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No, never.

Yes, Google will email you in certain cases. For example, a hacked site which has been removed from the index will get an email detailing the issue. This is sent to a bunch of common email addresses on the domain (contact@yourdomain, info@, admin@ etc etc). Register the site in GWT and you will notified of activity relating to your site - spammy links, outdated CMS needing an upgrade etc etc. May help diagnose future problems. Right now, you can enter site:yourdomain.com into Google to see if you are indexed. No results then you have a problem...

Simple - Just develop separate landing pages. This will help increase your quality score and ad rank. Just had a quick look on the criteria these approved: - do not target minors - do not include endorsements from athletes, cartoon characters, or any other icons/people appealing to minors - landing page must have an age gate and include statements about drinking responsibly - do not imply that drinking alcohol can improve sexual, social, or professional standings - do not imply that drinking alcohol is relaxing or therapeutic - do not indicate that drinking alcohol in excess is good - do not show people consuming alcohol while doing anything illegal, violent, or dangerous; or being inappropriate in other ways, such as acting in a degrading manner - do not contain sexual content

Good points above. Just to chip in a few extra items I've found to also help: Register your site with Google WMT (this allows you to manage the links when they appear) Generate a sitemap, submit to WMT Main navigation elements on site ideally HTML (using UL, LI) Thorough Internal linking structure reaching the pages you want to appear Build backllinks to the the pages you want to appear (mix anchor text) Thats about it! Andrew

Grab the SEO for firefox plugin from seobook.com, and use rank checker.

You can use yahoo site explorer, backlink watch or the one over at SEOmoz. Backlinks aren't on the page - they are links to the website on other websites, linking back to jazzcafe.

It shows that information by default. Traffic Sources > Overview > Setup the time frame > Export > CSV/PDF

Just a quick note regarding the backlinks - Jazzcafe.co.uk has over 3,000 backlinks, and a PR of 5, partly helping it to be seen as an authority site, and a more likely candidate to receive the sitelinks over your other example.

Right on the money rallport. Futureproof, an example of good anchor text is below; <a href="http://www.webdesigner.com">web desinger</a> Bad example; <a href="http://www.webdesigner.com">click here</a>

Are we talking about 'Google Suggest' here? As in, the alternative search terms the user gets offered when they enter a search term?

Smells like a spam post to me...

I'm guessing a site which has been developed over 8 months is by no means a simple 4-5 page website - but quite a substantial one? Which begs the question - why are the designers doing SEO? I would strongly advise in investing in the services of a professional here, and no, I'm not just trying to plug my services! But feel free to use my 101 tips in my signature. If you can post the link here I'd be interested in having a look. Andrew

I had a quick look at the page, and it just looks like a bare bones blog? Also, your keyword stuffing stood out like a sore thumb to me - and I don't know any Swedish! Write for Humans, not Google. SEO aside, is it really geared to your target audience? For example, I found these with your search terms in Google: http://www.rackspacecloud.com/ http://www.gogrid.com/ They look quite different. Back to your site - You need much more content, cover the basics first - about, company history, disclaimer, privacy policy, terms, contact, client testimonials... plus I don't see any product/services page? For me, that falls under SEO. You need content first. Once you do have that content - then register the site with the webmaster areas on the search engines, submit a sitemap, ping the site, and start blogging. Make sure you have good internal linking on the pages on your site too. For example, every time you mention 'cloud services' on one of your blog posts, link to your (homepage?) main cloud services page. After 4weeks start sourcing links and issuing link exchange requests, but do so in a controlled manner. Also start article writing to get some targeted traffic, and distribute these to Ezine, Go Articles and Articlebase - all nofollow, but they generate targeted traffic. That's the basics, there are more techniques you can look at in week 6 onwards in my sig below. Hope that helps

A few of my tips in my sig;

Pretty normal, however there are a few ways to get it moving a little faster. Let me know the URL and I'll help you out.