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You are correct in using a more specific match type other than broad. At an exact match level, your time would be best spent on the After Effects term.

However, with something like "Photoshop Courses" i could see a lot of phrase match type of variants, like "free photoshop courses" "photoshop courses online" and a whole myraid of those type of terms that would be relevant to target for you.  So maybe take it up to a phrase match level and make a  decision based on that.

I agree that is is a great opportunity.  A directory of sorts would be a great resource to have.  Many professional industries have their own directories (not just a general web directory).  Then you can solicit others to create listings, etc..

Yes, the best way is to handle via webmaster tools, and not try to handle via code on the sites.  In your Google webmaster tools account, go to "Site Cinfiguration" and "URL Parameters".  It will show you a handful of dynamic urls it has detected, how it is handling them currently.  Then you can manually add a dynamic parameter that exists on your site and tell google how to handle it.  They have a bunch of new options/features with this tool that makes it really useful now.

Just the past week i am not too sure.  Out of curiosity, how do you track your indexed pages?  Right now i dump manually into excel for historical records and tracking, which lends to not doing it more than every month or two.  You just eyeballing weekly and notice changes?

What time frame are you talking here?

Edit:  I manage about 25 different sites, and I have seen a large fluctuation (increase for the most part) since April/May.I have seen upwards of 50%.  Most of my flucuation i think was due do some good site/url structure and SEO work i did a while ago, and i gather that panda & google have liked some of the changes (about freakin time).  It has not been due to an increased content.

Webmaster Tools help has a nice articled that outlines the actual HTML examples of how to utilize Hreview: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=146645

The schema.org definition and example page is here http://schema.org/Review

I know that Yelp and Tripadvisor do a good job at marking up their listings with Hcard and Hreview.  typically when you type in a specific hotel + city combo in Google, those guys will have a rich snippet with start ratings, and you can see how they mark it up.

Another good article written last year by seogadget: http://seogadget.co.uk/using-hreview-microformat-on-your-review-page/

That should be enough to get you started!

Good call on that one Dan.  Thats more accurate.

Wow, only about 70 impressions, that a far cry from 22,500.  Sometimes google is off, but this seems way off. In my experience so far, i have noticed the following n relation to the WMT impression counts, and keyword estimations:

• #1 position average i get between 5-10% of the impressions reported by the keyword tool in google
• #2 - #3 position average i see under 6% of the impressions reported by the keyword tool

So we know they are off.

Have you verified the impressions served and average position via your Webmaster Tools account?  That would be the most reliable source.  You can see your own organic CTR there for those keyterms, and if its a main keyword, should trigger.

I would say Google either over estimated the search volume (which they do all the time with their stupid tool), or you have a really poor CTR even though you show up high in SERPs.

Looking for information on how to get into Google Advisor (https://www.google.com/advisor/home).  Google is rolling out their own meta search engines in select categories right now - finance and hotels to start - but i cant find any documentation, help or data on how to get yourself in that feed/search.

Anyone have experience in with this yet?

agree on the spinning.  That word really has a black hat rep, i prefer to say "re-write".  I have in-house content writers and myself, so its a tactic will utilized but closely monitored.

Link wheels are like link building.  Most services are bad and spammy, but every once in a while, you find some decent ones.  I have used one called PostRunner before, and they turn out some decent article & blog posting service.

I would do a couple of things:

1. Spin the articles for your own on-site blog.  Although many SEOs look down on article spinning, a good article spun by a good source (even yourself) can double the content.  That way you have something to still put on your site's blog, ans have something to marketing with that is not duplicate content.

2. Find a good link wheel service that will take your article and put then up on relevant blogs and social sites. (similar to what gianpeach said)

Domain authority can have a big influence on page authority.  Its not a direct correlation, because page authority depends on a lot of different inputs on a page level (internal links, external links, information architecture, perceived value).  But just because a site have good DA doesn't mean that all internal pages get a nice PA.

Depending on the value of those three backlinks, three could be all you need to boost a PA.

Not sure what you mean by "always possible"?  If you are just talking about tagging reviews, then the best options is always hreview.  Thats your best shot at getting your review snippets in search results.

Remember that you also have the new schema.org formats that you can use for product/services as well.  I would get both of those going, and you would be in pretty good shape.

1. File names- always use the hyphen.

2. Alt Text - use spaces and normal word structure.  Ryan is correct on the technical intent behind the alt tag, but it can also be a good SEO tool, and you should treat those as exact phrase keywords.  So nobody is searching for "city-bikes", they are searching for "city bikes".  The alt tag should be what the user will put into google.

Agree with EGOL on the complexity of this issue.  Seeping decisions on this can be dangerous.  One point I will speak to is the duplicate content on the search results issue.  I assume you are running into this problem because your search results pages are being indexed by google, and many of them show similar content.  There is no consensus on this issue right now, even from Google.  They will not penalize, however, because of duplicated content found in search results.  So i wouldnt worry about that problem right now.

As for the expired/sold inventory pages, i would say to either redirect to a more permanent page (like a ford explorer sub category page for all explorers) or you just delete those pages, making sure that you manage your sitemaps and urls on a regular basis.  But that usually takes too much time.

My vote is to use the full url on this.  Just eliminates the possibility for confusion (although both technically work).

As much as you want to report sites like that, its not really worth your time without the hard facts.  i agree with Ryan here that you would have to put a pretty good case together.  otherwise, forget about it.

You could probably win the game by getting a few high authority links to  your site, do some of your own article marketing, and if you have some sort of social accounts, the social signals would boost your site above theirs.

Looks like most sites are pretty crappy for this search result, which mean opportunity.

Pagerank does not flow through like a normal link would.  At this point its a "domain authority" type of link, still worthwhile to have.

Joe is right.  Its a volume/popularity game at that point.  If its a hot topic, with lots of different views going on, Youtube and Google will do different things with the content.  I have also noticed that these videos will get on the first 3 results in google (they get promoted above other content).

All you can do (as far as I know) is set up your own custom page on youtube.