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Very recently, google has started to devalue Exact Match Domains, or domains that have exact matches to keywords in them.

In my professional opinion, your problem seems to be content itself. When is the last time you updated your content or built fresh backlinks? If you have tons of duplicate content the engines are not seeing you as relevant in your area of expertise. While you are redesigning your website i strongly encourage you to write uniquely valuable content. Get something on your site that your potential clients can't find somewhere else on the web and that will answer their search query. Maybe take a look at your keyword list and see if it might be time to update that list. If you have no solid, valuable content on your site you cannot be successful in a competitive market.

If all you can see in the source code is the widget, then that is all that the bots will see. If this widget is helpful for your searchers, then that will be the benefit. Google will only see that there is a widget on your site. It will not see any content that isn't in the source code. If you want the content to be seen, an RSS feed might be a better option.

What? That is a little crazy. I don't think I could work for two companies trying to rank for the same keywords, that is such a conflict of interest.

Each site is an individual, and there are over 200 ranking factors. So it isn't really fair to say that they should have the same results. The sites are different and probably have enough differences to make ranking them each a challenge, especially on the same key terms.

User generated content in my opinion is extremely useful. It is unique, it is informative most of the time and it is valuable to future searches. In this instance I would be more concerned about the value to the searchers and to user experience than the SEO effects.

I second that opinion, super exciting to get deeper information! Can't wait to dive in!

Have you submitted your site to Bing? You will have to do that through Webmaster tools. Watch out for emails within the first 2 weeks. If you have any issues with links or on page content, they will not index your site. Make sure you submit the same sitemap you submitted to Google.

The Panda/Penguin updates have shaken up the rankings quite consistently over the past couple of weeks. I noticed that my company, and my competitors have dropped a couple of points as well. I don't think that drop in DA is something to freak out about right now. If you have not received any notices from Google, it could just be that things are still trying settle down after the topsy turvy couple of weeks the engines have seen.

As far as search impressions go, there are a few things that could be happening. If you changed your URLs when you redesigned your website then you can start to see reduced impressions as your new pages become indexed and start moving up in the searches. Something to be careful of is if you see your impressions dip below your lowest average before the Penguin update. I have a few SEO friends who saw huge surges in impressions as Penguin was rolling out, and then a decline that they haven't been able to recover from. As long as you are staying above that lowest day of impressions you should be fine.

It could also just be a lack of searches on those days. It is something to keep an eye on, but probably too soon to start worrying about. After updates, you kind of have to wait and see for a couple of weeks. The results are all messed up and usually don't start to even out for awhile. As far as I know, the Penguin update still isn't complete, so that could still cause some trouble for your impressions.

Have you checked your landing pages report to see where your organic searches are coming from? How about your keyword rankings? Have you noticed any changes out of the ordinary?

Don is spot on here. Content and Link Building are the top of the SEO priority list. I strongly encourage you to do more research and ignore anyone who tells you that blog posts and any other form of content back linking is out dated. There are so many ways to build links, and the most important thing to remember is that they need to be organic and to quality sites.

Just because someone is ranking well and they appear to have really spammy links doesn't mean that 1. they aren't going down the road of punishment and 2. their link profile is why they are ranking well. There are 200 ranking factors, and about 17% of them are link related.

To touch on social media. It is growing in importance everyday. Social signals are extremely important and anyone who advises against social marketing is way outside of the best practice loop. Be very careful.

You don't want to build no follow links, they carry absolutely 0 link juice If you are building them in places where you will get referral traffic from them, then by all means, build away. Link building was originally devised as a way to drive traffic. It lost it's purpose because it became so manipulated, and now, with the help of penguin, it is starting to get back to its roots. Links have always been the highways and byways bringing traffic to your site, and if your links are driving traffic, they are doing their job. Whether it is from social, blogs or forums.

I would definitely include it with the "read more" extension. I don't think that excluding content is ever a good idea. You don't want to contradict the cleanliness of a responsive design, so the "read more" option is really the best way to include the content without undoing your design.

I just moved a Volusion site to Big Commerce. I think that you should implement the SEO friendly short URLS. This will give you back the URL structure you lost moving from Zen Cart.

I think that you might be suffering from the Penguin update because it targeted the link neighborhoods. You link profile shows links to sites that have extremely spammy link profiles. A lot of people were guilty by association with the 10/17 Penguin update. Although you lost some of the impressions, you can get them back with new, fresh, authoritative links. What is your current linking strategy?

I don't think that the URL structure could be 100% responsible for a loss in impressions. I think that you will have to look a little deeper, just make sure that your 301 redirects are accurate.

When I moved to BigCommerce I found that I had to do a lot of manual 301 redirects as well. Our site in Volusion was extremely sloppy as far as 301 redirects and category structure. It could be possible that there were some pages on the site that didn't get redirected correctly.

I understand what you are saying, however, there is no trick. You want the content on page for desktop and mobile users. Google uses a different crawl bot for mobile, so if the content isn't there your mobile rankings will be affected.

I think what makes this different is that the feed will be direct and live. I don't necessarily believe the links created in Twitter will be a good source of backlinks as they will continue to be no follow links. I do however see the face that Twitter posts can rank on the first page of Google as an extremely useful conversion tool.

If I can tweet a link to my site advertising a promotion, and that can feed to the first page of Google faster than my meta description can be recrawled and updated, that will still bring valuable traffic to my site. I am excited to see what kind of benefit this can have to SEO and marketing as a whole. I doubt it will really affect link building at its core. The value is going to come from traffic increase and the ability to get your content in front of searchers faster.

I do however, think that the way results are displayed will be heavily modified in the coming weeks. I think that the massive amount of data filtered through Twitter daily will have to be filtered and funneled for user experience. If the first page of Google becomes infiltrated with Tweets, it will probably only cause searchers to have to go to page 2 and 3 to find the results they are looking for.

In my industry, 5 of the 8 manufacturers Twitter profiles and tweets have already pushed my competition off of page one for branded searches. While I am not off page 1 yet, I fear that it could happen. I definitely foresee a lot more fine tuning ahead.

Generally, you want to provide the same experience for all customers. There could be some compatibility issues between browsers, so if you had to do something technical for compatibility that should be ok.

My first thought is that rewriting your product descriptions will not be as effective as getting user generated content, like product reviews, on your site. Even if you rewrite the content, it will still be the same context and it won't offer anything uniquely valuable to the searchers. You need uniquely valuable content, not just uniquely written content.

My second though is that flattening the URLs is not the best way to do that. Your category and subcategory names should be structured to help you get as much information into your URL as possible. You don't want to stuff them with keywords, but you want them to be progressively descriptive.

For example,

Category = Women's Pants / Subcategory = Boot Cut Denim / Product Name = Riders by Lee Women's Dark Wash Boot Cut Jeans

URL - www.mystore.com/womens-pants/bootcut-denim/riders-by-lee-womens-dark-wash-boot-cut-jeans.cfm

as opposed to

www.,mystore.com/riders-by-lee-womens-dark-wash-boot-cut-jeans.cfm

The first example would be the best possible URL format. Taking out the categories would only reduce your ability to target keywords effectively.

I use Open Site Explorer. It gives you all the links pointing to your root and subdomains. You can even do it page by page if you want. It will tell you the DA and root linking domains of all of the links to your site.

Have you used Google Webmaster Tools to monitor your links at all?

If you are 301 redirecting these sites eventually the older URLs will no longer be indexed, leaving only the one site with it's unique content. You don't have to worry about duplicate content in this instance.

Run far, run fast. Paid for links and pyramids are never a good plan. Your link profile needs to be natural and linked to QUALITY pages with QUALITY content.

More and more, each Penguin update urges SEOs to understand that it isn't the QUANTITY of your links, but the QUALITY. One of my competitors has over 1,000,000 links and I outrank them with 4800. I have quality content and a strong, quality link profile.

I cannot stress the importance of working on a natural link profile. The mantra for this strategy is "easy come, easy go". It is not a permanent solution, nor is it best practice. Please don't waste your money on something like this.

It depends on how the redirects are done. If you do them in the htaccess file and they are dynamic, not manual, you can have thousands. What Kevin is referring to is how many times can you redirect the same page. You can't redirect page 1 to page 2 to page 3 to page 4 then to page 5. But you can redirect multiple pages on you site.

I understand from your previous post you are talking about your blog. You will be fine redirecting these URLs to static URLs. Do them through the HTAccess file. After about 6 months the old URLs should have fallen off and been removed from the index so you can move the 301 redirects. If anything gets missed you will find it in your GWT 404 errors.

I personally would not. From what I have gathered about the latest Penguin update, it really targeted link neighborhoods. That is what you are describing when you are talking about the link profile of this other site.

Ask yourself this, does it look natural? Is there a relevancy from this site to mine? True it is just one link, but is it worth risking your link profiles integrity? My answer is always no.

There is no "penalty" per say for duplicate content. But, if you have the same page in two places they will be competing for a spot in the SERPs. The best way to handle that is a cross domain canonical tag.

I agree with Doug however. I think that there is more value having this information on your current site. Is there a particular reason you want them separate?