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First, you should check if you have been penalised by Google.

1. Perform a crawl on your site and take note of the number of indexed pages
2. Check this number up against Google's search - "site:yourdomainname.com"
3. Search "link:yourdomainname.com"
4. If nothing comes up or the numbers are significantly lower in Google then it is likely you have been penalised.

You can ask for reconsideration to Google and your site will lose the penalisation if successful.

Instructions are here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35843

As for the 0 seconds time spent - it may be because of the current spammy link profile. People (or bots) may be clicking through to the site and immediately leaving.

I really hope not but it could be a competitor? There have been occasions where black hat SEOs have linked to their competitors via spam sites. The reason for this is so the competitor becomes blacklisted or penalised by Google. You could contact the site and ask for them to remove the link or at least put a nofollow tag.

It depends on the site. If they're a large news site then they will be crawled constantly so the search engines keep up to date. If it is a low (or even high) authority site that doesn't get up dated very often then it may not be crawled for some time.

It could take just a few days or some weeks in the SERPs. When using Open Site Explorer it has sometimes taken around a month or so to see a new link appear.

There has been LOADS of examples of this happening before (so you are not alone) but I have yet to see a really good answer to the problem really. I'd love to know the answer to this too!

I would use the rel=canonical tag for these kind of duplicate content issues. Rather than having me explain I think its best to link you to some great content on the topic:

Get started:

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

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

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_http://www.seomoz.org/blog/6-extreme-canonical-tricks_

Gives you some other options:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-block-redirect-or-canonical

Hope this helps!

You are very much welcome.

I think these 3 links will answer your question:

Starting link building:

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

Bit more advanced:

http://www.seomoz.org/article/the-professional-guide-to-link-building-2011

Manage your link building efforts:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-management

Will the old page become defunct?

If the old page will no longer be active you can set up a 301 redirect to the new page. This will only be worthwhile if it is similar (in terms of relevancy) to the old page. This will take all (about 90-95%) the good links from the old page and put it into the new page.

After that, you will just need to some on-page optimisation and continue to link build!

The link on your Pinterest page is a do-follow link which will benefit SEO. However, the links on pins that you post and re-pin are no-follow so will not affect SEO.

In regards to best tips: what you have at the moment is great! I like the themes you have going. It would be great to see past events that you have put on. You can also use it yourselves for inspirations. This may also interest and inspire your clients/potential clients too.

Hi,

There is a useful guide from Microsoft here.

Hope this helps.

I think it is best to have +1 buttons for the website's URL.

The reason for this is much like the Facebook Like button in that it influences peers. If somebody is following you on Google+ and you +1 a page then that page is given a boost when it is showing up on that persons SERP.

For example, imagine A follows B on Google+ and B +1's the URL awesomeurl.com. Before, if A searches for "an awesome URL" awesomeurl.com may be 7th on the SERP. After B +1's the URL, awesomeurl.com could be 2nd on the SERP for A.

At the moment it is definitely affecting SEO when you are signed into your Google+ account through search plus your world. It is hard to say how much it is effecting SEO for the general searcher who is not signed in.

I would recommend Wordpress for the same reasons as Moosa and Tommy.

As for books, I would suggest reading Content Rules as this not only discussing blogging but also other useful content such as Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks etc which can all boost SEO.

Best of luck in your blogging adventures! Enjoy.