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The difference is naturally occurring links from regular non paid diversified sites vs paid links from directory type sites that Google has already flagged as being bad neighborhoods used for SEO, and these sites are most likely linking to a lot of penalized sites as well which makes you guilty by association.

So it has more to do with the places you are linked on than it does overusing your brand name in the anchor text, plus naturally occurring links will have their own keyword mix and match diversity.

brandname

brandname.com

http://brandname.com

http://brandname.com/

www.brandname.com

www.brandname.com/

http://www.brandname.com

http://www.brandname.com/

visit brandname

visit brandname.com

go to brandname

some will be do follow, some will be no follow, some might be image links

you are not supposed to include blocked URLs in the sitemap.xml files, or Google considers it wasting their crawl time. Are these automated sitemap.xml files?

You're basically saying "come index these pages i've listed, but don't index them!"

Remove the URLs that are blocked content (or rerun/regenerate them) and resubmit the sitemaps and the warnings will go away.

I wouldn't draw attention with the disavow file unless your boxed in. Google clearly said it should be used as a method of last resort and they would even prefer that you write your story of link removal attempts in comments in  the disavow file. Try to contact the blog editor or webmaster and ask to remove or nofollow your links. You may even offer payment for the removal.

I would not hide text on the site.

a jquery actually shows the text to the user and is spiderable (seo friendly) so i would go that route

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Not a definite penalty because of that but you're in a place you don't want to be. I would undo your link exchange campaign before you get that dreaded email from Google in WMT. Link exchanges are very easy for Google to detect.

"there is a huge exchange of links between the same sites"

that's called a link farm - stay away or you'll be begging for a penalty. Look at the sites that are currently listed on there and see if they are penalized / rankings suppressed.

It's only terrifying if you aren't ahead of the curve with SEO. It's scary for people hiring SEOs too because they are hiring someone who is supposed to know but quite often they don't and wind up hurting the site.

Google is coming down very hard on links which is why they had to provide a disallow tool to help you combat poor SEO past practices or negative SEO attacks which before you could not really handle other than getting all the links down that are harming you.

Also, onpage optimization can hurt you just as easily, because Google knows you are in control of those factors, so under optimization is the new optimization.

He is correct. those two URLs in your post are duplicate

decide on the best url to represent and canonical the dupe pages to that URL and your issue should be fixed. 132 pages should take you a few hours probably.

Also your title tag dynamic insertion is broken and you are missing meta descriptions:

  <title>CCI Solutions - <%=title%>title>  <META name="<a class="attribute-value">description</a>" content=""> 

Sitewide links are never good and blogroll links were sold big time a few years back, i would not interlink non related sites owned by the same entity, or if you do nofollow them and in either case don't use main keywords.

it's in a different folder right - block that folder in robots.txt and request URL removal in Google WMT and those image pages will get deindexed.

• No title tag on the homepage
• No meta description on the homepage
• Too many ads
• Pages with almosrt no content not liked by Google

http://www.oluadeonline.com/home-theatre-universal-remote/

• Tags are getting indexed - google will consider it spammy

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I believe that this is because of your site being on the Wordpress platform and the theme you are using.

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You have three separate instance of GA analytics code on your home page. Your stats are probably all messed up. Here's my two cents. Take a few hours and read through your page source on your page templates and flag anything you see as questionable and make sure your code is clean. Sounds a little harsh but this is probably your best route for accuracy.

Don't hire a SEO from spam emails is my first suggestion. I would ask around these forums and look for someone who has a lot of moz points and is respected in the community.

Cost is hard to say, it depends on the size of the site, the platform and the amount of technical issues that need to be fixed. He could hire someone for an SEO recommendations document and then implement the changes himself, that's the cheapest way to go.

It must be done! You need to figure out which page has more PR by using Google PR Tool and SeoMoz PA Tool and I would 301 redirect the page with less PA/PR into the page with the higher PA/PR. If both pages are relatively equal, i would drop the index.html if all pages that link to the home page internally will also drop the index.html from their link. Also, you need to review what your best external links out there and see which version of the home page they are linking to to make this decision. The combined PR/PA of the two home pages should be greater then any one individual home page but a 301 doesn't always carry over all the page juice.

Individual pages would only be better if you have enough content on all of those pages sections to justify their own pages. If the content would be too flimsy, then you're better off keeping all the content on one beefy page.

Your URL may be successful because of external and internal link juice being passed to it. The F grade only takes into account page optimization.

Too long is definitely an issue, also if you are including keywords in your title tag that do not appear on your page they feel it is not a relevant title tag and they choose to rewrite it so it's not deceptive to the person searching on G.

No where on that page is "border patrol" or "air force" etc. so if a person searches on G and they might be incorrectly clicking on a page that has nothing to do with border patrol so G rewrites it to be less deceptive (whether intentionally or unintentionally) it's not a relevant title tag in your case.

I would definitely not use a .info - it's a bargain domain extension that was used by spammers.

Help him find a better .com also EMD power is getting devalued by Google so he might want to consider his name or hybrid between brand and keywords

If it's a commonly used acronym then both the full keyword phrase and the accronym should be included in the SEO optimization process.