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I completely agree with Chris's comments. You can do well with Local Search. It again depends on the competition. There are always agents out there. So I would suggest you get started with your website and initiate your Local SEO ASAP, specially GetListed.org

What CMS are you using ? Looks like Joomla. Can you make your URLs Search Engine Friendly ? You have 3 querystrings in there.

As for adding rel=prev, next for Joomla, see this page:

http://www.jsnippets.net/snippets/php/add-link-relnextprev

I hope this helps.

Do they have great content ? Do people like the content ? Do actual users share or interact with your content ? Is it ideation of your e-commerce products ? Or is it more like information about your products ? Does it add value to your customer ? How much content do you have on your microsites ? Are they same/similar topics ?

It depends case to case, but you could indeed consider doing what you are thinking based on the answers above. Just make sure it adds value.

Also, have you ever received a penalty or unnatural links warning ?

You also need to do a complete SEO Audit of your website along with a Keyword Analysis to ensure you are using the right set of keywords, industry keywords, brand keywords, competitive keywords and see if your website structure supports it. I agree with Mihai on your backlink profile. It looks like for the past year and a half you have been caught in pretty much each algo update, primarily because of your back link profile as well as your site structure, optimization techniques.

Start with a complete SEO Audit of your off-page as well as On-page structure.

It's not possible to use that information alone and say for sure that those reasons are connected. They very well may be, or absolutely not.

The links could be a variety of reasons. What if they acquired another big company and did a 301 from the old to the new. Could be the tool you used for the backlinks data crawled more. It could be organic links. It could be something that went viral. There are too many things that could happen. So without digging into the details, I can't say anything for sure.

Look at fresh web links and see what you see there. If you are concerned about that competitor, download their backlinks from OSE and audit them.

Go to Google.co.uk and do a site:yoursiteurl.com to see if you are indexed in Google UK. You can also check the cache using cache:yoursiteurl.com

If I were you, that's what I do. You can use the Crawl Test Tool - http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test but that is more of a crawlability check, not whether you are indexed or not.

Go to http://pro.moz.com/campaigns and click on** Archived Campaigns**. That should show you what's available inside your account. If you see an archived campaign and you have open slots, you should be able to activate it.

I agree with Keri. If you are doing it for branding or other advertising reasons, just have them include a rel="nofollow" inside the link. Also make sure the FTC disclosure is there.

I hope this helps.

Noah,

Did you ever received any unnatural links warning or a penalty from Google ? Are you verified in Google Webmaster Console ? I agree with David, try to clean up those directory links and see if you can build some real links like a real business would have. There are some great articles here at http://moz.com/blog/category/link-building if you need some ideas.

I totally agree with the suggestions from Marissa and Tim. You obviously understood the problem and were concerned, therefore you posted the question.

Definitely only build 1 page for these 3 keywords. I love Tim's title suggestion.

Managed IT Services and Support | Company Name or

Managed IT Services and Support by Company Name

You are good to go.

I'd recommend you use a crawler like Screaming Frog and find out what the issue is. Do you see the duplicate titles or descriptions issue in your Google Webmaster Console ? Check under Optimization > HTML Improvements to see what Google is reporting.

I agree with Toshi one hundred percent. It's strongly recommended to change it. I'd say it's crucial you do it. There's absolutely no reason to not do it.

Do you mean internal link anchors or what ? if you post an example of what exactly you are looking for, that'll help. If it's something on the page or is that something that needs to come from the Google Keyword Tool ?

Great. Glad to help anytime :). Thanks for coming back to confirm it worked. That will help others with similar problem to use the solution without second thoughts.

If it's on a sub-domain, it's not affecting your main domain. If it's part of your marketing mix, I'd still continue to use it and see if it makes sense. If not, at some point you could possibly get rid of the custom domain setting and still let it sit there. Is it unique content that you have there ? If there isn't enough engagement, is it the kind of content you are publishing ?

Will the old URLs continue to work or will they redirect ? If you can share the URL here in public here or via PM, that might help.

I agree with Keri.You don't want to do that. Also, what happens if your product is in multiple categories.

Do you have multiple URLs of the same product then ? Would you have a canonical tag ?

Pedro

How strong is your domain/website ? Can you give examples of what you are doing ? How many product pages are you talking about ?

In my opinion, the best way to Audit/Report links if you are building a considerable amount of links every month is to use Majestic, Ahrefs, OSE, GWT backlinks, get rid of the duplicates and identify the new ones from the same list from the previous month.

In my opinion, that's the most accurate way of auditing your total backlinks. You can't rely on any one tool if you are looking for "All" or "Most" of your backlinks.

On a side note, do you see those links appear in Fresh Links or Recently Discovered Links from OSE ? It might not hurt to send a 5-10 of such examples to help@seomoz.org and let them see what they think.

Domain Authority / Pagerank is what Google looks to see how deep and how frequently Google will crawl a particular website. They also typically look into how frequently the content is being updated.

Think about it from Google's perspective. Why should they index that website, 2500 pages every day. What's changing ? Does the site have enough domain authority to warrant that kind of indexing ?

In my opinion, this is not a concern. Just submit XML Sitemaps and see what percentage of your submitted pages are indexed.