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You can still get the template sliced.

My point exactly.

The prices on the website must be a joke.

I don't believe this is the case. They used to be active on my Feedburner feed posts and there did not seem to be any ranking difference from it. We use a custom short URL (smt.io hooked up to bit.ly) and this seems to work fine. I think the focus of a short URL should be to show your relevance of your website. ie, mash.to, buff.ly, nyti.ms. You know what those companies are and therefore trust those links more. Goo.gl links can link to anything and might not be trusted as much.

Remember back when short URLs first came out with tinyurl, and everyone was using it to mask out shock sites etc via MSN messenger? Nobody trusts them unless they look reputable in my opinion. Would you click a bit.ly domain in your email, what about one from on.mash.to?

In my opinion, just get your current template sliced for responsiveness. The fact your homepage has button style links means it is already cool and easy to use on a mobile device, and the detail pages have a mobile feel to them too. I think its simply because when you load it on a mobile device, its either very small and you have to zoom in and move around, or it simply cuts off half of the screen. example, go on http://ipadpeek.com/ and view the portrait version on iPad or iPhone,and you will see it's cutting off the right hand side.

Once your template is sliced, it will be responsive for mobile devices on any screen size.

Are you on Wordpress? It would cost only a couple hundred dollars to get it done properly.

Yep, bang on. Just be sure to have your sitemap added to Google Webmaster Tools so that you ping them when you make a new page etc, and your homepage should get re-indexed on that crawl.

My 2 cents is just to remember which Search Engine that country uses the most. I believe Yahoo is used more in Japan than Google is. So be sure to focus on your primary search engine target.

I figured as much. Its a shame that it has come down to that. Its amazing how my website still gets about 3000 comments a day, all of which are in a spam queue. People seem to think they are still counting for something.

What would you say is your favourite way for building links now then? (without spilling your secret sauce of course)

Hello also from London (Waterloo). If you have just launched the Google Adwords campaign it can take some time for it to gather analytics to give to you in your Adwords account. Have you done other ones before? Have they updated quicker?

I've never received emails about it. I always have to log into Webmaster Tools to be able to read the current notifications. It would be ideal if it was set up like Google Alerts, but then that system doesn't email me anywhere near enough in comparison to how much it should for the queries I have entered so it probably wouldn't even work anyways.

Commenting on blogs is not only fun and allows you to give your insight on a particular topic, but it also allows you to get a backlink to your website from many, many websites. In the old version of Disqus, when you clicked on the username of a user inside the comments, it went directly to the website that username was associated with, and people loved this.

Now however, it opens up in a popup window when you click on the username so you can view a mini profile of that Disqus user, and the URL to the homepage is listed there.

My question is, considering the link is loaded in that window instead of directly from the comments section on the page you commented on, does this have less effect on SEO?

I believe I heard of something called Google Takeout which lets you download your personal data from Google. The same method might be useful for downloading the page information and then importing it back into Google+

https://www.google.com/settings/takeout

I also found this, which appears to show how Google Local can be used, as there were some noted issues with Google Places.

http://todaymade.com/blog/merge-google-local-page/

Overall, I have found Google to be difficult in this nature, especially in terms of preserving data and making it accessible, and Google+ in my opinion should still be in beta, as there are many new features which could still be added to it, regardless of the huge userbase, as most of those are automatically created accounts when people sign up to gmail or YouTube.

This is what I was hoping to hear really.

The only thing about having folders instead of subdomains is that I find there are issues in terms of interference, especially when I use a plugin such as "Smart 404" which will attempt to find a page for you should there be a 404 error. I had my Invision Power Board forums on domain.com/forums and I had to move them on to a sub domain at forums.domain.com because there were many links on the site and from inside the admin panel on Wordpress that were linking to pages on the forum. Even when disabling Smart 404 I suffered the same issue.

I am wondering how I can go ahead and use sub folders and have a seperate site, for example using Wordpress Multisite, at domain.com/technology, and it not cause any issues should there be a news piece on the main site that has technology in the title, which could happen. What are your recommendations for overcoming that?

Would you say its okay to place seperate whole sites on sub folders as an extension to the primary domain, as opposed to just categories.

I have seen this question asked a lot around the web, but I want to hear it from you guys. I want to expand my categories on my site (news, technology, gaming, fashion, business) etc into sub sites, posted on subdomains, ie fashion.searchbuzz.co. - I am about to begin working very hard to promote searchbuzz.co as a high authority domain, but  I worry about niches and SEO.

Are there SEO problems when it comes to having such diverse content on the same domain, even when they are on sub domains? I plan to use Wordpress Multisite so that the sub domain websites are all slightly different and have their own abilities.

Would I rank better if I had a number of low level niche blogs and have overall more traffic each month on all the sites? Or would I gain more traffic from a diverse amount of content in different categories and subdomains on a domain which I make high authority by using good SEO for many years to come?

I look at sites like Hubpages, Squidoo and Yahoo even who have such diverse amounts of content, yet still manage to rank well in search engines, but then there are many arguments against it on the web.

What does Moz say?