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Sure. Depending on the site--could be quite common. I would fix the issues on the most "important" pages and devout the resources on creating compelling content.

I sure hope the SEOmoz team reads this and acts on it Thank You

Thanks Kane!  That answers my question completely.  In my area every town is spread out and has a low population so it gets divided up into hamlets and this can make the location targeting a real headache.  A "town" might have a population of 10-40 thousand but each hamlet is no more than several thousand.  Local people identify with the hamlet so they will only search for their hamlet name and not the actual town name. It would be a tremendous amount of work to build all the pages necessary to cover all of the Keyword+Town/Hamlet variations even for a relatively small area.

Sorry, saw the follow-up, but I think the overall thread has you covered. The only real issue with CMS URLs is that you can sometimes have multiple versions pointing to the same page, and this creates duplicate content. There are plug-ins for WordPress that can help with that. The only exception would be something like an AJAX-style URL, where the page content could change without the URL ever changing (Flash has the same issue, for example). You'll rarely see that in a standard CMS, though, and definitely not in WordPress.

I have recent experience with a very similar situation.  We decided to go ahead and change the entire look of the site and a lot of the content, but we kept the same URL structure.  For one of the main keywords we experienced the following: Google: We fell from first page to fourth page over a period of 4 months.  We are just now starting to see an uptick in rankings and have climbed back to the 3rd page. Bing: We climbed from the third page to the bottom of the 1st page over a period of 3 months. Part of the redesign was to focus our on page optimization results. In answer to your 4 questions: 1.  Redirect anything that won't be there for sure.  You don't want people clicking an old link just to find a 404 dead site. 2.  Yes you can redirect more than one old url to a single new page, but make sure it is a logical redirect and is helpful to the user.  Don't just do it for fun. 3.  Like Joram said, "You'll have to wait and see" 4.  Don't redesign just because you are tired of the look.  Too many web site owners look at their website everyday and get tired of the look when it is a perfectly fine site.  Have a purpose for redesigning that includes something along the lines of, "This redesign will help my visitors because...."

Hi there, Google is getting better at crawling Javascript and pulling URLs out, so there's a fair chance it will count anyway. Links in the <noscript>tag are crawled, but make sure that the noscript content is well-suited for a user with Javascript disabled. Do not turn it into a list of links :)</p></noscript>

Apologies, typed that up wrong. Have updated above post.

Definitely worth a look. Thanks for sharing!

Hard for me to tell, but with a million pages and facebook and many others adding useless parameters on the end of our URLs, its been a major problem for a few years. The thing I really dislike about the google interface for handling this is that there is no way to tell them to ignore all parameters. Hopefully, with the number of parameters I've told them to ignore, they just automatically ignore all new parameters.

You want to rank for local searches right? Now the question is do you have physical presence in those places? If not, by making city specific pages just to get rank for will definitely invite penalty sooner or later. Think about the customers first and not the search engines. _Now, if you do have branches in those cities, you can create Google Local listing, can have separate landing pages for them given the fact that those pages say something unique about the business etc. Do not add rehash content that no one is going to add. Focus on adding value to users’ experience. _

Your site is offline. Please put it online, then we can see it. If you want see a site in pure Html5 just visit my website related to a coming soon italian movie (click to see it) In the source you can see the html5 code including snipped from schema.org. For this website, I created a custom DTD to adjust various w3c validation errors.

Now google accepted sitemap like for tags and images but now it is showing another error in post_sitemap.xml file .. Check this screenshot - http://i47.tinypic.com/5lxlwj.jpg

nice article, thanks for getting back to me

But, wouldn't you agree that testing is the only way to know for sure? Yes, I agree.  Testing is the only way to know for sure and I highly recommend it. I have done enough testing with my own content on my own sites to decide this is the way that I am betting - every time I have appropriate content for this method.  However, other writers on other websites might have different results. Can you tell I'm on my testing soap box? Glad you have a soap box... keep it ready at all times.  

Screaming Frog can spider a site - free version handles up to 500 pages. Alternatively, xml-sitemaps.com does something similar... but what an odd hosting package!

Are those images for search results (i.e. product thumbnails) or actual product pages? A link would help to understand how your site currently looks. If you have not done it yet, I would run you page through webpagetest.org (or pagespeed) and then look at obvious optimisations (CDN, HTTP cache directives, image-size optimisations) first. It sounds to me that you are "caching" multiple products in JS and based on user interaction show then the relevant content. Depending on how this is done, you might actually not get any SEO value from this.

Re: the rewrite, I may have misunderstood; I was suggesting that if you were planning to rewrite the URL of newfile.php to look like originalfile.html, then a redirect would have been easier for the overall management of the site. You can also enable .html files to use php includes: http://www.ntchosting.com/php/php-in-html.html Yeah - law firm SEO can be a bit dirty. Still, with an industry that requires high trust from clients, the spammy urls just aren't worth it to me - I think the conversion cost is higher than many people would estimate. Regarding using absolute in a test environment, it's rarely an issue for me on small biz sites so I paste the IP instead of the live domain on a page by page basis. Yoast wrote a good article last month regarding the troubles with relative url paths: http://yoast.com/relative-urls-issues/

Breadcrumbs add great value to the pages and helps pass PR around the site. However, since you are going around the CMS, you better keep the links under tight control to make sure the breadcrumbs don't eventually lead to 404 pages. Also, I strongly suggest to use the breadcrumb microformat for an enhanced search display in Google search results.

Hi, I have check all the technical points of onpage and your site is perfect and no need to change onpage. Need to setup target country in Webmaster tool that gives you more relevant traffic. Your page speed is really good it score 85 out of 100. Promote your website on Social Media, Do local business listing of your site in different directories.