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Looks like its showing up in part due to the Google+ profile being linked to the .org site - https://plus.google.com/109921895799199207966/about?gl=US&hl=en-US
Change that to the .co.uk
Be sure to use the Change of Address tool in GWT and follow the steps recommended by Google for moving your site.
Delete all the spam posts, delete all the authors of those posts and 404 the pages. Require admin approval for new accounts to only people you trust not to spam. Add some anti-bot registration protection (security question, captcha, clearly state "admin approval required") and block common IP blocks.
302 by definition is "Temporary Redirect", which is not applicable here. According to this 302 experiment, 302's did actually pass some authority down (which may or may not hurt you). I do see the UX advantage to having the old URL redirect to the new page though.
Another alternative is to block the page via robots and set up a redirect or noindex the page and set a timed meta refresh redirect to the new page.
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My guess is that the links are either nofollow or your robots.txt is blocking the crawler from going anywhere.
Can't vouch for any but here is a short list I found via G
http://www.ukfast.co.uk/linux-server.html
If your rankings are being hurt by these links, I would move them to a new URL and 404 the old page. I would then go through the link profile for the old URLs. Find all the high quality links and contact the webmasters asking to change it to the new URLs.
Depends. If the people who would use the Facebook pages have different needs depending on the location, it may be better to have a separate page for each location. However, if all the pages would pretty much be the same (you would post the same updates to each and the questions from customers for each store are pretty much the same), I would stick with 1 brand page. Its easier to manage and it is more authoritative than having 12 separate pages.
My guess is Penguin - specifically because it 1) a single page that was effected and 2) the anchor profile for that page. You built a lot of links to that specific page with the same anchor text. In fact, you have more links to that page/anchor text than branded to your homepage. I would build more links to your homepage with your brand/URL as well as more diversified links to your /what-should-i-read-next/ page.
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Oleg
You shouldn't worry about it. Honestly doesn't even seem like you have a lot of links on those pages.
In fact, I'm pretty sure you get that message on the your blog because you link to each post 6 times (title, image, read about text, read more, comment count x2). Sitemap will naturally have many links.
The "too many links" would only really affect your rankings if you have a lot of irrelevant external links or you link to every page on your site from every page. Either of these would siphon you link authority away from the pages you want to rank.
Having many links on just two pages on your site is no big deal and nothing to worry about.
Have a client in the exact same situation. Check to see if you are currently getting traffic for terms that would be specific to having separate pages (e.g. "50 blue bic pens" versus a more general "bic blue pens"). If you don't, then you should canonical to one page. If you do, I'd keep it as is and work on diversifying the product pages more.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog-links/
Will prevent spiders from crawling/indexing content that is located within that specific subfolder. If your articles are not located within that folder, then they should not be blocked. Maybe check for for meta noindex tags on the actual articles? You should also keep an eye on the "Blocked URLs" page in GWT to see if there are pages being blocked that shouldn't be.
I would link the brand name instead of the keyword anchor text and optimize your actual page to rank for the "live chat" keyword. If you link the "money" anchor text, you risk the chance of over optimization (especially if its sitewide).
"Google is pretty good a catching things like this. If you are doing "white hat" SEO and marketing, you probably don't need to worry about it."
You will be in for a rude awakening when the site triggers an algo penalty. I would be proactive and disavow the links. GWT lists links by date so routinely keep an eye on the recent links you get and disavow them. Also, pingback/comment links are generally nofollow - if that's the case, then it shouldn't trigger penalties.
How does it appear when you pop it into http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
I know that G doesn't always show all the snippets and can choose which they show/don't. If that tool shows both, maybe post on the G webmaster forums. If not, maybe you messed up your code somewhere.
On http://www.peterrudlingtravel.co.uk/contact-peter-rudling-travel.php
add this to the tag:
http://www.peterrudlingtravel.co.uk/contact-peter-rudling-travel.php" />
That should fix your duplicate content issue.
In addition, you should force your site to redirect to the www. version of the page to consolidate the two URLs.
When you create a listing from G+ local biz page, it asks you for a phone number and tries to look it up in their current places pages. If it does exist, they try to merge them. Looks like you have both showing up, personally, I'd keep them both as is.
G local is very buggy in terms of updating and merging listings and at this point, not sure how you would proceed if you wanted to merge them. Perhaps someone else can jump in.
"Toshiba MODEL Laptop". I would like to them with the most descriptive & searched terms. I don't think its due to your internal linking structure unless its something really sketchy. You can PM me the link of the landing page and I can check it out if you like.
Don't think so =/ You need some sort of text for search engines to use so they can better distinguish and understand the images. Alt text and a small caption for each would be a min.
You can also look into getting user generated content via comments/ratings. This would give you relevant content for images and more user engagement at no additional expense.
Algorithmic penalty - duplicate content (page is copy of another page)
Algorithmic penalty - over optimization (too many backlinks with overoptimized anchor text)
Blocked robots - googlebot blocked via meta tag or robots.txt
Manually removed - URL was removed from index via GWT
Leave them as index/follow. You'd only use nofollow for links for irrelevant, non-reviewed links (i.e. blog comments, forum sigs). If you are linking to a useful page that's relevant to your users, keep the link ecology flowing!