most important one as your primary keyword to use at the beginning and use other related keywords throughout the description where they make sense.

Read Paddys blog about this - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-build-links-without-fancy-tools I commented with an example of the email I send http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-build-links-without-fancy-tools#jtc138789 I just keep it as simple and honest as possible

There is a Webinar later this week titled "Using SEOmoz Tools to Acquire Whitehat Links" - it may be worth tuning in for that one. There is one later in the month on the future of link building too.

Barry Schwartz has written about the last part (when it's not a DMOZ listing) at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html. There have also been several comments in Q&A about Google not using either the site's title tag or the DMOZ entry for the title in the SERP.

I have a feeling that for most it's just a way to try and build credibility by showing 3rd-party endorsement. I think there's a chance is does provide some amount of SEO benefit as far as increasing indexing frequency, as it may be the only section of the homepage that changes with regularity. That said, I think a blog (with a list of most recent posts on the homepage) serves this purpose better. I think unless you're a large organization that get's a lot of 3rd-party media coverage, having a news section can be actually be a negative because: If most visitors are like me, they use the date of the last news post as a judgement of the site or company. Ongoing, it can be difficult to generate updates for the news section. Linking away from your homepage to another site = lost traffic and lost link juice (if you're into that). My $0.02.

In addition to Dan's answer remember just because Google has seen the changes and taken them into consideration there is no guarantee that your rankings will improve. It can take months of optimising and tweaking to get improvements. One of my old sites took 6 months tweaking and steadily climbing the rankings until it got to number 1 for its main keyphrases - it has been there for a few years now though

If you have pages optimised for each of your products that you are happy with then I would consider whether there is a term that might be used to describe the group of products that people might use when searching less specifically. Is there a term that a competitor site uses? Many searchers start quite generic and get more specific when there initial search doesn't throw up any suitable results. As you have done for the product pages see which collective phrase has the best search volume/lowest competition.

Your SEO have the effect on whole website not only one page :), you make the site optimisation not a page only, this is not a good strategy(one page only but that can affect ).

Only if the 2 keywords are very close together, like 'widget' and 'widgets'. Otherwise, 1 keyword per page works best, or else you'll confuse the googlebot as to what your page is really about and what it should rank for.

Here is a tutorial for what you need : http://www.icanlocalize.com/site/tutorials/drupal-seo-tutorial/ Check Nr. 4 Seting a Sitemap And yes you can set 1 , 1 is the front page priority, this is the highest you can set

Right, but my question is more if you have 1000 pages, and don't make a change to page 900, does that affect the SEO of that 1 page only, or potentially the top pages such as home page etc