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Domain name change is a very tough decision and changing domain name to accommodate keywords wouldnt work to bump up rankings.

I would do a deep analysis of the website and do some better interlinking coupled with great inbound marketing. Maybe a viral video or something as well...

Changing domain solve your problem. Remember what happened to meta keywords?

Mass comments on blogs is a spam technique- big time. Although, blog commenting should not be a SEO exercise- SEO is an added benefit of it. It should be more of an engagement activity than anything else.

I found matt cutts video which says that keyword rich domains are being devalued.

I would recommend doing more brand awareness exercises rather than switching domain names for a more keyword rich domain.

watch?v=rAWFv43qubI&feature=relmfu

I am also looking for something on those lines...I am 100% sure about the SERP ranking algorithms, but I am not that sure whether users like the top of the screen more or not.

a heatmap would be helpful indeed

My question maybe too broad, but I think this is the right forum to ask the question:

What is the user behavior in terms of search engine results when browsing on a tablet (ipad and others).

Is it the same as for desktops and laptops or its different? Any infographics would be helpful as well.

Subdomains do not work very well. I would go in with a folder within the domain itself. I would further name the folder something intuitive which would lead more people finding information about your client's niche to the website. The architecture is very important for the KB as it can be very effective in terms of cross selling as well.

On the tags and category pages, you should have a rel=noindex, follow tags. That would ensure that crawlers (seomoz custom crawl or Googlebot) dont have duplicate content issues.

This was a problem with wordpress blogs as well, which has been handled nicely now.

You should not be overly worried about your rankings, especially in the short term. Just write great content which users will love and you will see the website come up on searches again. All said, keep an eye on your Google webmaster tools. If your website has been penalized for some reason, Google execs maybe kind enough to let you know about that.

SEOmoz tools should give you a good idea on crawl errors and on page metrics so that you can keep a close look at them.

Normally .edu and .gov websites classify themselves as trusted websites due to their entity association. Apart from that, there are renowned websites like wikipedia that normally provide unbiased views on topics. They are termed as trusted websites. There maybe inclusions depending on niche, but as a thumb rule, .edu and .gov are the most trusted domains.

Google removal requests take a while to get answered (considering the volumes they have to handle). Its best to wait out for sometime. In the meatime, you could add a 301 to your IP to your root domain name from your .htaccess file.

I agree to the benefits of having a sitemap on any website. Search for Google webmaster help on youtube. You can get to see a lot of supporting tutorials.

Read Rand's post on the blog about diversity in traffic source

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/traffic-source-diversity-is-essential-for-successful-seo.

I would be very interested to know from mozzers, how their experience has been with traffic share.

While you answer, please be kind enough to share the following:

1. The niche of the website you wish to quote in your answer.

2. The means of promotion you use (SEO, Social Media, PPC, Display, Affiliate)

3. The reason you think you cited this example and do you think it has been a success or a failure or somewhere in the middle?

Appreciate your time, thanks.

Reblogging with reference to the primary source is one way of getting good backlinks, but I would suggest writing a fresh piece on tumblr with excerpts and discussions on the company blog's post. That would add more value.

Its still a good technique, provided you do it right. If you have a website that publishes news, you cant have all links in the footer. You must cycle intelligently. Like for Auto section you can have automobile related links in the footer.

You should think more on lines of content creation and better interlinking between your pages and all. Social media is a big power today.

You would be better off removing these low quality backlinks, but that would not reflect in rankings right away. Maybe over a period of time with targeted content and engaging people with social media and obtaining good contextual links would help in repairing your link profile.

Sounds fishy to me. Its not possible to get links the white hat way. There are some possibilities that I can think of. Paying for inclusions, getting majority of links based on press release product announcements or some viral element on the website which has been covered by reputable media sources.

It would be interesting to explore the full set of links.

To extract URLs, you can use Xenu Link Sleuth. Then you msut make a hiearchy of sitemaps so that all sitemaps are efficiently crawled by Google.

doesnt matter if site A sends 100 links to site B. Its just 1 domain thats sending links. So, it hardly matters on how many links does A send to B.

This is a classical case with websites where same content is found on 2 different URLs of the website.

1st of all, ask your webmaster to do a 301 of your 2nd url to your homepage. Tell him that since the content is duplicate, it makes no sense to ask Google to crawl 2 pages with the same content.

If you cannot do a redirect, you can add a rel=canonical tag to your meta to tell Google that the 2 URLs have same content.