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I strongly doubt that checklist is enough to tip you over the edge - it could just be that the page is code-heavy relative to any unique content (we including the template text in our duplicate calculations, so sometimes it can be over-sensitive). If there's no unique information at all, then I'm with @MyHolidayMarketing - the time to add unique content to 30-40 products is time very well spent, for both SEO and conversion. If the problem is that you're spinning 30-40 products out into 1000s of URL variations, then you may want to consider not indexing all of those or canonicalizing them. Having every color and size of every product in your Google index can start to devalue your core pages after a while. That really depends on the scope.

The customer quote/testimonial would be in the middle of the content. It seems like if there is enough unique content around it then it should be fine. Thanks for the help!

Hi Bristolweb, Thanks for coming to Q&A with your question. The best way to think of clients like these is not that you are going to be duplicating or diluting your initial efforts for their first location, but that you are going to create new efforts for their second location. 1. Yes, create a unique city landing page for each of the two locations. But, no, do not duplicate any of the content on these two pages. You must write totally unique content for the two pages. 2. Then, brainstorm creatively with the owner to discover other things that make the two businesses unique. Perhaps, one week, the acupuncturist in location A is holding a seminar at his office, while the next week, the acupuncturist at location B is offering a new patient special. Start a blog on the site to begin highlighting the unique things that are happening at the two locations. 3. You are fine optimizing the website footer and main contact page for two addresses. Also, titles and meta on the main pages (like home and about) can be optimized for the two locations without much worry. But the idea here is to start building out new pages or posts that individually highlight the 2 locations. 4. Just remember, never duplicate anything. Always write fresh content. Other than this, you are on the right track setting up the Google Place Pages and directory listings for the two different offices. If this effort can branch out into citation and review building as well, your client should see results. Good luck! Miriam

Thanks for the reply Ann! David, SEOmoz and MyBlogGuest are different products, you'll probably find the best help for MBG talking with Ann or using her support forums.

YES. SEO value transfers no matter what device you are using to access the site. The only limit to mobile is that the user experience is slightly different. The SERP's are the same no matter whether you are searching from mobile device, laptop, desktop or the space shuttle. All the same. Make it happen.

It sure is, read the link i sent you, it explains why. This is not a big job, and it is very important

Hi, Thanks for the reply. Currently i am ranking well in Google US. And in India Serps i am in #9 position. What changes do i need to take inorder to not to lose US rankings and gain Indian serps to top. The on page seo in my site is currently ok. Does doing links only will bring the results or do i need to do anything else?

Thanks to both of you for your answers. I will then leave my rewrite rules just in case. I guess they are not slowing down access to the website as they are really simple and quite standard. I suppose that google takes longer to "learn" the new URLs through the redirects.

We have been using SEO generator as a Joomla plug in on several of our sites. Not a big Joomla fan, but the plug in has worked well. It automatically generates keywords and description for each article by pulling text from the title and/or the content to help with SEO. It also gives you the ability to set different title configurations, robots meta tags and google webmaster verification keys. Solid plugin..... Hope this helps.

Thanks Sha and Aran, Thank's a lot for your explanations on 301 redirects I see a line of code in the htaccess file (RewriteBase /) that is probably doing the 9 first redirects that I mentioned To avoid the rest, I just exported the pages and posts, deleted all of them and imported the xml file again. Maybe this fixes it. I understand it's not important but I'd rather have them disappear. But appart from that, before importing the file I changed the David

Like Phil said, if a term is searched on a lot then Google says, right this is an important term add it in. I guess Phil if you took the results and entered them into Google keyword tool, if it was just down to search volume they should be in order, the most search at top down to the last with the littlest search.

The notices in the SEOmoz PRO platform are just that - notices. They are neither good nor bad in themselves, but we want you to be aware of them in case the issues are not supposed to be there. In the case of comments such as yours, there are very legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want these crawled or indexed, depending on your situation (duplicate content issues, link to spam, etc) If you are aware why the issues are appearing, and comfortable with your reasoning, it's perfectly fine to have notices in your account.

Verify it again. You want to make sure that it is verified and crawled when you go live.

Thanks, so it's not something I should be concerned about.

OK, I found the answer, and here is the blog post in case anyone else is having this question. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-googles-pagerank-good-for-whiteboard-friday

Hi Cyrus, Thank you so very much. Success! I can't tell you how delighted and grateful I am. I have spent hours over the Easter weekend trying to fix it, but to no avail. You are a god in my eyes! You have made my day and halted the rash of broken/duped links emanating from our website. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Very best, Peter

Keyword domains used to be a lot more powerful than they are right now.   Based upon watching a lot of their rankings, I believe that Google turned down their value in early 2011 - shortly after Matt Cutts said that their value would likely be turned down.   Maybe they will do that again, I don't know. I agree that some of these sites rank well with very little content and poor user experience.  That generally occurs where competition is rather low in Google or where it is low to moderate in Bing.  Where competition is high a domain only makes a fractional contribution to the rankings. So when you see them ranking well for highly competitive terms they are doing the same type of SEO as any other site with poor onsite assets.

Assuming you are talking about the website in your profile...here is what I would check: Do you have any content duplication between your multiple language subdomains ? Do you have XML Sitemaps for your pages ? Are they submitted via the Webmaster Console ? If yes, what %age of your pages do you see indexed vs how many you submitted ? Have you considered doing an Images XML Sitemap ?

Thank you sooo much! You rock!!