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I believe the number 100 is the limit of links in a page. and yes the more links the less pr being passed to each page.

But 100 links on the home page means means you can have 100 child pages with 100 links on each means 10,000 links only 2 clicks from home page.

as for re=canonical, is page 2 unique? then yes just as you would for any other page.

I assume you are aware of the flat link stucture, if not I think this page though old is a must.
http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html

Its a long read, but very imformative

There was a guy who went by the name "Earl Grey"

Rand can thank this man for getting him a break.

Earl Grey was interviewed by Neesweek as a Black Hat, when asked by the interviewer if he knew white hat SEO he could interview he gave Rands name, and SEOMoz boomed from that point.

Forgive me rand if i have not got the facts correct, but thats the routh story.

I use the Microsoft SEO toolkit, its not so much dynamic, but you can just click the pages you want included. i think this is better as Duane Farrester said on white board friday, you should not include every page in your sitemap. just the main ones. If you list every page it is likly your site map will be ignored in future.

I asked Duane about this at bing, and he suggested that this is only so with large sites, if you have a small site of 10-20 pages then listing every page is not a problem. but all the same i only list useful pages, i dont list contact page, policy pages and the like.

I have heard people caim they can not, but i know they can, i dont know that they do, but i know they can.

in uni we learnt how you can send code in images by altering pixels and how to detect if the image has changed and conctains code. Each image is just a long code. its a simple check sum

If it has been only for a few days, dont panic, it may just come back, it has ahppaned to me, and often comes back ranking better.

You are coorect

they have php5 but after checking, i find that they have dicontinued mysql used by wordpress i believe, I am not famialer with WP much myself.

Are they the same image? as it is posible for SE's to tell if they are.

i would put a caption for each image if posible to help differentuate. also a unique alt tag.

Maybe it was those links that were giving you ranking, and maybe in the farmer update they were discounted?

I am not sure what security problems you had, but the main thing i would be looking for is load speed. this is a factor in ranking.

I host my own sites in Australia, but i do host a few at discountasp. they seem to have all the featuers and they are great value.

could it be in code.
I used to append my city on the end of titles if they were short enouth. Are you sure no one has coded this?

3 dots placed before last bracket, need to be removed,

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rogerBot/1.0; http://www.seomoz.org/dp/rogerbot)

Often wondered myself
i think google makke the right choice. they would of thought about this and i am sure they get it right.

i have much the same thing on one of my sites, and they rank quite well, so i dont think they are seen as duplicates.

either way is ok, but not both.
at least when you have 301 redirect, people that grab your url will always grab the same version of it

As long as it reads natural, just using cheesburgers will probably be enouth. assuming your site has the address on it.

sorry missed the word "competitors"

I use .net when i build sites, iuse the Application_Error method to see if the error was a 404 tthen 301 to my home page. so any broken link 301 to my home page

Google maay be able to work out what version you want to go with, but is it the same one that bing and other SE's will go with, and then you have the problem with www and non www links, one will be redirect to the other somehow and will leak a bit of link juice. its better that when some one copies your url its always the same.

I prefer the non www. because www is unessasry, i believe its an old unix thing, not needed today. If you have a long domain name www makes it just that much more confusing

Chang ethings so

A to C

B to C

I am not sure that 2 redirects is really that bad, i saw a matt cutts video where he made it sould like i or 2 was not the problem.

I have a client with subdomains, and they seem to group together nicely, I do plent of closs linking, it helps that the content is relevant accross domains, but one thing I do is locate all the images and some js and css files on the root domain and link to them from the subdomains. now i have no evidence that this makes a diference besides my gut feeling, but i hope that Se's see this as one big site, i would if i was working at Bing or Google