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When it comes to subdomain vs subfolder, SEO's usually prefer to go subfolder. But if it's easy and financially suitable to go that way I would say go for subfolder. In this day and age the SEO impact is minute ( if any )

Matt Cutts's view ( Oct 2012 ) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_MswMYk05tk

I assume you are already nofollowing those links .

Is the referral links appearing in the trackback section ( or something similar ). What kind of CMS do you run , perhaps there is a way to blacklist certain domains . ( On wordpress http://akismet.com/ does a pretty good job on the comment and trackback front for me )

If you properly use Rel Prev Next ( http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html ) on paginated content you DONT have to worry about duplicate titles.

Main thing to do is consider if you want the video to rank ? or your page with the video to rank ?

having it on youtube means ( in most cases )  the video content on youtube will rank in serp over the content on your site . But if you have it on your server you can tag it properly to let the video snippet show up for your page in the serp.( which could increase the CTR )

Hope this helps you to make your decision.

Your site is not de listed : try goggling for

site:lankahq.net

but there could be a manual penalty on there for any number of reasons. It might be in your best interest to hire a pro who can go through the site and identify it .

There are a few options on Wordpress

• http://wordpress.org/plugins/cm-answers/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/pubble-social-qa/

And some paid one on CodeCanyon or WPMU

• http://codecanyon.net/item/uwebic-qa/4017646
• http://codecanyon.net/item/sabaidiscuss-for-wordpress/3455723
• http://codecanyon.net/item/wpd-qa/2907671
• http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/qa-wordpress-questions-and-answers-plugin/

As a general rule , if the content is the same then it most likely is duplicate. Might be worth plugging the site url in to copyscape to see how similar they are.

Also You usually get a warning in GWT if Google sees your content as duplicate .

The way I see it.

Google does not have a problem with proper use of things like media queries. More info : https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details . They ONLY have problem with webmasters when the hidden text is only available to search engines for SERP manipulation.

Read more into the " The Vary HTTP header " bit in the link above and some info from Matt : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va6qtaiZRHg&feature=player_detailpage#t=219

Ideally it would be individual pages for those cities with unique content. I would include the content to talk a bit about those suburbs + what you guys offer in those suburbs.

It would have a slight impact , but I assume its going to be very minimal as long as the overall length of the url is reasonable.

If you are setting up new one I would say go for the ones without blogs, as long as yo plan to deliver site content through wordpress. If you plan to use wordpress only as a blog for the site then throw it in a blog sub-folder.

I would use rel="canonical" to example.com/inventory.php

on

• example.com/inventory.php?category=used
• example.com/inventory.php?category=used&price=high
• example.com/inventory.php?category=used&location=seattle

This should cover you for pagination : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

Unless you test this on your site you will never know for sure. You can easily use some analytics software to do this : HotJar, CrazyEgg, LuckyOrange, etc all can track this data for you.

It's most likely because some one would have put a DMCA takedown on that Google search result. jump in to your Google WebMasterTools account and you should see some notification from Google about it.

The Title for that Page is

News & Events - July 2013 - Newman Senior High School - Newman Senior High School is located in the mining town of Newman 1200km North of Perth and is part of the Pilbara region. The school benefits from a diverse cultural student and staff population. This has promoted cultural acceptance of peoples from diverse backgrounds enriching the school community.

and for individual pages like : http://www.newmanshs.wa.edu.au/news-events/events/07-2013/4/ , http://www.newmanshs.wa.edu.au/news-events/events/07-2013/5/, etc are the same tile gets reused

Events - Newman Senior High School - Newman Senior High School is located in the mining town of Newman 1200km North of Perth and is part of the Pilbara region. The school benefits from a diverse cultural student and staff population. This has promoted cultural acceptance of peoples from diverse backgrounds enriching the school community.

Depending on the CMS you use there might be ways to generate a better title ( best to keep it between 60-69 characters ). You seem to be using something called BamCMS, and you might probably need to get them involved in finding a solution.

I would not worry about multiple H1 as a major issue .( as long you are not over doing it )

MattCutts :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1

You have not provided enough data to give any specific advice ( what niche, links to competitors to see what they are doing ,etc )  but

• if you are going after local I would have individual product pages targeting those location with Unique Content ( depending on the niche you could target Video, Map and other elements ) .
• Cross ink internal pages those are relevant
• Build quality links ( IF you competitors are doing it right , analize their site and try to get links from their sources )

You could try adding breadcrumb navigation to your pages to add some quality internal links. Another option is to cross link to your main pages from within the content where possible. Having a health amount of internal links is great and all but don't focus a lot on internal links alone, it's not something that will dramatically improve your ranking

Sure can.. try this : inpostauthor:"Author Name"

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=inpostauthor:"Saijo George"

My Theory On this ( I have no tests to prove this )

If you upload a verified site map thats is essentially telling Google these are the important pages on my site. would you want to risk the importance of the other pages by telling Google you consider only the few important categories as the important ones . They wont drop the other pages completely but MIGHT see them as less important .

I really don't see Google penalizing a site for incomplete sitemaps.

If you have a really large site you might also want to look in to multiple sitemaps : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2006/10/multiple-sitemaps-in-same-directory.html

You might also want to look in to the best situations to use rel canonical vs a 301 redirect .

It probably wont be illegal to use it but Google sure wont like it.

I would advise you to start by reading about Googles Quality Guidelines http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769 

Regards

Saijo