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Hi Dejan Thanks, all good points so much appreciated.

I agree with EGOL on this one... keep it all under one roof.  If you're looking for SEO value on the mini sites, why not turn them into landers that point back to your main site instead of the other way around?

You make excellent points.  I'll escalate this to "the pros" and see if they're able to bring their guru powers to bear on the trouble. Thanks again Ryan for all your advice.  It is greatly appreciated.

If it's just currency that you want to have different i suggest not having that  /en   /us   /uk Because most of your website will then be duplicate.... Unless you plan on having different content for every /en/pagename    /us/pagename   /uk/pagename   i suggest not having /en/us/uk

use the rel=canonical on the main page/s to show that they are the original/source/master page of the content. See this helpful guide: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/complete-guide-to-rel-canonical-how-to-and-why-not Don't forget you can also tell Googlebot to ignore certain URL parameters to prevent them being indexed and treated as duplicate content. "If your site uses URL parameters, some of the parameters may be unnecessary for page navigation. Asking Google to ignore these parameters can reduce duplicate content in Google's index and make the site more crawlable." This is done through Google.com/Webmasters - Your Domain - Dashboard - Settings - Parameter Handling.

I was wondering if the displayed results are how Google ranked my pages. For example my about page comes before any of my products, my products are more important. If Google did list in order of ranking then I could find out my competitors best pages too. I know I can do mine through Analytics but I can't do the competitors. Google must have some logic in displaying them in that order. I thought the sitemap suggested to Google what my most important pages were and hoped it agreed - from your comments I think the main purpose of sitemaps is to ensure my most important pages get indexed and then it's up to Google how important they are for SERPS.

Let me know how it goes.  I'm sure it can be done.  Just needs the right team

I have a sitemap.php on my sites. The file contains the php code which generates my xml sitemap. It is perfectly standard and common practice. The question for your programmer is, where is the output xml file located? A sitemap program will output the file to the same location each time it is updated. He should be able to provide you a link to the file. I would advise the URL to be placed somewhere like mydomain.com/sitemap directory. If a deeper directory is preferred, then add the location to robots.txt. Either way it cannot hurt to update the sitemap in Google WMT. With that said, it is not necessary to do so as long as you can confirm Google is getting the information.

Best long term answer is beat their content. Another solution is to beat their links, but you are one panda-style update away from losing any questionable links. There you have it in two clear sentences.  The methods and the risks. Thumbs up!

Ryan's right - it's because the page isn't in our index yet. You can verify this at www.opensiteexplorer.org. Sorry about that! Most new sites and links will be indexed by our spiders and available in Linkscape and Open Site Explorer within 60 days, but some take even longer for a plethora of reasons, including crawl-ability of sites, the amount of inbound links to them, and the depth of pages in subdirectories. Just so you know, here's how we do our index: we take the last index, take the 10 billion URLs with the highest mozrank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains), and start crawling from the top-down until we've crawled 40,000,000,000 pages (which is about 1/4 of the amount in Google's index). Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index We update our Linkscape Index every 3 to 5 weeks. Crawling the whole internet to look for links takes 2-3 weeks. And then we've got 1-2 weeks of processing to do on those links to determine which are the most important links etc. You can see a schedule of how often we update, and planned updates here: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule Linkscape focuses on a breadth-first approach, and thus we nearly always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these. If our crawlers or data sources are blocked from reaching those URLs, they may not be included in our index (though links that points to those pages will still be available). Finally, the URLs seen by Linkscape must be linked-to by other documents on the web or our index will not include them. For now, the best thing you can do to help your domain become indexed is to work on link building for links from sites with high mozrank. I hope this helps! This is more of a customer service question than an SEO question, so in the future, if you have a question about our site or tools, please email it to help@seomoz.org to get faster service. Thank you David! Best of luck.

As you probably know, the idea of +1 is personal recommendations - so you can see what people you know gave the thumbs up to.  As to whether Google will use it as a ranking factor or not, they are suggesting they might, but cautiously: "This is just one of many signals Google may use to determine a page’s relevance and ranking, and we’re constantly tweaking and improving our algorithm to improve overall search quality. For +1's, as with any new ranking signal, we'll be starting carefully and learning how those signals affect search quality". http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1140194 I guess the problem is that +1 signals could be manipulated like almost anything else so they will be treated as just one factor, in the context of many other factors. Jen

I agree with EGOL, unless your current URLs are absolutely driving you nuts, I'd leave as is.  Plus 301s never direct 100% of the link juice so you'd most likely be hurting yourself.

What's wrong with having ten brass widgets in ten different colors and ten buy buttons all listed on a single page? I do that I we see lots of people buying a brass widget in every color.  I think that this is great for getting more sales.  If I was a shopper it would be a real frustration to visit ten pages to get one of each color - or just visit all of those pages to see which color I like best. Most important, Google might see that and say....  This page has brass widgets in EVERY FREEKING COLOR! and decide to show it to visitors who search for them. Now, if you are compulsive about having one page per widget and having your writer create yada yada yada content for all of them, keep in mind that you are wasting a lot of money on near duplicate content, boring your writers and spreading your pagerank out over a lot of pages.

Since you were looking to Advertise, I was thinking you were looking for referal clients. In that case is it worth paying for advertising, most SEO companies can get you on good DA sites with a good article submissions. It is mentioned on here a bit that multiple good C-Block DA's help to improve your link juice. So good links on lots of good ranked relativant sites should help your ratings more than a single link on a DA70 that you paid $500 for. I know Australia is a smaller market than UK but have moved all our main keyphrases to page 1 or 2 in a very short time by getting good links from on-topic related sites and getting A's for all of them in on-page optimization.

If it's purely from a user point of view and you don't need Google to crawl the links I have two suggestions: 1 - Do it in JavaScript or some other language that Google can't click, then there is no way Google can see or use the links 2- Alternatively you could always just stick a no-follow on all the navigation links Not sure if either of the above help, kind of confused at your needs to be honest. If you truely build it in the best interest for the users, the number of links shouldnt be an issue. If it's all city links, why not try grouping them into the country, then into city. Craig

As our colleagues have mentioned your site is built in Flash and the crawlers can only see one page . If you are married to the site being flash you can research Flash deep linking with SWF Address which will create additional urls and metas. If your site is built for Search I would suggest recreating your site on a non flash platform .