It's called PageRank sculpting, it seemed to work fine for a while long ago, but Google keeps changing it's interpretation of 'nofollow' links (PR just vanishes at the link or goes through anyway before disappearing, in any case not helpful for sculpting PR),

Probably the best way to sculpt your site would be linking to non essential pages only when strictly necessary or using the 'noindex' tag for those pages, you can read more about it on the following links:

Google Says: Yes, You Can Still Sculpt PageRank. No You Can't Do It With Nofollow

Link Consolidation: The New PageRank Sculpting

Here's Cutt's answer to that: Matt Cutts on Shared Hosting

You'll find contradictory information on the subject and some SEOs will advice not to include stop words in the title, however, if as you say, the keyword set you're targeting explicitly contains it, I would still include it (i.e. wouldn't remove 'for' from 'homes for sale').

Now if we're talking about a high number of stop words that aren't particularly useful or descriptive, maybe it would be best to exclude them, especially from the URL (.i.e. 'a small guide of the black sea for you' could be better off with an URL like /black-sea-guide/).

IMO, I guess the best practice would be to use the title/URL that better describes your content and makes more sense for the users you're trying to engage.

You should try to avoid soft 404s since they are confusing for users as well as for search engines. A good solution is to use custom 404 pages, that way you can return the correct code to the bots and provide some useful content for your users. Also, you should try to redirect some of those 404s to pages with related content in your website, check for the ones that carry the most link juice, traffic, etc.

Read on:

• Soft 404 errors
• Farewell to soft 404s
• Creating useful 404 pages
• Customizing your 404 page
• HTTP Status Codes Best Practices

We were just talking about that the other day, check the following thread:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/site-url-called-out-but-not-clickable

Now, if you manage to turn some of those mentions to live links, that could be great too!

Cheers!

Apart from server location, your link profile carries a lot of weight. For example, if you are targeting users in Germany, you'd want to get links from German IP's and .de domains.

Besides that, the other important thing would be to establish your geographic target within GWT (domain geolocation). You can read more here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=62399

Check this out:

How to Solve Keyword Cannibalization

Hope it helps!

Well, that's a broad question, so I guess you're also looking for a generic answer.
Here are a few links to get you started within SEOmoz:

Beginners guide to SEO

5 Ways to Improve Your Ranking Signals

What is Page Authority?

Make sure to also check the Whiteboard Fridays category, where you'll find many amazing videos full of useful information and tips!

Good luck!

I don't know if there's a definitive answer on this, since it's effects wouldn't be easy to measure, but if you think about it, it makes sense that it should be taken into account to some extent, and if not, at least users would be able to learn about your site.

Off course, as regular links do, I guess it would depend on the context, relevance, and reputation of the page where the mention takes place.

Also, from a branding point of view, it would be positive (again, depending on the context), it seems one of the functions of the new SEOmoz Fresh Web Explorer is precisely to find out about mentions.

Check out this post where they carried out an experiment about the subject and also cite Matt Cutt's reponse to the question (although very old): http://dejanseo.com.au/seo-experiment-with-non-link-references/

If you checked and all is fine, it maybe a be a temporary bug, it happens from time to time.
The 100% rate could be that it was only one crawl, hence 100% error rate (1 of 1), just wait for the next crawl.

Anyway, in the meantime, check your domain with a DNS checker, you can use www.dnsstuff.com, www.intodns.com or dnscheck.pingdom.com/ to make sure everything is working correctly or to see if there's anything you need to take to your hosting provider.

It sure does have an impact, but you probably wouldn't want to "calculate" it, just keep it natural and focus on the user, as long as you do that and you're not trying to manipulate the search engines you should be on the safe side :).

Check point three on the following video:

10 Myths That Scare SEOs But Shouldn't

And remember Google is good at semantics, so even if you feel the need to repeat a concept, you can do that providing a richer user experience without having to worry about specific terms.
Hope it helps!

Is it DA the most significant metric you're looking at? What about other metrics? Maybe this has something to do with your DA dropping a bit: Mozscape API Temporarily Rolled Back to March 19 Index ?

I guess tags are there because they fulfill a function, but if they aren't useful for your users it shouldn't be a problem to erase them, as long as you take the necessary measures not to get tons of nasty 404s, although if what worries you is duplicate content, you could just noindex the tag pages, I think most SEO plugins for WP have this option, else it shouldn't be hard to include the noindex tag in tag.php or whatever file generates it's pages, then you wouldn't have to deprive your users of an useful function (if that's the case, off course).

About your question of Google's preference, I'm not aware of it, but couldn't it be because there are many internal pages linking to tag pages and also with the same anchor?

You could try targeting the same keyword in both pages, but best practice would be to have original, relevant and useful content for each term on each of the pages, even if they share a common keyword. I think you would be better off optimizing each page for the keyword set you're referring to, otherwise you'd risk diluting your ranking capabilities by falling into keyword cannibalization.

If you want to go further, you may have the perfect setting to build an authoritative page on "motivation", by providing useful content on different keyword variations, all referencing a central page dedicated exclusively to your main keyword on it's own.

Check out these articles, even if they're old I'm sure you'll find a lot of relevant and useful information:

Targeting Multiple Keywords vs. Singular Keyword Focus

How to Employ Multiple Keywords for SEO & Conversions

Perfecting Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization

Those are probably impressions from framed, cached and/or translated content, you should be safe authorizing them since they are Google sites, nevertheless I couldn't find any official info about it and personally I don't allow any sites besides my own to show my AdSense ID, as I'd like my account to be in the extra-safe side (some would say I'm paranoid), at least among the things that I can control.

Anyway, you should be able to see approximately how much revenue you are "losing" by checking your account reports and the amount of impressions originating on those domains filtering by "sites" (check "Web caches and others"), probably peanuts, so IMO it's not worth it.

Search engines will recognize the keywords in both cases, also both are relevant and will serve you as a natural anchor, but for structural sake, better user experience and even SERP CTR, you should be better off including them in the folder structure. That way you'll be able to keep your URLs as short and descriptive as possible without sacrificing keywords in them.

Here's Matt Cutts answer on the subject:

Is it better to have keywords in the URL path or filename?

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By the way, it's probably not a good idea to spam this forums.

Good luck!

Yeah, those are some of the 'official' pages, but they don't seem to provide so much info.

There are lists provided by individuals or keyword research companies (i.e. wordtracker's) but they will usually be segmented for a specific search engine, it's country, language, the time it was built, etc., etc., maybe that's why you don't see congruence between them.

Here you'll find a few more resources: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2066257/What-People-Search-For-Most-Popular-Keywords

Google's Keyword Tool also gives you an estimate of the searches for a term over the past 12 months, and you can segment by country, language and industry (if you leave this one blank you're supposed to get the most searched terms) although is not very reliable.

But I'd guess the best would be for you to conduct your own research based on the specific audience you're targeting.

Try this: http://www.google.com/business/placesforbusiness/

You can also use microdata and submitting your location to G+ helps too!

The problem is that your blog title is also appearing as the title of your inner pages.

You should create unique titles for your pages or (if you want to include your blog title) you can do something like "Page title | Blog title".

I see you're using WordPress, here's a good place to start: http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

Good luck!