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Okay, thanks.

Thank you Jeff! Your answer is very in depth and helpful.

Excellent questions thanks. I wish to further the question by asking if Google or Bing actually penialise you for long url such as in the original question or as in my own site: http://www.ditalia.com.au/wedding-dress-wedding-dresses-and-bridal-gowns-designed-and-made Do the SE's look in the urls for the search terms? I was told they no-longer do that.

Thanks a lot for this usefull info, it helped me understand this better.

Hi Sebastian,If you're willing to share the URL, we may be able to troubleshoot. No worries if you can't or want to keep it private, but otherwise it may be hard to diagnose without actually looking at the site/URLs. Cheers

Cross-domain canonical is the most viable option here. As Mike and Chris said, it is possible for Google to ignore the tag in some cases, but it's a fairly strong suggestion. There are two main reasons I'd recommend it: (1) Syndicated content is the entire reason Google allowed the use of rel=canonical across domains. SEOs I know at large publishers have used it very effectively. While your situation may not be entirely the same, it sounds similar to a syndicated content scenario. (2) It's really your only viable option. While a 301-redirect is almost always honored by Google, as Chris suggested, it's also very different. A 301 will take the visitors on the partner site page directly to your page, and that's not your intent. Rel=canonical will leave visitors on the partner page, but tell search engines to credit that page to the source. Google experimented with a content syndication tag, but that tag's been deprecated, so in most cases rel=canonical is the best choice we have left.

Thank you Keri for coming back to clarify the situation. Richard, here's a useful link you may want that can help you fixing the error 406. Hope it helps. Good luck.

Came across this last night too.  http://searchengineland.com/from-microdata-schema-to-rich-snippets-markup-for-the-advanced-seo-162902 It talks about microdata schema and rich snippets.

I wouldn't bother unless it's a really well-known or well-respected brand within the cruise industry, but then I'd still expect the company name to be visible in the URL or title tag, so not too important. In these situations I try to think from the searcher's point of view - if I'm looking for a cruise - is the brand name important? As I said, not if I haven't heard of them before. George makes good suggestions - if your prices are good then that's likely to drive more click throughs than a brand name, in the limited space you have. It's also worth bearing in mind that Google may not use your meta description at all if they don't think it matches the searchers intent or content on the resulting page.

Hi LuaMarketing! Great question and we get asked this a lot from clients/potential clients who have multi-locations. We are actually in the process of rolling out pages to target surrounding cities within a 15 min drive to try to rank for their less competitive markets. To break apart my response, let's approach this from PPC and SEO. For PPC efforts, creating landing pages is super effective for your user to get the info specifically what they were searching for, immediately (this stands true for SEO, but I'll get to that). PPC landing pages are generally less text heavy and more focused on CTA's, forms, phone numbers and the like, so having them not indexed in your meta data is helpful and recommended. As noted above, tons of companies large and small do this. For SEO efforts, always keep in mind not to over-optimize the page as well as making sure it is a part of some internal link so the spiders can find it, crawl it, index it for the SE to rank it. Your content needs to be 100% original, readable to the visitor (Google is basically becoming more and more like a human reader) and relevant to what the searcher entered to make that page display as a result. The other critical component will be to build links to those pages through ethical, non-spammy link building tactics. There are plenty of websites which do not have all of their inner pages listed in the main navigation, nav bar drop downs, footer section... rather, they are embedded appropriately within the inner pages body content or within blog article content. It is certainly doable, however, if you think what you are implementing may be spammy, you just may be right. Follow the best SEO guidelines and practices and keep asking great questions like this and you will get the community behind you to help you grow your sites. Hope this was helpful! Cheers - Patrick

You are welcome. I am more than happy to help and I am sure that you are going to absolutely love WordPress. It's a fantastic platform I'm glad I could  be of   help to you sincerely, Thomas

I get exactly the same reports from Webmaster tools when I rename products on my website. The crawler just needs to catch up and so long as your redirect is set up properly (it also looks fine to me) then this will drop out in time as Michael says. George

I would suggest you implement the plugin SEO by Yoast and then follow all the configuration steps. It will help you solve all your permalink options while providing information on which will be the best option. Hope that helps!

Hey Robert What do you mean you "can't touch everything"? Do you mean edit the image title, alt text etc? Looks like you basically have four places images are ending up at the moment; http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/Cimy_User_Extra_Fields/ look like user avatars - http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/Cimy_User_Extra_Fields/aaron/avatar/Aaron-Cohrs-small.jpg http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/themes/drumbeat2/ looks like as Lynn was saying theme images such as - http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/themes/drumbeat2/blog/img/seo-blog.png http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/uploads/ which is the default image upload location for WordPress, such as - http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Adobe-001.jpg http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/ - for "smilies" like http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif and there's only two of them As Lynn said there's not much of a ranking issue here. If this was a gigantic site, I might suggest some sort of crawl optimization. Also, I generally avoid plugins like the plague unless they offer a real super value add - and in the case of media management the built in WordPress media management is pretty solid for most sites. But it does look like this is the theme determining the location of some of these, not plugins (except for maybe those avatars). -Dan

Hi Katrine, The way you formatted the link with example.com then you put the keyword1 under title then in the anchor text you actually put the domain name or URL that is not going to benefit you in anyway shape or form. The keyword media data tag is worthless today it is only going to give away to your competitors what you want to rank for and I strongly recommend not using it. Otherwise if I wanted to have a link that had the keyword anchor text that said the eseal. And my wording was the See ESEAL Info! is excellent on 45° in higher pitch roofs in the enduser is going to see you link or text but up and took them to a page about the last of eseal this is an example that would be a valuable link to have. Because it would pass link juice from one page to another and it would also give the end-user and easy way to navigate two more information about the product they may want to look at called "eseal" in this example For the media data tags simply write a very good description under hundred and 140 characters and for your title you want to put your keyword first and then they – and your brand name under 70 characters. This is good for both new schema and open graph tags required by social media http://moz.com/blog/meta-data-templates-123 If you're creating just basic tags I would use this tool. However I would never use the keyword box http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/meta-tag-generator/ I hope I was of help, Thomas

in essence it tells Google it is that page so removes it from the index

Hey Jeseph, I'd concur with Chris and Peter here I would either structure your site so that individual products aren't in folders: e.g. yoursite.com/product-name; or if that's not possible use rel-canonical to indicate your preferred URL. Thanks Hannah

Carl, I have a few ideas and suggestions. I will respond to your original mentions: "Obviously, the affiliate store will not be unique content, it will be made using the datafeeds from cj.com et al, and so I don't want to get any duplicate content type penalties from Google for this store." I find this interesting that you automatically assume that you have to use the original datafeeds from CJ. I would encourage you to contact Commission Junction directly on this matter. Many services allow you to provide an alternative product description, etc. The faq section of feedwizards has an example which you can read about here: https://dashboard.feedwizards.com/faq/9 (look for: How do I avoid duplicate content on shopping engines & affiliates using my feeds) Matt Cutts as also spoken on this topic as well in the video I included. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07IfCtYbLw Hope this helps watch?v=z07IfCtYbLw

Here you must use /water-sports/rafting-bali/ because it provide the complete sense if i read the url, and if you use only rafting, then its get little trouble to identify that where the rafting is connected .... In this case you must use /water-sports/rafting-bali/