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Search engine take PDF as a page and can easily crawl the content in it that means if two identically same PDF will be found on different URLs with 100% same content available in it, logically this should be considered as duplicated content because; it like 2 different URLs providing the same information to search engine, so it should be duplicated.

The hard way: Create your own PDFs (way to costly)

The Easy way: Add link to the original resource like the same you do with articles and images, you pass a link to the original resource to help search engine know what the original piece is.

Another way: Block all the PDFs from search engine so that search engine should not crawl and index them in SERPs. The PDFs will be available for your users but not for search engine.

I just take a quick overview of your product pages and I guess if you block the PDF from search engine it won’t affect much! #ifiwouldbeatyourplace

It literally depends upon many things! Like if you client’s target market is within UK then I would recommend you to stick up to .co.uk domain as this way you will be able to get better visibility in Google UK plus visitors who are directly coming to your website will tend to trust you!

In my opinion single hyphen is fine if it fits the brand name as well but if you have a domain available that contain no hyphen and at the same time if you can afford a bit of a dip in traffic then you cna go for the new domain and redirect 301 the older domain to the new one but if you are not ready for the traffic and ranking dip then it won’t be a good idea!

Just my 2 cents!

The quickest way to remove the URL from the search index is by using Google’s webmaster tool!

Go to GWT and request a link removal and it will be gone for 90 days and then set the no index tag this way your URL will be out of the search index for the life to come!

Hope this helps!

Not really , I don't think Moz have this option available in their paid accounts... although they should add this as this is a requirement for agencies!

I don’t really think it will be simple enough to rank better with a website that contains all the images on some other server. It might help you with site load time but if the CDN is not SEO friendly probably you will see a dramatic fluctuation in rankings.

I would highly advice you to use self hosting ecommerce website and then properly optimize it according to the SEO standards in order to rank better in SERPs.

Copycsape.com is a good place to see how much your content is duplicated with others…

If I would be at your place I might never have considered duplicate content as a problem because of the following facts:

• I am the original source of the content
• Google is smart it can guess who the real content creator is and give all credits to original content instead of content scrapers…

Mostly this happens with blog, infect SEOmoz blog’s content has been copied on multiple places but I a haven’t noticed any penalty on SEOmoz nor I see scrapers ranking above the original content.

As Meta keyword is not harmful so you can give it a try but personally I don’t think it will affect unless you really use the most targeted keywords for each page.

Martin, there are tons of SEO courses available in the market but unfortunately many of them are not up to the mark. I recently did a post on my blog in which I reached out to some very respectable people/companies in the community who offer SEO courses and asked them some important questions. http://www.setalks.com/seo-courses

If you ask my personal choice for SEO Market motive is good but if link building is the only thing you are looking for them nothing is better than Jon Cooper’s Link Building Course. There are some other good tools like Distilled U, Udemy and more.

Hope this helps!

J I think, you must be using some of the WP tools made by these people and that is why the code is appearing on your website.

David Nylor, SEO Book (Aaron) and Open Site Explorer are cosidered to be the white hat names in the search industry #justtoletyouknow!

I don’t think coming up with a company name will be great but why not check Google places and yelp for a local company within your area.. and read the reviews to have an idea of their work and customer service...

Joel, this happens to one of my client that few of his targeted land pages were not ranking and supporting pages were performing well instead of the main pages...

At that time there was no option to demote site links, so what i did is to get internal links from within the content to major pages and get some quality external links points to the major pages and boom... search engine gets it...

I guess in your thing you have to get more external links pointing to the major URL (off course if all other on-pages issues related to indexing are already fixed!)

Hope this helps!

Very Detailed and top the point answer by Tim!

Once you are done with the basics like Submission to Local Maps on Google, Yahoo, Bing and Business Listings on Yellow Pages and Data Aggregates...now it’s the time to do few Advance stuff!

1. Review Collection

You can start this by contacting your previous customers and request them to write a review about their experience while working with you! Initially it will be a pain but you only have to collect first few comments then reviews will bring more reviews...

2. Local Bloggers

It is a good idea to contact local bloggers and ask them to write a review about your product or service... if the bloggers are within your niche you can also request a column as a guest write on their blog.

Hope this helps!

Ok, so this sounds funny to me because all giant search engines are a little different from each other but do not intersect each other which mean if you are optimizing correctly, you probably should get better rankings in all the 3 search engines that are Google, Bing and Yahoo!

If I would be at your place I would have convinced client to understand why Google is more important than Yahoo and at the same time I will do the competitor analysis of the websites who are above me and would have figured why they are outranking me on Yahoo!

Hope this helps!

Ok, here is the helpful resource regarding Roger Mozbot. http://moz.com/help/pro/rogerbot-crawler

This might help!

In your situation I would recommend to redesign the same website and go with it... Automotive related industries are quite competitive and difficult to rank and I believe your previous website have advantage of the age of domain and may be some natural links that points to your old URL... in case of choosing the new domain you have to start from the scratch!

I believe something is better than nothing so you should go and redesign your current website. As far as the keyword in the domain name is concern, in my opinion Google does count that but % of it is very miner that you can easily ignore that!

Thanks right Kari! Adding sitemap to webmaster tools is all that is needed and search engines will pick the website itself...

Ryan is right all you will receive after that is offers that will take you money away from your pockets...

You simply don’t need to go for it!

There can be many reasons why you are not ranking for a generic one word key phrase in Google!

1. May be you don’t have enough links or/and on-page SEO pointing to the website that supports your website to appear in the top 50 pages in Google for the desired term.
2. This can be the result of over optimization, Just be looking in to your home page’s title I can say that there is an over use of the desired key term there!

I think if you re analyse your SEO strategies that you are currently implementing on the blog probably you will find out what exactly is the probably and I hope fixing that will allow the website to appear in first 50 pages and then you can optimize accordingly to hit the first few pages of Google!

From descriptions, if you are talking about Meta descriptions, than I would second the advice given by Rebeeca. Meta description does have a value when it comes to increasing CRT for your website but from the SEO standpoint, I don’t see it as a major ranking factor.

Again, as it plays an important role in increase CTR, I will never recommend you copying or writing low quality descriptions. So, idea is to go slow but go quality so that you can win more potential users to click on your website.

From the SEO prospective, I am dead sure that there is low to no ranking benefits with well-crafted meta descriptions.

Just a thought!

Best way to find the lost links is Ahrefs.com that will show you the data of lost links within the index or Majestic SEO that will show you what links are now deleted.

Hope this helps!

I am not sure but if you are looking for this http://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields-nav-menu-field/

There are many more available on wordpress plugin directory but I am using this on my website and that is the reason i am recommending this to you!

Hope this helps!