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luckily I have never had that problem, also it seems that you will be alerted in you webmaster account if someone requests a takedown.

Still an interesting "black hat" technique to remove competitors out of the serps that might not have webmaster accounts

To contradict Highland, I have used zen-cart for a e-commerce business and it has done very well with it (ceon seo module is a must), but it does have its limitations but as its open source so anything that it did not do out of the box or there was no add-ons for, we can hire a code from eg odesk to do for you.  If your on a small budget then zen-cart might be worth looking at.  I also found the zen-cart community great, its not huge, but it very close nit.

I'm currently looking at Magento to migrate an e-commerce store too ( not zen-cart).  Open source wise it the biggest system out there, and has a big community, lots of add-ons etc, and it does more things out of the box than zen-cart.  The only issue seems to be it can be slow if the hosting is not setup right for it (  seen alot of shared hosting sites have this problem),  But there are a lot of hosting companies that specialise in magneto hosting.

yep, if you paid for it you would like to own the copy right.  If they keep it, then they can resell it to anyone legally, which I'm sure you would not be happy about.

Does anyone know where there is a list of review sites that google use for collecting reviews? O

So far if seen them use:

reviewcentre.com
ekomi.co.uk
trustpilot.com
ciao.co.uk

Do you know of any more?

short answer: yes

the mozbot updates about every 2 weeks, but the data its based on is from a few weeks before that (over a few weeks)

So best case it will be 4 weeks before the mozbot will show your changes to your PA/DA, but more likely 6-8 weeks

Its sucks, but they will get caught out eventually (as Christina says it happening already).

Its a temping trick to try and copy, but they have such a head start it would be hard to beat them at there own game.  Best concentrate on white hat backlinks, then when the reckoning comes, you will have the head start on them

I'm not sure but  I think the Moz bot will report dup error even if the page is canonised. If they are canonised then they are fine (and screaming frog is not reporting them).  Best thing is to randomly pick some example links its reporting as dups and check them out manually see if they are correct

You really have one arm tied behind your back on this one.  I like the idea of the image as a solution, but I worry that might see it as "gaming" in some way as its an very unusual thing to do, especially if the image is very big.  Its hard to know without doing on some selected pages and see what happens.

I think you would be better off convincing your client that is  bad practice (maybe show him them comming up as dup error in the moz report).  Maybe he harsh with him, tell him he can keep the text as it is if he wants, but he will never rank with those pages.

Have you looked at the report to see what pages its saying are dups and what pages it a dup off?  Some times its the same page in a different language version or they are product pages that are so similar they are reported as a dup.  But the detailed report will give you the clues.

I agree with Alan, just make sure you point the domains to the right targeted country in Webmaster tools.

A recent blog post that should help you

http://moz.com/blog/save-your-website-with-redirects.

Your situation should make the move easy enough as the urls will be the same bar the root domain. This can easily be done in htaccess, here is a guide:

http://www.orderofbusiness.net/blog/redirect-old-domain-to-new-domain-via-htaccess/

edit: Andy beat me to the punch

Don't think is possible currently, I label my keyword in groups of importances as an alternative, But linking to googles external keywords would be better.

You could also down load the ranking to a CSV and the search volumes from the google as a csv and then merge the files (I do this every so often)

Pro is for 5 campaigns (limited to 10,000 pages crawled per campaign and 300 keywords ranked check over all campaigns)

If you are looking more I think you need to contact support and they can put a custom plan together

Option 2, but also try and change some of the back links to A/B to point to C  if you can.

Forums that have this kind of spam, either don't have it very long (forum mods remove it), or the forum has been abandoned and so is full of spam, so therefore google knows not to take anything seriously from the forum.

It would be a bigger problem if this type of spam was on a page with some authority, (but they why waste a good backlink to your own site, to instead spam 1 of your competitors)

As long as you have some decent authority, I don't think these methods will ever do any real damage, (and if they do it will be short lived)

That's my 2 cents anyway

I think the same as you Branden, Google PR Toolbar is very out of date.

how recently has the site been ranking?  Maybe the site got a load of targeted backlinks very quickly  (black hat) and OSE has not picked them up yet.

I have seen this before were the site will rank for a few days ( maybe a week +)  before google realises it spam and dumps it.

Most likely OSE has not pick up on the links yet (give it a few weeks), or the links are too deep to moz bot pickup on them  (in that case they mostly don't have much authority to pass anyway)

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However, as you have highlighted this we are going to place a rel no follow in all links other than the title.

No!! don't ever no follow internal links ever! you are just throwing out google juice. (not sure what happens if they are duplicate links)

Also this will not stop seomoz giving you a too many links warning.  But its only a warning, that it might be a bad idea, but I would not be worried if I were you