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This is basically a way for sites to try to control the performance hit of being crawled too often by the bots. I don't think its ever worked to get a site deemed unimportant by the engines crawled more often than they would otherwise. If your site is not getting slammed by bots (and if it is, you probably have bigger performance problems to go after first) then, like Ryan Kent said, there isn't much use for these.

It could be that the comment spam is now being punished, coincidentally after you stopped it. Run the keyword grading tool on your pages to make sure your on-site is as good as it could be, and continue building legitimate links. I would never suggest using black-hat techniques like buying comment spam.

Ideally you'll keep your URLs as short as possible, you'll notice SEOMoz does this here by limiting the Q&A section to the /q subfolder.

You also don't want to stuff keywords into your titles, URLs, or content.

However, www.example.com/review/razer-mouse-review is a far cry from keyword stuffing.

As far as the order goes, I believe that an exact match such as "razer-mouse-review" is slightly better than "review/razer-mouse" for someone searching "razer mouse review". Its a really minor difference though, to the point where the page with higher authority should always win in a match between those two. I wouldn't go through the trouble of changing those URL's and 301'ing them (which will cause you to lose a small amount of authority).

I had a conversation about this very topic recently, here is the advice I got:

Headings get totally different treatment in HTML5, we have to throw away everything we knew about this from HTML4/XHTML.

In earlier versions of HTML we only had headings (h1 - h6), there are no other sectioning elements at all. That is why we had to be very careful about our usage of the h1 tag, and there was always controversy regarding it usage.

In HTML5 the sectioning is much more powerful. We have a whole bunch of new elements for sectioning and the algorithm used to generate the outline is far more complex, and flexible. In short, it no longer matters how many h1 tags we have on a page.

We must still adhere to a structured approach and be careful to generate the right outline (one that reflects the proper structure of the document), and this is what this theme does.

To conclude and clarify, in HTML5 it doesn't matter if there is multiple h1 tags on a page, what matters is how they are used in conjunction with the other sectioning elements, and that the outline produced represents the correct structure of the document.

Check out this video: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-dealing-with-duplicate-content

It will give you a much more thorough answer than just a percentage of uniqueness. But if you want that kind of answer I mostly hear guesses between 20% - 40% unique content.

This isn't white-hat in my opinion, its grey-hat. Its a huge list that provides no benefit to anyone reading the page. On the other hand, they're only making their own site a nightmare, not anyone elses - hence the grey instead of black.

I'm surprised this ranks at all, this page should be recognized as zero quality.

Robert check this article out re: frontpage and htaccess

Frontpage is an html editor that helps you build a site. Apache is a server that site can run on. It sounds like you have both.

You'll want to edit the .htaccess file in the root folder of your website, wherever the file for your homepage sits.

In regular expressions the / character denotes the end and beginning. Try this instead:

source: /replay/(.)*

target: /

The source can be parsed as "start at replay, escape a / into the string, then any other characters or none at all."

A bit more detail:

/ begins the regular expression - from here on we're replacing what evaluates as TRUE

replay looks for the string "replay" in the URL

\ is an escape character, meaning evaluate what follows as is. We need to escape because / has a specific meaning in regex, but we want it to actually look for a slash

/ follows the escape character, so now its searching for "replay/"

. means any character other than line-break

• means this part is present 0, 1 or many times. You want "anything after replay/" so we repeat the . regex with a ... arriving at (.)  The parenthesis tell the * which part its supposed to work on

You need a CMS, and the generally accepted top 3 open-source CMS's today are: Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla.

You'll want to do your own research on these platforms to come up with what works best for you. They all have many things in common, and could all be used to successfully build the site you're imagining. But they also each have their quirks, their own communities with slightly different cultures, and different types of site-owners that prefer one to the others.

For whatever its worth, when I ask myself this question I come up with Wordpress for brochure-ware style sites, and Drupal for anything more complex.

No its value is not relative to your sites authority... but rather its just a good way of gauging its actual value. A page authority value of 34 means there are maybe a couple inbound links to the page. Its not very high, however a DA of 65 is pretty decent. I recommend installing the mozbar and then browsing around a bit until you get a feel for what these scores mean.

I've begun using this tool to compare pages for duplication. On the page they say 80%+ is duplicate, but I would be far more conservative.

http://www.wordsfinder.com/tool_duplicate_content_checker.php

SEOmoz Term Extractor tool, followed up with some checking against the SERPs. That's the combination I've been using to learn more about my competition at least. You could always check their source for meta keywords too.

EDIT: Also take a look at the anchor tag text of their inbound links.

One common source of this problem is the tag, category, and author pages. I include these links in my blog because they're useful to site visitors, but I make sure to link them as NOFOLLOW to avoid the content duplication problems they can cause.

EDIT: I use the All in one SEO plugin for this. There are checkboxes to add NoIndex to those page types.

I must sound like a total fanboy at this point, but Drupal can do that pretty easily. I built adoptionexperts.org in a few days with it. Basically create a question content type, theme comments into answers, and then add flags for votes and you're pretty much done.

If you must hide content with AJAX to meet the design requirements, use whats called graceful degradation. In your case it would mean placing all the content that appears on any given URL into the original resource that loads within

<noscript>tags.</p> <p>For example if you have a page for cancun and depending on what people click different parts of the cancun resort show up, put all that info into <noscript> tags on the cancun page.</p> <p>But I think John Barth is right. I didn't see any AJAX on the page, only php. If you're loading content using PHP you've got no worries, all the magic happens on the server and is served up to engine bots in full.</p></noscript>

I just learned that I'll be dealing with this issue next year and began thinking about it too. The vague strategy I formed was to update addresses in this order:

1. Website

2. Google Places

3. Yelp

4. LinkedIn

5. Then go over site logs to pick up the rest.

Its too bad you can't 301 a building huh?

I agree with EGOL. Its too useful of a metric for them to completely ignore. However its probably not weighted very high since this is something that would be very gameable.

See: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#metrics-7 for some extra opinions on this topic.

The reconsideration request is just to speed things up. Google will eventually crawl back over your site, but since you know about and have access to this short-cut, there really isn't any reason not to take it

If you're logged out and click the Like button, a dialog should pop up asking you to log in before you can like it, or see the page you're liking. Thats just standard facebook, they hide all content behind the registration wall.

If you're saying the likebox has no content except for a login box, that is weird, however I don't really know why it would be doing that, sorry. I can however point you to the FB developers support page