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Hi Steve. EGOL would be the expert on this question for sure.  And just to clarify it was only a site that triggered removal and not you as an individual or company? Beyond that, here's the official guide on how to get a site reinstated based on appeal:

We're always willing to work with you to resolve any issues you might have. If you feel that this decision was made in error, and if you can maintain in good faith that the invalid activity was not due to the actions or negligence of you or those for whom you are responsible, you may appeal the disabling of your account.

To do so, please contact us only through our appeal form.

Once we receive your appeal, we'll do our best to inform you quickly and will proceed with appropriate action as necessary. Please understand, however, that there is no guarantee that your account will be reinstated.

Once we've reached a decision on your appeal, further appeals may not be considered, and you might not receive any further communication from us.

From: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/57153#q2  Chances are you've already tried this and the appeal was rejected. Did you go over each and every point of their reasoning behind invalid activity? Did you go full kimono? You could try once more but I'd preface that as FINAL appeal and then let it rest and look for different advertisers.

If you do pursue linking the old, banned account to a new one, you'd probably run afoul of, "My account was disabled for being related to another disabled account. Can you tell me more about this relation?" from that same page...  Good luck!

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!

The official Youtube take on it is here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2404846

Unfortunately, you can’t merge or link separate YouTube channels. Similarly, you can’t transfer data from one channel to another (this includes videos).

However, you can download your videos from your own channel. Once you've downloaded your video, you can re-upload it to a different channel. View count and other statistics will start over for the new upload.

That's the official version.

Hi Jason. For Volusion specifically, here's their instructions on it: http://support.volusion.com/article/setting-meta-tags-volusion-store-homepage ...

1. Log in to your Admin Area and go to Marketing > SEO.
2. Select Enable Search Engine Optimization Friendly URLs under the Search Engine Friendly URLs heading.
3. Enter values in to the Meta Tag Title, Meta Tag Descriptions, and Meta Tag Keywords fields for the default values and any pages you want to assign specific tags to and click Save.
4. Advanced users can enter their own custom meta tags by selecting Meta Tags Override and entering custom meta information into the Meta Tags Override fields for each page.

So you'll want to edit/add what they call the "Meta Tag Title" in order to clean up those errors. Cheers!

Thumbs up to Tom's suggestion. That reminds me that you can also run searches in Google on Yahoo Question's repository, so something like: furniture site:answers.yahoo.com or get more specific inserting wildcards like: *** furniture * site:answers.yahoo.com**  Cheers!

Hi Joshua. Sometimes it's all about finding something outside of the box when it comes to being able to create content on a regular basis. Tom Dickson probably didn't find his idea for Will it Blend? in the forums or common Q&As, still he tapped into a model that let him regularly demonstrate and solidify his brand.  It also doesn't have to be solely tied to your site. If you have something that people enjoy your brand name often becomes part of the search. Just a few ideas: which couch does the dog prefer? Which couch does the cat prefer? Which lounge chair wore the throw pillow better? Etc. Cheers!

Hi Sarah. In the bottom right hand corner of this page: http://silodistillery.com/tag/windsor/ you have a list of social icons. The Yelp one contains the link to the 404 page.  Cheers!

Right. I get that they don't exist on your site currently, but when they did Google indexed them so they exist in some form within Google, but Google had never been told they had permanently moved (via 301). The good news is that you don't have to resurrect the entire site. You can simply modify the appropriate file (htaccess if you're on Apache, IIS if Window's server) and make certain that Google knows any page it's looking for at devsite.yoursite.com is now at www.correcturl.com.  Cheers!

Hi Sarah. Have you put in 301 redirects in the htaccess file for these subdomains? You may want to consider going through the change of address tool in Google Webmaster Tools as well.  The problem seems to be that Google crawled and indexed the old subdomains and still has references to the old pages that existed on them. Ultimately using NOINDEX on development sites and then using a catchall 301 redirect should help clean this up for you. Cheers!

In addition to Hutch's and Patrick's great answers, a thorough CRO company would look at cart abandonment as part of the entire conversion cycle--in addition to things like drip campaigns, reviews, and retargeting. If gains aren't being made in house it might be worth hiring out for.

If all your marketing materials reflect the .com I'd keep that; however, you can consider rolling out the .ca for localized branches.  Still, there are trade offs there as well, for example, if you're currently hosting your local branches on the .com main site they're likely experiencing a boost from its domain trust and authority. Things like that would be in play specifically for the branches. For corporate I'd leave it at .com.  Cheers!

You're welcome Amelia. Haha. Reading through I was about to say, "Well certain ones tend to be better for certain things." Good luck!

Hello Amelia. Yes, here are some others...

• www.zemanta.com
• nrelate.com
• www.skyword.com
• contently.com
• curata.com

You can also try retargeting campaigns based off of search, social, or the article targeting to help advertise to your specific audience and draw them into your site. Another option is direct advertising at sites that would have cross over with your audience as well. Finally, don't forget print! There's probably some low cost options that would be highly targeted as well depending on your rev model. Cheers!

Hi Eslam. A link via an image is perfectly acceptable especially if they're natural links. Some sites will tend to have an abundance of these if they're things like images sharing sites, online comics, meme generators, etc. And many of these sites do perfectly well with a high percentage of image links. The bigger concern is that the site isn't spammy, see Moz's new tool that's part of OSE: http://moz.com/blog/spam-score-mozs-new-metric-to-measure-penalization-risk and http://moz.com/blog/understanding-and-applying-mozs-spam-score-metric-whiteboard-friday Cheers!

Good work Adam! You pretty much have to go with the contact method at first if at all possible. As more sites transition away from this sort of thing though you'll likely run into more success as you do. It's abundantly easy for Google to spot sites like goarticles and ezine and spank them if they choose. Who knows, that could be something that comes up in the EU...

Generally forum links that are from useful and accurate comments don't bother me as they're semantically relevant to the conversation and pretty well established in the global scope of the web. I wouldn't expect them to bring too much value though as well, especially the sig ones. Still, if you're ranking highly within the forum, and your comments are adding to the conversation, the sig link would be good just from a users perspective. I'd leave it for that alone.

Hi Richard. One thing you could do is run a PPC campaign directed at this page using only Company Name branded terms (thus helping with a low CPC) and split test all the different titles you're considering. This way you'll find one that gits your needs as well as one that generates the best CTR based on your tests. Cheers!

Ideally the value and trust associated with the domain and desktop version of a site should carry over into the mobile version once the hurdle of having a mobile version that Google accepts is met. Of course this is the "ideal" situation and there can be lots of little hiccups along the way. In general terms though, if the site is responsive, on the same URLs, and and loading quickly across devices it should perform similar to desktop.

Good work James! And nice outline of your steps involved. This will be an asset for people experiencing similar issues I'm sure. Cheers!

My hunch is that Moz is going to be going after this as well since it is such a large scale change...

In the meantime you can get an idea on your mobile rankings by looking at Analytics results segmented out by mobile and organic search referrals. If the percentages align with your desktop rankings you've got a very basic correlation.  You could even segment further by bringing in comparisons of top performing pages or regions that tend to deliver more mobile.

Within GWT you can also filter by mobile within the Search Traffic >> Search Queries report. Expect some changes here after the 21st as well. Cheers!

The error is looking for an absolute URL (including the http or https) so it doesn't look like it'll parse without it there. There's a nice discussion from a year ago at Stack Exchange on this as well, with the conclusion being, "Regarding HTTP vs. HTTPS, see also my answer to a similar (not duplicate) question: I’d recommend to always use the HTTP variant of Schema.org URIs." From: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71857/schema-org-itemtype-identifier-should-it-use-relative-urls-or-https-links  Cheers!