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Hi Ralph.  You should be able to accomplish this with Event Tracking in GA. See: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html

From that page:

"In Event Tracking, each interaction with a tracked web page object is counted, and each interaction is associated with a given user session. In the reports, Total Events are calculated as the total number of interactions with a tracked web page object. On the other hand, where a single user session (or visit) has one or more events, this is calculated as a single Visit w/Event, or Unique Event in the reports.

For example, if one user clicks the same button on a video 5 times, the total number of events associated with the video is 5, and the number of unique events is 1."

Hope that helps.

Excellent insights as usual EGOL. As a handy way to look at companies currently using the '.tv' TLD there's always this search: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A.tv Cheers!

Hi Georgina. This could definitely have an impact but since it's a more minimal change (root domain is remaining the same) hopefully it will be mitigated (or very minimal) since the 301 redirect was used.  Something else you can do though is go to Google Webmaster Tools, verify ownership of both the www and non-www and set the non-www as your preferred domain within that tool.  The same can be done within Bing as well. In addition you can update your sitemaps by uploading them there so that they include the non-www links as the target pages.  This should help speed things up and make the change over less pronounced. Cheers!

Hi Ali. So from Google's perspective, they're measuring bounce rate in relation to how long someone goes from their results to a site, then back to your results. There was a nice discussion around this in Rand's whiteboard Friday a couple years back: http://moz.com/blog/solving-the-pogo-stick-problem-whiteboard-friday and then more recently in the Q & A here: http://moz.com/community/q/pogo-stick-or-not.

Regardless of how many pages someone looks at on your site, if they're doing so VERY quickly and very consistently returning to the search engine and looking for other results, that's a Pogo stick problem to worry about. If your page offers relevant information to the point that you're seeking out your location, at least your matching the searchers intent well up to that point.  Cheers!

Totally.  Sorry if I sounded too generic but it's always difficult to figure out the back story on someone's question.  It sounds like you're doing all the right things.  You're likely doing location specific and day parting as well where applicable.

Yup! Especially at the expense of creating a new domain for content that could benefit the established domain.

This seems like something that's a little beyond the scale of an app. SitePoint did a great breakdown of the whole ecosystem of page rending here: http://www.sitepoint.com/optimizing-critical-rendering-path/ that details the steps to go through regarding loading pages as quickly as possible. That said, a CDN like Cloudflare would be better suited to the task: https://www.cloudflare.com/features-optimizer. Cheers!

Yes, there was a period when footers were getting extremely large (and link laden) in order to try and drive as much link strength as possible to internal pages, and this was spread out through out the site. Here's a blog post from a couple of years ago that looks into it even more thoroughly: http://moz.com/blog/internal-linking-strategies-for-2012-and-beyond. But both Moz and Zappos have thinned down their footer links though from even this example. Rand also goes into general home page design (and why people have moved away from keyword stuffing on it) here: http://moz.com/blog/what-should-i-put-on-the-homepage-whiteboard-friday, which also helps get to footer links in a round about way.  Cheers!

This is mostly a Google News implementation as discussed here: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543, and could be tricky to make effective within real estate listings. Is your coverage of the market so complete that people have to view your site? Or could they easily find an alternative?

To make it a little less of a coin toss, if the responsive site is delivering an even better user experience than the mobile website, redirecting the subdomain could be a benefit. You'd want to have solid split testing data from uniform groups of users, but if the directions point to responsive over m.website.com it could make since to go with the responsive site as the sole experience.

Thumbs up to Don's rec. Also when you look at the text only cache what kind of page are you seeing, if any? Sometimes the site: search is a little inconsistent so you can try forcing the delivery of certain pages with the inurl: modifier. One last caveat that comes to mind is that if the comparison listing is similar to an internal search results page, Google may not ever list it, "Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search engines." from: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769  Cheers!

That's pretty far down the list of things that would improve your site's rankings so I'd ignore it at this point. Plus, you'd be redirecting a new creation that would have nearly zero rank value.

Instead I'd focus on getting links from a greater diversity of locations (more internationalization) and try to get some great PR as well. Plug your competitors into OSE and see where they're beating you in the numbers there as well as securing links from sources you're missing via the Link Intersect tab in the Link Opportunities part of OSE.  Cheers!

Looks like you're missing 'http:' before '//my...'" right at the beginning of that.

None that I know of. Most of the optimization tools available can be used on any domain. See: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80472.

Video content includes web pages which embed video, URLs to players for video, or the URLs of raw video content hosted on your site. If Google cannot discover video content at the URLs you provide, those records will be ignored by Googlebot.

A .tv won't enhance the ability for Google to find your videos, but proper tagging and sitemapping will. Cheers!

Hi Gavo. Sitelinks are generally an amalgamation of your most visited pages, high search intent pages, and UX considerations. As such you can often control them by modifying your overall navigation and site structure. It might seem like a lot of work, but getting more people to visit the pages you want as sitelinks really doubles your efforts when those pages also become sitelinks.

As for the timeline, Google says, "Once you've demoted or undemoted a sitelink, it can take some time for search results to reflect your changes."  Nice and precise! ;^) It will take eventually though, and not in months, but maybe days. Their resource is here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334 Cheers!

HI Anddrei. You'll definitely want to clean up the duplicate content either through rewrites or noindex / follow along with canonical tags on the one post that you do keep with the others pointing to that page as the canonical version.

Lastly, mentally don't plan on the duplicate content adding any SEO boost as distributing the exact same article across a variety of networks either through something like the old style of press releases or through domains you own is considered manipulative by the engines.  Cheers!

Quite a few GAs hang out at http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/.  Plus there are the recommended companies here: http://moz.com/community/recommended.

The chances of the product page getting inbound links is better if the size variations are on the same page. That way if someone links to you as having air filter 10x20x1 you could also get a link to that page from a person looking for 10x20x2.

On the page itself you can have pictures and copy displaying the various sizes. With how much Google clusters based on similarity you're better off with as strong a page as possible versus lots of low strength ones.

Without nuking the blog, the Google method is page by page, last caveat though is that they could reappear, "If you think that a sitelink URL is inappropriate or incorrect, you can demote it. Demoting a URL for a sitelink tells Google that you don't consider this URL a good sitelink candidate for a specific page on your site. Google doesn't guarantee that demoted URLs will never appear as a sitelink, but we do consider a demotion a strong hint that we'll try to honor when generating sitelinks."

Is the blog supposed to be behind a paywall or private to members? If it's not supposed to be publicly visible you should consider noindexing it in addition to securing it via login. Cheers!

Duplicate content isn't supposed to have an SEO benefit. Thats why you're supposed to use rel canonical so your users visiting one blog can read the article as a usability feature while the search engines wan to know which one to rank. They're not interested in ranking all three of your identical articles. From their perspective it's a negative not a positive.