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To expand on what Alick300 stated, typically if the meta description is relevant, and includes the search query that the visitor is googling, it will show up in the snippet. If the meta description does not contain the keyword, they will grab a snippet of on-page content that includes it.

As Doug said, use an external service to monitor your site (I use Monitor.us).

Bing seems to always index much slower than Google, but agree with Mike. Anything you can do to help Bing crawl your site, do it.

As you know, many reasons could lead to the drop. I would focus on:

1.) Link Profile: Examine your link profile and try to eliminate any spammy inbound links (email the webmaster/disavow)

2.) Does the landing page closely match on the previous site? If the 301's do work, but content is dramatically different, it will likely cause a drop in organics for that kw.

Good luck!

Because Google believes that it is better for the user based on their query:

There’s a simple reason for this: the title tag as specified by a webmaster is limited to being static, fixed regardless of the query. Once we know the user’s query, we can often find alternative text from a page that better explains why that result is relevant. Using this alternative text as a title helps the user, and it also can help your site. Users are scanning for their query terms or other signs of relevance in the results, and a title that is tailored for the query can increase the chances that they will click through. See Google's artcile: Create good titles...

According to Dr. Pete: "My understanding is that you can block the root domain that way, yes, but Google seemed to qualify that sub-domains were at their discretion. Unfortunately, we don't have much data yet. If you know that every link from the domain is bad, then I'd use the "domain:example.com" format."

Second Question--Can nofollow links hurt my site? Matt Cutts said "Typically, no unless it is abused and manual action applied."

Adam is correct. None of the image url's in the xml (that I looked at) are pointed correctly.

No, attribute order is irrelevant.

Saijo, Same thing with me. I joined a couple of months ago and still no image.

You do have "home" in the alt tag in a few places: alt="utilis-tents-navigation-home-button". This plus the shelter kw's may be enough to get indexed for that phrase. The alt on this page is useless, so try removing it.

In the way of editors, I typically use notepad++ and Dreamweaver. I find hand coding is sometimes the best way of editing things.

I think to be "good" at SEO, someone should have understanding of HTML/CSS. Lynda has some great courses on how to get started.

If visitors are engaged with your content, they will come back. That's a good reason to write it.

How do you know that they never will be searched? Much of the content I generated focus on "extremely" niche topics (long tail kw's) and we do receive visitors for these topics. Also, generating original content adds credibility to your brand and site. As you know, it's not all about competitive keywords.

Although it has many limitations, I use: http://marketing.grader.com periodically. It's fast and covers the basics.

Do you have the plugin Wordpress SEO installed? Possible explanation from a user at stackoverflow:

"You have the plugin Wordpress SEO installed which has breadcrumbs included. It looks like you cannot install the breadcrumb plugin also. Use the breadcrumb feature included in Wordpress SEO plugin."

I agree w/Mat. Unless there are similarly name companies or another legitimate reason, leave it off.

Also, if the title is descriptive enough to match the search query, extra words or phrases may muddle this up.

Did anything else change besides what was stated above (such as url, headings, content & etc.)?

Take a screenshot and email the owners directly to take it down. Along with what Richard said, report to Bing and Yahoo.

Has the content change? Did you check crawl frequency in webmaster tools? Many issues can get this number up.

Good point Doug. Consistency is they key for name /address/phone number.

I may be wrong, but I don't believe you can do this via a 301 redirect. How did you know the examples used a 301 redirect? The examples provided may have used JavaScript to do it (may not be the best, but can't think of any other option).