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www.acupunctureintakeform.com/template/ is a much better idea.
There will be no benefit in terms of SEO for you to repeat the keyword in the URL
As for the future pages, you could always do the following
www.acupunctureintakeform.com/template/
www.acupunctureintakeform.com/template-with-diagrame/
www.acupunctureintakeform.com/template-with-pictures/
etc
Hope that helps.
Greg
Yes it does effect your rankings.
I cant say how much, but is definately a factor that Google considers when ranking your pages.
Make sure you are using a reliable host as not only Google gets mad when pages become unavailable.
Greg
IMO Alt image tags shouldn't play a part in over optimization i wouldn't think. If anything, reduce the amount of times the product name is mentioned in the content.
If i were to further improve the alt image tags however, i'd suggest including descriptive words as well as the product name:
Original: Blue Shoes
New: Shiny Blue Shoes for Boys
This way, your not laser targeting each page for a certain keyword and instead mixing it up a bit for users. It looks natural this way and your images should still rank for the keywords.
Greg
Moz doesn't just look at the text of a page, it also looks at the template and how "similar" it appears compared to other pages.
Here's a quote from Dr. Pete:
"Our system currently uses a threshold of 95% to determine whether content is duplicated. This is based on the source code (not the text copy), so the amount of actual duplicate content may vary depending on the code/content ratio."
Here are a few articles you can read to get a deeper understanding.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-block-redirect-or-canonical
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-illustrated-guide-to-duplicate-content-in-the-search-engines
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/rethinking-duplicate-content
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/fat-pandas-and-thin-content
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-illustrated-guide-to-duplicate-content-in-the-search-engines
Greg
Hi,
These pages exist and are exact duplicates according to Google. You said you stopped generating these URL's over year ago?
Why not just 404 all children URL's?
Once done, you can either request them to be removed from the index, wait for them to disappear or you could 301 them if the children URL's are still getting traffic.
Just make sure that you have no links internally pointing to any of the children URLs and Google should forget about them,
Once your done with all the above, you can mark the errors as fixed, and Google should stop reporting them,
GREG
Web2.0 sites are the lowest value links you can get imo and a waste of time.
remember
site.wordpress.com and website.wordpress.com are both on the same website, that being Wordpress.
No matter how many links you get on these blog sites, they still only count as 1 linking root domain which doesnt help SEO very much.
Dont waste you time spinning articles to submit on web.20 sites (Senuke X blasts etc) Rather spend your time creating unique articles and publishing them on different REAL websites. This is the difference between "Building" links and "earning links" (which do you think Google prefers)?
Greg
The examples you gave aren't duplicates so don't worry about enabling that option.
All the "rentals" pages are using the archive template. Essentially its just a template like any other template you have set up. Usually archives list historical articles and posts and are generally no-indexed but your archive template is set up differently.
2 things i noticed.
You don't have a sitemap on your home page and nothing here: http://villasdiani.com/sitemap.xml
Your archive title tags im guessing are generated automatically, you might want to change the title tags on all "rentals" pages and only include the main descriptive keyword.
I hope this helps.
Greg
Hi Lisa,
When viewing posts per tag, the content on that page is identical to the content on another page which is triggering the dupe content.
The general rule of thumb is to no-index your tag pages. If you're using wordpress, Yoast SEO plugin allows you to set the no-index tag automatically.
Greg
Just use the Main domain URL.
I don't think individual pages are a factor. If you include the post URL, Google i assume only looks at the domain so either or, it doesn't matter, It just needs to confirm that your a contributor to a given domain.
You only need to create 1 campaign for the website.
Roger bot will crawl all your product pages and report on any technical issues you have with the pages.
When checking for ranks, SEOMOZ checks the pages that are ranking as well as your domain so you dont have to assign different keywords for different pages in your campaign settings.
Dont worry about creating multiple campaigns, just load your website URL, insert the keywords for all your product pages, and wait for a report at the end of the week.
Greg
Strictly speaking, any form of duplicate content is frowned upon and in theory, if a link exists on a page with content identical to another website, that link would be less valuable.
If each of your descriptions in listings were unique to some extent, i'd guess the value of the link would be somewhat better.
I don't think you'd run a risk of getting penalties though as the dupe content doesn't originate on your site, (unless the description you plan on using is identical to content somewhere on your site)
I think the only negative to using the same description across multiple sites would be the value that passes with the link.
(I don't have any evidence for this though, just a theory)
Greg
Being verry simplistic. You need a page dedicated to that keyword. Page title, Meta description, title tags, h1 tags and themed content.
Once your on page is set up, start building links using that anchor text. If this is a long term goa for you, stay away from Senuke. You will just be spamming the internet with low value content and the links you get back will be just that, low value.
I would say, create some articles and submit to Article directories (low value but best "built" link) A better idea would be to find your competitors, (any site apearing on the top 20) contact them, and offer them something of value. If you get a link from a competitor/related website it will be much more powerfull than a random article link.
You may think Senuke is a great press and go tool, but after using it for 6 months, it was all a big waste of time and energy.
GREG
We have just launched a new Travel website aswell. (4 months in the making)
Each page has its own targeted keywords so Meta Descriptions and Title tags for your destination pages are important!!
We found a plugin that allows us to change the "template" for the destination pages.
Tell those guys who built your site that not being able to edit dynamic pages is NOT cool and they need to make a plan!
If you dont put them in, google may decide to rank your home page for keywords instead of the correct tour/product page.
GREG
Hi Craig
Simply put, yes you will get the "trust" signal by getting a link on that website.
However, because the page you create has very little authority, there is very little "link juice" that passes onto your website (The stronger the page, the more ranking power you receive)
Get the best of both.. Publish the article, and then build a few back links to your article. This will improve the article pages Authority (page rank) and will in tern filter it into your website..
Just make sure the article is not specifically about the products you sell or it may outrank your website when you promote the article
Greg
Bumbed!!
We uploaded over 150 new product pages, and after 2 weeks Google had still not indexed them. After a few hours of trying to figure it out, all the new pages had a canonical link to the parent page (it used the parent page template)
We removed the canonical tag, but we are still waiting!
Reminder to self: Check all technical stuffs when publishing new pages!
"what is the best way to go about gaining rankings and traffic from search"
I think it can all be summed up in 2 words.
Outreach and Hussle. Stop thinking about how to "build" links (low value) Rather spend your time and energy "earning" your links.
Create a awesome blog post about your niche, find a competitor or a relevent website and give them the article in return for a link. They get awesome content, and you get a awesome and powerful link!
The more quality links you get, the higher up in the serps you go. Its that simple. (or not)
I would advise you watch more whiteboard Fridays!
GREG
If your going to 301 the URLs, be sure to 404 them first otherwise you wont be able to send a removal request in G-WMT
To remove a page or image, you must do one of the following:
GREG
Hi
Sounds like your from South Africa 
When it comes to targeting pages for keywords, i would avoid "cannibalising" your pages. If "goedkope vliegtickets" has a high volume of searches, then have only one page for "goedkope vliegtickets".
What i mean is with "goedkope vliegtickets" you dont want to confuse google on which page you want it to display on the serps.
Stick to your optimized page "goedkope vliegtickets" and let google rank that page ONLY for that particular keyword. When someone finds that page, you need to be sure you can direct them to the page they are actually looking for "location/tickets, etc
When you research more keywords, you might find "goedkoopste tickets durban" this is a seperate keyword, so you are not "canabalising" if you created another page.
I hope i made sense and good luck!
GREG
There are 3 external links on the example page.
2 are the FB and G+ links
The other is the question mark in the captcha box pointing to Google.com. Its followed, and external.
I hope this solves the mystery?
Regards
Greg
1.) The only ones at risk are your affiliates. The content was indexed on your site first, If someone has the same content without linking back, they get the dupe content flag.
2.) There are many factors on what a "good" link is. In your case i wouldn't worry about the dupe content. They great thing with your business model is the amount of linking route domains and C class IP's which makes up for the low value link.
3.) This is NA, as long as you make sure these pages link back to you (original source), your partner sites will be fine. If not, they will get a knock and not you.
GREG