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mix them up, you dont want your anchor text to be all the same,

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Looks a lot more natural

PR is not the same as authority, PR is a measure of link popularity, but not relevance or trust. or any other metric.

Here is a simple explaination of pr and how it works

http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank

no, no-follow tags use as much pagerank as any other links, it just does go anywhere, so it is wasted. You should never use no-follow on internal links, is just a waste of link juice.

No-follows produce no gain, the only use is when you link to a dodgy site, you want to tell Google, thaat you are not passing link juice to this dogy site, you do not vouch for them.

Canonical, dont use noindex in robots,

By using no index by robotes, you lose all the link juice of any link pointing to the no-indexed pages.

If the pages are not duplicates, then dont do anything, let them all rank.

With prev next the content of every page is given to page 1, in that case the link would be part of the content. But with a canonical I am not sure.

If you go by comments by Matt Cutts and Bings Duane Forrester canonicals are the same as a 301 execpt they dod not pyhsiclly move the viewer to the canonical page. so in the case of a canonical the content would not be merged, only the content on the canonical page would be indexed, the links from other verrsions would be redirected. so the link on the show_extra_link version of the page would not be indexed.

As for the morality of this, i would not do it, you are not being honet with the clint and you would be caught out sooner or later when the url was seen in the index(if it was indexed)

Yes they can, I would add rel= previous and rel=next to them

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

Bing allowes you to diavow links, and Goolge is planning to do the same soon, so i would wait till then then disavow the links you dont trust.

i would not worry about the reciprocal links, this is natrual and not a worry.

but i would be concerned about them being under your domain as it may confuse the meain of your site, if you no index them, you will be giving link juice away still, but wont be getting any back. I would use a meta tag noindex,folow

this way they will not index the clinet sites, but will return the link juice

If there is good links pointing to the domain?

what if there is bad links pointing to the domain?

Why was the domain abandoned?

Google is also a domain register, so they know that a domain has changed ownership. it has been said that links from the old owner are discounted when it expires or changes ownership, I don't know if this is true, but it is something else to consider.

Yes remove the noindex follow.

all the content on all the pagneated pages will be awarded to one page, usellly page 1. but if you have a no index, then only the content on page one will be used to rank you.

For the first senario use a canonical tag.

for the second use the prev next tags, this to google will make page one look like one big page with all the content of all the pages on it.

dont use parrametter handing, it is a last resort, it is only for google (though bing has its own), and its effectiveness has been questioned.

dont use robots.txt

You will cause link juice leaks for each link that points to a page behind a rebots.txt exclude

The best thing to do is use a canonical tag pointing to http://deceptionbytes.com/component/mailto

Link juice flows though links only if the linked page is in the index, if not then the link juice just goines up in smoke, it is wasted, so you dont want to link to a page that is not indexed.

A canonical tag tells the search engine to give the credit to teh page in the canonical tag.

so with a canonical tag pointing to page.html from page.html?id5 with tell the search engine they are the same page, and to give credit to teh canonical.

this is how to createa canonical tag
http://mycanonialpage.com/page.html/" />

Just wait, things will clear up by themselfs if that was in fact what caused the drop.

SE' will want to see stability over a period of time, who knows what that is, but one would think it would involve them crawling you a fair few times to come to the conclusion that you are now stable.

Just a side note, 302's that have been in place for some time are treated as 301s by Bing, and visa versa, 301's that keep changing are treated as 302's. I have no idea if Google does anything like this.

just noticed the spell check, I haven't posted for some time, my spelling sucks so good news.

I tried also could not find it.
but here is a quote from Matt Cutts
"Eric Enge:  Can a NoIndex page accumulate PageRank?

Matt Cutts:  A NoIndex page can accumulate PageRank, because the links are still followed outwards from a NoIndex page.

Eric Enge:  So, it can accumulate and pass PageRank.

Matt Cutts:  Right, and it will still accumulate PageRank, but it won't be showing in our Index.  So, I wouldn't make a NoIndex page that itself is a dead end.  You can make a NoIndex page that has links to lots of other pages.

For example you might want to have a master Sitemap page and for whatever reason NoIndex that, but then have links to all your sub Sitemaps.

Eric Enge:  Another example is if you have pages on a site with content that from a user point of view you recognize that it's valuable to have the page, but you feel that is too duplicative of content on another page on the site

That page might still get links, but you don't want it in the Index and you want the crawler to follow the paths into the rest of the site.

Matt Cutts:  That's right.  Another good example is, maybe you have a login page, and everybody ends up linking to that login page.  That provides very little content value, so you could NoIndex that page, but then the outgoing links would still have PageRank.

Now, if you want to you can also add a NoFollow metatag, and that will say don't show this page at all in Google's Index, and don't follow any outgoing links, and no PageRank flows from that page.  We really think of these things as trying to provide as many opportunities as possible to sculpt where you want your PageRank to flow, or where you want Googlebot to spend more time and attention."

http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml

First I would not recommend doing this to anyone else, but my circumstances were extreme.
Let me explain to those that did not read previous posts on the subject. I had a domain thatsit.net.au, I had never really promoted it as I used a keyword domain to rank in search engines but kept this domain mainly for email, but having said that it did rank ok considering, it ranked first for my business name at least.
A few moths back I decided to promote it and check the rankings, I was surprised to see that it ranked last for almost every thing,. Even my business name. Let me impress when I say last I mean in most cases absolute last and if not last very, very close to last.
I decided to get some links happening to move it of bottom, in my experiences a site that ranks that bad even a few links with show a big jump in rankings, it is easier to get from page 1000 to page 900 than it is to get from page 2 to page 1. The site had about 200 links and I pushed that up to about 1,000 but I was still at the bottom even for long tails searches where I was the only exact match on the internet.
asking for advice I got responses like you need better links and the such, this did not account for the sudden drop in rankings, as I knew the history I knew that thee was something deeper going on, I asked Google for reconsideration they said there was no manual action taken.
I should also mention I ranked very well in Bing all this time and still do.
By now I was getting paranoid that someone was stuffing me up somehow as a last resort I changed the domain name from thatsit.net.au to thatsit.com.au I did this about 10 days ago.
Today I searched for my company name and I came up #4 not bad from not being in the top 1,000 a few days ago.
Rankings are not where they used to be but I can handle that, I have 301’ed across all my links and have stated to change over the links I control, but as I still don’t know why the other domain would not move from the bottom as search results I am nervous that I may 301 over the problem.
I have never really done anything in the way of Black Hat SEO that would get me banned, maybe a bit of light grey over the years but nothing to worry about.
Anyhow I am non the wiser as to why things happened like they did. But I did want to report back to others that read the posts and thought that maybe I was imaging things.
I was never really depended on the domain ranking, what really bothers me is not knowing why the .net.au domain fell from rankiings and I still don’t know why.

I would backup your htaccess file.
then remove half the rules, then test. then you will know what half it is in. keep doing this to you find it

This really sounds like the hosting company moving blame to you.

Why not change hosting, i would do it quickly.

Do you have a image upload? seing the pages are in your image folder.

If so you can add some code to make sure it is actualy images that you are uploading.

Remeber you have to convert to sales, it is no use getting too far way from your end goal just to get exposure if you cannot convert it back to sales.

I am not a big believe in social media, i assume in certain industries it would be good, but in many industries iit just not what facebook users are looking for.