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Is your company name a very unique name or something generic that a lot of other sites rank for? That makes it either very simple or more difficult depending.

SillySamantha'sCookies.com (easy)

FloridaPaintingContractors.com (more difficult)

I wouldn't do a subdomain or a new domain if you are trying to get #1 and #2 positions for your company name. I would optimize some additional internal pages for your company name on the main site and try to get the homepage and and an internal page ranked in the top two spots.

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.

You can safely have follow link to other websites in your blog posts. However, as a general rule, the anchor text links should be on the brand names of the companies you are linking to. These links should not be reciprocal or paid links.

Looks like you answered your own question. I would hesitate about changing existing URLs and make the update for future posts. If that's not possible, you must have 301 redirects working properly. Also, if your targeting Broadway Theater, you need to make sure that keyword exists on the page content and try to change the breadcrumb to read Broadway instead of New York.

While it's possible to over-optimize anchor text on a site, I don't believe this is your issue. You need to make sure the site is buttoned up completely from a SEO perspective. One example I see is that there is keyword stuffing in the keywords tag, on your blog tags and on the knowledgebase tags. I would frankly drop the subdomains and port over the content to the main site :www.absoluteautomation.com/blog and drop all the keyword tags.

The general consensus of my SEO peers is that approximate 15% of link juice is lost in the redirect and I second what Richard has recommended.

I am looking for an online tool that will display the contents of the htaccess file. i came across a tool a month ago, but I can not recall the name of the tool. Thanks

Please share if you ever resolved this issue. Thanks

I believe Yext Powerlistings helped us tremendously by synching our contact info and website with dozens of Yelp type sites. It's like $300 a year though.

Yes it's still duplicate content. Also, you almost never see a .ca domain ranking in the US. If the US market is big enough they should consider buying a .com and making unique content got the .com site.

Guest posts are the latest form of link building that Google has targeted and identified as a SEO link building activity, so I would read up on it and be careful and not use valuable anchor texts.

Easy answer. Keep the original page and create two new pages properly addressing each target which will be more effective, write unique content for each, don't 301 and don't canonical to one url (canonical each to it's own page)

No, subdomains are separate sites. They should all be verified independently in WMT and then in the disavow page you'll see options for all the sites in a dropdown list and submit a disavow for each.

That isn't a huge number and image links don't pass semantics like a text link does so it's probably ok because images don't push rank, but I would nofollow them anyway because Google keeps changing the rules as they go.

I am right about to do this very same thing, also with laywers. I am suggesting they don't use the same phone number, adding a suite # is easy enough. I'll let you know how it goes.

more pageviews is good, and this is preferred, however you should allow only the first page to get indexed and the paginated subsequent pages should all be noindex,follow so that you aren't creating tons of low or no content pages.

Many sites do this , it's called a CDN (content delivery network) and my site does it with both images and video hosting on different main site subdomains.

"You send a sample of your product to influential bloggers, for the purpose of a review and hopefully a link back to your website."

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/bloggers-get-flowers-interflora-gets-slapped/60380/

I would leave the existing ones alone and create new page(s) targeting baptism and link to them prominently from the homepage and globally on the site, submit the URLs in WMT and add them to your sitemap.xml file for quicker indexing.

Definitely disavow them if you can't get the webmasters to cooperate. Article directory links are bad enough as is, scraped and reposted articles are worse.