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This tool would have seen huge amounts of usage since it was first announced (there are many sites in your position). I think it may be a little too early to give up on it as there has only been a few weeks since you submitted it.

I suspect Google will be implementing the results of the tool for high authority site first and then roll it out to lower authority sites. As your site is of low authority I think it may be a casing of playing the waiting game to see if the results come through. Don't give up just yet! Focus on gaining high quality links through valuable content and Google will eventually pay attention.

You are very much welcome.

It is not necessary for you to add your URL to these sites unless you have ZERO links - even then it isn't a guarantee. If you have even just a few inbound links then the search engine bots will crawl and index your site.

In regards to how long that will take - it depends on the inbound links. If they are from large sites that get updated regularly then chances are the bots will crawl your site relatively quickly.

Hope this helps!

That's correct - having both www.site.com and just site.com causes duplication issues.

You do not need to have redirects in place to solve this though - you can use a rel=canonical tag in order to specify which 'version' you wish search engines to use.

Here are a few posts that should help you:

Google's Explanation -

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

SEOmoz Best Practices -

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

John Doherty's blog post - "Should I use a Rel=Canonical or 301 Redirect?" -

http://www.johnfdoherty.com/relcanonical-301-redirect/

Usually you would need to add noindex to the meta robots tag in the of your web page. Because your sitemap is an XML file and not HTML you will need to do things differently.

You can add the code below to your .htaccess file, which you can find in the ROOT folder of your server. Open the file in a plain text editor and insert the following:

Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex"

This will stop search engines indexing your sitemap without restricting them from crawling it.

Note: Replace 'sitemap.xml' with your file name - if different.

I always try to use the rel=canonical tag wherever possible - however, it is only a suggestion to the search engines. They can decide not to use your suggestion.

301 redirects should really only be used when the page has permanently moved or dramatically changed (by this I mean the layout, design etc.) - domainA.com/content to domainB.org/content. By using a 301 redirect you will lose 5 to 10% of link juice and you will also lose any social shares received.

Definitely try rewriting the content (this will also keep it fresh and up to date). If it is good, valuable content then it would be a shame for you to have to remove it from search engines as they could potentially drive a lot of traffic to your site.

Yes, results can differ when searching on mobile compared to desktop. Ushave usually differs different intent when searching on mobile and search engines will react to this.

Google does favour responsive design. One of the key reasons for this is because the problem of having duplicate content is significantly reduced. Previously, you would have had at least two URLs - one for your mobile site and the other for your desktop version. With responsive web design, all content is held within one site with a single URL. This not only benefits the user but it also allows search engines to crawl your website much easier.

You can read more about Google's recommendation to use responsive web design below:

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details

Faster than your competitors!!

I'd say 2 to 3 seconds is 'acceptable' but for SEO you really need to look at your SERP competitors to see how fast they're performing - then aim for faster!

I use Pingdom - http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ - as it gives you a great deal of insights and grades your page so you can see how well it performs against others.

No, it would not be problematic. Exact match anchor text is very usual on the homepage.

You will probably need to wait a little longer - it depends how often your site usually gets crawled and indexed.

However, robots.txt does not always stop search engines from indexing your pages. It will stop them crawling a page on your site but it tells them that they can still index that page. If they find links from external sites then the URL may still appear in the SERP.

That is a good recommendation but ultimately search engines will make a final decision on crawl frequency. Take a look at your 'Crawl Stats' on GWTs and this will give you an idea of how often your site is crawled.

That's a great point about social media. Often, social media sites will have a much greater authority than the review sites. If you build up a strong online presence on even the basics:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Google+
• Pinterest
• Vimeo

Then you will be pushing the bad reviews further and further down the results. Even better than that, you will be showcasing the solid community that you have built up. People will go on these social sites and learn more about you and if you are communicating well then they will surely like you. It will give you a great competitive advantage.