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Thanks for a very new question! I never been in to this kind of problem but i guess if you are facing such kind of problem you should consider using this plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-blogger-to-wordpress-301-redirector/) as this plugin will 301 redirect all incoming traffic from your Blogger account to your newly setup WordPress account. I know using plugins is not an easy job all the time but i guess you can check with one and then move to others if it worked well for you~

I don't think this is domain crowding , DC occurs when front page lists more than 2 separate listing in the serps , but this is proper structure of a website shown with help of xml (if am not wrong) , so Google must be pulling that data from somewhere and structuring the same dynamically ( or grabbing it from sitemap) am not sure abt that .... that's why I posted this question.  At first I thought that this is happening for very high traffic and reputable websites(Google is listing top pages of the website as tabs) , but this is not the case , one of my clients website ( which is quite new with 25 domain authority and no alexa rank) also shows in the same manner on its anchor keyword, maybe someone who has actually dealt with it can give a better answer.

Hi Charles, Rel=publisher is more appropriate for e-commerce product pages or for branded websites. I had to search high and low for an answer I posted to a similar question several months ago because it referenced the best (and only, as far as I know), explanation of how to properly set up Google+ and establish Google ASuthorship for a brand or e-commerce site. Here's the text of my comment including a link to the interview: "I am in-house SEO for two e-commerce site, one large, one small. Rel=publisher is the way to go both on your home page and your product pages. You are correct in that rel=author is not appropriate in these situations. Andy is correct that Google is not yet displaying brands as authors, but I believe that is going to change over time. Yes, if you mark up your pages for structured data using rel=author, the testing tool will display your brand image. It's just not displaying in Google search results yet. Recently, Chris Goward of Wider Funnel marketing interviewed Janet Driscoll Miller (President and CEO of Search Mojo) about this very topic and she had some great advice which echoes what I've said above: http://www.widerfunnel.com/events/google-and-search-engine-optimization-an-interview-with-janet-driscoll-miller I have also appealed directly to Google for some guidance with this whole issue because not even expert search engine marketers and SEOs can seem to figure out how to handle it. Hope this helps!" Dana

Mark you're the man! Thank you! I was thinking taxonomy but semantic is the word. I can sleep well tonight, thank you sir!

If the site has been already removed by Google then you're fine but i would still put a robots.txt block on it, since you don't know who turned it off. They probably pointed it away from your subdomain in their domain registrar account, which means they could repoint it again anytime if they wanted and the site would resolve again and get indexed again.

@gmkrish I have installed yoast but how can it help in correcting the re-canonical issue. Please elaborate..

Dr. Pete, Do you have any search/sort filters that may be spinning out other copies, beyond just the paginated series? That could be clouding the issue, and these things do get complicated. - How about this is the case? What would you recommend? Gary

If you do a 301 redirect, it should pass on most of the domain's authority (the going estimate is about 90% of the strength). A 302 is seen by Google as a temporary redirect and so will not pass on any authority, so make sure you use a 301 if you want to pass on the strength. Source to help you out: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Duplicate content is the common problem when it comes to eCommerce websites and there are multiple ways to deal with it... Once of the way is to go ahead and hire a content developer and ask him to write descriptions in such a way that it looks unique to search engine. The idea is fair but it is almost impossible when you have similar products and amount of it is around 50 plus... The idea i will prefer is to add some space for UGC so that users can add comments and reviews about the product you are offering... as the comments will be mostly unique it will produce unique content to the overall page and that penalty will be removed.

You are very welcome JC. Don't give up on your rich snippets. I think it was Richard Baxter who recently said that the most common problem he's seeing with micro-data is people giving up too soon when they don't see Google picking it up and displaying it right away. It could take 6 months. Just hang in there, and by all means try the tool. I bet it works

The error says: "redirecting users to another page such as the homepage instead of a 404." I don't see the image, I do see a page but it "immediately redirects" me - as per the soft 404 error message. I get sent back to: http://www.chrisboar.com If you want to see the auto redirect - http://www.highonseo.com/examples/boar.avi

Thanks Guys. That's helpful !

I have to disagree about link juice. In many cases, canonical tags will work much like 301-redirects, and do seem to pass link-juice. I've even seen experiments where people used canonical tags to move an entire domain. I wouldn't recommend it (except in rare cases), but it seemed to work. I am concerned, though, that you're linking internally to one version, but then using canonical to point to another version. I find that's a bad idea - while it sometimes works, you're sending a mixed signal, and it can cause problems for your SEO efforts. I personally think that a truly canonical URL should be used consistently across the site, including in internal links. Internal links are one of your strongest canonicalization cues. Unfortunately, it's hard to say if link-juice is being passed, given the mixed signal. I'm afraid there's no great way to measure it, at least on the level of the individual link. I should add that Google also isn't a big fan of setting a canonical to page 1 of search results. They'd generally rather you canonical to a "View All" or use rel=prev/next. Canonical isn't always a good bet for pagination these days.