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I may be wrong, but I think these plugins are designed to detect bots and that they only implement their security features if they do think it's a bot.

I post comment on blogs that use Akismet all the time and I'm never prompted to fill out a captcha or do anything more than check one box, so I wouldn't worry about scaring people away.

If it's a WP site, there are several plugins to deal with this. Akismet, which comes installed with WP, is one of them.

I also use WPSpamFree and spam comments never get past it.

I've also seen this where you have to check a box to say you are human (which bots can't do) - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/growmap-anti-spambot-plugin/

I agree with EGOL and would add that some very subtle variations often have different rankings. For example, I've seen different results when comparing "Rhode Island Wedding" and "Rhode Island Weddings" in the search results. These variations are arguably closer than the ones you are posing yet are different, so don't assume anything.

If you don't want to waste keywords that you monitor, I would recommend tracking the variations that have the highest search volume first. After a quick search, "Hamilton Island" has much more monthly searches than "Hamilton Islands." It might not even be worth it to track the latter term since the search volume is much lower.

I think Clicky works fine, but I'm not sure there's much value beyond using Google Analytics especially since Google has come out with Real-Time Analytics now.

I liked Clicky since they had the real-time feature before, but that's no longer unique to them. Clicky also calculates bounce rates differently than Google, but I'm not sure that's of real "value."

Other than that, I don't see much of a difference or advantage to using Clicky.

I've seen several bloggers use this one, and it seems to work well for that: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/

Not sure if it works equally well for websites or not, but worth a look.

I agree with fassa about the 1 page for 1 keyword. You page might end up ranking highly for secondary keywords that are more long tail in nature.

What do you mean by the "top page of Google by 65 keywords or more"? Is that your goal? If so, that seems a little vague as you can easily rank of the top page of long tail keywords, but it doesn't mean anything if no one is searching for them.

There's a form here for reporting spammy Gmail addresses to Google. I'm not sure how responsive they are or how well this works: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse I've had a lot of luck with captchas in the past for reducing spam. But if an actual person is filling in your form and sending you spam, this obviously won't help. I've seen blog sites with a checkbox to "confirm you are a human" which can supposedly stave off automated captcha readers.

I think you're right that Google has discounted the value of exact match domains now as it's not as easy to increase rankings solely on the merit of the domain alone. However, I don't agree that exact match domains aren't helpful at all anymore. I see cases all the time where exact match domains are very higher in search rankings in Google. Value of having the exact match domain may be "dying," but I wouldn't say it's dead yet. If this is a new domain with no domain authority, it does you no help to simply redirect from that domain to yours regardless of how good the keywords in the new domain are. At minimum you would need to build up the new domain to get any value out of it (unless you you want to buy the domain just to ensure competitors don't get a hold of it).

Was "volusion-store-design.com" a brand new domain you purchased? Assuming it is, forwarding it to your main site gives absolutely no SEO benefit to your main site. This is because this new URL has no authority so there's not any benefit to pass along to the new site.

Either way, it seems doubtful that either of the two things you described would hurt your rankings. Give it a few days and see what happens to your rankings before trying to figure out if you have a major problem.

Yes, you should definitely include the city name. A search for just "plastic surgery" is too broad and much less likely to pull up your particular business.

When I type in "plastic surgery" in my search, not a single web page contains a local result for plastic surgery in the City I live in (although several of the paid ads show up locally).

Local Places pages do show up for local businesses, but I'm assuming you're talking about pages on your website and not Google Places.

If you want daily tracking, I would recommend trying a different service like SERP Fox. These will give updated rankings regularly and have many of the same options as the SEO Moz rank tracker.

I haven't seen any issues with tracking ranks in SEO Moz, but I don't check it daily.

Seems like you could just add a second place page with no problems. That's what all the big chains do and they all point to the same URL on a site. For example, Chipotle has a different place listing for all their locations and they all just point back to www.Chipotle.com

Some do detect that a similar article has been posted on another site even if the article has been "spun." This is the case with HubPages and others.

I like GoArticles.com for quick turnout. EzineArticles is always a popular one, too

I also use WordPress.com, Tumblr, and other blogging sites to post as well.

I'm not sure if this was part of your question or not, but I don't recommend posting the exact same article anywhere.

You could use the Rel="canoncial" tag but that will affect your search rankings.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content

Are people actually searching for each month separately? If not, this might not be much of a concern.

Could you create a page that lists all the dates and that would be a where you could point the Rel="canoncial" tag to?