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Hi My tip would be to optimise the alt tag on your 'Simple ID' logo and file directory name (no more than two hyphens to be on the safe side) and the same for your flash image = turn into a slide show and optimise the alt tags & directory names.  Keep them natural. and compare you and your competitiors inbound links.

I did slack off the link pace, waiting to see what would happen when it was digested but thought itmight stay up there as the phrase I'm competing for is quite niche oriented.

We are using actual rewrites and then using rel=canonical for all sub pages.

I see. Have you considered putting it behind an htpasswd?

Hi! Yes, our crawler does read wildcards in a robots.txt file. This change was made in the past 3 months or so. Hope that helps! Jen

i agree

My suggestion: redirect mobile browsers to the HTML version as well as for the search bots. If the browser is not a search bot or a mobile device, and has Flash installed then redirect to the Flash version (not using a 301!) with a parameter to take the person to the same content on the Flash site (in the swf you can read the parameter and load the relevant part). Mobile users or search bots arriving via those links with parameters can be 301'd to the HTML version. Now mobile users and search bot get a nice HTML version. Flash users get the 'rich' experience. Search engines can crawl all the content nicely. Furthermore, it would stand up to a manual review. Many more details in answer to a similar question here: http://www.seomoz.org/q/converse-com-flash-and-html-version-of-site-bad-idea

yeah, that was the question Thanks for your answer

If two paragraphs are the same and the rest is unique (as long as it isn't just a one sentence news item) I'd consider it unique content and NOT use a canonical tag. How long are the news items? I don't see much of a problem if they're of a decent length and not just a couple of lines.

Thanks Louis, I appreciate the time you spent to answer my question. I feel better and more educated now!

Dublicate content you may have even if you don't change anything the problem is in how the template was made.

you have 3 choises , 1. redirect 2. cannonical links - be careful with this 3. Change in code of your site rel nofollow to this comboboxes/ filters 4. And it is better do not have these liks in sitemap

I really apprciate your help Thanks for the fast reply. I really hope this is the last time they try such techniques, because it is kind of frustrating

Ok so I am trying to figure out the best way to add 50,000 links to the robots.txt file and future proof it so we dont have to keep adding manually to the file whenever a new product is added. I am not all that familar with x-cart. Here is how the urls i want to block are formated... website.com/store/product.php?mode=add_vote&productid=XXXXXX&vote=100" Would adding "Disallow: /product.php" work? Or should I "Disallow: /product.php?mode=add_vote&productid" <---will that work? Would this have any consequences I am not thinking of?