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Definitely the shorter the better but don't abbreviate words, If you can just go www.site.com/videos/[video name] that would definitely give an improved signal over and above longer URLs of competition.
Or you could possibly get away with www.site.com/blog/videos/[video name] this would carry a little bit less weight but be more descriptive.
Definitely rule of thumb the shorter the URL the better, do not abbreviate, (Google may not know what it means).
Obviously I don't know the exact structure of your site, but I can't see any difficulties with SEO. I doubt any content behind a password would be found, the only thing to consider is the login page, depending on the use you could block it in robots.txt.
I think mostly Google see subdomains as different sites, depending on how they are linked together. You want to be careful that people can't publish spam on the subdomain this could hurt the overall reputation.
If you want to completely stop Google crawling the subdomains you could implement HTTP basic authentication, This loads before the page is even visible.
You are asking quite a lot of questions here, basically if your site has been around for a reasonable amount of time and your page is accessible and can be crawled by search engines you should be able to Google your domain name (including the TLD) like "mydomain.com", if that doesn't show up you either have a serious technical error or you have had a penalty.
As for telling whether it is bot or manual Google search console should give you a bit more information. Personally as far as I can see a penalty is a penalty and needs to be overcome one way or another, whether it is automatic or manual is a bit beside the point!
1. Avoid shared hosting (Often very limited resources)
2. I would definitely look at beefy VPS, they are very cost-effective. (Make sure you get a managed solution)
3. Dedicated servers are good, but very expensive.
Aim to hosting the country you want to serve (Yes even though you using a CDN)
As a final note before moving everything over, migrate one of the biggest sites and test thoroughly for performance before moving the rest. When you are migrating and for a few weeks afterwards keep your old service up and running so you can quickly change back to the old location if you have any issues.
Also backup, backup, backup. Everything and at every stage (From bitter experience) 
Hope it helps, these suggestions from personal experience.
Regards
Richard
I'm not too sure whether it's a ranking factor or not, there are varying opinions. I would say it's risky.
Additionally, I don't see what there is to be gained by deleting and recreating a profile that could just get another bad review, Also the person that gave you that bad review can come and leave another one!
I would work with some good customers and ask them to do reviews. Far more productive than trying to hide hide mistakes and Google will love good reviews to.
Explain to your client that resources are better spend on creating some new reviews and if you get enough good ones you can outweigh the bad ones to a large degree. Take a look around, you will see there is plenty of excellent brands that get bad reviews from time to time.
A short answer is probably yes.
In a bit more detail...
Google hates you requesting/collecting data yourself, especially if you're webpages not secure.
Secondly, the script may be treated as dodgy by some of the big search engines. I.e. potentially obtaining sensitive information.
Thirdly, check there isn't some other form of penalty.
There are actually several aspects to your question.
1. Google will make its own decision as to how important pages and therefore how often it should be crawled
2. Site speed is a ranking factor
3. Most SEO's belief that Google has a maximum timeframe in which to crawl each page/site. However, I have seen some chronically slow sites which have still crawl and indexed.
I forgot to mention about using an xml site map can help search engines find pages.
Again, be very careful not to confuse crawling and indexing. Crawling is only updating the index, once indexed if it doesn't rank you have another SEO problem, not a technical crawling problem.
Any think a user can access a crawler should be able to find it no problem, however if you have hidden pages the crawler may not find them.
Apologies I'd slightly misunderstood your question, I see exactly what you mean now. I think this is purely down to the way Google associates the search intent and tries to deliver the most appropriate result.
The site parameter is obviously intended to help users find a specific item on the specified site, therefore if the blog has more content than the other pages there is more chance that it will have what the user is looking for hence Google will deliver that page out of preference.
Don't know for sure but just an assumption.
As you said branded searches are fine, there certainly doesn't look to be any issues as far as I can see although I haven't done a full audit.
Would be interested to see what anyone else says but my gut feeling is there is nothing to be worried about, the main thing is you come up for your company name and search terms that you want.
Sorry hope that helps somewhat.
All the best
I would certainly avoid it unless you have a specific purpose.
If Google can see the site it will certainly index it.
Domain structure is only a small element of the ranking signals.
If you have links pointing to the domain you will need to set up redirects to maintain your link structure, you may lose a small amount of authority losing a 301 but not much.
Hope that helps
All the best
Going by the book, technically a short domain will give you a slight benefit, but I wouldn't consider it's anything worth bothering with.
Not using www will make it slightly quicker to type and easier to remember, However when advertising your domain name off-line it is more explanatory to have a www. prefix (Without having to type website or HTTP(s):// every time).
I would say there is very little SEO benefit, I would assess it from a user angle.
Morning Li,
Like Umar said, It's properly not to detrimental again I would say best avoided if it could be removed, words in URLs are taken into account by search engines.
If the URL is: http://www.costumedirect.com.au/search.php?search_query=edward
The search engine will see something like this: costumedirect com au search search query edward
And it will try to match it with the search term used, so if you have unnecessary words the search term will become less relevant.
Sorry hope that isn't too much in-depth let me know if you need me to go into more detail or explain a little more.
All the best.
Just answered my own problem!
"We are sorry that we have had to cancel this month's index release."
https://moz.com/products/api/updates
Shame you don't get points for answering your own questions!!!
This is a very old tactic, very little if any benefit as far as Google authority concerned.
You should remember that PA and DA etc are brand names and have nothing to do with Google themselves and they are not used in any way in the ranking algorithm.
To avoid future issues and to minimise the effect of blackhat SEO like this Google will normally 'reset' the domain when it expires. So any authority it did have it is very much minimised if not completely obliterated.
For best results DIM (Do It Manually!)
Joking apart I would stay away from automatic audits, they are often incorrect and can give you a pack of trouble.
I would start by setting yourself out a strategy something like the following:-
By the end of this you should have a good idea of the quality and how far reaching powerful brands are.
Also don't forget social media, although not directly related to SEO it will give you a good idea is to brand reputation.
Hope understood your question correctly, if not please elaborate and see what I can do to help.
You shouldn't have any problems using slashes. Most big search engines have long since worked out what you mean.
The respond downside is some CMS systems don't support special characters (although that is very rare these days)
It may look neater to use symbols.
Google is very clever at working out what is what, the URL is only 1 of at least 200 factors, I wouldn't be overly worried just get it about right.
To the best of my knowledge the URL factor works on a sliding scale i.e. the nearer the beginning a word in a URL the more weight it tends to have over other words in the URL.
Having said all that I would guess even if you got it exactly right and assuming Google only uses 200 ranking factors you would have completed 0.5% of the ranking structure. Sorry if that makes sense??
But it's definitely worth making sure you get it as right as possible, consider the following...
And finally remember that Google bot is trying to work as much like a human as possible, so if it looks commonsense to human then the chances are that Google sooner or later will adopt the same principle.
All the best and good luck
As far as I know there is no way of uncovering the Google 'not provided' keywords, and I don't think there's any point in kicking against it either because there are several ways that you can get information. Mostly I think Google tries to hide any terms it thinks may release confidential information or very specific low-volume terms, in which case these probably wouldn't be much use anyway.
With enough traffic you can still get an awful lot of information from Google Analytics, it still releases about 10% of the keywords.
Secondly, Look at Google Search Console > Search Traffic > Search Analytics.
The strategy that I like best is to work the opposite way on, decide on the keywords that you want to go after and then optimise the site for those keywords.
I very much doubt you will get a penalty for that, but it isn't great for SEO.
The first thing is you need to describe images for what they are. Secondly, those images should be relevant to the page content.
Google tries to personalize the results as much as possible, they use cookies and other types of identification data to try and track users and provide the most relevant results.
After you close chrome technically there is no method for Google to identify who you are, hence you may see different results.
Getting accurate search position results for tracking marketing progress seems a bit of a buzz word at the moment. It comes back to as Marketers/SEO's we need to track and monitor our efforts, on the flipside Google is trying to provide the most accurate result to the user often by means of personalisation. That is where you have an immediate conflict, for maximum user engagement (which all of us want) you sometimes have to sacrifice tractability.
Assuming you did manage to track personalised results you would need a lot of data about that person and their browsing habits to understand how you back best matched their search query. Most of us would quickly get ourselves lost in data. Does that make sense?
There are plenty of Serps checker tools around, but I sometimes have my doubts how accurate they are - Google definitely doesn't like them.
If you already have loading speed problems having lots of videos definitely won't help.
Regarding Java I take it you mean JavaScript as opposed to Java by Oracle? Google can the some degree at least interpret JavaScript these days but the more scripts you have on the page the more time it will take to load.
If it was me I would consider making sub- pages with one or two videos on each (or as many as necessary) that way you can have a broader coverage of keywords and the pages should load quicker.
You could look at using YouTube, it may load quicker.
All the best