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These should be in a sitemap if they are unique and useful for the end-user. If not, leave them off as they may do more bad than good.

Thanks that was exactly what I was looking for!!!

Thanks. It confirms what I was thinking. I have asked our developers if the page can be moved to the root, but am getting a lot of pushback. So if it can't be done, I will make the canonical page the content/default.asp.

Thanks Anthony! You bring up some good points and getting volunteers involved is a great idea. Cheers, -Jason

I have found out where they're from! I exported the crawl report and saw under the referring column where the links come from. It's in a directory which I haven't blocked in the robots.txt, it's in the process of being changed so hopefully when the website is next crawled it won't find these URLs in the first place.

That's right Kenny - create unique content for each landing page (whether it's based on location, type of service offered etc). Unless your brand name is 'California Personal Injury Attorney' (99.99% sure it wouldn't be) - then don't add the term to each and every one of your title tags. Add terms/keywords related to that page. E.g. homepage might be 'California Personal Injury Attorney | ABC Lawyers' A landing page based on injuries related to traffic accidents might be 'California Auto Accident Attorney | ABC Lawyers' or something similar.

Hi MangoMM, I looked through your website. As I think you have some pagination problem or/and non existing categories/tags, First  four links are 404 error with content: "Not Found" "Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help." ... so you have duplicated content... because it is the same fifth url (w.falkosgold.co.uk/gold-platinum-prices/scrap-platinum/) returns good content ... but sixth is redirection to fifth. Also have in mind Anthony's recommendations. Take care Marek

Thanks everyone, for the feedback! Dr. Pete, as always, you are a tremendous help!! I look forward to reporting back any findings I come up with during implementation. Thanks again! -Alex

Thanks, this was my initial thought too - just wanted to check that was still considered best practice.

Don't feel dumb - link building is one of the hardest things in our industry. Here is a good start: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-link-building

50 redirects is a lot of redirects for one week! Sometimes when that much change has happened on a site it can longer than a few days for the site to be fully re-crawled/indexed and your rankings to normalize.  Have you updated your sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools? I always like to put a self-canonical tag in where it makes sense, just because there are a lot of URL parameters (session IDs, tracking code, etc) that can cause duplicate URLs and it's nice to have the stripped-down plain URL be the canonical version. Can you clarify what you mean by "the old pages are still visible to Google's bot"?  Do you mean they're still showing up in the index after the redirect is in place? If so it could just be that your site hasn't been re-crawled yet.  Some other things to check: Have you updated your internal links that pointed to the old pages so that they point to the new page?  Have you done a link building push to try to get some external link love to the new page?  Basically I would say don't rely on the redirects alone to help the bot find the new page. Kristinn's suggestion would be another way to go: don't redirect the other pages, instead post a link at the top saying "for updated info go over here" and then canonical the old pages to the new page.  Over time though a 301 is going to be the best long-term solution. If the URL is redirecting you shouldn't need to keep the content up on the page.

Adding to the other responses - yea they are nofollow, but remember that pinterest is MASSIVE at the moment, so any social interaction is good from this end. I wouldn't be bothered about the type of link, try and get traffic moving to your site from pins!

Thanks Martin

With "overly dynamic pages" means the search engines might have a problem crawling them. They will not hurt your seo unless they have poor content, duplicate content etc. So if I were you I wouldn't worry too much. However if you don't want these pages crawled you can exclude them in your robots.txt file. Also add a meta tag in the header of these pages to have them removed from the index. http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

When I visit http://www.outdoorfurnitureoutlet.com.au I am 301 redirected to http://ofo.com.au. Perhaps there was a server glitch before which is now resolved.

Brilliant! Thank you

Matt Cutts (Head of web spam team for Google) himself said in a video I have seen that redirecting to sub domains within your own domain will not negatively impact your ranking. Google knows its you. If someone can reply with the link for him that would rock. I am too tired to search and going to bed.