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I am seeing this page as #1: www.rpgdicas.com.br/builds/diablo-3/wizard.html

I just went looking for it and can't see it. Perhaps it's country specific?

Yes agree there are other more pressing issues to debate but I don't think this question is out of place. I welcome people to post any type of SEO question here no matter how silly they think it might be. We're all on different stages of learning, but more than once I have been inspired by a naive question to look up something which lead to a discovery of immense value and interest to me and others in the SEO community.

Brackets from what I can see do not represent a significant element, in theory they can act as a separator of different logical units of a URL (though there are much better ways to do that such as using hyphens). I would personally not use them and not sure if they represent a problem in way crawlers interpret URL structure.

Best practice in your case would be to implement URL canonicalisation (rel="canonical").

Watch this: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394 (contains explanation and examples)

In addition to this try to prevent page duplication form happening in the first place, though this may need to be done on a programming level.

It seems that string such as "6_129_130" appears based on the category and navigational path. For example if user browses from outdoor and home decor and arrive on the same page the URL will have different number.

In addition you may want to remove "zero products" pages from index and not link to them as they are not good for users or search engines.

We do a fair amount of guest blogging at the moment and try to find websites which are as closely related to the industry. Authority is a secondary concern and only helps in sorting and prioritising of already found opportunities. There are other factors such as traffic, social reactions and citations of the content you publish. However if we stick just to authority (since that was your question) I personally treat it on a sliding scale. A 40% as you say may be authority in one industry and 80% may not be enough in other. Compare: stamp collecting hobby websites against nuclear physics research labs.

It's better to sort out the problem in the source rather than patching it with rel canonical. One thing you can do to help the situation is to teach Google about your URL parameters in Google Webmaster Tools:

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Test Results: http://www.seomoz.org/q/seo-test-site-command-url-length

Ensure you're present in all the meaningful local directories and join the relevant Australian industry organisations. Make sure your customers can contact you through Australian numbers and include your address or PO BOX if possible.

Yes that's my thoughts too. What's interesting is that they made a switch after a while.

Very nice find - thanks!

I haven't heard anything regarding DMOZ shutting down. Where did you hear that?

Have you picked the right category? If not a lot of bouncing around can happen internally.

I doubt it Though, let's wait and see....

It crawls and maps the structure. There is no way of manual entry, but it can be exported.

Toolbar PageRank updates seem quite frequent this year. When they did the re-update in July after Twitter stuff-up I thought they were going to settle down for a while. Now in August there is a new one. From what I can see the data is refreshed and the snapshot seems to originate from at least 29th July with the calculated values as recent as 25th July.

I wonder why they're doing this and what they are up to...

I know what you're going through. We built our own tool as there was nothing out there that's suitable.

I've developed a WP plugin which works like Tynt except it doesn't add the annoying # tag at the end: http://dejanseo.com.au/copylink/ - it's great for getting automated attribution and link when people copy your content.

Hi, I am a DMOZ editor for Mount Gravatt (Brisbane suburb) and I prefer to see listing like this:

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Writing a nice objective description without sales jargon gets you in faster as well as submitting to the correct category. The internal DMOZ system is a bit silly and it can be a pain to move listings around - you basically get shoved into somebody else's backlog. Pick your category right, not by pagerank but by common sense.

Some editors are very busy - while others who manage very niche categories are not. Also the frequency of them logging in varies heaps. I believe an editor must log in and edit at least once every 6 months before their account is suspended.

Agreed.

Thank you. That explains it!