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Diane-     Simple solution. Dont confuse what your customers see with what google will index......Build solid content in the footer that is about us, lifestyle magazine "sections", etc....... Then make sure the sitemap includes the information in the footer in a logical way...so start off with your major headings and then branch out into the sub headings...... Then make sure your titles and meta tag descriptions re-emphasis that it is a lifestyle magazine..... here is an example from the new york times(see link below-scroll to the bottom of the page)....you will see the major headings at the top of the page are only 2-3 ......then they have all of their other informative and content rich headings listed at the bottom (12-15+) http://www.nytimes.com/?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1336497757-5zKeD4ddSZ0i9EQC0JDDZg Hope this helps.

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You need to watch the White Board Fridays. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/6-changes-every-seo-should-make-before-the-over-optimization-penalty-hits-whiteboard-friday 4:30 Footer Links 8:50 Webpage Spam. In this case, you are doing microsites selling the same thing: TEMPLATES.

If you are a paying subscriber to Semrush? If you are Semrush has a backlink checker. But I would use Google custom queries to view your SERPs without scrolling through all the pages.

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I couldn't find exactly your exact problem mentioned above, but I downloaded XENU and crawled your site and I strongly suggest you hire a SEO expert to help clean your site. You have URLS like this: http://www.northwest-wine.com/Ice-Wine.html/www.northwest-wine.com/p7apm/p7apm/p7apm/p7pmm/p7pmm/p7apm/www.northwest-wine.com/Oregon-Red-Wine.html and thousands of other strange and duplicate URL's

Just adding to previous comments, both a 301-redirect or canonical tag should work here. Traditionally, we tend to suggest a 301-redirect for critical pages, but the canonical can sweep up other variants of the home-page (and it's common to have variations, like tracking parameters, https: versions, etc.), so I've gradually moved that direction. In your case, the trick is that you're driving other content off of "default.asp", such as: http://www.etraxc.com/default.asp?demo=part I'm not clear if that's a unique page or if it's also a partial duplicate. If those pages are unique and you use the canonical tag, you'd knock those pages out of the index, so it would probably be the wrong choice here. If those are unintentional duplicates or low-value, then canonical is probably a good bet. Even if you fix your internal links (which is the right thing to do), it's still good to sweep up the bad copies in Google's index, so I'd implement one of the fixes.

It's better to have additional pages each page targeting slightly different variations (power centers) - the main page targets the main keyword phrase and the internal pages target the longer tail keywords IE: main page "gift baskets" internal pages "corporate gift baskets" "birthday gift baskets" That being said, it's only good to have content distributed on internal pages if you have enough content to justify that (500-600 words per page) sites with 250 words or so of flimsy content get hit by Panda.

Searching the SEOmoz blog itself can turn up some interesting resources. This is a site audit checklist for looking at an existing site: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-do-a-site-audit.

Bob-   Probably redirects......make sure you set up separate sitemaps for each site and then view the sitemap to make sure that you dont have overlap. Hope this helps.

This is not what the canonical tag is intended for. The personal profiles will most likely be very low content dupes of each other like these which are indexed and should not be: https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=site:www.imeet.com&oq=site:www.imeet.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=hp.3...446.446.0.458.1.1.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0.uZHApsCZ_-g&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=eeee66798b61e3b7&biw=1920&bih=902 if pages deeper in that folder are good content worthy of being indexed then: a) add noindex,follow to these profile pages b) add index, follow to the deeper pages that will keep the bots crawling the profile pages to the deeper folders with content you want indexed. You can also disallow the /un/ (user name) folder and allow the deeper folders with robots.txt commands. We were just discussing this: http://www.seomoz.org/q/allow-or-disallow-first-in-robots-txt

Yes, you will, but it's going to prove far less of a headache than working with what you've got. if you stick to the same design, import the same data, and keep the URL's the same; You won't hardly lose any page weight and authority. Looking at the URL structure at http://www.nextgenrestoration.com/, the URL's can be kept the same with the right permalink structure. If you're referring to the /blog content regarding everything having to be 301 redirected, then there will be a few simple processes available to make the migration smooth but seeing as this will be Wordpress to Wordpress database, you may as well export the old /blog and reimport the blog data before working on the new fresh install of Wordpress.