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I noticed that when I was using this tool, the data in the tables would change, often by a lot (up to 50%) when I sorted the columns. (Did nothing else, just sorted.)

Since I was starting a new campaign and really needed data, I contacted Google about this and was told: "I understand that the estimates are changing in the Keyword Planner tool when you sort the data. I reproduced this on my end as well and was able to confirm that this is a known technical issue on our end." "Unfortunately the information in the Keyword Planner Tool is currently not the best source of data for your analysis."

They then went on to suggest I just test things blindly.

So, what do you do to get information about keyword traffic and ppc estimates?

I like Ayima's Chrome extension "Redirect Path."

When you go to a page, just click it and it will tell you all the URLs you visited on the way there and what the http status codes are for each. Nice.

http://www.ayima.com/seo-knowledge/redirect-checker.html

Also, if you look at your link profile a lot of your links have that exact match anchor text "stainless steel fabricators"; in fact 176 out of your 270 links have it. I do see that that is the name of the company, but perhaps Google might think that is unnatural linking.

The .org address is also the link from the Wikipedia article on the museum; you should probably edit that as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thackray_Medical_Museum

I just noticed that my images on Webmaster Tools are not my sites, they are some shopping site. If I refresh, it goes back to mine, refresh again, back to shopping. It is a known issue in the Webmaster Tools forum but has anyone seen this type of thing before?

There is a wikipedia article using the old name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_Colour_Pages

I bet that editing that would go a long way to fixing your problem...

This has happened to me as well, having an old name show up in the search results. Google does not always use what you put in the title tag for the page title if it thinks that something else is more relevant.

In my case, there were still a good number of external links to the site with the old name being the anchor text, which is where Google got it, I assume. I see on your site that variations on "Colour Pages" are used in a number of your links; maybe that's where Google is picking it up.

I actually just had that same situation come up, and this is what I found:

"The new tool, which is a part of the company's Google Takeout data-liberation service, allows users to elect a master Google+ account and transfer circles and other information to one main profile, instead of having two separate accounts. For those that make the transfer, you will only be able to log in with the email address associated with the primary Google+ profile."

http://mashable.com/2012/07/12/google-merge-accounts/ and another link: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/transfer-google-plus-accounts/

On a side note, you apologize for the title of your question but looking at the number of views for each of the questions this morning, this one has quite a few views compared to the others. An example of a good title increasing clicks, I think.

If you want to look at your most recent crawl report, go to your campaign from "campaigns" on the Moz ribbon and click "view this campaign". That will take you to the overview page, where you can click "see all crawl alerts" which shows you your crawl report. You then have the option to export it as a pdf or csv.

Alt tags are used to convey information to people who cannot see the images, so they should always be used (unless the image is just decorative). If the images are different, use different alt tags.

Yes, there is a down side to putting them in both places and that is duplicate content. You can use cross-domain canonicals to indicate which is the original one, but if you don't have control over the other site, you cannot be sure they will cooperate.

It can sometimes make sense to submit content to a site that has higher visibility and traffic than yours to get the exposure, but in general the best place to put your own content is on your own site, certainly if you want to rank for target keywords.

Also, you mention that you had some articles created for a client. Keep in mind that if this is content that is churned out in bulk, it is not likely to do well. You should make a point of using unique and high quality material.

Here is an article by Mark Traphagen: Google+ Profile PageRank: The Real AuthorRank? - SMX Advanced 2013 in which he mentions G+ pages in the SERPs. The Google+ Fitness and Nutrition community was apparently ranking on the first page for "fitness and nutrition", though this week they are on page two. Perhaps we will be seeing more of this.

I use a free Firefox extension from seobook called Rank Checker.

Moz has getListed.org  ( https://getlisted.org/ ). If you input your business name and zip code you can see where and how you are listed and claim your site/make corrections as needed.

Here's one that might be helpful for approximation: http://www.ecreativeim.com/pagerank-link-juice-calculator.php

I see something similar; in my case it's because we get less traffic on weekends, so there is a weekly sawtooth. Do your dips correspond to weekends?

Wait till Google crawls your page again. You will know when this is by checking the date on the cached version of the page, which you can find by doing a search for the URL of the page you are interested in, then clicking on the little green down arrow next to the URL in the search result.