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One thing i noticed was you have session ids in your urls, this means the page looks like a duplicate

http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-url-contains-a-session-identifier

That huge list on the home page may be seen as spam.  You have over 1500 links on the front page Each one with a session id.

Looking at your source code you have very little content for search engines to judge your page, its all script and links.

I am trying to crawl and its very heavy going. I crawled 742 pages and found 109 of them have no title or description. I found over 6000 html errors

I would get rid of those links, and seesion ids. try to get a bit more text content on to pages including home page/

These are a few of the violations according to Bing I am finding.

http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-url-contains-a-session-identifier
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-invalid-markup
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-broken-hyperlinks
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-a-large-amount-of-script-code
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-multiple-canonical-formats
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-too-many-hyperlinks

first lets separate PageRank for relevancy

Relevancy is passed once to a page, if you have 2 links to the same page then the link text from the first link will be used,

if that link is a image link then alt text will be used, but most say alt text does not have the same power as link text, so having the text link first on the page would help.

I don't no if no-following a link will move the relevancy to the next link, I think you may just lose the relevancy

PageRank is passed though all links, even no followed links. a no-followed link will use the same PR but it jus goes nowhere, it is wasted.

So links such as
page1
page2
page3
All links will pass relevancy and PR

page1
page1
page2
page3
all will pass PR split between al links, but the second link to page1 will not carry relevancy

Matt Cutts has just anouced that they are bringing in a penalty for over optimized sites, to try and reward good content.

http://searchengineland.com/too-much-seo-google%e2%80%99s-working-on-an-%e2%80%9cover-optimization%e2%80%9d-penalty-for-that-115627?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed-main

there was a story in the press about a lawyer who was doing well out of places, utill another lawyer moved into the same building and google merged their places into one, and the phone number was that of the new guy. So they certainly are on the look out for it.

Yep report it to Google and Bing. Hidden text is against Google guidelines. I would not contact the owner or they may try to get you back with spam likes or something.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en Bing also once had a page, ubt I can no longer find it

Hi Phillipp

The guild lines say not to, the idea is one listing per place.

• "Businesses with multiple specializations, such as law firms and doctors, should not create multiple listings to cover all of their specialties. You may create one listing per practitioner, and one listing for the hospital or clinic at large.* Do not include information in address lines that does not pertain your business’s physical location (e.g. URLs, keywords)."

http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107528

As others have stated, its a bit in your face to the user.

May i suggest rather then a pop-up, just insert it somewhere un-obtrusive, after a few seconds, a simple bit of movement is all that is needed, and it would not stop the user from reading your content

I have to disagree, if you include <a><lastmod></a>2012-07-24T08:36:20Zlastmod> tag, then yes you should update it. Bing for example will ignore your site map if it is not accurate. The have a tolerance of about 2% errors.

If your site is only small, and all your pages are linked, then I would not even bother with a sitemap. Bing also stats that you should not list all your pages in a sitemap, but only your key pages.

Sitemaps don't help rankings only indexing, on large sites it is good to tell the search engine what pages have changed, or what pages are good pages to find links to other pages,

I find that very hard to believe, I have never heard of it.

Do they have keyword domains?

Quite new?

Do they rank in Bing as well as google?

I find that google ranks these sites very well, for a period and slowly catches up on them, but by that time, theer may be more.

I assume this is your site http://www.smokelessdelite.com/

A few things you can do, is get rid of the flash on your homepage, they impress no one these days and are not liked by SE's.

I found thousonds of un-necessary redirects each one leaking link juice, why not link to the destination directly? Is this a WordPress site? they arer famouse for this problem
The link to "http://www.smokelessdelite.com/index.php" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.smokelessdelite.com/".

My advice, not always appreciated, if you are making money on the internet, get a custom made website if you really want to rank, you will make up the cost in extra sales.
you can rank with a CMS but its a lot harder.

No, that page may not be helped but your site would not be suffering.
The 80/20 rule holds true to almost every business, you make 80% of your money from 20% of your products, and 20% of your money from 80% of your products.
you make 80% of your money from 20% of your customers, and 20% of your money from 80% of your customers.
80% of your customers take 20% of your time, and 20% of your customers take 80% of your time.
If you try to get rid of the 20% that don’t make money on, the 80/20 rule will result on what you have left. If you increase your variety, you will still have the 80/20 rule apply.

so rather then get rid of products, you should increase your range.

I would go with "eye care center"

When some one scrapes your site they take the canonical with them, pointing back to the original, so you still get credit. that is if they dont take it out.

But this is a miss use of a canonical, a canonical should not point back to the same page.

Bing for one has said that they will lose trust in your site if you do this, they will start to not trust all your canonicals, those that are there for a good reason.
http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2011/10/06/managing-redirects-301s-302s-and-canonicals.aspx

Google have said that they can handle it.

But a canonical does not pass all the link juice, so a canonical to itself, does it leak link juice? google says that can handle it, but that does not mean there is not a leak in link juice.

I for one dont do it, bing has made it clear they dont like, and even though google have said they can handle it, it does not mean there is no down side.

There is no reason to have a www, i dont have one on any of my domains, and recomend against it for my clients.

Imagine if people were call me www.alan, it would be stupid, so why call your web site www.domain.com

I believe this is a leftover from old unix servers, it is not needed today.

i dont think it will help, and it has a side affect, you will loose PageRank, your PR is split between all the links on your page, if you no-follow the links will still use there share of PR, but it will not be passed to the linked page, it will just be wasted.

as for redusing the link count, i dont think so, this is what bing says on the subject and it reads to me as if it the number of links, not the fact that they are follow or no follow

http://thatsit.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-too-many-hyperlinks

also somthing on page rank and links

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

I simular to john here. dont go ugly trying to cater for social media.

Is you industry one that is going to benifit from social media would be my first question.
Then if you decide it is, I would not have any link that is goiong to take users away from your page. A simple like button, OK

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photography, photographer? the seqarch engine will make the link between the 2, but you will rankj higher for one than the other. you are correct about changing later, it causes some problems.
its also a lot of keywords for one page, you should try to optimize for one or two keywords per page.
deciding what difficulty level of keyword is really up to you. but me i would go for the top keyword, you will rank well for long tail as a consequence anyhow.

Lets say you had a domain xyz.com, and you had 3 peole tbhat had their own blogs
tom.xyz.com
dick.xyz.com
harry.xyz.com

wel then search engines may see this as non related sites

but if you had a site clothing.com

and had shirts.clothing.com
and shorts.clothing.com
and pants.clothing.com
then search engines proobably will see them as the same

to help to make sure you are seem as one in the same site, do planty of linking betwen sites, haveing all your images and stayle sheets in teh parent domain will also help search engines see that you are one large site.
try to make the links both ways,

i have done this on a few sites and i have had good results