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"web design derby" is not in your anchor text. If you want to rank better for that it needs to be an exact match - for instance

• <a <span="">href</a><a <span="">="</a>http://bluecreations.co.uk/">Blue Creations 2012 Web Design Derby

That being said, the same anchor text globally on the footer of every site you make could get you penalized. If you are going to go this route at least make a different link for each site. Point to different internal pages and use different anchor texts for each site you build for someone.

You need to research on exactly what channel of traffic has declined and then you can start analyzing the cause of loss. I would spend time analyzing each traffic channel and check for things like unique search queries and unique landing pages per channel. I would also pay attention to the Google and Bing Webmaster tools and check for crawl issues.

Correct, if you 301 the non www to the www that takes care of the split PR issue, you can also declare which version non www or www to select in google WMT so do that as well.

As far as the canonical goes, that helps to make sure that Google ranks the page you want instead of a similar inferior page and helps make sure your Google index stays clean, so it's a good idea to canonical every page to help avoid Google getting confused.

PR is one of a couple of hundred factors that are weighted into the Google algorithm. I am not downplaying it at all and you should work on getting quality links but a PR of 0 does not mean a site won't be ranked. I wouldn't pay serious attention to Alexa Rank except to note that Google PR can takes months to update and you may see your progress using other ranking tools like Alexa and SEOMoz Rank (which is far better - my plug).

Absolutely. Flimsy pages will have a hard time ranking, and if all pages on your site consists of all flimsy pages you'll get hit by panda and even if you aren't hit by panda, high competition keywords will be difficult to rank for with weak content.

Anything less than 250 words is flimsy IMO. Don't write for SEO if you care about the user and conversions, don't over optimize and be sure to use similar phrases and industry words so that Google can tell that your site really is about that keyword and not just an article with that keyword thrown in for SEO.

If this is a legitimate question, proper tagging and display, quick page speed times for mobile and user engagement such as bounce rate etc will be factors in helping Google to decide to give one site better mobile rankings over another. Google is recommending one site for both web and mobile. So simply the fact that one site is purely mobile and another is both mobile and web does not mean that the mobile only site should automatically rank better because it's a .mobi or whatever.

To answer your question, this is a good way to ensure unique title tags across a very large site so yes you can definitely do it.

To clarify what Alan was saying, you don't want a bunch of title tags like this

<title>"Brand - Buy Toys Online, We Have More Than 10659"</title>

<title>"Brand - Buy Toys Online, We Have More Than 20365"</title>

<title>"Brand - Buy Toys Online, We Have More Than 18818"</title>

you want something more like this for example (although you might add category or something after the name of the toy

<title>"Red Tonka Firetruck | 10659"</title>

<title>Darth Vader 16" Plush Toy | 17759"</title>

<title>Justin Beiber  Dress Up Figurine | 32666"</title>

If you delete your site links there will be less links for people to click to your site and they may click the bad reviews more. So don't delete your sitelinks.

Yes that is duplicate content created by a technical issue

you need to redirect the slash to the no slash. or vica versa depending on which page is your real page and has more links and PR accrued. and then stick with that one way across the board

also canonical the pages as a second safety measure - this will tell Google if they visit the slash version that it is the same as the non slash version and to count the non slash version as the real page. or vise versa depending on which way you go with it.

Disallow in robots.txt

Add a noindex meta tag to these pages

Request Google to remove the URLs from their index via WMT URL removal request

You rank for your company name so the site is not penalized at least

Pages with no content is probably the biggest issue - this site needs content big time, sites like this won't rank well in a post panda world. Adding one sentence per page isn't enough

Site needs better targeting/optimization as well

Kill the blogroll links or at least nofollow them, recommend removing them, leaks PR, puts you at risk and takes users off of your site

Lose the footer links makes it look like you're selling links for PR

I think it is NOT a good place to start. These directories are dead. Google knows they are spam. If you have a new site and you want to build up some trust in Google, submitting a brand new site to 100 spam directories is a perfect way to show them you have bad intent. You would be better off not link building like that and showing them that you are not trying to game the system. Build up social media presence and link to them from your site, set up a places page and G+ page and link to them , work on your on page optimization. Don't start spamming links and building up an artificial link profile on a brand new site or you'll get most likely get penalized.

Desk and Desks is good but wood twice is not   find strongest primary and secondary matches

Assuming the plural is more valuable than the singular, and wood is more valuable than wooden

<title>Buy Wood Desks | Wooden Desk Sets | Bob's Discount Furniture</title>

Assuming the singular is more valuable, and wooden is more valuable than wood

<title>Buy Wooden Desk Sets | Wood Desks | Bobs Discount Furniture</title>

If the content is not needed for rankings due to low competition, and is not of benefit to the user, then i would not create additional content just for the engines unless you see slipping in the ranks.

the canonical is a recommendation not a directive that they have to follow so they are probably smart enough to see that this is a mistake. I would fix it ASAP though.

No, it's unique content!

Singular and plural search results vary and are still treated differently and if that's what you want to rank for (which was his question) i would recommend it in both the title tag and also include both singular and plural in the body content a couple times of course.

I definitely agree though it needs to be reader friendly from a marketing perspective, and also since title tag is limited space, doing keyword research might help you uncover a secondary keyword phrase that might be more valuable than including a plural or singular secondary keyword phrase.

Google has great guidelines for images that you should follow:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114016

Not so good:

![](puppy.jpg)

Better:

![puppy](puppy.jpg)

Best:

![Dalmatian puppy playing fetch](puppy.jpg) 

To be avoided

![puppy dog baby 
dog pup pups puppies doggies pups litter puppies dog retriever 
 labrador wolfhound setter pointer puppy jack russell terrier 
puppies dog food cheap dogfood puppy food](puppy.jpg)

Filling alt attributes with keywords ("keyword stuffing") results in a negative user experience, and may cause your site to be perceived as spam. Instead, focus on creating useful, information-rich content that uses keywords appropriately and in context. We recommend testing your content by using a text-only browser such as Lynx.

nofollowing the links won't stop the spiders from finding those pages, that will only throw away your PR. block them out in robots.txt, noindex and/or canonical the duplicate content pages to reign in the number of pages instead.

I would look at the navigational structure and see if you can narrow down the hierarchy a bit if there are 300 links on each page, it's a bit overwhelming for the user. Link to main category pages and on those pages branch out to individual products or sub categories.

"BTW the entire site is an ecommerce site wth millions of products and each product is its own wordpress blog post...YIKES!  Thoughts?"    I think wordpress is the wrong platform for a large ecommerce site with a million products and a migration might be in order which is a huge undertaking. You must have tons of duplicate title tags and junk on this site, it's inevitable when creating so many pages.

A link to YOUR site is on a sitewide blogroll?

Lose it. Especially if there is no PR on internal pages. Ask them to make the link homepage only so you're not creating a hundred low quality links with the same anchor text and shooting yourself in the foot.