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It looks like we will be releasing the index this afternoon. We'll keep you posted!

If you suddenly got a really good bounce rate of 1% or 2%, I'd take a look at your code and make sure that there's not two analytics instances there that are both firing, or some other code that's firing twice. The doubling in pages a visit would make me want to look there. I had the same issue on my site -- had a WP site and put in a custom analytics script in the footer, but still had the regular analytics in there via a WP plugin.

How large of a site do you want to audit? What type of information do you want to get out of it?

These two SEOMoz posts are a starting point if you want to perform a quick audit yourself, for free.

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-checklist-in-a-hurry-audit-list

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-step-by-step-15-minute-seo-audit-a-sample-from-seo-secrets

Last Year, SEO Book wrote a detailed post showing what the Alexa SEO audit for their site looked like, and discussed if it was worth the money. You can view that post to see what the audit will give you and help determine if it will meet your needs.

http://www.seobook.com/alexa-site-audit-review

You might want to check out my profile links.   My husband was just down in Houston in July for a national battle, but I don't see any more battles planned down that way for the rest of the year.

There's a great set of answers for a very similar question at http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-get-links-for-boring-niches-industries.

Just to make sure there's not a technical issue, the page isn't noindexed, or you don't have an images directory blocked in robots.txt, correct?

It is hiding! It's over at http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test.

I think the OP was asking more for sites that also had free hosting.

Verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools, and see if there is a notice from Google there. They will sometimes notify you if you have a penalty. If you are completely out of the index, you can file a reinclusion request in GWT as well.

If you want to put your URL here, the community can take a look and see what they can find that may help answer your question, if it is not purely a hypothetical question.

Hi! I do know why things have dropped. We released a new index last week, and it was a little bit smaller than the previous index. A smaller index means seeing fewer links, and thus less domain authority. It's nothing to worry about, since everyone went down about the same amount.

This is a very broad question, and difficult to answer in a forum such as this one. What would work better is if you are able to give your website and a couple of the keywords you are targeting, some of your strategy, and ask for some specific feedback.

Have you made any changes to your website? Could it be that perhaps the analytics code was removed from a few pages?

Your title says Google is no longer promoting your website. Has your traffic from Bing or Yahoo changed? Has direct traffic changed?

I think that's a bug and not a feature. I'll send a note about that to the dev team. Thanks for pointing it out!

On the root of the development subdomain, use the following robots.txt content to block all robots.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Next, verify the subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools as its own site, and request that that site be removed from the index.

For added protection:

• Make the robots.txt on the live site read only, so when you copy the dev site over you don't accidentally copy over the robots.txt saying to exclude everything
• Set up a code monitor on the robots.txt for both the dev site and the live site that checks the content of those files and alerts you if there are changes. I use https://polepositionweb.com/roi/codemonitor/index.php.

This post from Stephanie Chang on How Should You Handle Expired Content may be helpful.

I just answered this question where you asked it on another thread. In brief, sharing content does not mean copying and pasting the content, it means sharing a link or otherwise telling people about the source of the content.

It's less accurate than what a teenager tells their parents is going to happen on prom night. It's not accurate at all, and Google has said this for years. Rand actually wrote about it four years ago at http://moz.com/blog/google-link-command-busting-the-myths.

We do have a known issue (http://health.moz.com/) that rankings are missing for some accounts. We are pushing out a fix for this. I'm not sure of the timeframe for the fix, but do know that it's not you, we're the ones who have messed up and it'll be fixed soon.

Google puts in its own titles at times, and has been doing so for some time. This post at Search Engine Roundtable will help explain things a little, and show you that you're not alone.

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html

Thanks for letting us know. I have no idea if there is a problem with this or not, but I've passed it along to our legal team.