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It's all about the content at the end of the day. The more content you can get out there for the products, the better off you will be. Just be careful not to spin content. Keep it as clean as possible

Excellent post.  Thanks for sharing EGOL. The Matt Cutts example of the multiple autho profiles usage, rel="me" makes things extremely clear in the purpose for the author page and the potential intention by Google in recognizing this data.

Mike, Great advice, thank you.  I am in the health care field.  I have done well optimizing my on page seo (I get an A from seo mox grading for my keyword).  I only need to optimize for a local keyword, which shows to be low to moderately competitive. So local search and off site seo is what I am looking for. I am happy to pay for a quality service, I have not had the best results with my previous company as far as results.  What I am looking for is a very credible and competent SEO firm that works with small businesses.  Once I am successful with this keyword I am interested in optimizing or ecom site for a more competitive keyword.

If you're asking if the shift alone is going to affect you I'm not really familiar enough with either platform to tell you if one is better at SEO than the other. But I can tell you this. The learning curve of the functionality of a new CMS will no doubt have an effect on your SEO if you're not up to speed with how it works and how to best utilize it. I would advise you to become as familiar as possible with your new CMS before porting over to it. Try to get a trial of some sort and ensre it has all of the SEO features you need. Make sure all of your questions about SEO functionality are answered before you take the change live.

Thanks, dignan99. I'm currently hosting with Bluehost and their customer service is AMAZING. However, they haven't been able to help me with this issue since, as they say, wordpress is unique. That said, I didn't have all of this great information back then so I'll revisit it with them at your suggestion and see if they can help. Thanks again for the suggestion.

Dear Oznappies, Sheldon, James, thank you very much. I will try to proceed as follows: keep the vehicle page with minimum information, indicate that the the item is sold and show links to similar and related vehicles that the customer might find interesting. Also, I'll put NOINDEX tag on the page (I prefer the search engine to send users to pages of items that are available). Thank you!

The warning for too many nofollowed links is there because these links affect your SEO. Your page offers SEO benefits to your site. If you create a "hello world" page, that page will inherit some value from being part of your domain. It will receive further value from links to the page, social sharing of the page (tweets, etc) and so forth. The value of the page can be passed along to other pages, both inside and outside of your site, through links. The nofollowed links devalue any followed links on your page. If you want to use your blog to pass more juice to other pages within your site, I would recommend a comment tool that not only tags the links with "nofollow" but instead breaks the links so they appear as text, not links. To answer your question directly, YES, I think too many nofollow outbound links are a problem that should be fixed. If you don't believe these pages offer value to your site, you can ignore the warning. I think doing such is a missed opportunity.

Here's the problem: the client's domain name sucks. It is short, but combines an acronym with one of the words in its long-version name. It uses the British spelling version of the long name fragment, even though most Canadians now use American spelling. And it is a .ca, rather than a dot.com I would be using "colorful" language too! But I would like some additional validation before proceeding. More colorful language.  - how much link juice might we lose? I've seen the figure of 10% bandied around. Is it accurate? Nobody knows for sure.  Not an awful lot. - might we see a temporary dip in results? If so, how long would it last? You might have unstable SERPs for a few days to a couple of weeks.  It's possible that your rankings could drop a place or two. But most of the time there is very little damage if you do the switch properly. - what questions did I forget to ask? What additional info do you need to offer informed advice Your question seems to be... "Should I do this?"    If this was my site the answer would be yes. In the past year we have done two domain moves.  One was positive results all around, great results.   The other was up everywhere except the trophy KW which we slipped from #1,2,3 to #2,3,4 but are working to get it back.  Sales are still very strong.

Unless the load balancing is causing your system to 404 or 500 I cannot see any SEO impact. We did have to change the way we handled session state when we switched to load balancing to ensure state was valid on our shopping cart calls but that is more a developer issue than SEO. Most major hosts now tend to use VM, Cloud or other resource load balancing behind the scenes to keep their costs down without impact to SEO of their clients.

yes the no content page thing is a big problem.  If you have a "view all" option, and it's more than a dozen, fifteen or maybe 20 products, that should be paginated, with full indexing.  Maile Oyhe even talked about that specific scenario of "view all" being good. In my experience, all of the no-content pages should, ideally, be 301 redirected in a way that they point to the most relevant highest level category page on your site. Since there's so many, there's no easy way to get them removed from the index other than doing the 301 then being patient as Google recrawls then re-confirms.

Howdy JSOC. You can use regex in your .htaccess file. Here's a tutorial to get you started. I'm still trying to master this subject myself, but if you want to provide the specifics, I'll do my best the help you. And if all else fails, you can ask Casey Henderson @ SEOmoz, he'll definitely be able to help you out

I agree that having a video sitemap is a good idea. I'd also recommend that you take the opportunity now (when just implementing videos, which you'll presumably continue) to implement some HTML5 markup on those videos. Let the search engines know who and what the videos are about, and maximize your benefits.

The page being indexed already is not a factor. You want to add the tag to the primary page and all variant pages with parameters. The next time those pages are crawled, Google will see the canonical tag and adjust the URL accordingly. Your question is difficult because the answer would depend on how your CMS is coded. Generally there is a template which is used to create the pages. Your template would need to be modified using a conditional statement to provide the canonical tag for URLs with parameters. This would be your best solution.

Even then though, why would you want to use a nofollow if every nofollow decreases your page rank value?  Even if you are using it in a forum context or for an ad it looks like this would still kill your Page Rank.  Would it be better to wrap the links you don't want to pass Page Rank to in an iframe or java script?

Hi William, There are some really good ideas there- definitely worth looking into a competition of some sort to get links... Problem is most of our audience are currently our clients who already link to us, or use our IP (hence the fundemental C Block problem). We're looking in to the C-Block problem, as it seems the high performers on the SERP have an array of IPs for their clients sites, looking through their portfolios. Hopefully I can find something along the lines of Open Site Explorer which can also include server IP, so that I can get some good statistics on where we're at, but I'm thinking that's doubtful! Thanks so much for your help - this forum is an incredibly useful resource!

How many websites do you have with the same Google WMT account? Is it possible there is any confusion? Can you copy/paste the exact error message?