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What is the context of the site and link you are getting?  Why can't you get both?  If I had to choose I would base my decision on context of the site.  PageRank changes and a site that improves over time will give much more lifetime value in actual referrals as well as link value.

You are running either WordPress Mobile Edition or mobilepress and that is causing this issue.  It is being indexed by Google.  Here is one person that found the solution.  I doubt that is actually hurting your rankings but I've never done an extensive study on that.

Some of the other errors that don't have the "?ak_action" is another part of your archives.  Wordpress SEO Plugin has an option to "noindex, follow" these pages so that Google will focus on the content of the site over the archives.  It will also kill these errors.

Hope that makes sense.

It sounds like you have a big site (# of URLs) so I'm going to side with the idea of adding the different campaigns.  I think I would do it that way for easier/better quality and tracking breakdowns.

I had one experience with an ecommerce site that needed to rank for product codes not just the product name.  We didn't want to hurt the existing rankings for the product names so we added a " | 45eSUT" (product code) to the end of the title.  This made most of the product titles way longer than the best practice length but within a few weeks began seeing our products showing up in Google under those codes.

It doesn't directly answer your question but I think the value of the title is found at the beginning but as long as it's not keyword stuffed, Google seems to appreciate the whole thing.

CTR is another story.

I've never really seen this before but one of my clients has 4000+ links from Print2Web.  Their rankings are falling back a bit but I'm wondering if this is part of the problem. They don't seem to say their service is about SEO so I'm not so sure this is counted as spam or not.  The main concern is that the next closest number of links from one site is only 97.

Has anyone heard of this service?  Can someone tell me from experience if using this service has hurt SEO efforts?

Thanks!

Most of this is speculation based on the features and changes Google has been pushing out.  Taking into account the mobile initiatives Google has been implementing like GoMo, the mobile Googlebot and the different SERP's for mobile users from desktop users, I would have to say that it is important to optimize your mobile version as well. If you have a responsive design then your meta information may remain the same unless you simply serve up a different menu all together.

Your CTR's are probably going to be different as well as your linking architecture.   Just make everything user friendly by considering the user's context and you should do awesome no matter the changes Google puts in place.

Thanks Keri.  That gives me some ideas for my next steps.  I won't go against Google's guidelines but if I can generate a few pre-generated search pages that would be helpful to my visitors then I may get a win-win.

Maybe this is a common SERP for a generic product type but I'm seeing it a lot more often.  Here is an example SERP "rolling stools".

The top 4 results are dynamic in-site search pages from Sears, ebay and Amazon (among others).  I understand their influence and authority but why would a search return a dynamic in-site SERP instead of a solid product page.

A better question would be - How do I get my in-site SERPs to rank or how do I get my client's page to rise above the #5 spot is currently ranks at?

Thanks

The only way to solve the duplication error you are getting is to make the URL's distinct.  Googlebot comes to your site and looks at the URL's and if they are not distinct it may not index them very well.  I understand your site is showing up fine in the SERP's so this may be one of those items you place on a lower priority until later.

I think R.May knows Joomla so I'll refer to him on how to accomplish this but it may be worth it to make the adjustment.  You may find the end result of making your page URL more distinct will actually increase your current SERPs.  Just a thought.

Other than that. If your site isn't hurting and the only thing you are concerned about is the report in SEOmoz then I would move on and just make a mental note of it for later.

I'm not a Joomla expert but to make your URL's search engine friendly you are going to need to add an extension like this.  That will allow you to make more distinct URLs that will not be considered "duplicate" anymore.

You should have atleast 10,000 pages per campaign.  Did you just set up the campaign?  This might be a good question for support.

The answer depends on how your DNS is set up.  Usually it's simply adding a CNAME to your DNS information.  Who is your domain name registrar?

Wordpress themes usually have the H1 tag around the logo on the homepage and then subpages have the page title as the h1 tag.  That's not every theme but a majority of them.  I would say it depends on the CMS you are using but for all the WP sites I've ever done it has worked out very well for SEO.

What kind of site is it?

I would make sure the homepage has plenty of space to include content. Wether that is a content block or integrated into the different elements on the homepage.  Either way, you want to be able to add content or use images very wisely.  If there is a slider, make sure Google can view each image and the information with that image.

I would make sure the subpage's content shows up before the sidebar.

Make sure they add images wisely and use CSS whenever possible.  I've had too many sites that are all images instead of content blocks and it kills opportunity.

Navigation needs to be scrollable and doesn't include the H1 tag.  It seems as if designers use the h1 tag too often to be the main navigation in sidebar.  Watch out for that.

I'm sure others will have some more advice but those are  a few things I'd have my eye on.

I would make sure you have the rel="next" and rel="previous" properly installed and continue optimizing the page that google sees as more valuable to the users for that SERP.

The architecture of your site is going to make it a bit difficult to do anything else.  I could be wrong but I haven't seen too many SERP's that include an inpage anchor text link in the URL. (page.html#link)

Yes, "Authors" have authority over editing their own content, publishing the post and moderating their own comments.

The Codex is looking at the "universal" control features.  Of which "authors" are very limited.

Hey David,

I saw the same information in the codex and it is a bit misleading.  An "Author" has moderation control on their own posts but doesn't have "comment moderation" power over the whole site.  Only admins do.

I just tested this out again.  Make sure you go into the top "help" menu on the edit post page and check "comments" and "discussion".

An "author" can moderate any comments in the admin area of the posts they have written. Set their role to "Author" and you should be all set.

Everrett had a great post on the SEOmoz blog the other day.  It covers this exact question.  I always thought like you did but he makes a very strong case for the shorter URL.  If the only difference in the product is what category it is listed in then bread crumbs should do the trick.  If they are distinct pages and products then the user is going to be able to figure it out.

I really think the breadcrumbs is going to be the solution you are looking for.  Most Ecommerce solutions have this in it's core development but some allow you to add it in with little effort.