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okay - that is rather pants! Need to shout and stamp until they fix it! :O)

As our colleagues have mentioned your site is built in Flash and the crawlers can only see one page . If you are married to the site being flash you can research Flash deep linking with SWF Address which will create additional urls and metas. If your site is built for Search I would suggest recreating your site on a non flash platform .

What's wrong with having ten brass widgets in ten different colors and ten buy buttons all listed on a single page? I do that I we see lots of people buying a brass widget in every color.  I think that this is great for getting more sales.  If I was a shopper it would be a real frustration to visit ten pages to get one of each color - or just visit all of those pages to see which color I like best. Most important, Google might see that and say....  This page has brass widgets in EVERY FREEKING COLOR! and decide to show it to visitors who search for them. Now, if you are compulsive about having one page per widget and having your writer create yada yada yada content for all of them, keep in mind that you are wasting a lot of money on near duplicate content, boring your writers and spreading your pagerank out over a lot of pages.

No, you would keep MOST of the link juice. You would lose between 1-10% of your link juice with the redirect.

I agree with Ryan but question the usability factor of 260 links on your page. Have you done a usability study to check how easily your end users can find the information they are after. It can be daunting for a robot let alone a human to sift through all the sub-menus on your categories. It brings to mind Telstra and Optus sites that take a significant time to find the information your are after because of the huge number of options. I also notice that when you change currency that a prompt is displayed that 'all items in the shopping cart will be deleted' even when the cart is empty. Should you not check if the cart is empty before displaying the message, otherwise the prompt is defunct. If you want to still display them but not have the robots index them late populate them from a JQuery async call on demand as the user hovers over a menu item. You would need to ensure they are linked somewhere or on a sitemap so the search engines can still find them.

I wonder how many Serbian SEOs on SEOMoz? Raise your hand everyone. Pozdrav!

Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately I am using amazon cloud server for some sites, I'll have to look at some creative solutions to get them on different IP blocks or IP's altogether.

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.

Since you were looking to Advertise, I was thinking you were looking for referal clients. In that case is it worth paying for advertising, most SEO companies can get you on good DA sites with a good article submissions. It is mentioned on here a bit that multiple good C-Block DA's help to improve your link juice. So good links on lots of good ranked relativant sites should help your ratings more than a single link on a DA70 that you paid $500 for. I know Australia is a smaller market than UK but have moved all our main keyphrases to page 1 or 2 in a very short time by getting good links from on-topic related sites and getting A's for all of them in on-page optimization.

FYI, campaigns became available the following day, so if anyone else runs into this, just give it 24 hours and you should have your campaigns.

There are a few reasons this can happen. Each tool crawls the web at different times and see different things. I would recommend at least investigating any issues you find regardless of which tool you used to discover it. Personally, I would pay good money for a tool from Google which used their algorithms and data, but that isn't an option so we do the best we can with the available tools. Google WMT and SEOmoz crawl reports are two parts of that solution for me.

PMC, Absolutely!  One of the biggest ranking factors for your Google places are your citations. Anytime your clients business is mentioned online it acts as a citation. If you are using different NAP you wont get the credit from these citations.  The other issue is this can cause duplicate places page in Google. When this happens your clients best places page is pushed down and the new less optimized duplicate listing shows up. At this point you will need to claim this listing and TRY to delete the duplicate listing. This can take a lot of time. If you're going to use a different NAP for tracking purposes you'll want to do it as an image so Google bot can't read it. I've also attached a link where you can read about duplicate listings in Google places Hope this helps, Bill

If it is built into the framework - Genesis from StudioPress for example - it should turn itself off when it detects a dedicated SEO plugin - for other SEO plugins I would deactivate them first to prevent conflicts. Yoast's plugin will manage everything you need including a great sitemap generator - which works well where others fail (in heavily modified wordpress installs such as Appthemes Classipress for example.)

Unfortunately, I can't speak for the plug in part of your question. However, I can offer up from a user experience perspective that this is a good case for testing out your site. You can test different messages, different abilities, different pricing and see what the consumer response is. Google Website Optimizer can help you set up an A B test so you can see what your costumers respond more favorably to. I suppose your ability to do that depends on your flexibility with the shopping cart and, unfortunately, I am no expert on that. I would only suggest that you ask these questions when you are talking to your developer. I hope that helps!  Best of luck.

thanks guys - pretty standard stuff then.