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Hi Ryan. Glad to hear someone talking sense! In researching sites' linking patterns I have also often come across sites that are linked to that should really have no logical relationship back to the site in question, yet the link still counts. Sometimes these are from blog sites that seo companies have set up themselves, that have little content, and not terribly interesting content either, yet this still seems to work in 2011, which is baffling. I agree that one day this will all be devalued, but you wonder when.

so my best bet is to make the, nofollow ?

It sounds like you are referring to this mozinar: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/conversion-optimization-for-local-businesses

I have seen this lately on one of my clients' sites. The other thing I can help but wonder about is in doing research in Compete on search referrals to various sites, suddenly much of the data is total nonsense. For example, here are some of the top terms supposedly generating traffic to a popular inbound marketing site: medical coding tn real estate bankruptcy lawyer ventura ca auto detailing boston Or could this be the result of URL masking? Some sites results are complete nonsense, so that I can't tell that they get any legitimate search.

There you see, that's my concern... I do not want that... ok thanks, makes sense to tune my pages just a bit to include at least one mention to each keyword and make sure I grow my ranks... Thanks a lot both you for the ideas and experience.

Gregster, I assume that you have found an answer to your question by now. However, I wanted to offer up what looks to be an extremely in depth and comprehensive walkthrough on Magento SEO from yoast.com. They have several sections on duplicate content, as well as a canonical plugin you may find useful. http://yoast.com/articles/magento-seo/ Best of Luck!

Bottom line, you cannot make data available online without offering a means for a user to grab that data. You said you "don't wish to make it easy" so I will share some ideas: EGOL's suggestion is good and not that hard to implement. I am not sure if your site requires registration but you can set it up so guests can view a maximum of ?20 member pages or whatever amount you deem to be a reasonable number. There are more complicated methods by which you can establish a script that will block any IP or user who pulls too many pages too quickly. The real challenge is your sitemap. If all that is required is the company's name, your sitemap is all someone needs. In this case there is simply nothing I can think of you can do. If the sitemap isn't a challenge, another idea is to present the data in a method that is not easy to read. You can leave the description information in HTML but present the company name in Flash, for example. Bottom line, if you want to rank well, the site has to be easy to crawl. If the crawl data offers enough information for others to steal, there is simply no reasonable method that can be used to prevent automated tools from grabbing it.

The suckerfish menus at htmldog work well.... http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/example/ http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/example/ http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/

Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices

Is your question related to the SEOmoz Webapp? Because, if it is so, the answer is: you can do both. Which is the problem choosing one campaign for all the languages' versions of your site? That you are going to spend more time in order to separate the datas for any version. For instance, if you track 20 keywords per language, you're going to see how your site ranks for an english keyword also in the spanish Google or the german one... Also, when you are going to make link research, you will need to use the Excel filter a lot, in order to see what sites really links to one version or another. If this is not a problem for you (or you have limited campaign spots, being just 5 on a basic Pro level), then, you can create just one campaign... but the ideal (for better job organization) would be to create one campaign for every language version. Ciao

Would you mind sharing a link the page? It would be much easier to talk specifics if we could look at the page. In general terms, you want to examine the page and your site for the desired keyword. The two questions I would ask are: Is your page optimized for the "x1" keyword or phrase? Earlier today someone asked what he could do to improve his ranking for "Las Vegas vet". An examination of the site's home page showed that phrase was not used a single time on the page. You need to ensure you offer solid content with appropriate usage of the term, without stuffing the page. Is your site canibalizing your SERP? When you search for the keyword, do other pages from your site appear? If so, try to figure out why. Google apparently believes the page offered is a better match for "x1". You can help by modifying the page a bit and replacing "x1" with a different keyword designed for that particular page. You can also use anchor links for x1 throughout your site. These links would help users find the desired page and let Google know you are focusing that keyword to a particular page.

Thanks Ryan for your help! A lot of good ideas that I will definitely be implementing.

Thanks to all responders, I am new to this community, and I greatly appreciate all your help.  My question has fully been answered. Thanks.

Domain Authority should be a slightly better measurement of a domain's ability to get a page ranked (e.g. all other things being equal, a page on a DA 70 site should outrank that same page on a DA 60 site). Domain mozRank is a rougher algorithm, based solely on the links pointing to the domain and how important those are (it's just PageRank on the domain link graph). DA actually takes DmR into account in its machine learning system.