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Just enter the non www as a new site and hit verify and it will be accepted, no need to add another verification file, it's the same site and will recognize and accept it.

Since your primary keyword you are targeting on this page is Cheese's of the world, I would mention it first in the title tag. You should keep this tag under 70 characters, so if you find that many of your titles are longer, you should drop the top category from the title tag.

Cheese's of the world | Chesire Cheese | Brand Name

Here are two strategies for dealing with dupe content and press releases

a) write an article for your site about the news, and write a second article which is the same topic but different wording (not spinning) and use that article for submitting as the press releases, link in the release to your first press release article URL  on your site

b) write a press release and post it on your site and get it indexed. use the same press release but not the entire press release - cut it a little short and include a "read more for the full story" link that links to the full press release content on your site

I prefer option a but it takes more time to write two articles, still i think the benefit is worth it.

1. Google says they MAY send you a message in WMT

2. You need to make a reconsideration request, and if the site is found to be no longer in violation, they will allow your site to get indexed again

3. No, if you get banned it's usually because of something they feel is very serious like a site that is infected with a virus, of it violating some copyright laws. Banning is the worst thing that they can impose and when it happens it will just happen out of the blue because they don't want it in their index, so you'll get no grace period.

Keep it all under one domain.

a) subdomains won't help you rank better

b) they will be considered as new sites

c) navigation and user experience is worse

d) harder to maintain separate sites

e) the bigger the one site the more powerful and you already have a lot of links

f) excessive interlinking can be an SEO issue

g) bounce rate will increase and time spent on site will decrease on the main site

there is no need to do it from an SEO perspective, what are your "business purposes" that make you feel that this would be more beneficial

Well it's not really destroyed, that implies a penalty. This is completely reversible.

Just remove the roxots.txt and noindex blocks and the site will come back.

you're only passing PR back and forth and increasing the chance of getting flagged. I don't recommend it.

It is absolutely possible, Google is very smart.

a) Remove your external links to any penalized sites.

b) If you have links from penalized sites pointing to internal pages on your site, let those pages 404 and make new URLs for them. If you have bad links pointing to your homepage that is much more time consuming because you'll need to reach out to all the webmasters and have them remove any bad links pointing to your homepage.

c) Submit reconsideration requests in webmaster tools, explain exactly what happened and what steps you're taking to remedy the situation. Include something new that you did in each letter so they see the progress you are making. Good luck! Don't buy or sell links!

What is the type of CMS? Sometimes small sites that are manageable and not constantly updated are easier just to handle as html pages. Drupal for instance is a nightmare for a layman to work on and overkill for a small site.

You should be able to make SEO friendly URLs in the CMS without changing the CMS though. I would look into that first.

Don't add the html extension you don't need it. All the old URLs should 301 to the new URLs. Also the CMS might be able to handle that or you can do it in .htaccess. It should cause no drop in rankings.

It's actually not really good that all of the pages are linking to the homepage, but it's OK as long as they aren't paid links. You should look at the backlink profile.

all you have to do is.

a) list the ?gallery parameter in WMT url parameter handling.

you can also block in in your robots.txt from being crawled.

This is a definite duplicate content issue, but Google will usually get it right on their own and omit these results in search. Still needs to be fixed though.

yes, 404 means link is no longer counting and your work is done this is why people should never point links to their homepage, you can't 404 your homepage.

these directories allowed you to deep link to internal pages though? a lot of directories want your homepage link.

Totally agree with Ryan Kent. You should write a paragraph of content that is unique to the company featured. The chart is not unique enough and you will get flagged as having a high ratio of duplicate content. You should also look at all the other SEO elements on this page, understand what keyphrases you are targeting and modify the title, meta and H1 tags.

Is it the same domain name or just a new site redesign and not a new site.

Hidden text can get you penalized. It sounds like you want to position the CSS off of the page. Don't do it.

You can style the H1 to look like whatever you want, there is no need for it to be the huge default size so I see no reason to play schtick with your H1 tag.

Call him first of all if there is a phone number. Email him multiple times and offer to paypal him $20 for his coding time to remove the link. Tell him you're going to keep emailing him because the links NEED to come down. That usually works.

I know there are many opinions on how to handle paginated pages. My opinion is to just use a noindex, follow meta tag on all the paginated pages. The thinking is that these pages don't have any intrinsic value of being in the index themselves, but you still want the engines to be able to crawl to all your products from your internal links. I would only use the next and previous tags on paginated articles or galleries. The canonical tag is meant for duplicate pages and doesn't really make sense to use for paginated pages.

I was easily able to find spam links (http://www.insignifica.org/linksblog/2010_04.shtml), so I suggest you review all your backlinks and disavow and try to remove them.

A sitemap is for crawling your pages, either a user sitemap like you set up or a sitemap.xml file which is a streamlined way for Google to spider your site.

Robots.txt is used to direct the bots where NOT to go like if you don't want them crawling certain parts of your site like cgi-bin, js folder or images folder for example.

If you want to do this for SEO then link dofollow on their homepage only and use text not an image.

If it's for traffic then put it globally on the site (since you never know what page a user is coming in on) and nofollow the link.

Nofollow the links on your your own sites client page.

Run don't walk from that offer. They're going to spam on your behalf and probably get you penalized. Also, they could be talking sitewide numbers. One link in a blogroll on a blog with 50,000 pages is technically 50,000 links but Google discounts sitewide links.

If curious ask them to build 10 links for you on a trial and see what they come back with.