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Hi Ashley, To clarify, this is just a section of the page, right? The page will still have essentially the same information for both mobile and desktop users, but tailored to their devices? It's fine to remove or change up inconsequential elements of the page. Webmasters have had to do this from the start, for ads, complicated navigation, and other page elements that are helpful on a desktop page but cluttered on a phone screen. If this content is the majority of the page, though, and sends a different message, you should probably create a separate page for mobile visitors. If this is the case, let me know and I can follow up with more specific recommendations. Good luck! Kristina

I have used this one for Joomla. Very simple and free, except that you cannot set the delay time from within the plugin: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/style-a-design/popups-a-iframes/17214 Here is also a easy to use Wordpress plugin, which offers many of the same functions: http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-popup/

To Google, there is not. The R=301 at the end of the rewrite rule defines it as a 301 redirect, so it's practically the same thing. For a one-off redirect I wouldn't use the rewrite format. This is usually for when you need to grab big chunks of URLs and redirect them all at once. Still, if it works this way, there's really nothing wrong with it from the redirecting standpoint. If there was, when people used it for large quantities of redirects, it wouldn't work.

Only do 301 if the other sites have great value, you say that you have merged all content on 1 site an rewritten it? Google will automatic see the new content, the only reason i think you should do a 301 is if the other sites have a PR higher than 3 or 4, pr 2 and 1 are EASY to get. So take the new uniq content your wrote, combine each site with your different keywords. More on same page are good for results. You dont need a landing page for each keyword. I would do this: Check the PR and Alexa for all the sites, figure out if the traffic is real customers or just scans. There is no point in redirecting scan bots to new site, they will come automatic. Then i would do the 301 from Google Webmaster Tools and make sure that they all go to front site of brand.com site. But only if they have anything to offer for your new site.

Google cannot read ALL JavaScript in every situation. Yet **they most definitely can read at least some of it in some situations. ** The article quoted was from 2012. A LOT has changed since then. A May 2014 post up in the Google Webmaster Central blog mentioned how they can read it / execute it sometimes, while others they can't, though they do not go into specifics. A direct quote from Matt Cutts: “Once that JavaScript has all been loaded, which is the important reason why you should always let Google crawl the JavaScript and the CSS – all those sorts of resources – so that we can execute the page,” he continues. “Once we’ve fetched all those resources, we try to render or execute that JavaScript, and then we extract the tokens – the words that we think should be indexed – and we put that into our index.” source: Webmaster Video April 7, 2014 Oh - and if you block that JS in your robots.txt file, Google MAY respect that, and Google MAY ignore that. While Robots.txt files USED to be a firm "directive", nowadays they're "just one more signal / hint". Do not assume that in your unique situation Google will or will not find that content, they will or will not see it as duplicate content just because they "may" or "may not" be able to figure out your JavaScript. Want to avoid that insanity?  Yeah - generate the content you contain in those pop-ups on actual unique URLs that get loaded in those pop-ups.  Then, on those specific URLs, do a noindex,nofollow meta robots tag, AND a canonical tag pointing to the main product description page where that content appears in its primary form. Or write entirely unique content for those pop-ups.

After looking into it a bit more, at first I thought it was another panda release as others of late had been on the 18th of the month. From using a few G search operators I've stumbled across a few popular forums where people have been spotting drops of 10-40% since 14th Feb. My opinion would be that the latest algo release that featured an update that integrated Panda into standard crawls could be finding these low quality sites and chewing them up as it browses the net. If my guess is right bad news for some, great for others! Let me know your thoughts?