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Micro sites are separate from your primary domain. If you want to target Region Golf, Region Dining, Region Events, you domains should be submitted something like this:

This is one site.

www.regionalsite.com/ <- primary 
www.regioanlsite.com/Region-Golf <- page 1 with key (build diverse links using "regional golf") 
www.regioanlsite.com/Region-Dining <- page 2 with key  www.regionalsite.com/Region-Events <- page 3 with key

In this case you submit you sitemap to Google, listing all your pages.

This would be a micro site:

www.RegionGolf.com

The domain is completely different f rom the micro site. No association with www.regionalsite.com/, so it can not be included in the sitemap.

MIcro sites all have a unique URL. They are built to target one keyword each.

This example you give is a standard site,  Sub-Domain/Page (include broad keyword here). You can make as many pages as you want. However, building these pages will spread you juice around so choose your keywords carefully.

www.regionalsite.com/ <- primary
www.regioanlsite.com/theme1/ <- theme 1
www.regioanlsite.com/theme2/ <- theme 2
www.regionalsite.com/theme3/ <- theme 3

Example of a micro site.

I have a site for lets say chocolate: www. chocolate.com im number 1 for chocolate in Google which is the only keyword I am after. For the example there are no more keys to go after "chocolate". So I want to rank 2 times for chocolate. So I build a micro site targeting "chocolate" the domain could be www:1chocolate.com

I would not build another page called chocolate within my ranking domain.

Less then 70 characters is best

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag

Not sure what you mean by duplicate content. Every title should be unique and then you will not have to worry about duplicate titles.

Duplicare content means that Google has indexed content more than one time. Google does not like duplicate content on a page.

Google will look at the first content as the original and index it as the original. Anything after that is duplicate content. If you want to use someone else's content be sure to link back to the original article.

They may have not been found yet.

Are they over optimizing? Many people say over optimizing is having you keyword in you H1, title, description, footer, etc. Other believe that it is having way too many keywords embedded within way too much content.

For ex. If a site has 10,000 words on their home page they can add their keyword 1,000 times in that text and only have a 10% ratio of keyword to content.

To think that Google will punish every site for having their keywords on their H1,Title, Body, Footer, etc. is not realistic IMO, because too many sites have been built like this and many good sites will be demoted.

You can report them to google. However, you are better off focusing on your own results. Spend your time building local links to your site.

I believe you are referring to googles robot.txt which is designed to have google skip a page while indexing. I dont think you want to do this. However, I checked the backlinks (anchored text to your site) and seems like you have not built any incoming links using your keyword "Milwaukee SEO" . I would recommend just building some good links to using "Milwaukee SEO"

Your code should look like this Milwaukee SEO

Post this on a few Local sites. Since you are web design company as well, you can include that script in some of your local sites footers : ) Goof luck.

Sweet thank you soo much.

Why does a directory running on a subdomain give the overall domain more traffic?

Here is Matt Cutts video, for those of you who have not seen it already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4dAWb5jUws   (Very Short)

In this Video Matt explains that Google does not look at backlinks.

Many link spamming sites have detected, there have been many website receiving warning messages in their Google web tools to deindex these links, etc..

My theory is that Google will not punish sites for backlinks. However, they manually check for "link farming sites" and warn anyone affiliated with them, just in case these links were built from a competitor. This way they can eliminate all the "Bad Link Farm" sites and not hurt anyone who does not deserve to be hurt. Google is not going to give us all their information to rank, they dont want us to rank. They want us to PPC. However, they do want to have the best SERPs available. I call it Google juggling!

Thoughts?

I have never used anything like this as well, where I just submit blindly.

Blog networks that are being punished, did they take posts that are not relevant or helpful and spread them? What if they only add your content (links) to relevant blogs where users can benefit?

Whats the difference between these blog sites and http://myblogguest.com/?

I know that on myblogguest.com you manually pick relevant sites and manually contact them. Is that the only difference?

Competition difficulty level only shows sites on first pages SERPs. For example: If wiki is up there it throws the number off or just makes it look way more challenging.

Is there an ideal ratio of percent difficulty to search volume?

No there is not. There are plenty of keywords out there with huge traffic volume and no competition. For the most part profitable keywords are more challenging.

lets say I have 2 sites (two companies I am doing SEO for) one is for a Taxi service and one is for a limo service. Would me offering my taxi traffic a link to a limo service be black hat? **no way!  ** Would google look at that link as a bad link? I highly doubt it!

Kink building is great and works as long as the sources are relevant.

Googles goals are to make money. in order to make money they need the best search engine. In order to have the best search engine they need the best SERP's. The only way have the best SERP's is via user interaction. If the user likes the link so will Google.

Buying links to benefit for SEO is frowned on from google. However, if your buying to gain real traffic to your site such as links within a directory it is not a bad thing.

For example, I can pay yellow pages (Just an example... I would never do this) for their best tier package and it will not affect my results, in fact it can help them.

Have you ever used a service like this? Do they own the sites that publish your links? Are the links being placed in relevant places?

Im not sure about Googles views on automations. I have used some programs to automate certain things. You can automate things as long as you do it in the white hat way. For example I can use a link building tool to find potential link partners, instead of blasting one email to all of them, I analyze their site and manually contact them.

Im asking this question to get opinions on this type of service, Wanted to see if anyone has ever used it, or something similar to it. Does it work? Is it reliable? (I would say I am 75% agains it)

How is it black hat? You still create your own content, they just distribute it for you (getting you the links).

This can easily fall into a gray area.

Have you made any improvements to your site recently?

This change is probably because your audience is starting to like your content.

http://www.linkaloha.com/

This company claims to have a good tool. To me it looks like spam. They claim to automate link building and they claim to use Googles Panda to their advantage.

This site does however use link diversity, not sure about how relevant the sources are for each keyword...

Would this fall into black hat or gray area SEO?

Hello John and welcome. You came to the right place.

I would recommend building links from local places to you keywords. If you are building links for your keywords within New York City, get links within New York City to point at your site. Definitely anchor your keywords, best to use diffirent variations of the keywords it looks more natural.

There are many ways to build links, my favorite is guest blogging. But for every niche there wil be a good strategy that works. You can refer to SEOmoz blog to learn more on link building and how to.

Also you might want to do some AB testing to check if your uses like your site. AB testing can be done within googles webmaster tools.

I would have to agree with Brent, this is definitely unnatural and I would recommend changing it back ASAP.

The way I see it google will not punish anyone for external links coming in.. Because if they did my competition would be eliminated in days : )