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1 day to never.

Depends on the number of editors, submissions for the category you submit a link to and quality of the website submitted.

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Previously you would wait until the next Panda refresh to see if your website was unflagged from the algo penalty. A few months ago, they made Panda a rolling algorithm so you should see whether your site is fixed after its next crawl/reindex.

No need for a reconsideration request but a singing telegram would probably get Cutt's attention if your site doesn't rebound in a week or so

Cheers, Oleg

Panda = on page content.

They problem lies with your pages' content. Take for example - http://www.audiobooksonline.com/Lucas-Davenport-Silken-Prey-John-Sandford.html - the synopsis/description is copy/pasted and appears on many other sites. G see's this and devalues your website.

The other site may be hurting your rankings but I wouldn't disavow it if you first saw your traffic drop after panda. Fix the on page content first.

I would replace Nike, Amazon, etc. with competitors in your industry that are ranking for the keywords you want to. Different industries have different definitions of "natural" and seeing link profiles for sites who rank for your keywords would give you a better idea of what you should shoot for.

Why do you believe that the second page is indexed? What was your search query?

Yep. If you had links to that page from other authority pages, the pagerank/authority would transfer over, even with the indexing issue.

It has crawled and indexed the page - check out the cached copy.

If you view the source, you can see that there is some HTML code but it seems to get cut off prematurely (perhaps due to a coding error). But that HTML code was enough to get the page indexed, but I would be suprised to see if it ranks for any terms. i.e. a search for the pages title does not return the correct url - "Shure SLX24/SM58 | Wireless Microphone System - CCI Solutions"

So G recognizes a page is there but see's think's it is blank - which is why it is indexed but won't rank for anything.

Long as you have the canonical tag set up, you should be fine. If they link to the url with the feedburner variables attached, it is the equivalent of linking straight to your actual post page.

Hmm, good point. I would like to think that they would have something in place to recognize that. e.g. when a crawler from CA crawls and the keywords change to CA, G would recognize that the listings are generated based on geoip (which should be a considered a good thing for relevance). In addition, you said it was a small portion of the page's content so it probably wouldn't affect rankings much.

In G's own words, focus on the user instead of the search engine. In this scenario, your users and you have a lot more to gain from having much more targeted listings show up on your site.

Cheers,
Oleg

I would not worry about it unless it is the main reason for your current rankings. If advertorials isn't part of your link building strategy, then having 1 most likely won't boost your rankings by a lot and won't get you penalized by G.

If you are really worried, you can just ask to have the link nofollowed.

If you can do a 1-to-1 page canonicalization (each page on .co.uk is canonicaled to the equivalent page on the .com) then I would do that.

Otherwise, I would noindex the backup site.

Not sure what you are talking about - what filters? Can you provide an example filter?

I think its a great idea and should help with conversions. I don't see any negative SEO consequences of doing that.

The two shouldn't be interchangeable, both should be in different formats and writing style.

If you do want to repurpose it, as Clare said, make sure that it is unique and would avoid a duplicate content penalty. Most good blogs won't accept it if its a duplicate of a previous press release.

Check out this post on the subject

Make sure your internal links to the landing pages have the correct, distinct anchors.

No, you're fine.

It is usually best to keep the number of links on a page low so that you can direct users down a specific conversion funnel. However, this varies from site to site so it may be better to make many sub-navigation options.

Test, test, test. No way to know for sure without testing.

My guess is that it would still increase CTR and trust as there is an image of a real person (hopefully CEO or someone else influential) that would stand out in SERPs. For personal training, I think it would work really well seeing as there will be an actual person working with whomever signs up for the training sessions.

Looks much cleaner already

Shouldn't affect your rankings. If you want to keep the vids on the page, popular maneuver with ecommerce sites is to add content (and/or videos) into a drop down div. i.e. a hidden div that opens up when someone clicks "read more" or the like.

Try this

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Your color scheme is not doing you any favors. Red is supposed to make certain elements stand out, I feel like this whole page is yelling at me. Try to keep your color scheme to two/three colors + 1 call out color.

Suggest a few top sellers, preferably some that you carry in many sizes. As Kevin mentioned, filters would help people sort out exactly what they need.

The connect with us looks bad and is in a prime location. I'm sure this isn't your CTA for the page so I would move it towards the bottom of the page. Can use this place for the filters.

The "Plastic Storage Bins" sidebar just has the model number as a title and the price. Check your analytics to see how many people actually click on that. My guess is slim to none. Its non-descriptive and not relevant to the page. Instead, highlight 3 "top sellers" for the category they are currently viewing or something.

I would move the text below the products as they should be the main focus of the page.

The right sidebar videos are also out of place.. I highly doubt anyone would press play on one of three random videos that are 150px wide, with no titles.

There are many things you can do to improve this page.. main thing is that it is very busy and gives little direction to the visitor. Check out analytics and install something like inspectlet or clicktale to view how visitors interact with the page.

Cheers,Oleg