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Content should be as long or short as it needs to be. Don't limit yourself by trying to hit a specific number of words.

Hi Andrei

You should definitely disavow these links if you suspect them to be bad or dodgy links. A very substantial guide on how to do so can be found here http://moz.com/blog/guide-to-googles-disavow-tool

This will help you avoid getting penalised by google.

Regards

Sounds really spammy, in my opinion a single link on the prestigious national organisation may serve them better

Hi

Your alt tag should aim to describe what the image is, be careful of using them purely for SEO purposes. Keyword stuffing should always be avoided if possible. Just keep them short and natural to what the image is, this will help you avoid any penalties from Google.

Graeme

Yeah these tactics might have worked in the past but you are essentially asking Google for a penalty by doing them now. Remember links should always be natural which is the exact opposite of what you have talked about.

This would be a no no for me.

Create the content within your domain and try to gain links to it, this will help improve your SEO efforts on the website.

Depending on your CMS you could create a section on your website entitled "Foundation" have the content in here and have it branded slightly differently from your main site, this may encourage others to link to you but you would still have the benefits of the links pointing to your domain.

Also have a search on Google for the terms "link building" and "boring" this will give you some great guides for building links within not so exciting industries!

you could use a noindex tag so the bots do not index it

More info from Google can be found here https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710?hl=en

One of the hardest things about SEO is having the patience to wait for results! Keep building your high quality links and you should see some results soon.

You may want to revise your page title tag as well, you mention candles in it 3 times, i would mention candles twice max although im sure some would argue with me, it just looks a little spammy.

As another suggestion you could also have some introductory text on the page describing the candles, what makes them unique? why should people buy your candles and not other candles? This may help with ranking but will also add value for users.

Hi

Have you analysed their link profile to see if it is indeed suspicious looking websites linking to it? Open site explorer is perfect for this.

If it is links which Google would consider bad it will only be a matter of time before they are caught. No one can beat the algorithms!

Regards

Do each of the 28 professions warrant having their own page? if they do then go for it, if not try to think of a way to group them together, possibly by sector?

Hi John

I always try to think about what is best for the user. The URL should ideally descriptive, keyword targeted without being too long.

A great article about URL SEO can be found here at MOZ. worth a read.

http://moz.com/learn/seo/url

Good Luck

You mention that its only been a month. My gut feeling would be to say this really isn't long enough to see any tangible results in regards to SEO activity. As previously suggested aim to get your blog on your domain as quickly as possible and work your content marketing efforts from there!

Yeah i agree with Peter, nothing wrong with  being proactive in disavowing. Just be careful to make sure you not disavowing links which are helping you rank

Hi

Yeah i would definitely implement this for SEO purposes. Schema allows the search engines to understand what your content is about, this will display your results in a format that will lead to a greater click through rate, it also shows the results in a manner that's very easily digestible for the user leading to a greater experience for them.

It also may affect direct ranking increases. Really for an e-commerce store this should be a must for your products

Yeah i agree with Hutch, Google does not appear to have a minimum/maximum word count for indexing content. So just write as much as is required

The /debtsettlement page should be a key landing page within your website, the brand name which i assume is in time financial is best served as your main URL. So your set up at the moment is correct.

Hi

Here is some additional resources that may of help for Local SEO!

Moz Local SEO Blog

Simple Local SEO Tips

Guide to local SEO

Good luck and hope these help!

15000 words seems like quite a lot for a single web page. Trying to keep a users attention for that long could prove troublesome and you would need to make sure the content was formatted correctly.

As a rule of thumb though the post should be as long as it needs to be whether thats a 100 words or 100000 words

Hi

I always believe page title's should be written with the user in mind. When they are on google SERP you would like them to click through and find a page which matches both the page title and meta description that they have seen. The idea of "cramming" more keywords into a title would not be something i would be looking to ever do.

As Moz says "The title element of a web page is meant to be an accurate and concise description of a page's content"

Stick to this and you shouldnt go far wrong. When did you change the title? You may just require a bit of patience for Google rankings

This has been asked a few times before, no immediate plans to have this unfortunately!

http://moz.com/community/q/moz-local-in-the-uk-and-the-rest-of-the-world

Theres the link to the answer they gave back in March