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I believe submitting to http://www.google.com/local/add/ auto creates a Google+ profile for the business.

Would like to get second opinions though.

The fact that its for 1 keyword and 1 page leads me to believe that it is penguin. The refresh came on Oct 5th but could be related. Doesn't look like it has any problems with its backlinks so that leaves on page. I ran some keyword density analysis on the site and you have very high percentages for your content.

I don't usually recommend this but you should try decreasing the number of instances of your target keyword. Not by much (3 or 4 instances) but just replace several instances of "sex addition" in your body content to some synonym/different variation e.g. "addiction to sex", "the addiction", etc.

If you decide to take my advice, PLEASE let me know if it worked. This is a really interesting case

Edit: ran copyscape and see a bunch of results. I know that you are trying to quote a respected source but maybe G is taking offense to that? Although it generally shouldn't penalize you for quoting a small portion of your pages content, G could be treating this differently for one reason or another.

Are they all related? SEO aside, would it make sense to combine them all?

If they are all similar and target similar keywords, it may make sense to combine them all and consolidate the authority. Tough to judge without knowing more info.

If you like, you can PM me the links and I can take a look and give a better suggestion.

Cheers,
Oleg

How about you create dynamic links that are rewritten which redirect to the one main page and just swaps variables.

I.E.

Link shared = site.com/username --> which is actually site.com/user.php?u=username --> sets a cookie with "referral = username" ---> redirect to main "Registration" (or other) page ---> check/read in cookie and apply variables as needed.

That would solve the duplicate content issue while keeping track of referrals.

Cheers,
Oleg

Well each of those sites links to your twitter as well so its a nice two-for-one.

But add you twitter link to author bylines (guest blog posts). Whenever you are mentioned online, ask for a link to your twitter (think interviews).

When you say "link to twitter account... from somewhere specific", I think twitter directories.

You will have a much easier time ranking if you provide unique biographies instead of scraping something that already appears on several websites. Like you said, those sites are huge and have a lot of authority so they will rank and you wont.

However, if the scraped bio is just a portion of the page and the rest of the page is unique, valuable information, that would help offset the copied content. Next time a panda refresh comes around, you'll know if you got hit with a duplicate content penalty.

-Oleg

Yep, check this out

Overlay pop up would be the way to go. Keeps users on the page and is just much cleaner. There is no problem with Javacript overlays for SEO (unless you are trying to rank for "select your country")

My suggestion is to just capture the visitors country via IP and auto-select the country for them. Then you can have a drop-down or "click to change country" icon somewhere on your site that would let users fix any erroneous autoselections.

Cheers
-Oleg

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Traffic dropped totally on April 20 to onwards.

That's penguin alright. October was a penguin refresh so you might have gotten hit again.

For everything you need to know about Penguin, read part 1 and part 2 of Steve Webb's awesome coverage.

As long as you force all pages to https and build links to the https version, it's nothing to worry about. From memory, Matt Cutts said either one is fine.

If i had to guess... Your site forces https while OSE only looks up http (as represented by the 301 code in the "HTTP Status" column).

I wouldn't worry about it.

I highly recommend you read this and this.

-          Would you host on YouTube and simply insert the embed code in to the page.  Would any alternative site (or even self-hosted) be preferable?

Self-hosted is preferred but keep server costs in mind. If not, youtube is usually the way to go.

-          Should I be padding out either side of the embed code with a description of the video and an annotation on OUR site?

Ideally yes. A part of video SEO is it's context.

-          Does Google actually look at the link and ascertain the relevance of the video file to the actual page?   If it does this does it gain anything useful that could help on-page SEO?

Videos can reduce bounce-backs, increase backlinks (people tend to link to them more), show a rich snippet in SERPs, improve conversions (if done right). Google can't watch and categorize the video but does it instead on the page's content, surrounding text, and backlinks.

Manual link outreach > guest blog posts > directories

Manual Link Outreach - find other websites in your industry, give them a reason to link to you, contact the webmasters and convince/entice them to. Hardest to do, best for SEO.

Guest Blog Posts - Find related websites that publish content, offer to write an exceptional piece of content for them, have link to your site. Medium, great for SEO.

Directories - DMOZ, BOTW, YDIR are the big ones. If you want to do directories, stick to niche specific and/or local directories. Easiest, okay for SEO.

Definitely hit up all 3 and budget accordingly. Variety is key.

Good luck!

It is indexed.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aprofitok.com

Yoast WP SEO plugin has the ability to set a publisher URL for the site and each author can have their own G+ author link set up. rel=author/me setup

For the "about the author" at the end of the post, that is done via themes or you can install a author bio plugin.

Welcome! Lots of great info and people floating around here, I'm sure you'll learn a lot!

SEO-wise, 1 long page

Conversion-wise, probably per service/product (x related testimonials would appear on the x service page, y testimonials on y service page, etc).

There is no reason to make 5 testimonial pages for the same service instead of just one.

You need to claim the old page and either remove/edit it with the new address.

There is a feature on each page to "edit this business" which has the option to let G know that the address has been moved. You should definitely do that foremost.

Personally, I find G places/+ very quirky and erratic - showing random business titles, different address formats, etc. even after I correct everything. You can also post in the G local forums with your issue.

>I Googled many two word searches reversing the word order and I got the exact same search results suggesting order does not matter

I'd say this is the main factor - sometimes they get treated the same, sometimes differently, depending on the keywords. If your keywords return the same results regardless of order, you should be good with either order.

Keep in mind that the exact match domain (EMD) SEO bonus was reduced by some recent algo updates.

Honestly, best thing you can do it replicate the content/page on your main site, 301 redirect and canonical (or just canonical).

main site probably has more authority, will gain more authority and if the goal is the rank the main site, you need to put as much (linkable) content on it as possible instead of splitting it into two sites. Plus, .info's are just worse =/

An widget.com/info/ with all the info based articles would be easiest to add while keeping the "info" related stuff separate.

Cheers!

They are considered completely separate entities that have nothing to do with one another.

Ideally, widget.com/blog/ is the best place to run your blog.