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First, the site structure you're proposing sounds fine.  The shorter URLs with just the country code look better to me, but I'd lowercase the country codes. Second, there are a few things you can do to make sure the search engines are doing the right thing with respect to content for different countries.  You can set you location target for each directory within Google Webmaster Tools in Site configuration > Settings.  You can also set language metadata, or set HTTP headers to clue in Bing as to what language and country the page is targeting (see http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2011/03/01/how-to-tell-bing-your-website-s-country-and-language.aspx). Even though these are targeted to different countries, they show up to the search engines as duplicate content since the content is so similar, and until recently there wasn't much that could be done about it.  You could either rel=canonical to the page that caters to your main audience, or just accept that there would be some duplicate content.  Google recently announced support for a rel=alternate tag which should help to mitigate this.  You can read more about it here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-markup-for-multilingual-content.html.  The tl;dr of this is you can set rel=alternate tags to signal which pages are alternates of each other, and rel=canonical to one preferred version.  When this page would come up in search, it'll use the title and description from the preferred page, but if the searcher is in a country where you have an alternate version, it'll use the URL for the alternate page.  It's not perfect, but at least it's a step in the right direction.

Nice if you can get your tags to reflect the broad range of topics covered by your site, but I think sometimes it can give a visitor the perception that your content is a little thin when you only have one article against each topic. Say you're reading an article, you see that it's tagged with the topic you're interested in, click on that tag and only get the one article that you've just read. When deciding on tags to use, try and think of how your visitors may wish to explore your content. Remember to try and maintain an external perspective and use tags that are meaningful to your visitors. If you've got the time and enough traffic to give you the info, you could use your analytics data to see how people are using tags vs. site search for example. Of course, as you point out, this doesn't have anything to do with the duplicate content problem.

I will try and make those changes and get back to you... Thanks for all your help

If you can click on the tags and the take you somwhere then they are links. To fix 404's a 404 is a broken links, either point the link to the correct url, or remove the link.

Rick, I've noticed that that page and your site in general has some images that are fairly large in file size that aren't helping matters. One fast fix is to install the Smush.it plugin for Wordpress at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-smushit/. It'll help optimize images as you load them, and will also optimize all existing images in your media library. It's a lossless compression, so the image quality won't change, just the filesize. In the longer term, you might want to consider optimize for web in photoshop for some of your pictures. Here's a great SEOmoz post about other things you can do to optimize your site. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/optimizing-page-speed-actionable-tips-for-seos-and-web-developers. Some are easy, some will take a while longer. First thing I'd do though is put in smush.it and have it attack what it can on your existing images, since your site is still getting a lot of press.

In that case I agree with Kane; the short answer is it probably doesn't 'hurt' anything, but it's most likely not helping anything either. Those domains are an investment in a way, in terms of hosting, bandwidth, code maintenance, etc. And currently that investment isn't really being used to its full potential. I don't know if it's still the case, but WayFair (née CSN Stores) used to have at least 20-30 domains 301'd to all of their major properties, usually mispellings, (name)sucks, that kind of thing.

Yes, Woj, we were able to get it from other PC's in the office. But good way to check, thanks.

Indeed ! Everything is fixed ! Pretty scary, I though it was me that did something wrong right from the start !

Thanks again Alan, with the other issue my brain was not functioning. That was just a duh moment.

I would not think so, but you may of been getting credit for linking to a reletive authoritive site. was the link to a an authoritive site? if so, no-folloing may have robed you of that credit

Michael, you might want to open a new question for this, as old threads don't get bumped when new content appears. If you don't have any content or anything on the exact match domains, the 301 really isn't going to help you.

Actaually TYPO3 is very simple if you set it up correctly. Aslo there are some really good SEO modules for TYPO3 like http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/tq_seo/current/

Here's some more info on Iframes and Google from Barry Schwartz http://www.seroundtable.com/google-iframe-link-14558.html

I think it does or it would be open to abuse, you could sculpt your link juice using posts

Perfect! thanks so much!

Glad to help Hope it's an easy fix.

Nofollow sites that you don't trust. Some people will also nofollow links to direct competitors, which is understandable. Nofollow can and arguably should be used for user-generated content that you can't monitor regularly, such as blog comments, etc. Don't use it for quality content that your readers would find valuable. Alan is correct that nofollowing links will not give more "link juice" to your own site, so you have little to gain.

Hi Mark, You'll definitely need to optimize the rest of your content as well, I thought you were just asking about title tags. I noticed you said you were page 1 for your secondary keyword, and page 3 for your primary. Part of that might be patience, it can take awhile for efforts to show up. Also, your main keyword might be harder to rank for than your secondary keyword. I typically target my primary keywords on the home page since it will have stronger Page Authority, and secondary keywords will be subpages, typically linked on the navbar. Another consideration is that if your main keyword has been added to the title tag but not properly integrated throughout the rest of the page then that is going to set you back. You've got 7 pages on your site, 3 of which are links / privacy / and contact us. Get some more content on the site and you'll have a lot easier time ranking. Use the new content to target your other keywords.