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I think that everyone's biggest take away from your response is "real marketing."  We need to stop seeing ourselves as just SEO's but as real marketers.  That is our jobs.

Article Directories are worse that worthless.  Don't waste your time.  Remember the simple adage: If you're doing anything to increase SEO that does not help increase the user experience, Google will slam you into a wall, pick you up, throw you on the floor, punch you in the junk, toss you out of a window, and then start dating your mom.

There is no more cheating the system.  Even if 2.0 wasn't the final nail in the "good ol' days of SEO" coffin, it's close.  An SEO's new job is riding their clients to create content and to participate in social. No more shortcuts.  Sorry!

You know that I think you are the bees knees, but I am going to have to disagree on this one.  Even Google does not recommend using the removal rool for this application.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1269119

Still pals?

There are several things that you can do to get Google to crawl your site (or your new content) quicker and more often.  You should be doing all of these, but in case you're not, here is the list.

1. Create a Sitemap and submit it through Web Master Tools

2. Install Google Analytics

3. Create social accounts/update your social accounts

4. Fetch as Google Webmaster tools

5. Update your content more often (to get Google to crawl your site more frequently).

6. Adjust the crawl speed on Google Webmaster tools.

7. Check crawl errors on Google Webmaster tools.  Are there sever side errors (500)?

I hope that helps!

Here you go:

http://www.mcanerin.com/en/articles/301-redirect-iis.asp

Enjoy!

I wouldn't be overly concerned with this.  Your keywords shift up and down depending on a bunch of factors.  If all of your important keywords dropped off the face of the planet I would say that you got smacked, but most of your keywords dropped by just a couple.  Just keep and eye on it and create more content!

I think that the better tactic would be to create new content for those broken links.  Unless these links are located on a very bad domain (link farm, etc.), I would just create a new page.

Be careful before you start messing with the disavow tool.  The only time I would use the disavow tool is if the link is obviously bad.  Like obviously obviously bad (if that makes sense).  Many people assume that their ranking tanked because of some algo update and start disavowing links without really checking into it.  Just be careful before using that tool and research the hell out of the link before you throw it away.

Here is a good article that gives you the Do's and Don't of using the Disavow tool.

http://www.portent.com/blog/seo/google-disavow-links-tool-best-practices.htm

Good luck!

Luckily, this is yet another thing SEOmoz can help you with. The link below has their recommended vendor list.  Generally, if someone is on that list, they are at the top of the business.

http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended

Not trying to take business away from any of these companies, but there are several things you can do yourself to help earn links while mitigating any algo penalties you are facing. There is a ton of content here and on searchengineland.com all about doing both..

Finally, forget link building.  Link building is what got you into the mess you are in right now. Any good SEO company is going to tell you the same thing I'm saying. Create good content and do it often. The "good ol days" are over. It's time to start working.

Good luck!

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I personally think that your social sharing application is plenty.  I think that asking people for links comes off a bit desperate.  If they like it and they want to, they will link to you.  In short...cheesy.

This will make it non www.  If you want it to default to www use this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Easy fix:

in your .htaccess file, use this

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\.com

RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Remember to replace domain.com with your domain name.
Enjoy!

I had the same issue with an old client that I had.  They actually had three different domains with the same content.  The best solution is to focus on CallRingTalk.com and use 301 redirects for GoCentrix.com.  Make sure that you are using 1 to 1 redirects so that you're able to maintain link juice from both site.  Aside from the obvious benefit of no duplicate content issues, you will also no longer be competing against yourself and updating will be easier.  Another benefit is that you will be able to transfer all the inbound links for your legacy domain to the new domain.  Just make sure that you use OSE to figure out the important inbound links and see if you can get those links changed to your new domain.

I hope that helps!

You are running into the same issue every SEO and content marketing consultant has run into.  We keep telling the people who are paying us that they need to generate content and they nod their heads vigorously, but when it is time to generate (or pay to generate) that content, all we hear are crickets.  One of the biggest issues I ran into as a consultant was getting people to do literally anything.  That is honestly a huge reason why I moved into an inhouse roll.  I just got tired of waiting for content.

The only thing you can do is to hope that they are willing to outsource their content creation.  Push comes to shove, you can always fire them.  Many people don't realize that when you are constantly waiting for stuff from clients, you are wasting your time (and money.)  You might as well just drop them as clients and find someone more willing to do what is required to succeed.

I hope that helps!

Bit.ly and ow.ly links are treated as 301 redirects and do pass link juice and aid in increasing DA and PR. I hope that helps!

I am not aware of any tools that would be able to automatically create H1 or meta titles/descriptions.  Why would you want to though?  You spent the time to create good content (or paid someone to), why wouldn't you take the time to optimize your page?  In the scheme of things, that is easy and shouldn't take you a fraction the time it took for you to create the content itself.

BTW, your consept of content automation and Google's idea of content automation is different.  Google views content automation as the process of automatically populating pages with content from RSS feeds or scraping sites.  If you want to know how the Google Spam team views this, check out Matt Cutt's video on the subject.  Here is a hint.  NO NO NO NO

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Oh My God!  I never thought about it!  Google is my father!  That explains so much!

I have!  Penguin took my mom out on a date, drove her to his house, had sex with her, and never called her again.  Damn you Penguin!!!!

Don't sweat it man.  As long as you're doing the right things you'll be fine.

Considering your Q/A request for help was coherent, I think that you'll be fine writing the reconsideration request yourself.  The spam team deal with non-native English speakers all the time.  I would just make sure that you explain what you've done to your site to make it comply with Google guidelines (removing unnatural links, etc.)

• Admit any mistakes made.
• What has been done to fix these mistakes.
• Be as detailed as possible

From Google reconsideration tool:  "Tell us more about what happened: what actions might have led to any penalties, and what corrective actions have been taken. If you used a search engine optimization (SEO) company, please note that. Describing the SEO firm and their actions is a helpful indication of good faith that may assist in evaluation of reconsideration requests."

Here is a great article on the whole process: http://www.bruceclay.com/newsletter/volume96/google-reconsideration-request.htm

I hope that helps!

There shouldn't be any prablem with using these images at all  as long as you have the rights to use those images.  Hell, most the graphics used online are used without the consent of the image owners anways.

Consider all of the stock images all over the internet.  If this was an issue there would be a million people freaking out about it.

That is better than an addiction to Big Data?  Boo!!! LOL