So, there isn't any way to directly pull search volume directly into excel? I'm looking at a data set of 400K keywords

What is the most efficient way to import search volume information into excel? We have 130K keywords that we need search volume information for.

We're adding schema markup for all of our videos, but some videos exist only in a playlist (all integrated into one URL, and loaded after a javascript call). Per Google:

"Make sure that your video and schema.org markup are visible without executing any JavaScript or Flash."

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2413309?hl=en

So we know the current implementation won't work for schema markup...

What's the best practice for adding schema markup for video playlists? Should we host all of these videos on individual URLs (but then they appear twice) or is there some other workaround?

"Noindex" is a suggested pagination technique here: http://searchengineland.com/the-latest-greatest-on-seo-pagination-114284, and everyone seems to agree that you shouldn't canonicalize all pages in a series to the first page, but I'd love if someone can explain why "noindex" is better than a canonical?

We have several subdomains we use for testing applications. Even if we block with robots.txt, these subdomains still appear to get indexed (though they show as blocked by robots.txt.

I've claimed these subdomains and requested permanent removal, but it appears that after a certain time period (6 months)? Google will re-index (and mark them as blocked by robots.txt).

What is the best way to permanently remove these from the index? We can't use login to block because our clients want to be able to view these applications without needing to login.

What is the next best solution?

Going through Bing's SEO Analyzer and found that Bing thinks having multiple H1's on a page is an issue.

It's going to be quite a bit of work to remove the H1 tags from various pages. Do you think this is a major issue or not? Does anyone know of any case studies / interviews to show that fixing this will lead to improvement?

If there aren't any crawling / indexing issues with your site, how important do thing sitemap errors are? Do you work to always fix all errors?

I know here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/bings-duane-forrester-on-webmaster-tools-metrics-and-sitemap-quality-thresholds

Duane Forrester mentions that sites with many 302's 301's will be punished--does any one know Googe's take on this?

Thanks to everyone for the response

Based on everyone's responses, I'm assuming you all think that videos count as google's definition of 'content': http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html

I am concerned though that Google can't actually read the content of a video--what if you added quite a few videos accross a site without adding transcripts or schema.org?

What's the best way to get video thumbs to appear in SERPs?

We are considering adding videos to thousands of article pages, and were wondering if it would be better to add video above or below the fold?

They take up quite a bit of space, and push the article content below the fold--would this hurt us?

We're seeing soft 404 errors appear in our google webmaster tools section on pages that are blocked by robots.txt (our search result pages).

Should we be concerned? Is there anything we can do about this?

Which of these services is the best? Does anyone have experience with all three?

For duplicate pages created by the "print" function,

seomoz says its better to use noindex (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/complete-guide-to-rel-canonical-how-to-and-why-not)

and JohnMu says its better to use canonical http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=6c18b666a552585d&hl=en

What do you think?

What is the best research tool for finding search data specifically for Google Image search?

If we decide to put a variety of our images under a creative commons license, can we require that individuals who choose to utilize these images link back to us?

What's the best way to get video thumbs to appear in SERPs?