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On August 8th we started to see our Image Impressions in Google Webmaster Tools start to plummet. Has anyone else run into this issue? I have not been able to find any news on Google Algos which my have caused this.

Any other ideas what could have caused this?

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The Link Cleanup and Contact tool is dead. Just send me to a page that says sign in with twitter and when I try that it goes to a dead page.

So basically it seems since I was an early adopter to Google+ and created a business account before there was an option to choose Local, I now have to go with the new local one I created so I can have the benefits of local, and delete my original business account.  I will lose all my followers and history.  Sooooooo.... this sucks.

So basically it seems like if I didnt set up my original Google Plus business page as a Google Local page then I cannot turn it into one?  It had to first be a Google Local page?

Thanks but none of the links are helping out. I have already verified my business, and it didn't merge my Google Business and Google Local profiles. They are still separate.

I am pretty confused about how the difference between Google Local, Places and Business Pages.  I created a Google+ Page and have about 800 followers.

https://plus.google.com/100975632641377061238

To control our listing on Google Maps and what shows up on the right side of a Google Search, which includes a map and business hours I had to create a Google Local page.  Now this page only shows we have 4 followers.

https://plus.google.com/110649807298590030594

Is there any way to combine the two?

The link is dead, it goes here http://www.whitelistproject.com/

We are an eCommerce site for autoparts.  It is basically impossible to avoid duplicate content, and I think we are getting penalized by Google for it.

Here is why it is impossible.  Let's say I sell a steering rack for a 2000 Honda Accord.  I need an SEO rich page for 2000 Honda Accord Steering Rack.  I sell steering racks for more than 25 years of Honda Accords.  I can try and make the copy different but there is no way to spin the copy that many times and make it seem like it is not duplicate copy.  This even gets more complicated because I sell hundreds of parts for each year of a Honda Accord, plus a lot of times you even have to go down to the engine size of the car for the right part.

I can't use a redirect, ie 301 redirect because they are not the same pages. One is for a 2000 Honda Accord and the other a 2001 Honda Accord, and so on.  Is their a redirect out there that I do not know about that would help me out in this case?

Also, if their is no way around this and I am getting penalized would it be better to eliminate all these pages, possibly losing my ability to rank high on searches such as "2000 Honda Accord Steering Rack," and just replace with a page that has a Year Make Model, and Part dropdown which just takes the customer a checkout page?

Our home page was unaffected, so I believe 2.0 is targeting the page level.  It is only getting pages for certain keywords we have targeted heavily in the past.

We did not receive a message in GWT.

I believe our site has been penalizes by Penguin 2.0. Our impressions in Google Webmaster are down and our traffic in Google Analytics also took a hit. Both of these occurences took place right when Penguin 2.0 was unleashed.

What are the steps I need to take to regain my ranking? Is disallowing all the links I think maybe spammy the first thing to do?

We just started an "In the News" section on our webpage.  We are not sure what would be the best for SEO purposes.  Should we link to the news websites that have the stories about our company, even if they have no link bank?  Or should we just take screenshots of the news article and only link to articles that link back to us (this is what we a currently doing)?

Here is our news page, http://www.buyautoparts.com/News/

We have the social icons (facebook, twitter, youtube etc) in the footer of our homepage linked to inner pages instead of our actual social accounts.  So, if you click on the facebook icon you go to one of our inner pages talking about our facebook profile and why to like us on facebook. Then on this inner page you can get to our facebook profile.

We do this so we can pass on PR juice from our homepage to our inner page, and not lose it right off our front page.  Is this a good idea?  Or does it just confuse users?  Most people think when they click on a facebook icon they will go to an actual facebook profile.

Here is my homepage, http://www.buyautoparts.com/  click on the icons on the footer and let me know your thoughts.

How do you feel about guest bloggin?  Our site has a blog but all blog entries are written by me.  It can be difficult to find something new to write about ont he same topic everyday.  Also it takes an hour or two to write worthy content.  Just spewing something out to get new content is not worth it.  I want to allow guest blogging.  This will create more time for me to focus onother SEO tasks and broader blog topics.  The carrot for guest blogging would be a link to the guest bloggers site. However, it is believed by the powers that be at the company that we never want any outbound links.  Once we have them on our site we want them to stay here.

What is the easiest most efficient way to transfer from relying soley on backlinks to a content strategy?  I don't want to completely kill off the backlinking we do now because I don't want to take a risk of a serious SEO drop. Although, we need to do it quickly as we have been hit by Penguin and Panda.

This includes onpage, blogging, social media, link building, content creation, reporting, etc Etc ETC!!! The company I work for has about 100 employess and we are an eCommerce company.  I have recently taken over all the SEO duties, as the person before me left. In the past we relied heavily on link building but that seems to be losing steam with Panda and Penguin.  Is it even possible in this day in age for one person to keep a company afloat in the competitve SEO world?  If so, what should I devote most my time to?