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WordPress SEO by Yoast allows you to add a "noindex, follow" to these pages. that will prevent the duplicate issues.  You can also remove the media pages from your sitemap.

You can even drill down to each individual image and determine whether you want that image to be indexed or not.

Another option is to remove the link from the image in the post.  I know you are dealing with quite a few images but unless you are wanting to promote that image, I would remove the link.

I use Standard Theme for all my blog sites. It integrates the core functions of WordPress SEO by Yoast with a really well coded theme.  As far as the duplicate content.  Wordpress SEO by Yoast lets you deal with what items to nofollow and noindex very easily on almost any theme.

I would be good to set up Site Search tracking and monitor the searches that are taking place.  Depending on the results it might be a good idea to create a "You were looking for 'this product' but 'this product' or "this product" might be a good fit." page.

Also, make sure to check back through the links to the site and try to reach out to the websites in regards to changing the link URL.  Watch GWT closely over the next few months.

That's great information and process.

According to Google Search Quality engineer, Uli Lutz, you only need to include the links in GWMT.  Here is an article with more information on that.

This is being caused by your "Related Post" plugin/module. To correct this problem simply add rel="nofollow"  to the links in that module.

I'm not a part of the SEOmoz staff or Dev team (I play one on tv though) but from the acquisition of GetListed.org and David Mihm saying over and over that the Web App is going to have some dramatic changes in the coming months I would say yes.  Check out the first paragraph in one of David's most recent blog posts. I'm really looking forward to the full integration of GetListed.org data and tools.

It's best to link them to location pages on the domain.  In local, domain authority wins over page authority.  User experience wins over bot experience.  This is the current trend of local and it doesn't appear to be changing.  Here is a great article by Nifty Marketing that illustrates a good local landing page.

Hey Murray,

I found this thread in the WP forums.  It should have the fix for you. It deals with adding some code to your htaccess file.

Just curious.  What diagnostics check are you running?

From what Google says (and they never go against their own word  ), they don't want to index search result pages.  See Matt Cutts explanation here.

If people are searching for that category, create a page for it and add a few of the most popular items from that search.  That would be the way I would go about handling this.  Don't hope to be the exception.

There is no telling what they will do with the page you replaced it with but I would put my money on the new optimized page doing better than the category page ever did.  You should have more content value on the new page.  Category pages are often linked to so I would run a link report on the old URL and try to get some of those links to change the page they are linking to.

Since you are using WP, I would also consider adding a category specific loop on the page that took the category page. This would be a big help to users and show some good relevance to the search engines.

I would not be afraid of duplicate content more than I would be afraid of diminishing value of your site's focus because the bot is wasting resources on the 301's.

I went through this exact issue.  The way to fix it is to add a rel="nofollow" tag to the link that adds the item to the cart.  This will prevent the search bot from indexing or wasting resources on the checkout pages that are dynamically populated.

Just a thought, but, what if the amount of "followed" links on this page diminishes the value of the page so much that it even has a hard time ranking for this search?

I'm seeing 305 followed links from this page.  That may be zapping the value just enough to kill the results.

I would say it would be good for the user to have a link back to the category that may hold more videos like the one they are watching.

If you are able to include some descriptive unique content on the category pages then I think you end up with a win.  Content helps you rank and when a visitor on your site goes to this page they will have a clear direction on what it is about and what you want them to do.

This is one of the most common issues on an eCommerce site.  In some cases, it is just better leave it the way it is.  Obviously the best option is to optimized these pages and make them totally unique but that isn't always the right decision for you and your site.

Here is what I did.  I took a list of the best selling products the larger eCommerce site.  Then I compiled a list in a spreadsheet and worked with some other SEO's to develop a completely distinct title and description.  We ended up focusing on different aspects of the product for each variation.  Choosing more of a descriptive name than a direct name on the sub-products.

It was time consuming but it paid off.  Google was able to more clearly focus on the product.  We saw this by a clear rise in rankings for the main product page while also seeing a decrease in the variations of the product in the same SERP.  Some of that could have been credited to the changes in the algorithm.  I believe it just benefited from that position.

Hope that helps.

I'm saying I would use the link source context to determine my choice over a pr number.

All-in-one SEO plugin doesn't have a setting to "noindex, follow" the paginated pages.

You could add this to header.php

Or you could change SEO plugins to Wordpress SEO by Yoast. That has a feature to allow you to do it in the admin panel.

From my experience, doing a catchall 301 redirect to the homepage would be more devastating than leaving the 404 pages.  The best idea is just to start knocking them out as soon as possible. For the pages that don't exist and there isn't a related page, leave them on the 404.  Over time they will work themselves out of the SERPs.

Definitely don't abuse the 301 redirect feature. It is for permanent changes not temporary changes.  You could really hurt future efforts on your site.

Google uses a different data source for it's mobile results.  From my experience, mobile results can greatly differ based on the location of the searcher.