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Hey, I don't think you are safe from an issue with cannibalization just because the one tool says you don't have that. From the situation described, it sounds like you do have issues on your site with overlapping content and that could be hurting your ranking (as could other factors too, obviously). The best way to find out is to remove the content that you think is overlapping or self canabalizing and then see if you regain rankings. I'm not certain how the cannibalization check happens in SEOmoz's on page tool, but I have seen instances where cannibalization is missed if those pages are not linked together. As I understand it, that on page tool checks only the one page as opposed to an in depth site crawl. Hope that helps. Matthew

Often times you will rank decently right after launching a  site but then it will slip a bit. Part of the whole freshness thing I believe. But can you share the domain or some other site details? Very vague here and the problem could be anything

Hi - thank you for this answer, but it does not answer the questions asked - please can someone help on the above 2 questions, thank you.

Yes.  I think that will solve your problem.

Joshua thanks for your suggestions. Fixed div idea is good but not sure it will pass FSA compliance. Google search appliance config article is interesting and provides some ideas but not sure how to go about implementing for Googlebot. Suppose reverse dns lookup (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80553) may provide a solution. Was hoping someone that had implemented something similar may share their experience. Cheers.

We did consider scrapping the .com site however it does rank really well for a lot of our key terms especially in the UK. So we really just use this as a landing page which seems to work well for now. Thanks for the feedback guys its much appreciated Matthew

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It's not intentionally targeting you for negative SEO, it's just a crappy site who's owner thinks creating a junky directory was a good idea. That being said it can still hurt you! contact them and ask them to remove all links pointing to you. Keep bothering them until they respond. Find their email contact associated with the registrar if you get no response from the website contact info. If all of that fails offer to send them $20 via paypal, money talks! http://www.pacificadvance.com/resources/

Sounds like you know the answer in the question. I quote Google: "When using review markup, the main topic of the page needs to be about a specific product or service. For example, using review markup on a page containing multiple products is not supported." You risk running afoul of their guidelines.

Yeah, your options involving DNS are severely limited. Really, you have to have a web server send the proper codes (in your host's case they're using their own). So point them to your server and have it return the 301s you need.

As Adam suggests, responsive design seems to be the preferred route at the moment. This is different in that you have a single URL for everything. Whatever platform the end-user users all content is sent to their browser and then it is rendered differently for different devices. This requires a slightly different mindset as you are effectively building one version of a site, but changing the way it appears to different users.   Therefore, if you want a "stripped down" version of the site then it is best done by serving up different navigation. However - if you are committed to desktop/mobile versions of the site and they are utilising the same content then I would use a canonical from teh mobile to the desktop site. I think that the domain choice is pretty subjective. I'd prefer m.domain as it is less likely to get confused with your overall site structure. However, if you are not yet committed down one path and the intention is to serve the same content - definitely look at the responsive option.

Hey Jom, you only rewrite the URL if it is not all lowercase, you can distinguish between lower and upper-case in your rewrites.

Ok. i will do that than for bing.. But unfortunately I can not delete the links or modify.... so I hope that guest posts will bring good for my blog after google update. Do you think will my blog be better after google update while i am working guest posts ? Tnx !!!

The more you can self-contain the links, the better. If "too many" of your links are outward bound, that can become confusing or annoying to site visitors.  That also applies to search engines being able to figure out "what is this site about" and "why are so many links pointing to this other site". So always be mindful of that, while maintaining the functionality you need. It's a mess as you well know. Yet keeping the mess to a minimum is vital. Ultimately, whatever that linking structure, it will come down to how well optimized the external site is.  And the more confused the link structure is, the more other tasks you'll need to do for SEO to compensate and keep the topical focus strong.

Hi John, Penguin is the over-optimization update which is looking for sites that are engaging in tactics purely to rank highly in Google. Google are always looking at ways that they can improve the quality of their search results to keep them ahead of the game and penguin has been designed to look for webspam or those that are overtly SEOing their websites to rank better, tactics include keyword stuffing, link schemes, doorway pages and more. In relation to link profiles they are under more scrutiny than ever and link schemes can be creating link networks to boost your site, using low quality link tactics such as forum and blog comments and having a high concentration of links with exact match anchor text. Also link profiles with lots of links from sites that aren't in their niche as this is clearly unnatural. SEOs need to concentrate on building quality sites which serve the purpose they are intended for and have excellent usability. Here is Googles take on Penguin in their own words - http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html Also for more details on Penguin and the specific tactics it is looking at in relation to SEO and over-optimization take a look here - http://searchengineland.com/google-launches-update-targeting-webspam-in-search-results-119295 I hope this helps answer your question - concentrate on building great content with relevant on page optimization clearly using best practice and not keyword stuffing, then make sure you are getting this content exposure using tactics such as social media, but not dodgy tactics to gains links such as forum, blog comments and anywhere else that allows people to create any link for a links sake and you will be fine, in my opinion. A few reciprocal links are fine and natural but don't engage in a practice where you are reciprocal linking to unrelated sites which giving a link to won't enrich the users browsing experience.