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Makes sense. I thought there might be more to it. Thanks for the quick response.

So how can it rank number one on Google?

I was afraid it would be in the technical area instead of a magical button solving my problems. I'm not exactly sure how I am doing the redirect, however I do believe it is ASP so I will give it a try. Thanks for the Answer!

I'm not an SEO Guru just a junior on his way so think twice my advice before accepting it, it's just an opinion From my point of view I'd choose a smaller submarket of the big one you're talking about. Travelling, tourism have big market with strong competition. I'd go for long-tail keywords on subpages, optimize them for those keywords. On a long-term I still wouldn't go for the whole market if the competition is too strong with strong SEO. I'd choose smaller submarkets which can be defined around keyword groups and just one keyword. In the title use the most searched term and the content should contain more keywords, preferably long-tail ones. I think from a marketing perspective: it's much better to occupy a smaller market then become the 100th on a bigger one, because not your product or service but your position in your niche will define your business strategies, goals and success. Destiny - this is the best idea in your question! I'm sure it's a good idea and it works! Keyword Density - is the opposite do not overuse keywords and their plural forms, it's a bad practice. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization Hope this helped!

Place that code in between the head tags for all of the specific categories to implement a Canonical link ^.^ Hope it helps!

I have found the resources under learn SEO to be very helpful.  Webinars, Videos and the Beginners Guide. For me, I find downloading reports, then making comparisons over time  also keeps me on track. I am by no means an expert, but by spending a little time with the tools and the content they provide I have gained solid traction in handling some of the content provided.

Thumbs up to Anthony - definitely good advice. In addition, though, I'd think of OSE and Linkscape as a good representative sample. The metrics and side-by-side with other sites/pages are a really good way to compare, but yeah - it can't catch every link on the web. We suspect Google keeps between 100-150 billion pages in their main index and our last index update was 51 billion URLs, so there's obviously a lot of the deep, dark corners missing. Another thing you might check, though, is Blogscape - http://www.seomoz.org/labs/blogscape - which shows our fresh web crawl and can be used to monitor new links/mentions we've seen. These URLs are starting to go into every Linkscape index soon, so we'll have all that data in the larger index with all the metrics, etc. in the next few updates.

Thanks Barry, actually the other problem with Xenu is that it can't really handle very large sites and this is a very large site! I will investigate XPATH and PHP, thanks

What exact do you mean by "when I checked targeting in German there were almost 5 billion pages"? I know you are referring to "million" but how did you arrive at that number? Other things to check: submit an updated sitemap to Google. How many pages show in the site map? what type of navigation does your site offer? Is all of the navigation visible in HTML? some sites offer dozens of versions of the same page. A print-friendly version, sorted ascending by price, sort descending by price, sort by size and many other properties. Each sort is a different page on your site. You can have a site with 150k worth of canonical pages, but 5 million actual pages. Google will not list the duplicate pages.

Cheers Himanshu I am not looking for tools to identify individual websites, i am looking for content swap platforms or communities Both ontolo and eightfold look like generic link prospecting tools, which is not quite what Im after S

Hey Alex, Sorry that you're having that issue with Keyword Difficulty! These new in-site results do seem to have thrown off our tools, so we need to consider how to address them. Obviously, in-site links take up a lot of real estate in the SERPs, so the fact that they're there does add a lot of competition. However, I'm not sure if we've decided yet how we're going to treat them in the KWD tool, so stay tuned for that. Also, if you could send an email to help@seomoz.org with your PRO email address, the KWD search you're doing, and the example SERP, we'll take a look for you ASAP. Thanks Alex!