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Yes, Canonical OR alternate

+1 for Marek's answer. On-Page Report Use Open Site Explorer to check your incoming anchor text Run a full PRO campaign (if you're not PRO, you can sign up for a free trial here) These 3 should get you started in the right direction.

Here's a dated thread (2009) from Rand. And another from a daily blog a few days ago. Rand's blog #2 is what concerns me. Take this page for example (Alan, hold your breath this is a CMS site). The intent is to channel the juice to those pages. Every page on our site has a similar link strategy. I've tried to link according to the product "neighborhood" or to similar/related pages. The only exception is the link to our western horse tack page. I've tried to link to the western tack page from just about every other product and category page. The result is a sizable increase in page authority, but just recently the page rank has dropped significantly. My understanding from other threads is that a person can "stuff" anchor text and accrue a penalty for it. Alan, is your article suggesting an html sitemap is not necessary if I'm conducting targeted linking on product and category pages?

Hmm, well I honestly don't know how to correct that kind of an issue. I know DNN is the cause of a lot of my tech-SEO headaches. Sorry!

The FTC? Oh you crazy Americans Yeah, might all go south, but meh, get nothing if you don't try : ) I'm just being an affiliate, not going to run one (even though there's a billion scripts to do so).

Creating 301 to non-existing products is easy (technically speaking) - are you sure that it not considered a bad thing by Google? (pages keep being removed). Thanks again

To add to the other responses, I can see reason why you might want to not use your keyword in a sub domain.  If you do, it means that everytime you give you web address out to someone you have to use it! Depending on your keyword, this could be a nightmare! I'm not sure it'll do your "brand" many benefits either. What happens if you go down this route and decide to change your target keyword, or your keyword is no longer relevant to you business (things change!). Do you build a new site hosted on the subdomain for each keyword? (Things could become silly if you take this too far!) A simple "www" or nothing has become an easy to remember convention.

Besides the google images thing you said you dont care about, I dont think you will have a problem. I have seem where Matt Cutts has said that having items blocked from indexing is a signall of spam, but should not be a problemm alone. But if somthing else gives a signal of spam, then hiding css, js and img files can be seen as suss.

Google wouldn't waste budget. It just means they will have to consider crawling more internal links for a page.

How about a wiki?

Hello and welcome to the industry! Since you're new, you're going to want to start here: http://www.seomoz.org/article/social-media-marketing-tactics Do a lot of reading. I mean a lot. Read and read and read. Then make sure you read this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tracking-the-roi-of-social-media That'll make sure you don't fall into the SMO for SMO's sake trap. You've joined the right community if you're looking for help, and we'll all be glad to help you get started. Your initial query, however, is really really vague. If you can get more specific we can provide better, more directed help.

Same thing happened to Zuckerberg.....

It's hard to write this kind of code without being able to debug it, but hopefully this will point you in some sensible directions. First my assumption - based on the URLs you included, I'm assuming you want to rewrite http://www.diamondgeezer.com/anything to serve http://www.diamondgeezer.com/theultimate/search/index.php?sortprice=asc&followSearch=9673&q=anything behind the scenes. I think there might be some complications around replacing hyphens (-) with pluses (+), but just serving the search results page for the word appearing after the first slash should be as simple as: ^/(.*) /theultimate/search/index.php?sortprice=asc&followSearch=9673&q=$1 The documentation here should help: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

salvyy My suggestion, given your location is to first look at those on SEOmoz who are available in Europe or Italy. As to cost, I am not sure what they charge there. I do know there are some brilliant SEO people in Europe and Italy. (Yes, I know Italy is in Europe and am making a distinction ) If you choose a company from the US, I would look for someone on SEOmoz as well. I would suggest finding at least three no matter where they are from, PM them, and give them all the same list of what you need. Then, ask each to provide a proposal and quote. You choose based on what you come up with that best fits your needs. Best

I would  very well say that SE's look at the IP address when measuring link-diversity. So the IP address does matter. No matter what is spoken (cutts). Just think how you would do it. Do you think they tell you the truth on every single detail? Don't be so naive..

Hey Vaz, I didn't see any news about a big update of the Google algorithm recently. The reconsideration request take some time to process, if the hidden links were the cause of your lost rankings, it should come back soon now that you fixed the problem. Check your (old & new) competitors backlinks via Open Site Explorer or Majestic SEO to see what they did to be ahead of you in the rankings. If some of your competitors lost rankings too, maybe they were hit with the same problem as you (malicious code/hidden spammy links). In any case good luck with your website !

Hi Keri, You're right, those graphs are for the entire site and not just Google Organic however it's the same (worse) when you just look at the organic traffic. They don't do any form of other marketing so it's not that sadly (I truly wish it was!). Here's an overview of just the Google Organic traffic: http://www.thesitedoctor.co.uk/img/201202080932-Google-Analytics.png Although there is a similar drop in traffic from Bing/Yahoo, there's nothing so cyclical as this. Nothing in Webmaster Tools other than the usual notices about pages blocked by robots.txt. We'll dig some more into the individual pages to see if there's anything in there thanks that's a good idea. Tim