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What makes you think that the pages are not being index?

Looking at your sitemap at http://www.dentistinlittlerock.com/sitemap.xml I see 10 different pages listed.  Two of these are a duplicate listing of the home page so you really have 9 separate pages listed there.

Looking indexed pages on Google I see all 9 pages listed: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Adentistinlittlerock.com

So it looks like all of the pages have been indexed.  If you have a different sitemap please list it so we can take a look at it.

Thanks

Sure, we can go through your site and make lots of suggestions and ideas.

I've noticed the same thing. I have included a copy of that report in some of my audits, but with parts of it not returning good data it has become a less valuable to me and my clients. I hope they get it fixed soon.

You should really optimize your blog posts before they are published live on the blog.  We have seen an optimized blog post start to show up in search results in less than 24 hours after posting it. If you optimize your post later it wont get crawled and updated as quickly but it will still get your updates. It seem that search engines see blogs as very time sensitive (kind of like news articles) and will crawl new posts faster.

I agree with David about the level of SEO you are performing on the posts.  You don't want to hurt the readability or persuasiveness of the blog posts. If you optimize it right it shouldn't seem forced or spammy. I would suggest to only target one or two keywords per blog post.  You should also get the original blog writer to help out by giving them a keyword or two before they write the post. Just give the writer some basic SEO instructions abouit usings a keyword in headers and various phrases and let them incorporate the keywords into their message. Then afterwards you shouldn't have to do as much, just some simple clean up to optimize the post. This is what we do and it has work out great.

No problem Kim, glad to help.

There are lot's of variables that affect the displaying of ranking on the SERPs, some of them include location, account settings and many other things. Google also runs tests on their search results constantly so you might see some variation from that as well.

What does all this mean? Don't worry about the details so much but look at the overall trend to see if in general your rankings are going up or down. If you are tracking rankings manually i would use the same browser using the same settings each time to check the rankings, this you will use as your baseline. Then you will be able to monitor for any changes in rankings based on these set variables. If you then check other browsers you should see the same general trend even though the results may not be exact.

It depends on what your purpose is.

If you want them totally block from being index then putting the page in the robots.tx fil or using a robots meta tag would work fine.

If you just want to de-emphasize the page to the search engines you can use nofollows or javascript links on footer/header links.

One thing that we have done is to combine some of these pages (terms and privacy) into one page to cut down on the number of total links on each page.

You could also not include the privacy page link on every page (depending on your site) but just link it from certain pages that collect sensitive data (near the form).

I hope this helps. The main thing to remember is that each site is different so you will have to adjust your tactics depending on precisely what you are trying to accomplish.

It sounds like a useless scam. The good thing about getting "liked" by a Facebook user is that your link/info shows up on that persons wall for ALL their friends to see and it gets you more visibility and the chance to get more traffic. With these companies that offer to sell you "likes" it will do no good to you since it will be only fake Facebook accounts, with no real friends, that it will show up on and not give you the added exposure or value that you really desire.

You should also be aware that Google automatically adjusts your search results to your location.  You will see your current location it chose for you (even if you are not logged in) on the left column.  You can easily change your location to other areas to see if your rankings are the same for other areas.  This is extremely useful if your client has a chain of stores in different locations and you want to see the rankings for each city.

I second Marcus, Canonical is the way to go

It could be a little bit of both. From my research it looks like Google is highlighting parts of the page based on the keywords that were searched.  For example, you search for "getmarried.com" so Google delivered up a page snippet to highlight that included "getmarried.com" in the text (they even bolded it for you).

If a website owner/developer/SEO knew what kind of keywords people are searching for on the site they could place those keywords near text that talks about the promotion.  It won't always be perfect and would vary greatly on what is searched, but it could be manipulated to a degree.

It's usually best to use your target keyword at the beginning of the description.  Users will not always read the full description when scanning the SERP. Search engines seem to give the to give more weight to the keywords at the beginning of the description as well. So the closer to the front the better.

Okay, that being said, you have to make sure you are not trying to jam all of your keywords at the beginning otherwise it will turn off the user. Choose the most important one as your primary keyword to use at the beginning and use other related keywords throughout the description where they make sense.