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I recommend indexing the archives, but using a plugin called "Auto Excerpt Everywhere", which takes the 1st 100 words of your post or so (you can set it to whatever you want), and shows only that in combination with other items that are assigned to that category. That way, you are getting a summary with a link to the complete post and not duplicating the entire content. However, I don't know how much content your individual products have, so there might not be enough info to create a summary. But generally, for regular blogs, this is what I do and it appears to work.

I've gone with this .htaccess from your soulgorithm.com: Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.co.uk [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.)/$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f RewriteRule (.)/$ $1.php [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f RewriteRule .* %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/ [R=301,L] and I'm now getting the results I'm after. I'm getting similar behaviour to you in Firefox and IE, which explains a lot. I really appreciate the length you've gone to to help me here, so big thank you!

Is the place where you submit a txt sitemap in Webmaster tools different from where you'd submit an XML version?

I agree with Ben on this one. There are plenty of 404s caused by scraper sites that don't and won't affect my time, especially on big sites. Also, redirects aren't the only tool available. There are plenty of other ways to fix GWT 404 errors, particularly if there is a fundmental problem aside from the link in question.

I've not run into any issues hosting WP on an IIS server.  I expect that it's either a known compatibility issue with whatever IIS version your host is running, or they're simply unfamiliar with it and avoiding potential support problems. My main site is all written in ASP and I plugged a WP blog onto the site in just a few minutes, with really no configuration issues.  I'm hosting that site at Arvixe.com.

Actually I figured out all of the problems, here is the solution that worked for me: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /#Rewrite bare to www RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [NC,L]

Hi André, First of all I would advice you to read through the following article: http://www.johnfdoherty.com/hreflang-markup-testing/ John Doherty's article will basically answer your question. Gr., Istvan

I'm not 100% sure of the latest follow vs nofollow ratio guidelines, but running your homepage URL through OSE suggests that maybe too many of your top links are nofollow (18 out of your top 50) - most seem to be fairly spammy blog type comments. Perhaps try and target less spammy links? Just trying to be helpful, please don't take it the wrong way. Brad

Cyrus, Thanks for the props, but also cool on the crawl delay link. I wish I could say I knew about it before this answer, but I didn't; cool stuff for bigger high update sites. Always appreciate what you have to say as I learn a lot from you. Best

The general answer is to do a 301 redirect. I have a lot of temporary pages.  I delete the files and do a 301 redirects to a closely related page - or if none available to the homepage. Since I have lots of temporary pages I place the redirect in the .htaccess file of the folder that contains the page instead of in my root .htaccess.  That keeps the main .htaccess uncluttered with temp pages.  I also plan my creation of temporary pages so that entire folders eventually go extinct.   I believe that saves processing time for lots of visitors.

You would more than likely lose more than you would gain by migrating to a more keyword friendly domain name.  I think Google is going to only downgrade the importance of keywords in domain names from here on out.

Hi James, I'm not aware of any problems right now. As Broadbeach Media said, send an email to help@seomoz.org and they'll get back to you and be able to help you troubleshoot this. Thanks! Keri

Thank you for the helpful answer! I learned a little about geo-targetable domains now and I really need to dig into this deeper.

This is what my intuition was telling me too.  I think the only thing that made me re-consider was that I started receiving traffic for those links with arguments. Thanks for your input!

Its not just from backlinks.  I've got blogs where the  homepage is PR1 but posts are PR3, due to social signals and shares of the post.  This seems to be happening more recently.

We had a very similar issue. To solve it I did just as Elias suggested, I created  a case statement in php and then generated as much unique / specific to selection content as possible. As much content that you can change while still being relevant to the person's click.. I would.

Google is just showing you a warning that hey, these are excluded, make sure that you want them excluded. They're not passing a judgement on whether or not they should be excluded. So, as long as they're excluded on purposes, no worries.