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As was said, a high quality link from a non-relevant site still brings some value with it. If you want to play it just a bit safer, you might try presenting those links as some "partner" sites that provide your visitors with "special rates" or "discounts", when they are visiting you. It might not hold any water in an algorithmic analysis, but in a human review, I suspect it would help.

I agree that there's no longer any difference to the crawlers. However, one other thing worthy of consideration is the possibility of moving the site to a new URL. With relative URLs, you may be saved a lot of painstaking work, whereas with absolutes, every single page will have to be rewritten. There are tools to assist in the task, but it's still a lousy job to undertake.

I see, thank you.

That sounds like a good strategy, thank you.

hi, thanks. I'll see what I can do with no-index and canonical links. It seems to me that the number of these pages should impede the indexing of the whole domain....

Yoast's plugin for Wordpress is excellent! (and I agree that custom Wordpress theme frameworks should allow SEO modification to be taken over by a dedicated SEO plugin such as Yoast's -  if one is activated) Personally however I think the SEO/SEF banter is a game of semantics - If you think of Search Engine Friendly URLS for example - these can be generated using Yoast's Wordpress SEO tool - so SEF and SEO are pretty much one and the same when it all boils down to it. One of the things that every SEO worth their salt will do is recommend working toward making the project site Search Engine Friendly by promoting proper use of Schema and other SEF elements as part of their SEO strategy.

Use http://www.opensiteexplorer.org Type in both urls and you'll see which one has more links to it.

True. I've even seem some instances of anchor text being used in descriptions.

Just remember that the H1(and other header tags) should be descriptive for/of the content that follows them too Edit : typo

Hi there, I don't have the time to digg deeper into that - sorry.... But I just made some search request (in google.at image search thought) and did find some results: e.g. "black diamond earrings" - http://www.google.at/search?hl=de&rlz=1T4GGLG_deAT305AT213&biw=1259&bih=817&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=black+diamond+earrings&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= --> you are there on the first page with a huge n° of results. another search was (very exact term): http://www.google.at/search?q=Mens+Holiday+Deal+Yellow+Gold+10k+diamond+jewellery&hl=de&rlz=1T4GGLG_deAT305AT213&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=EFfwTc7zE8jMswbKyO3vAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1259&bih=817 You see the first result of that search? This is the same image as you do have on your website. So you have some competitors for the same images. Apart from that there are several more factors of the whole website if you are trustworthy. And try to be less spamy with your image names - 12794_Mens_On_Sale_Gold_10K_Round_Cut_Cut_Black_Color_AAA_900ct_8093.jpeg is e.g. quiet spamy. But I think you are on the right way - hope this helps a little bit.

For dynamic pages that contain a ? in the URL To specify a canonical link to the page http://www.example.com/product.php?item=apple-ipod, create a  element as follows: Copy this link into the  section of your site. Copy this link into the  section of all non-canonical versions of the page, such as http://www.example.com/product.php?item=apple-ipod&sort=price. For static pages To specify a canonical link to the page http://www.example.com/apple-ipod, create a  element as follows: Copy this link into the  section of your site. Here is a link to Webmaster Tools about rel=canonical - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394

I am very much a novice and have had some success with cms systems.  I have found they offer a variety of options and are very intuitive.  Some even talk about trade offs regarding different styles and formatting issues.  There are a lot of great cms platforms out there for you to use, I am sure you will find one which will work great for you.   Dave

Removing of the footer is in the progress already

While this isn't a scientific answer, based strictly on my opinion, I would use a .ca for a local site, and a .com if organic is more important. I have never tried it, but when a person in Canada types in Google.com are they automatically redirected to Google.ca?

Thanks for your help... will delete it and see whats happens.

Hey guys, thanks for your comments.  I figured it out finally.  It was a setting in my actual theme that was adding the blog title to my post.  I just changed that to not add the blog title and fixed it. Thanks again for your help and suggestions.

Those are called "site links".   Google awards them when a page of your site is very dominant for a specific search query.  The homepage sometimes has them and interior pages can have them too. The example in the URL that you provided shows seven site links (there is often six or eight in that configuration).  There can also be a smaller set of three or four site links such as these.... http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=gbT&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=seo+blog&oq=seo+blog&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=79939l82050l0l12l11l1l0l0l0l249l1720l0.5.4 Google awards site links when they identify potential links that will help people access specific pages of your site directly from the SERPs. Here is more info straight from Google... http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334

(1) an internal link between two pages on your website, (2) an external link from your website to another website So in these two situations if a nofollow was needed would you use a 302 redirect?