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Wait for Google to recrawl the website and update the index. You can also set up canonical url for them although the 301 should be sufficient.

What are the pages that have duplicate titles/metas? If its the pages that are being 301ed to the new URLs, you should be fine.

Looks like this page is a duplicate and is hijacking the rankings (I searched for "Atlanta's Premier Landscape Design & Custom Pool Company"). Set a canonical link on the homepage and see if that helps your rankings.

DA is determined  mostly by the backlinks to your site. The higher quality (sites with high DA) and quantity of backlinks to your site, the greater your DA.

As far as I know, there are no backlinks that would negatively affect your DA.

You are accurately describing the images - definitely not spam. The more descriptive you can be, the better (which would also differentiate the file names).

Having files named pizza-buffet-pizzeria-best-pizza-buffet-1.jpg would be spammy.

Ah. That's probably just an error. The same page should load at http://brandname.com/folder/article1/article2.

I would remove the extra /, update all the links to the pages and set the proper canonicals.

Yep, what you have is good. The image names/alt should be keyword friendly and describe the image. It would be better if you described it even more i.e. pizza-buffet-marriot, pizza-buffet-hilton

Double slashes means that if you are on a https page, the links will be https. On http pages, links will be http. Its most commonly used when you have a sitewide include and want some pages to be https compliant without sourcing the https on http pages.

As long as there isn't a https AND http version of the same pages, you should be fine.

Try this. It uses the web.config file which is accessible via FTP.

Yep, my bad. Pages seem to function under their own permalink rules (not sure why, I think most people would prefer the same permalink structure for posts and pages.)

Did some quick research and looks like many others have the same issue and the only solution is to try out the available plugins.

You can change the .htaccess code to append .htm to the url but WP won't be able to locate the proper post unless you change the settings in the db as well (which is what I assume the plugins do).

Hmmm, seems to be working for me. I had /%category%/%postname%/ as my permalink and changed it to /%category%/%postname%.htm

End result was all the posts/pages had .htm added to the url.

Latest version of WP? I'll test this out on another WP site I have and see if I get the same results.

Update: Yep, worked on my other site too. Not sure why you're experiencing problems =/

Go to your WP dashboard > Settings > Permalinks > Custom Structure > Enter /%postname%.htm

Then for each post/page you make, just edit the URL to match your previous site's structure.

Sure - not sure how they do it but an easy way would be to generate a random number from 1-100 and then show the code based on what appeared. So if you want the author code to appear 80% of the time, you would do:

$num = random(1-100)

if $num <= 80, show their ad code, else, show yours.

You can scramble the adsense code via a javascript obfuscator.

Well there ya have it. DA is mostly based off the authority and quantity of a sites backlinks.

There are a number of sites who do things similar to this - search for "adsense revenue sharing" Why would you want to hide the code?

Your best bet is to replace all adsense blocks with their ID on their posts. You can make it so that their code shows up a certain % of page loads and yours for the remaining.

In general, unless the blog is gets a lot of traffic and the writer has many posts, they probably wont make much.

Add both sites to GWT, then go to: Vanity Site > Configuration > Change of Address > Select the new domain

Give it some time and G should replace the vanity url to the new domain.

No backlinks? Blocking crawler?

Don't stack 301s. i.e. Don't redirect to another redirect. Update all your current redirects to point to the final pages. In general, you shouldn't worry about too many redirects.

I haven't watched the webinar but if you are currently doing well in rankings, I wouldn't change the permalink structure. I also think that WP automatically sets up redirects when you change the permalink structure (from my experience, would like someone to confirm though).

Don't think its a big deal but I think the best alt text would be the language represented by the flag, in the language of the page.

i.e. English site would have alt text to "Translate to Spanish" "Translate to French"

Spanish site would have alt text "Traducir a Ingles" "Traducis a francés"

If he is an aspx developer, send him this. Thinking about it, its better than the jquery. It would go to the url you set, read in the html outputted, and echo is onto the page.