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Hi, The good news is I've worked on very similar projects before and taking a look at your examples, you're configuring it almost  by the book except you shouldn't use rel=next/previous and a canonical. It's either/or, so you're probably going to need to ditch your canonical. i.e. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html However, I've configured sites almost exactly as you have and found that Google has just randomly chosen different (and multiple) combinations of page and sort order to rank in different sections. Once they get added to the index, it's a real chore to get them removed. I've learnt that if you genuinely don't want your sorted pages to appear in SERPs, you should use AJAX (and not have AJAX crawling turned on) e.g. "/?pg=1#dir=desc&order=price". Everything after the hash won't get crawled by Google.  If you can't do AJAX, then you can add noindex to sorted pages and (at your own peril) nofollow / robots.txt to stop some pages being crawled. Using nofollow / robots starts to move into crafting page rank though and IMO is to be avoided. Another approach to avoid pagination and the performance impact of very long lists is to create more subcategories to break the inventory up. Might not be possible for your inventory, but worth considering a complete side step. George

I would just leave it blank, some say remove them or some say add keywords as like Arif said it can be used by smaller search engines. I personally would leave it blank and focus on adding your keyword and also variations of your keyword in the page and in the Title and Description tags. When it comes to on-page work I always think of Marys Chocolate Donuts.... Thanks Rand ha

I believe the actual calculation comes from Google's internal PR measure, so if you used Toolbar PR, it would be scaled in appropriately. For example, a page with TBPR=4 would only pass 33% more equity than a page with TBPR=3 (if you treat TBPR as linear), whereas it should actually be an order of magnitude higher (we're not sure what power Google uses). Technically, you can't calculate PR without the entire link-graph, since the maximum values are set from the link graph, and the calculation is iterative. On a small scale, you could just pick a log scale to use and approximate what happens. I guess I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish. Beyond a tutorial view, so many factors are laid on top of PR, that even if you could calculate the true values, they would only tell you a small part of the story.

It will show up as N/A in the toolbar until the next time Google updates what it displays to the user in the toolbar. This can be several months behind what the true PageRank is, and can be inaccurate. Google has admitted that the PR displayed on the toolbar is not always accurate, and has been that way for years.

Here's what I mean. When you are deciding whether to do something, if your first question is, "How will this affect PageRank?" then you are asking the wrong questions. For example: If you want to know whether to try to get a link from a website, don't worry so much about its PageRank. Ask yourself whether this is a link you would want even if Google did not exist, whether it is topically relevant to your website, whether you will get quality referral traffic, whether you will be "earning" or "building" the link, and a lot more. All of those things matter more than a number that is increasing arbitrary and rarely updated by Google anymore. The point: Google is thinking more like a human and less like a machine. Digital marketers need to catch up (if they weren't there already).

Yep. They definitely need static content on the home page.

Hi Robert, If you go to your profile: http://moz.com/community/users/3868035, you'll see an "Edit" button a bit to the right of your profile picture. When you click that button, you'll be taken to the "edit" view of your profile, where you'll see fields where you can tie your social accounts to Moz. You'll see icons for Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and LinkedIn. From here, all you need to do is add your +example into the field associated with Google+. If you don't know your +example name, you can open your Google+ page and find it in the URL. What you need to enter is what comes after (and including) the + in the URL. I hope that's been helpful Robert, cheers!

Thanks!

That's all you need to do, is remove it via dns

We usually update once a month, and the next scheduled update is posted on the homepage of OSE at http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/. Keep in mind that our index does change each month, so it's worthwhile to look at the DA/PA of your competitors too, and see how you changed in relation to their metrics.

Thank you to you all for your valued feedback. Marie, please do let me know when this article becomes available. I'd be vary interested to read. We use Moz to analyse and correct the general health of a website to eradicate errors accordingly. Panda - I'm aware Panda updates have happened more frequently. All duplicates and the quality of content has been implemented for our client. Penguin - I have disavowed "all" poor quality backlinks, ensuring good quality links remain. We did this manually checking each link and the referring websites for quality assurance. **But how do we know when the Panda penalty has been lifted, when it's obvious we have a Penguin penalty in place? ** **Does a business who are desperate to advertise online simply begin creating new "valuable" **content, reach out to industry influencers etc,  to achieve backlinks with authority - meaning waiting maybe months before the penalty is removed, if removed? Or, create a new site, "completely" separate from the old, and implement our marketing strategy knowing that the spammy practices conducted in the past will not affect my clients new site?

Yes put back the meta tags, and wait. but I am not convinced that your drop in visits was cased by this.

Hey Stephanie Sorry to hear you are experiencing issues with your Facebook connection. Currently I don't see an authentication issue when logged into your account. If you see a connection message appear again definitely let us know at moz.com/help/contact before re-connecting so we can take a closer look. Cheers!

No its not. one should redirect to the other. but I think your problem is that you have links within your site that point to both, this is why the auto sitemap generation generates both. find the internal links and fix them.

That's ok, thanks Ben. Pretty much confirmed my thoughts to be honest, will just have to start the campaigns fresh in the new account. Cheers, Josh

Prashant, You could be told many different things depending on who you ask, but I'd say from my experience working at a company that makes websites, the answer is that there is no definitive answer. That being said, there ARE helpful tips I can give you: "How many links?" is a less important question than "What kind of links?" Consider the position of each page in regard to where it is in your sales funnel (if at all). The closer to the bottom of the funnel (bottom = conversion), the more straightforward your navigation and direction should be. For instance, you wouldn't put a link to your "About Us" page on a landing page or contact form, because it directs traffic away from conversion and the flow of your site. The modern design tends toward simplicity - which means that while it's not necessarily a problem to have so many links, it will be confusing to your customers and lead people away from the content they were initially searching for. People are inattentive and fickle, so you want to guide them. Links need to fit logically with the content. If a page is about a service X, don't link to service Y unless it relates to service X, and you write your content in a way that makes sense. I hope that's helpful for you!

Hi David, I hope you had a good weekend? Thank you for all your help! I reported them to Google using the link you posted and already the other site's URLs that had copied us have been removed and our pages have been put back in the index. I have to say I am absolutely astounded that Google responded so quickly! Yes, that is us on Google + and my personal Google + is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AmeliaVargo/posts/. Thank you again for your help thus far, and for your kind offer of more help should we need it! Have a great day, Amelia

Awesome - thanks for all the extra info David! Just to clarify, do you mean 301 the author archives to the homepage? Yoast does this when you check "disable author archives".