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Many thanks for all answers ! That will help me to understand my problem more.

The OSE index is smaller than what Google reports in GWT, but then again, the links reported in GTW are famously inaccurate and often not up to date. Google often includes "junk" links that have very little chance of effecting their ranking algorithm. Linkscape crawls approximately the top 25% of web, which is where the majority of links are found that actually influence rankings. It's not a perfect system, and sometimes links are missed, but it works well as a predictive tool and also for competitive research. "It is interesting that the links that do show up in OSE a nearly exclusively sites that we own." Yes, it is interesting. The links Linkscape miss tend to be either beneath layers of navigation, or on pages with few inbound links. Sometimes improving your link structure will help your links both appear in Linkscape, and improve crawling and rankings from Google as well (although I'd be careful in your case, because you own the sites in question, not to create the appearance of a link scheme) Best of Luck!

Thanks. I've been trying to find a good tool for adding the canonical link to Joomla ... right now I'm using MetaGenerator but it doesn't let me specify exactly what URL should be the canonical and I guess it's just pulling the article and giving it the category alias. Any better idea on how to handle this in Joomla?

It all depends on where you want to drive your traffic due to what you think your customers will get the most value from. Even with tweaks, your homepage may never be as relevant for "computer monitoring software" as your pc-monitoring-software page. Yes, SEO is important, and it seems to me that you've got the basics down; but you always want to think what will make the customer the happiest as that's usually the best SEO answer too.

Read your additional comment (to @Highland). If you canonical from a known page (indexed and linked to, internally and/or externally) to an unknown page with no links, it would act a bit like a 301-redirect, in theory. The target page (of the canonical) would start ranking as if it were the source page. The problem is that that page isn't really canonical. You have a tag saying "This is the page" but every single other cue (internal links, inbound links, etc.) says that the non-canonical page is really canonical. In other words, your canonical tag says the opposite of everything else you're saying. That's generally not a good situation. If you want a page to be canonical, treat it that way. Sending Google mixed signals can get messy fast.

Is your problem is that plugin generated 2 meta description tags?

Hey Andrew, So, as far as i am aware you will need unique thumbs and video locations. You might be able to duplicate thumb information, but any duplicate locations will flag as a GMWT error. There's nothing technically stopping you uploading the same video to your hosting package time and time again and then just placing the duplicate videos on different URLs and submitting a sitemap with unique   video:content_locelements despite having duplicate content.</video:content_loc> However, this isn't a brilliant thing to be doing and sooner or later, Google will work out that you're using duplicated videos and you could then get devalued for it, which will prevent you from getting nice blended video results There are a few things which will indicate to G that you're duplicating: Audio Wave forms. Google can crawl elements of audio files.- It's how they ascertain a lot of copyright infringements on YouTube - by matching wave forms. Video Lengths If you have tons of videos, all of which are the identical length and have identical thumbnails - it's going to be obvious. YouTube Hosting If you're using YouTube to host your videos - it will abundantly clear to YouTube that you've duplicated the content, by the inevitably poor hotspots metrics you'll receive and the lack of views. For product videos, as a rule, i would recommend avoiding YouTube for hosting anyway - Wistia is a great option for that sort of stuff. Duplicate videos are ultimately the same as duplicate body text and are more or less frowned upon by the engines if exercised at too great a scale - especially following Panda. Ideally, you want to be thinking big and aiming for the unique videos - not only from a Search perspective, but also from a CRO and user perspective. No user is going to enjoy browsing the site if they end up watching the same content multiple times. I contest the idea that you can't scale unique video content easily. You just need to work out which elements can be duplicated and which need to be unique. Always get unique audio - and wrap some stock elements around a small portion of unique footage. I produced the following YouTube series in 1 day. Filmed, cut, edited and uploaded 64 unique videos. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDCBEEAFF5571810B  They're not complicated, flashy or impressive - but they are all unique, full HD and with appropriate metadata, which is the minimum you need to aim for. If you have thousands of products for an ecommerce site - sure, it might take a few weeks to produce everything. But you'll be much better off for it. anyway, hope that's helpful! Cheers, Phil

Here's an example of a page that is not indexed by bing http://bit.ly/xlMY2l I notice only the third page of this article is indexed. Thank you!

"Pages shared by friends" are the pages your friends have +1'ed

Hi Thomas Yeah it is new so I am working hard on its visability. Any ideas why the other 2 websites are ranking higher than me for the same search term as described in the 1st post? are they better optimised onsite which I dounbt and offsite and social they are quite weak?

This link: http://www.poker-brands.ca/download-pokertracker-software/holdemmanager is supposed to be forwarded to: http://www.poker-brands.ca/download-pt3-pokertracker-software/holdemmanager-hem-hm2 I used Cpanel on my hosting to create a 301.  I didn't go into .htaccess.  Is there code I should add to .htaccess when I do this? Much appreciated,

What is better? Singular vs Plural? We tried putting keywords that is singular but there are many other plural keywords  within that landing page. Now that plural keyword is outranking the singular. What is the best practice for this? We want the singular keyword to rank higher the the plural? thanks

Thanks Michael! That was quite insightful : )

Even a capital letter means a different url To fix the default.aspx issue http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/how-to-fix-canonical-issues-involving-the-default-page Also make sure you dont have internal links to the default.aspx page

Google likes a heading but does not insist that it is a H1 tag, but bing does. http://thatsit.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-h1-tag-is-missing http://thatsit.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-multiple-h1-tags

Thanks for that, good read. Quite furstrating they haven't given us much info about how they detect or differentiate from relevant images to the site design and adverts? i guess if it has no link in it, it'll be seen as natural.