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Is there a way to have the text in the source code readable by search engines but not showing on the page?

Sounds like cloaking. What exactly are you trying to do? There are many ways to include an external page and have it appear in the source.

Look into using AJAX/jquery to read and echo a page's content. You should also look into hidden divs that you can toggle (using something like jquery)

They could have set those up just in case people make typos when trying to reach the www. version. I would set up 301's from all of them to either the www. version or non-www version (check to see which is a better backlink profile).

Is there a better method to present tags than the wordpress tag cloud?

Yes, categories. If anything, the current tag cloud is annoying to use (different sizes, ugly text, repetitive tags). Organize them into several categories that describe the topics accurately and cause minimal overlap.

Also want to mention that your navigation dropdown links is causing the majority of the problem (each section has several links under it). Once again, think about consolidating these links if possible.

They are smart enough to figure it out. Just did searches to "mt kilimanjaro" v "mt. kilimanjaro" and the results returned were identical (meaning they consider them identical).

However, a search for "mount kilimanjaro" produced slightly different results so "mount v mt" usage on site may affect rankings but a period wont.

The reason is that the instant search is looking up "duorol blinds" and not just "duorol". You can see the query box adds in the gray text "blinds" which means it is including that keyword in the query.

Likewise, if you compare the instant search results to the results for "duorol blinds", you'll see they are identical.

I believe the the standalone keyword "duorol" is not popular enough to be a suggested search and the instant search automatically adds "blinds" as this is more commonly searched.

Cheers,
Oleg

301 Redirect is the way to go. To make a whole new site for the purpose to getting visitors to the new site is a waste of time and resources.

Instead of doing a sitewide redirect, see if you can match up relevant pages and have them 301 to their equivalents.

For bonus points, have an outreach campaign and contact the webmasters who are linking to asample.com and tell them you've changed domains to example.com and offer them a new page they should replace the link with.

Very interesting. I have not considered this at all but I don't think it's worth your time to change your images to include optimized image meta data. If there is an effect, its miniscule.

But that does give me a great reason to run an experiment

1)Is having 2 a problem

Nope.

2. Will they ignore the old site map or can we delete and if so when can we delete

They'll look at both. As long as the new one gets crawled, then you can remove the first one (as long as all the links are there)

Yep, no need. Won't hurt if you do (will probably get crawled twice or one will be ignored) but for the sake of keeping GWT sitemap data clean (pages submitted/indexed), don't duplicate the links.

Cheers,
Oleg

You can just keep them separate and submit both sitemaps to GWT. That's your best course of action.

Interesting... what are the other urls/keywords that have been affected? Maybe we can find a pattern.

I wonder if its a language filter causing this...

For an SAB (Service Area Business) with a hidden address -

Can you have more then one listing?

You need an address to get listed in Google places. Consider getting a PO box.

>Can you use a free Google Voice number?

Yes, you just need to disable screening so you can verify over the phone (or choose postcard option)

Can you forward the number to a main number?

Yes

Can the listing be in an office building? Such as a rented space...

Yes

For a non SAB listing with the address visible -

Can you use free Google voice numbers for each listing and  forward them to one main number?

No, 1 main number may only have 1 GV forwarded to it. There are workarounds with multiple forwarders though.

According to mozcast's big ten tracking, the strongest domains seemed to have increased their percentage of page 1 results on 1/8/2013.

I feel like the trend of big brands dominating the smaller sites has been going on for a while now with no changes in sight.

Day Care in Metro Atlanta | Child Care Atlanta Area | ABC Childcare Company

Primary Keyword | Broader | Brand

If the title is too long: Primary Keyword | Brand

Just make sure the title fits in the serps (test with this).

Edit: As Tom suggested, definitely do your keyword research to see which terms are worth ranking for (what gets searched in general + what do you receive traffic for). That should tell you what your primary keywords/locations are.

Used to be huge, pretty sure most of them have been discounted greatly. Case in point: Google ignores links from updowner (which is one of those whois/site stats sites). My guess is that they do the same for all of those types of sites.

But you have inspired me to run a test to see how effective they still are

Process is fairly similar... search for your target keywords and do competitor research (check their backlinks and on page optimization). This will let you know how difficult it may be to rank for a specific keyword.

In general, local business rankings can be greatly improved with proper on-page optimization, places page optimization and being submitted to all the major business directories (check out yext.com and getlisted.org)

Best of luck!
Oleg

If there are absolutely no differences at all between Belgium and France French, then I would just go with the language in the url (/fr/).

However, if there are pricing/location/banner/any differences between the two pages, I would split them up (/be-fr/ and /fr-fr/ - having both variables in one 'folder' be better than additional another subfolder).

"www.webshop.com/fr/french-product-name Would this have the potential to rank well in both the French speaking part of Belgium, as well as France?"

Yes

You haven't provided enough information to solve this, please explain what you are trying to accomplish and upload more code to pastebin.com

From the limited info I have, It looks like you are trying to print_r a class object instead of the $batchDomains variable. You would need to use the this->variable or this->function to retrieve your stored variables from a class object.

Ah, in that case the main factor is: how are all ranking currently? If they each receive traffic for their respective local keywords, it would make sense to just keep them as is (don't fix what ain't broken).

However, if you feel they aren't getting the rankings they deserve, you should combine all the sites into 1 and consolidate the authority. As long as you set up 301 redirects correctly, you should be able to transfer your rankings and even improve them (if you set up your internal linking structure correctly). Just know you will most likely lose rankings for around 2 weeks.

Something to keep in mind: it's much easier to maintain and improve one website over three. If you plan on generating new content (as you should), having 1 blog with kickass content is far better than 3 mediocre ones.

Best,
Oleg