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Give it a bit of time and it should fix itself. Google will crawl it and find that it is no longer broken.

If you are getting this information through the SEOmoz crawl, clicking on the red 'Error' button should give you details which URLs exactly give 4XX errors. It will show you which  site returns the error, not where the link is though. If you forwarded the missing pages that would somewhat fix it. Another good idea to improve this would be to create a useful 404 error page that allows people to find what they need. Some advice on how to handle this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/are-404-pages-always-bad-for-seo

I would leave out the punctuation to be honest. Not just in favor of the keyword match, but also for the users. I, personally, would be much more inclined to click on a website with the title "What is Actinide?" than "What is...Actinide?". Better in both ways.

I track it all through the PRO campaigns and manually search in a browser in privacy mode with personalization disabled to get more up-to-date information should I need it for short term analysis. Since only long-term matters for most I found that the PRO tools are sufficient 90% of the time though.

You could just nofollow the links you don't want to lead to nonindexed sites. This way Google will stop there. Other than that editing your robots.txt to exclude what you don't want to show up would work.

I don't see a way to edit it, so I'd recommend to just start a new campaign with the correct name.

Yes, it basically spreads the word about your content.

As Ping-o-Matic puts it:

So why would you want to be on these sites? One word: traffic. Blogrolling scripts like blogrolling.com and WordPress check update services to see if you've updated and then shows it on everyone's site -- usually by moving you to the top of people's blogrolling list or putting a recently updated indicator by your link. Services like Technorati spider your links to track who links to you and who you link to; almost in real time. If you show up on someone's Technorati link list (often called an "egorati search") they're likely to visit your site to see what you said, increasing your exposure. Other sites like weblogs.com and blo.gs list recently updated blogs. Lots of people browse these when they're bored. Many of the services offer their own forms for pinging their own service, but keeping track of all those services is a hassle.

Hey,

Wordpress has a huge list of pinging services available:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services

I would think that one of those will do what you need.

Sit tight for a few days. If it still stays bad, compare your linking profile to competitors, maybe there is something shady in there (not accusing you of anything) that Google caught outside of a major update. They adjust their algorithm about 500 times a year according to a recent video, so chances are there are daily minor changes. Could be a fluke, too. We had rankings drop down from 5/6  to 10 for a week, and promptly bounce back up again without any interference.

Barry is spot on. You either have the meta robot line, or you do your robots.txt. I prefer to use the txt because it shows me all the rules I impose on the website at a glance and doesn't make me go and search each page individually if anything needs to be changed. Imagine having a website with 20000 pages where each is individually adjusted. If you suddenly need to change something it will take you forever. With a robots.txt it will literally take seconds.

I would suggest you contact Facebook support instead. While somebody might have an idea here, they will be able to help you for sure.

This should work, I would maybe suggest to change it to */answers/ just in case, maybe even put a * at the end. If it is not crawled nor indexed, it won't count as duplicate content. As far as Google is concerned, it does not exist. If it was crawled, I'd remove it through Webmaster Tools after adjusting the robots.txt and custom crawl it to make sure it works as intended.

If the question was if it was duplicate content: Yes, it would be. Ajax is not being crawled, so Google would just see whatever text is on the website, if any. If you have multiple sites just with Ajax, they will seem the same.

Mike

If they are very technical, just write down the specs or steps that you are discussing at the side, kind of like a guide you can follow while seeing the video.

You can remove any website or directory through Google Webmaster Tools. If the robots.txt is Disallowing it, then it won't be re-indexed either. I think you should be able to safely remove it via oldsite.newsite.com/* just dont do *.newsite.com obviously.

Mike

I have the same problem. There always was a lag, but not as bad as now. It does show the update from 8/15 in my keywords, but not the overall traffic report.

Another vote for vBulletin. Overall much more refined with the possibility of adding many plug-ins and customisations.

Try using SKUs or bar codes / model numbers. This might additionally help you if people use barcode scanners or the like for search.

Tedious is what SEO tends to be at times. In addition, reciprocal links will do you very little good. I'd suggest making some content that people will link to. If you have a nice page that you want to link to your site, make sure you make some content that they will like specifically and you should get a nice link. Reciprocal links get very little value from Google, and are generally low quality.

Mike

If it gets you conversions and ultimately more money, of course. Just ranking highly doesn't make you more money, conversions are what matters in the end.