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It looks like somewhere around September or October 2012 something happened. There were both Panda and Penguin updates around that time. You may want to try an overlay tool such as Panguin http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/ to see when the dips happened. You should also see if you have old ranking data for that time period or at least compare top pages to see where the traffic was lost exactly. I'm also pretty sure you're looking at total website traffic, and not just organic traffic. This could be something as simple as you stopped running a PPC campaign at that time and what you see now is the traffic without paid advertising. Also see if anything happened with the site around that time like a redesign or a change to the url structure.

Took a quick look and the first thought is that you have no unique content on the pages, so they are likely being hidden by Google because they are duplicate content. This causes your main page to show instead, and not rank as well as the artist page, which is more targeted to the search term.

Jeff,

Just one thing to point out.  I would personally worry that Google would see this as reciprocal linking and knock you for the post.  I would not post both posts at the same time.  I would post one article and then you or the website, could wait around a week before posting the reciprical article.

Agency.

You might try pinging the site out or just building a link to the site.

As Miriam said, check if people search for the county. In the particular area where TheeDesign is located (Raleigh, NC) we are referred to as the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) but almost no one searches this way. The county is Wake County, but few people search by the county name either (more in some industries than others,) and typically the city is the highest search terms. So you have to debate whether the extra effort and planning is worth the extra visitors or not.

Moz is only one set of data and it is limited. There are a lot of other factors that come into play. Their anchor text could be richer, I see more followed domains for them in Ahrefs, they may have more NAP listings or branded mentions than you, they may be better optimized on site. It's hard to get an accurate picture of the landscape, but you just need to remember that all these tools provide insight and some data, but they're not working with a complete data set.

I would never remove them. If you are afraid your file is too large then have your developer test how long it's taking to process the file. If this number is unacceptable, consider moving the redirects to the server config file so that they are only loaded during the server startup and not each time a page is processed.

Go into Google Webmaster Tools and go to Search Traffic > Search Queries.

Click on the keyword in question. You will see not only which positions the keyword has shown in but also if other pages have shown for the result. This type of fluctuation is normal.

Well, first off I would say that SeoMoz won't help you build traffic to your website, but it will help you gain the knowledge that you need to build traffic to your website.

If you're new to SeoMoz here are a few tips:

• Participate in the Q and A's, which it looks like you're already doing.
• Be sure to read the blog and YouMoz  Blog regularly.  Always come back for the WhiteBoard Friday vlog(on Fridays), as I find them very useful.
• Check out the SEOMoz tools, those will give you plenty of help on link building that will help your website rank better.  A few tools I like in particular are Open Site Explorer, which shows a website's back link portfolio, their keyword analysis tool which shows how competitive a keyword can be and as a social media lover I like the new Follower Wonk

Echo,

"You hope to increase CTR."  Is this if the search engines?  If so you need to change your meta descriptions and meta titles, this might be able to be done without creating a completely new website.

As for a few questions here you go:

• What's their experience building websites?
• What does the website look like on mobile platforms(Is it responsive)?
• What will be the tree structure of the website?
• How easily can I change/edit content and meta information?
• Will the images be optimized(*something often overlooked)?
• Has their been a sitemap created?

Those are a few questions that come to mind right off the bat.

It's just going to depend on what keywords you are bidding on and how high you want to place on the results.  If you already have your budgets set, then your campaigns will run until you are out of funds.  Since they have a restrictive budget, you may want to setup an additional rule under automate to pause the campaign when monthly spend is >250 to prevent Adwords from going over.

2 columns you may want to show under your keywords tab are estimated first page bid and estimated top of page bid, this should give you some idea of the bid you need for your ads to show, from there monitor your average position and determine which keywords are more important for your goals to determine where you will spend more.

If you're taking payments on site, you should setup ecommerce tracking instead and you can use the payment transaction as the goal.

They should have started with the fact that you have 3 versions of your site:

1. https://emerges.com/
2. https://www.emerges.com/
3. http://www.emerges.com/

To address your questions, yes there are some issues with how content is displayed at different screen sizes, and while this may affect UI slightly (an example would be your NAP listing in the footer where company name is centered and the address / phone are left aligned) these issues won't really affect your SEO.

For your second question, this again has no effect on SEO.

For the third one, I doubt your target keyword is your company name. Bolding is a very small SEO factor, but it seems like you would want to target voter lists and not your brand name.

Tiffany,

The sharing and retweeting of your images will definitely help you gain edge rank, the specific applications, but if you're looking to optimize your site using both Facebook and Twitter you have to remember that Facebook is mostly closed off to Google.

Twitter has started closing off other companies as well, but it still does get crawled a bit from Google.  What I would suggest is Tweet a picture then also attach your brand's name to the Website.  Maybe like this, "Like this? :insert image:   It's available now at Tiffany.com"  It won't give you a lot of link juice but it will give you some especially if it's shared a lot.

We're fond of Zappos.  They have awesome linking both internal and outbound.
http://www.zappos.com

I have to agree with David Konisberg, that Press Releases are great for branding and might offer you some short term SEO benefit, but beyond that there's not much more it can do.  
If you have the money I highly suggest using PRWeb as your press release company.  I've always been happy with their service and their high-ranking domain is always a plus.

Larry,

We would take a look at what Amazon is doing and try to copy it to the utmost...as they are obviously an e-retailer that has the most successful.

Here are a few thoughts after visiting your website,

1. Let customers know how much they're saving.  Amazon lists every price as 23% off list price, why don't you do the same?

2. Your checkout now button is buried on the bottom of the checkout page, at first glance I couldn't find it.

3. Speaking of not finding your checkout button, your cart page has waaaay too much information.  You ask for me to edit quantity, enter credit card type, sign up for newsletter, and choose shipping all on the same page.  I'd break this down a little bit. and maybe use multiple pages or at least get rid of "sign up for newspaper on every page".

I agree with Keri, can we get some more info.  You mentioned multiple locations? Are they connected areas, for example "North Carolina & South Carolina"

I believe you're actually referring to Google's Knowledge Graph that is tied in a bit to G+.

Is your G+ account active?  Are you actively posting using it?  If not Google might not see it as a valid account.  You also need to get it verified.

This article might help: http://www.localseoguide.com/google-plus-takes-over-google-knowledge-graph-for-brands/