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Keep in mind, though, that certain web hosts place limits of the amount you can have. if you're genuinely concerned, I'd check with your host.

There is always a slight risk. The biggest risk lies in the possibility of Google choosing to crawl the site while it's being propagated or during the inevitable down time. This could cause some pages to have different IP addresses--from your new host and old host.

As far as how Google chooses to judge the fact that your IP changed three times in a one month period, I don't know what it thinks of that, but I know if definitely takes note.

All that being said, the odds are good that you'll be perfectly fine.

I asked almost the same question about a year ago, and unfortunately, you are right; that is the solution.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/so-confused-about-google

Here's the worst part. I made a a few posts on the old page asking them to +1 the new page. Want to know how many did? ZERO. A year later, I only have twenty-something followers.

But anyway, this is the good advice I received:

This is a Profile, so actually in violation of Google+ Terms since it is a Brand/Business.

Turn this into the "Company Spokesperson" example Head of PR, Executive or you as the Head of Marketing (or whatever your title is).

THEN

As this NOT NEWLY CREATED PAGE, but just modified to be a "Person" page.... Create a Google+ Business Page

(Make sure you are signed in as this account and)

Go to

http://www.google.com/+/business/...

And follow the on page instructions to create a "Business Page"

How long ago did you do all this? Everything you did if correct; however, it can take Google a couple months to straighten everything out.

You can always remove the bad URLs from Google's index via Webmaster Tools.

My company dabbled in this for years, and after the matter, my conclusion is this: you will have to hire more people to maintain all these other entities, and if you're able to handle the load with the staff you currently have, you probably weren't running very efficiently to begin with (overstaffed).

My short answer would be to redirect the exact match domains to your current site. You don't want to try to do SEO on multiple sites; you want to focus your effort on building your brand/image, and increasing authority of your main site.

Also, in regard to exact match domains, I'd strongly suggesting taking a look at this SEOmoz blog post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/are-exact-match-domains-in-decline

No, I've not received a notification. Thanks, Sean.

Tom,
Thanks for your advice. It seems logical, and now I think I remember reading that somewhere. it kinda sucks, though, because now all I can do is watch my rankings steadily decline and be powerless to stop it. I guess I need to hope I earn enough good links to drown the rest of those out.

I agree with donford. I've never heard of duplicate images being flagged as duplicate content. What is more, almost everyone sets up their galleries in this manner, so you really don't have anything to worry about.

After Penguin, our site: www.stadriemblems.com jumped up to #1 for the keyword "embroidered patches." Now, months later, it's at the top pf page two. I'm pretty sure this is because we do have a few shady links (I didn't do it!) that perhaps Penguin didn't catch the first time around, but now Google is either discounting them or counting them against us.

My question is, since I'm pretty sure those links are the reason we are gradually declining, should I submit them to Google as disavowed, even though technically, we're not penalized . . . yet?

I have done everything possible to get them removed, and it's not happening.

I personally don't think so, since both URLs will contain your keywords.

I'm thinking there's got to be a way. Many people set up their entire sites with dozens of root domains. The real issue is whether that has to be done at the initial setup or not. Don't forget you can also email help@seomoz.org

One other possibility--especially if some pages are gone completely--could be that Google decided to crawl it at the exact moment it was down. Since propagation can take up to 48 hours, you're going to have some down time in some locations. If that's the case, once Google crawls it a second time, you should go back to your old positions.

Sometimes galleries are viewed as thin content, but you stated you have captions under each one of the images, consisting of 1-3 sentences each, so I don't think you have anything to worry about.

As an example, one of the sites I work on used to have gallery pages that were flagged as duplicate content in SEOmoz's crawler, because they contained nothing but images and navigation. I added a little bit of text under each image, and they're no longer flagged that way.

Example: http://www.stadriemblems.com/galleries/fire-department-patches.html

Do you have a free campaign slot? You could start an additional one just for the mobile site. But if there is a possible way for it to be added to an existing campaign, I'd like to know the answer to this as well.

It all comes back to the rule of focusing your website around users, not search engines. If an SSL certificate is not required for your user experience, then don't use one. Otherwise you'd be doing exactly what Google doesn't want you to do: making a move for the sole purpose of gaining search engine rankings.

If I'm not mistaken, it will only have SEO value for the two weeks it's there. Google isn't going to remember you had that link and pass on value indefinitely.

Wordpress will automatically make your URLs example.com/about, and I see no good reason to chance it. Although your question isn't very specific. Do you mean what is best for SEO?

If you're looking for a second opinion, I 100% agree with Thomas.