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I think you are over emphasizing the keyword – “San Diego Newborn Photographer”. Titles of almost all the individual blog posts start with one or two general words describing the photograph and then followed by the key phrase – “San Diego Newborn Photographer”. Would be great if you can add some varieties here. And add alt tags against the images [do not focus on keywords solely here; rather you should add descriptive alt tags here]. And create an image sitemap if you do not have one.

Hi Adam. The answer to your question is "yes" and "no."  Let me explain. What you are referring to is something Google calls "Sitelinks." Here's information on how sitelinks work, directly from Google Webmaster Tools: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334 Unfortunately Adam, Google sitelinks are displayed (or not) automatically by Google. The only thing you can rtry to control, is to monitor your site's SERP results and "demote" sitelinks you feel Google is displaying that aren't particularly important or helpful to visitors. Even then, Google retains the option of ignoring your request and continuing to display whatever sitelinnks it chooses to show with your site. I hope that helps explain it a little! If you want more robust search results I would suggest investigating schema.org and markup of your site for rich snippets. Good luck! Dana

5600 pages with local pages in almost every city across the US If you find a smart person the first things that they will do are.... -- look at those 5600 pages to see if they are cookie cutter, duplicate content, or thin content -- then they will check for adequate linkjuice to index 5600 pages, hold them in the index, make them competitive You can check some of that yourself.

I completely agree on (1) and (3). I don't think there's any harm in proactive submission, as long as you're not worried about revealing any self-inflicted issues in your link profile. Unfortunately, our best indications at this point is that (2) might not be correct. If Google doesn't see some effort at actual removal, they may disregard the disavow request. There's no harm in it, per se, but they may not honor the request.

I find it really odd that a question like this has gotten no answers...is my question that difficult...or does no one have issues getting deep pages to rank well...or is my question really that silly?

Thanks for the post Irving. Happen to me as well!

I would start here: http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

you can test it out and remove the canonical for the not fully equivalent pages ... and unfortunately there is no other solution than a canonical to fix the pages that have a fully equivalent content. just test it out and keep a close eye on it and please do update this thread thank u

The page it's in the index. Indeed if Google can't see the Ajax Content would be almost a page without content. Still strange or logical?

You'll probably want to disallow spiders from crawling them with robots.txt: http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

Thank you!!  Very much appreciated.

If you want to find all your indexed pages in Google just type:  site:yourdomain.com or .co.uk or other  without the www.

...ask Gravity — why didn't I think of that? Good advice, thank you both.

Hi Sara, I am assuming that you haven't used the noarchive tag in your new pages source code? How old are these pages? Is there any chance of an example so I can see exactly what you mean? Please keep in mind the fact that if it is new content it will be indexed on Google before it is cached, so if you are getting a 404 not found error when you click on the cached version this is because the cache hasn't caught up on your new content but should within a few weeks.

The best solution is to redirect it to whichever keyword sends better converting traffic. There's probably a few ways to figure that out depending on your business model, but here's one simplified approach... Let's pretend you rank 1st for both keywords: Keyword A sends 100 visits per month and 20% of those convert to a $200 sale Keyword B sends 500 visits per month and 5% of those convert to a $200 sale. In this example, Keyword B is slightly more valuable ($5000 per month in sales), however it doesn't convert nearly as well. You'll have to decide whether keyword A or B is more profitable to your business. If they're not both ranking #1 then you'll need to make the assessment based upon the above calculation, and then make an approximation of how much potential for growth each keyword has. If you don't have your analytics set up properly to track those values, and it's not obvious which keyword is more relevant to your potential clients or more profitable, then the backup solution is to redirect it to the one that gets the most traffic.

Or you could do <title>Red Tonka Firetruck | 10659 Toys In Stock</title> The important thing is the uniqueness of each, the 1st part needs to be the primary focus of the page, and you want to communicate "this page really is about the topic you searched for"...

Based on similar scenarios that I've observed, I wouldn't be worried about a terribly negative Google reaction to a select box.  Obviously if your rankings take a dive within 60 days of rolling this out, I'd consider backpedaling this feature.  But select box navigations aren't uncommon and it seems that Google understands them well enough at this point. My issue would be more related to quantity; usually "normal" links on a page are best kept much lower than this, although, I also wouldn't be so sure whether Google will understand the JavaScript like a link or not.  That is, Google does crawl your JavaScript these days (source: Matt Cutts), but, sometimes Google seems to understand it, sometimes they don't (source: much first hand experience).  Also, from a UX standpoint, a select box with 450 items is really tedious.   Users hate having to do more things to get to other things (ie. scanning through a small box of 450 items that only displays 4 items at a time, not fun).  If you think that they already know the name of the concert venue, a suitable replacement could be a text box with autocomplete (if you search for prototype.js and autocomplete.js, you'll find a slick pre-written code to help with this). If people don't already know about the concert venue they want, or if you wanted to accompany this, I'd think about some other ways to present the data.  There are lots of cool ways this could be done, some might even score you many more organic links / social mentions.  A Google Maps plotter comes to mind.  As does some creative categorization by niche (ie. blues bars vs. hipster hangout).  One more possible factor to help people talk about your site ...  "Omg I can't believe X calls Y a hipster hangout!". As with all things web and marketing, test the crap out of whatever you do to validate, regardless of what route you decide.