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Also.. If each of your pages is receiving a fair amount of traffic through organic search, then again it's less of a problem. If people are clicking through to your site and landing on those pages (without an excessively high bounce rate) then this should signal to google that those pages are proving relevant to your visitors.

Thank you your suggestion seems to have fixed it

Dr. Pete also wrote a good post about this at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many.

thanks for the response, I'm going to implement the rel=canonical for the image gallery.

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Do you mean to say that link juice is lost from one page to another page. I thought that when one page links to another page, the pagerank of the original page is preserved, while it flows to second page..

Well, with search engines you do not want to be too many clicks away from the index page. 2 or 3 at most would be best. so if you can start out with a page that has no more than 100 internal links and each of those pages has no more 100. That would give you 10000 pages. Each would be no more than 2 clicks away. name each page graphics-design-richmond-va.html this would put all the keywords in the pages name. Which might help a bit depending who you ask. You can keep all the pages in the root directory. So you would have 10000 in the root. Some dont recommend this but Ive never had a problem.

The answer to this question is not a white/black one. From a strictly seo point of view, the closer a keyword is to the root directory the better. But you also need to think about Navigation, UI, customer experiance, and the overall strategy you are going to use for your business. To give you a few examples: If you offer tools on your site you should have a /tools folder, if you have a portfolio you should have a /portfolio/example#1 If you are going to have a /blog you can use it for tips and stories, and then you can use the root folder for something more universal like root/whyisseoimportant Whichever way you choose to set up your site navigation will be fine, but try to make it easy for customers to understand.

It is largely a matter of taste, both yours and your visitors. Some sites are for gaming where users enjoy a certain style. Other sites are for banking or medical companies where a high degree of professionalism is required. There are many business models in between. The SEO related items I would mention regarding this template are: the home page has 57 internal links which is a reasonable number the page does not use any header tags such as H1 which is a design error in my opinion the site offers too many needed links in the footer in my opinion A site I like for templates: http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress Try searching for templates with a 5 star rating, and perhaps any "featured" designs (i.e. ones which have won awards or been promoted on the front page)

No need to add nofollow to the footer links. Keep it natural.

Hey mate. UGC can actually be very high quality content, and subsequently I would let Google run wild through all the content. Forums can be tricky and you would want to make sure Google doesnt index any duplicate content. I would use this tool, http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html to crawl the forum. Export to Excel and then assess all the URL structures and see if it's picking up any strange parameters or duplicate content. I would block the weird paramters in Google webmaster tools, and if technically possible 301 all the duplicate content issues. The problem with restricting things in robots.txt is that you might actually block link juice accidentally. Hope that helps - my background is more in ecommerce but im sure we'll have similar site structure issues.

If I decide to go and create a new page to optimized ''furnace filters'' This will be the URL: https://www.furnacefilterscanada.com/Furnace-Filters The page title will be ''Furnace Filters'' To have the keyword in the URL and the title page, I think I might get a better ranking. What do you think?

Now its all starting to come together.  I love involving the community in the decision.  Will do!

Hi Shawn, It is inadvisable to use more than one method of blocking bots from specific pages on your site. There is a very good explanation of this in this blog post from Lindsay - Robot Access and Indexation Restriction Techniques: Avoiding Conflicts. Definitely worth reading! Hope that helps, Sha

Thanks for your very thoughtful response! I'm glad to hear that we're not the only company who's spent a long time pondering this questions. Mostly, we've been doing a combination of volume (wow, there's a lot of items like that) and a bit of search (wow, there's a lot of people looking for those.) Thanks!

We're looking at them from a conversion optimization perspective, while also ensuring that they're SEO-ed for the appropriate products and services. We're pretty good at onsite optimization and quality content creation, we just feel in a slight pickle sometimes with larger corporate clients when it comes to building new pages (landing pages or otherwise). Thanks for the responses.

If I were you I'd start with a new google account just to be sure that nothing negative is carried across... but that may just be my sceptical view. Being very pre-cautious if I wanted to make sure that nothing negative affected the quality site, I would also probably put the lesser quality sites into a different analytics account. But like Barry says, if they're hosted on the same server dedicated server or in the same IP range than google can make an educated guess that they're linked. In the longer term, why don't you begin bring the other sites up to the same standard of quality as the best one, then you've got nothing to fear.