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For indexing, you can do a site: in the search engine to see what's been indexed. To look at a specific page, in addition to the site: operator, add inurl: and some words from the URL to help narrow down the results.

For caching, I use the Resurrect Pages extension for Firefox. Right click while you're in the page, and you can select one of several caching sites to see if that page is available. It's also handy for when you're getting a 404 on a page and want to see what was there.

According to the plugin page, you can use the following caching sites:

Searches through five big page cache/mirrors:
CoralCDN
Google Cache
Yahoo! Cache
The Internet Archive
MSN Cache
Gigablast
WebCite

The extension is available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/resurrect-pages/

Another thing to think about is the user experience. Do you know if users ever download the pictures and refer to just the pictures? If so, it can be helpful for them to know the order of operations.

Do you mean that the Google Toolbar Pagerank is being reported the same whether it is the SEOmoz homepage or an individual profile page?

Here are the quality guidelines for Google Local Listings. Related to PO Boxes, Google says "Do not create listings at locations where the business does not physically exist. P.O. Boxes are not considered accurate physical locations. Listings submitted with P.O. Box addresses will be removed."

http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107528&rd=1

However, they do now offer a way to list service areas for a business. Information about how to do this is available on the Google page for service areas.

http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=177103

The specific section that addresses relative links says this:

Can I use a relative path to specify the canonical, such as ?
Yes, relative paths are recognized as expected with the tag. Also, if you include a <base> link in your document, relative paths will resolve according to the base URL.

Casey from SEOmoz responded to this question in another thread with the following: "That article was out of date and replaced by a chapter in our Beginners Guide to SEO", which is the link below that Gyi quoted.

I took a quick look at that video, and can tell you we've all been on the receiving end of auto-generated link requests where the sender has obviously never looked at the site. Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan have fun on occasion when they write about these types of requests. Lots of red flags go off when looking at this site, especially the guarantee about top rankings.

No, I don't have any personal experience with this site, but in general this type of thing is something to avoid.

2. I believe you mean subdomains on wordpress.com, which are free. Wordpress.org is where you can download the Wordpress software and self-host the site.

Was it http://www.seomoz.org/blog/headsmacking-tip-6-test-with-paid-search-before-you-target-with-seo by chance?

Google can see my behavior on non-Google sites if I use the toolbar (may require opting in to see the PageRank data in the toolbar, I'm not sure what data they collect in which situations).

For example, when I still had the toolbar installed, my GWT report for my site indicated that I needed to speed up the wp-admin page of my site. That page isn't in the index, and I'm the only one that accessed it, so I believe that's how they got the data. I don't use the toolbar anymore, and that page now no longer shows up in GWT as something that needs attention.

Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable has posts where he's seen people talking about this in the Google forums as well, so it's not just happening to you.

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

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-titles-match-12779.html

I don't know if there is anything you can do about it, but these links should provide a little more background information and let you know you're not alone.

Volusion does have the ability to do 301 redirects, so you can set that up to redirect the /default.asp to the / page. I have no experience with Volusion myself, but the following link (and a search on their site for redirects) should get you off on the right foot.

http://support.volusion.com/article/301-redirects

The 301 redirects won't affect your previous GA history, but it will help keep it straight from now on.

Do you have unique page titles for each page? If you can look at landing page by page title that may also help you work around this in an historical sense.

Two SEOmoz articles talk about hiring copywriters in general, setting expectations, how to help the relationship go well, etc. The second blog post has over sixty comments, and the discussion is worth reading as well.

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-talk-to-your-copywriter

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-outsourcing-content-creation

Michael Gray (graywolf) wrote a review of TextBroker at http://www.wolf-howl.com/reviews/textbroker-com-review/. I have no affiliation, but wanted to pass along more information about one of these services. He does mention tone in the review.

Here's what Google officially has to say about how they determine organic sitelinks, updated in October of 2010.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334

Do you want sustained traffic, or a one-time increase? Is there a goal associated with this traffic (increase signups for a newsletter, increase number of comments, sell products, etc.) or is the goal just pageviews for a specific page?

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

Google Toolbar is another means that Google has to collect user behavior after a user leaves a Google search result.

Hi Vijay,

SEOMoz has several blogs posts that talk about good ways to build links, and how to write emails asking for links. Ideally, you want relevant links from relevant sites. I get requests on our RC boat site for link swaps for hair style businesses or real estate companies, and it's obvious they've never even visited our site. They receive no response.

Some good resources:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-are-your-best-tips-for-link-builders

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/good-seo-how-to-request-links-from-picky-sites

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-not-to-request-a-link-via-email

Thomas, double-check if that stat is for users without Java, or users without javascript.