In the categories section in Wordpress, you can add a description for each category.  This description will then show up on each category.  This is a great way to avoid duplicate/thin content by adding a bit of unique content to each category page. Also, make sure only snippets of each post appear on the category page, rather than the full post, in order to prevent duplicate content.

I wouldn't worry too much about the extra additional links, unless you're talking about hundreds of categories. Having links to your category pages is a good thing form a site architecture standpoint.

It likely means the page that the link was discovered on is now redirecting to another page. For example, a few of the links in your screenshot are from Google+, which no longer exists (all pages now redirect to a shutdown notice).

I would stick with a single Google+ page for your brand. Unless you have a ton of resources, maintaining multiple accounts is going to be a huge hassle. If you create 5 different pages, that's 5 pages you have to create content for, and get followers for, etc. Look at big brands like Coca Cola. They have a single Google+ page that they manage for their brand.

Now if you start gaining a major following in a specific country, then it may make sense to create another page targeted just for them. But unless that's the case, a single page will be easier to manage. The only downside is that the page can only be added as rel=publisher for one of your domains.

As for the vanity URL, you have to get your page verified in order to do so. Unless you're a big brand or celebrity, don't expect to be verified unless you have followers in the 5-figures.

https://support.google.com/plus/contact/page_verification

Facebook does not have a direct impact on rankings on Google. Facebook can have a small impact on rankings in Bing, but only for your friends.

Getting 5000 fake Facebook fans will not boost your SEO in anyway. Having a large number of fans can provide a bit of social proof and might help you get more fans, but will have zero impact on Panda, Penguin, or SEO.

Hey, that's fine, I'm just saying that if your old site was being penalized for bad links and you just 301 redirect it to a new site, the new site will likely also get penalized. If you can clean up the link profile, great. Note that 301s do not pass all the link juice, so you will be losing a little bit of link value by redirecting. As for the new domain, like I said, it's not going to have any value just because it was originally registered back in 1999. But if you just want it to branding, that should be fine.

It's probably not worth it to contact EVERY site, but it could be worth it to reach out to the highest value links, especially if you see a rankings drop after the move.  Export your backlinks and sort them by PA/DA, then contact the ones at the top of the list.

Like BeardCo says, there are benefits to both approaches. The only way to know for sure is to test it. ALT text does have some SEO benefit, but it's not going to make or break your rankings. My guess is it won't impact your rankings either way, but test and see what happens.

The page is definitely indexed by Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FImageWorksCreative

If you just changed the URL and it used to be ranking higher, then it could be that Google is still digesting the URL change. To get the page ranking higher, make sure to link to it from all of your other web properties, such as Google+.

Also, the link to your website from your FB page is broken, you probably want to fix that!

Being a reseller on the web is tough. You're basically competing against Amazon.com and every other reseller out there that sells the same thing.

Definitely write unique product and service descriptions for everything if you can afford it, otherwise Google will just filter you out of the search results and display your more established competitors ahead of you. If you don't have time or resources to re-write everything, then focus on the top 10% of products in terms of traffic & profitability, then expand from there (Rand recently did a good whiteboard Friday on the subject).

Try to add value beyond what the manufacturer provides on their website. Getting user reviews is a great way to have user generated unique content that's useful to users. Incentivise reviews by giving out coupons. Create filters and comparisons and other features that differentiate your shopping experience. Think about what you can be the best in the world at, because that's what it will take to compete on a global scale.

I think it's still a fine way of getting links, as long as you're not overdoing it.  Instead of spamming anchor text links in the footers like a lot of companies do, you could try just having a link on the homepage, or have them write a blog post about your company with an in-context link.

It's fine to include tags withing an

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goes against HTML conventions.

Definitely optimize your videos for the SERPs, Google ranks YouTube videos highly even for competitive queries.

To optimize videos for Youtube and/or Google:

• Include relevant keywords in the title
• Include tags with relevant keywords
• Provide a unique, detailed description with keywords
• Include a transcript of the video
• Get lots of views on your video
• Get lots of likes/+1s on your video

For Google specifically, try to get your video embeded on high authority sites and build backlinks as you would with any other sites.

They're created automatically and aren't accessible via the control panel.  If you want to change the way they work, you can edit archive.php.  If they're just duplicate content, you can noindex them with plugins such as "All In One SEO Pack".

Just add the following code to the footer.php file:

YOUR_LINK_HERE

You can set the width of the badge in the embed code, but the minimum width for badges in portrait layout is 180 pixels and 273 pixels for badges in landscape mode. So if that is too wide for you, I would consider placing the bade somewhere else, say the sidebar.

Google will continue to crawl your old URLs as long as links to them exist, so you will want to keep those 301s in place for as long as those links exist. Does that make sense?

It's not that Google will crawl a URL, see that it is being 301'd and never crawl that URL, Google will continuously crawl that URL as long as it is being linked to, and you need to have the 301 in place to tell Google that the page has moved.

If you're trying to get your own content to rank, then don't host on YouTube.  Host is on your own site or on a CDN, and embed it on your site with Schema markup so that you have a chance of showing rich snippets in the SERPs.  This helpful article shows you how:

http://www.distilled.net/blog/video/video-seo-tactics-to-get-ranked/

When you put your competitor into Open Site Explorer, where are they getting their links from?  It could be the case that they are using some large scale spam tactics, which will tend to get their site penalized over time (though not always).  It could also be the case that they just got sitewide links from really large sites, so all the links they are getting are from a handful of domains.

domain.com/blog is probably the best option, since Google often treats subdomains (blog.domain.com) as separate sites. By having your blog in a subdirectory, any link value it accrues will benefit your main site as well.

First of Google does not "penalize" you for duplicate content, unless you're doing it on a massive scale (Panda). If Google detects duplicate content on your site, it will only display one version of that content in the SERPs. Still not ideal, not quite a penalty.

Perhaps more importantly, why do you have multiple landing pages that differ by only 10 words? Aside from the duplicate content issue, how are you "optimizing" each page for different keywords? If you are just changing the title and the URL, then it's probably not worth it from an SEO or user perspective.

If you want to rank for multiple keywords, write rich content which is relevant for multiple keywords or create multiple pages which substantially different and specifically aimed at your target keywords. Changing 10-15 words isn't optimizing for anything.