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Hey Erica, thanks for your answer. What I need is a way to decide on-the-fly whether two pages are similar or not. If they are too similar I need to depublish or at least rel canonical one of those. Best solution would be an API that takes 2 pages, but it seems as if I have to build it myself then. Thanks for your efforts.

Hello Georgios, Activitysuper has a good point about choosing some of the best ones as testimonials for conversion rate optimization. However, there is a chance you could get the third-party review data supplier to noindex their version of the reviews/content. It depends on what your contract says. If I was paying a company to handle the reviews for my product, like a BazaarVoice for example, I'd expect to have exclusive rights to that content. To be specific though, we'll need more information. Where will these reviews go? If it would be 5,000 new pages of duplicate content, that's an issue. If they would be put onto product pages there are many options. You could put them in an iframe so you show the content to users but avoid the duplicate content issue. You could show the best three or four on the product page and then show the rest on a separate page that you don't allow to be indexed. You are asking a great question, but I think some more information is necessary in order for anyone to definitively answer it.

This. As for whether Google would penalize you simply for using a particular hosting provider, almost definitely not. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if Google keeps an eye on sites  that have way too many links from a single DNS server.

I simply put a 301 for the domain name, and kept the site the same in place on the same server. I did not use change of address.

You can use your keyword on multiple pages within your site. Lets take a look at Mountain Biking. If your site is named Maryland Mountain Biking, you would only optimize your home page for Maryland Mountain Biking. You would optimize each individual page for a different phrase using Mountain Biking. Mountain Biking is your keyword... but your optimizing for the specific phrases within your site on each page. So..... Maryland Mountain Biking Trails Maryland Mountain Biking Races etc... So using the primary keyword on each page isn't an issue unless your only optimizing for the primary keyword (mountain biking). If your optimizing each page individually for the specific phrases, you don't have an issue. Search this site for "Keyword Cannibalization"

Hi Erik, No problem, glad I could help To answer your question, No it doesn't matter which you use because the end result will be re-written to remove the file extension and add a forward slash at the end. For consistency I would suggest having it without the .php inside your content though. If nothing else it would save you the pain of having to remove .php from your content if you moved to a content management system in the future. If you've got any other questions let me know, and I'll be happy to help. Ben

First off, it's more of a balancing act than a hard/fast rule. I wrote a post about the 100 links "limit" last year, just for reference: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many Generally, though Expand Online is right - tests seem to show that Google ignores the 2nd, 3rd, etc. link to any Page B from Page A. While we still count those individual links, it shouldn't pose major problems for internal link-juice flow. Google consolidates them, for the most part. It may not be 100%, but it's close enough that you're probably ok in most cases. It can be very situational, though. In practice, I find the additional links are sometimes unnecessary or even confusing for visitors, so pruning them down is always worth reviewing. I wouldn't create one mega-link, though - it can behave funny cross-browser, and it'll create odd-looking anchor text. If it's a choice of that or leaving things alone, I'd leave things alone.

Hi Cyrus, Thanks. That makes sense. I do change photo's every ones in a while. I see that since there are no external and internal links to these images it is not harmfull. Thanks. Thomas

Hey, If your target audience / clients are in the UK then it would be better to have .com redirecting to .co.uk One way of enacting the 301 is to create a .htaccess file and upload it to your website's root directory. This article explains how you can create the file.  And you can read about some other options here

Thanks Shane - us Thomas's gotta stick together.  I agree with you that my situation is not ideal, but I'd rather take some course of action rather than just let the pages sit there.  I think it sends a message to Google that I am not intentionally trying to rank duplicate content, and that the pages serve a benefit to visitors regardless of it being duplicate. Vinnie

wow, fantastic. Very helpful - really appreciate it!

It's your blog directory widget that's adding buckets of links to each page and the more articles you add to your blog the worse it's going to become. I'd take a look and see how people are navigating from between articles. I strongly that it won't do much hard to remove this directory. Maybe replace it with a list of just the top level categories instead of all the individual articles? It's the collapsing categories plugin. If you look at the page source you'll also see that it's adding an awful lot of javascript to the top of the page. I also note that the recent posts widget is showing white links on yellow backgrounds for me. Hope this helps.

thanks do you think that /us/software/supertrader-stock-trading would send a much stronger signal than /us/stock-trading-software/supertrader ?

Thanks Brent, Keri. Following Brent's comment, I tried this using Chrome on a PC (previous issue was through using Chrome on my Mac) and the SEOMoz chrome app is showing the correct information for the site - no Doubleclick info! So, perhaps it's a Chrome version issue, perhaps it's a Mac issue, perhaps it's something to do with Doubleclick... I'm sure the Help Desk guys can advise.