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Dear Egol, I'm assuming by your answer that PDF's take link juice and JPG's don't (please correct me if I'm wrong). Is that the case even if I have <a href="">to enlarge the image? (I use href with JQuery and not regular target=_blank)</a> <a href="">Also, what to do about the certificates that are on other sites? (too many and rapidly changing for me to get it to my site)</a>

We've implemented rich snippets for a bunch of our retailer pages and they are showing up for about half of them. Is this Google just decided which SERPs to show the snippets for and which not to or is it something more?

All done. SEOmoz team answered my question via mail. Website is to fresh and it would be crawled in next 60 days max so it should help.

According to Matt Cutts, trailing slashes are automatically canonicalized. It shouldn't make any difference.

The only other thing I can think of is there's duplicate page content and duplicate title content. If it says true in either of those columns then there's no URLs in the columns to the right of it (headed  duplicate_page_content  or duplicate_title) then I'd contact Moz and work with them. Mine populate fine.

Are any of these domains indexed? Do any of them have links to them? If they are neither indexed nor have any links, then redirecting them will do nothing as search engines don't know they exist anyway. The only value for you is with direct traffic. When people misspell your domain if you have all those possible misspellings redirect to you then they end up on your site no matter what. You also prevent competitors from taking something very close to your domain name and pretending to be you. The only time this can have an effect is if you buy domains. If you go out and buy domains that are indexed with links to them and then 301 redirect all of them to your website then this is what is referred to as doorway pages. You are essentially buying pagerank. Google no like. I have had success with a domain like mythings.com and buying mything.com and redirecting it and getting a good bump. But it was only one domain and it was very similar. If you go out and buy expired domains or high PR domains and redirect them all you can have trouble. But in your case, just redirecting a bunch of domains that are essentially invisible to search engines won't have any positive or negative effects.

Thank you for your reply, the sub domain contains an extensive library of xml schemas, http://bit.ly/aOEsG7 and is more a referance point for he developer community who may use our product (xml software tool)

files/map.pdf does this mean that map.pdf ( or whatever be name of PDF file ) have to be placed in files folder ?

Oh - the IP is the old server, not the IP of the current one?  All of the above still applies, except it just got a lot easier! Redirect all traffic on the old server to the new one (301 redirect). Failing that just turn off the old one.

From your explanation it doesn't seem to make any sense that you would be punished for "bathroom vanities" but you are simultaneously increasing your rank for partial exact match longtail variations of that core phrase. It's possible that they manually punished you for that phrase specifically, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. As long as you are growing your links focused around that core phrase in an organic fashion Google should not punish you further for this. I don't see a reason to hold off on it assuming your efforts are within Google's guidelines. I'd recommend some sort of linkbaiting scheme for "bathroom vanities" - an infographic perhaps.

Just add new terms and build more quality links that aren't localized. The local terms aren't going to harm you nationally. By the way your home page title is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long =P

You'll want to make sure that you're using the Canonical Tag so Google and others know that your site owns & is the originator of the content.

You can disallow these sections in your robots.txt to cut out all these. However, they can still show are URL only in search results. In order to completely remove them, you need to add noindex tags to the header of each pages. I'm assuming that these are created dynamically with a template that you should be able to add the nofollow. But be careful that you only add them to the pages you want!

Having too many links is the least of your worries on these pages. Looking at the view source there's a lot of code (508 lines of it) clogging up the bots path to any content, let alone the links. Your menu structure is over complex from a code point of view, the pages are rendered in tables, there's a lot of on page JavaScript that could be minified and/or accessed thru a separate file,  I don't see an tag here's the link to one of your stylesheets Your example About Us page scores a very low 57/100 on Google's page speed tester - that alone could be a reason the pages aren't being indexed well. Looks like programmers we're driving the bus when the site was built.

It looks like you did a big mess in your blog, SeoMOZ says "Using rel=canonical suggests to search engines which URL should be seen as canonical." and nothing more. How to use - description is in On-Page Report Card in Critical Factors section. "ExplanationIf the canonical tag is pointing to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. Make sure you're targeting the right page (if this isn't it, you can reset the target above) and then change the canonical tag to reference that URL." Take Care, M.

We have been using the WordPress mobile pack plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-pack/). We have been using the WordPress mobile plugin and it’s possible to set as a sub domain m.site.com, sub directory site.com/m, different URL site.mobi / or same URL but the User agent switches the WordPress theme being used. In theory if the content is slightly different it would be better to use a sub directory rather than a different domain,  and where the content it the same the same URL could be the best answer, but haven’t found a definitive answer on that. It also seems from google’s how to go mobile site that mobile pages can have the same Meta information and do not require a canonical link. http://www.howtogomo.com I think references to googlebot-mobile are for how google crawls content for feature phones e.g. wap pages, but not sure if this applies to googlebot-for-smartphones which is still quite new and it’s possible to set as a sub domain m.site.com, sub directory site.com/m, different URL site.mobi / or same URL but the User agent switches the WordPress theme being used. Thanks!