It doesn't look like Google is indexing the hashtagged pages at all (try searching for site:http://www.cbuy.tv/#!). Generally Google strips out hashtags when it indexes content. If you want a different page besides the escaped fragment pages showing up, you may need to change your URL structure.

301 redirects do not pass all the link juice, so you will lose a bit of link value if you use a 301 redirect. If you don't want to lose any juice, you can try contacting the sites with the highest authority links, and asking them to link to your new site.

However, even if you are able to get all the new links pointed to the new site, I would expect to see a rankings drop, at least in the short term as Google tries to figure things out.

So expect to see a rankings drop if you redirect, and weigh the loss in SEO traffic versus having a better, more brandable domain name.  You'll probably end up losing some link juice in the transition, but you can always redouble your link building efforts afterwards to rebuild your link profile.

Google almost never indexes hashtags, since they generally point to content on the same page. Typically, Google will just strip out the hashtag when evaluating the link.

However, I have seen with Wikipedia that Google will sometimes show hashtags as sitelinks. Wikipedia is the only site that I know of that they do this for.

Long story short, it should be fine to leave in the hashtags and Google should just ignore them.

I don't think it's possible to add the parent category title using All-in-one SEO. You could go in and manually add the titles under Posts -> Categories, keeping the category slug the same.

Add canonical tags to your headers:

This helps tell Google which version of your content is the original.  You can also tell Google to ignore those query parameters in Google Webmaster Tools:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1235687

Frames are still clunky in terms of navigation and can cause problems for SEO as well.  What do you need frames for?  Practically everything that can be done with frames can be achieved with

s and it's a better user experience.

What type of semantic markup are you planning on using?  Here is the code for if you're using schema.org:

1. <body< span="">itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage"></body<>
2. ...
3. <div< span="">itemprop="breadcrumb"></div<>
4. <a< span="">href="category/books.html">Books ></a<>
5. <a< span="">href="category/books-literature.html">Literature & Fiction ></a<>
6. <a< span="">href="category/books-classics">Classics</a<>

More info here:

http://schema.org/WebPage

If you haven't been hit by a penalty and haven't received any warnings in GWT, then I wouldn't take any rash actions.  It's good to remain vigilant and have contingency plans in place, but going out and making a big change to your link profile could have an adverse effect on your current rankings.

What keyword are you currently using for your calendar function?  If it's just your brandname, you're probably safe.  If it's an exact anchor text match keyword, that could be more risky.  Are you currently ranking well for the keyword you're using, because changing it to a url could result in lower rankings.

I wouldn't stress about the

tag, it's not that big of a ranking factor, if at all.  As long as you aren't overusing your keywords to the point of spamminess, having the same

and

tag should not be a problem.

Every keyword you have in the title decreases the value of every other keyword in the title.  Therefore, the fewer keywords you have in your title, the better (plus it looks cleaner).

My recommendation would be: Cheshire Cheese | Brand name

You should check out Point Blank SEO, they have the most complete listing of link building strategies out there:

http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies

If you have any kind of date on the page, Google will sometimes pull it and display it in the search results.  This could be from a date mentioned in an article, a comment left by a visitor, etc.  If your content is evergreen, it can be helpful to strip out dates entirely, to keep your site from looking dated in the search results.

I agree with Irving.  By creating 4 different sites, you quadruple the amount of link building you need to do and lose out on your established domain authority.

It would be better from an SEO perspective to run with subdirectories (domain.com/product) rather than subdomains (product.domain.com).  You can still create a unique looking site for each subdirectory, you can even have them look completely different from each other with different navigation, and the homepage would just have links to the 4 different sections of your site.

With subdirectories, you can still create 4 distinct sites with their own branding & navigation, but you still benefit from the site's overall domain authority.

Off page pretty much equals link building, and long term you want to think about branding and building relationships with other webmasters in your niche.

Here's a great list of link building strategies:

http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies

Having a lot of links in your navigation isn't a big issue.  Just understand that the more categories & pages you have, the more links you will need for them to rank well.  So you are really setting yourself up for a big link building project getting relevant backlinks for all those pages.  But from a site architecture standpoint, there is nothing wrong with the way you are setting it up.

1. Yes, having 2 versions of the same content can be seen duplicate content and could cause issues.

2. Yes, include a canonical tag in the header (assuming both http & https pages are close to identical).  This will help Google's crawler figure out which version of the page to show in the search results.

That's an interesting question.  Semantic markup can be used to help Google understand what different pages are (i.e. tag pages), but it doesn't really solve the problems caused by duplicate content, namely:

1. Thin Content - Tag pages and other similar pages are thin content, with not much utility for the user, and are probably not going to rank well in Google anyway.  Even if they do rank, they won't convert as well as your main pages.
2. Keyword Cannibalization - Even if your tag pages & duplicate content rank, they could potentially outrank your main content, leading to lower conversions.
3. Panda - Too many thin content pages can lower Google's opinion of your site as a whole, leading to a Panda penalty.

Given the problems above, semantic markup doesn't really help with any of them.  Semantic markup can help Google understand what a tag page is, but that doesn't mean you want to have that page indexed.

Those links definitely look like they could be in blackhat territory.  It looks like either paid links or possibly some kind of blog network.  The links are also all exact match anchor text. Do you know when your traffic took a hit?  You may have been hit by the Penguin algorithm.

301 redirects can pass some link value, but some of the link value will get lost.  Also, unless the old sites are topically similar to the new site, Google may not pass any link value at all.

If the sites are related to your new site, try including a couple of links from your old sites to the new one.  Write some new content for your old sites that's topically related to your new site, and include some in-context links.

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.