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Thanks for pointing this out I will go through the site and see what I can change.

If you are using rel canonical, you're doing it right. The real question is why that second link exists.  Somewhere on your site you are linking to that snap-picture-poster-frames subdirectory.  I would spend some time figuring out why that is the link and not the direct canonical link.  Then fix it.  It's unnecessarily confusing and points to some poor site architecture.  Removing it will both eliminate the dupe problem and also just leave you with a cleaner link structure.  Being in two categories shouldn't mean you need two different URLs for the same product...

Hi Chris, Thanks for the reply I meant to add the company in question they are: http://www.thepackagingcompany.co.uk/ Tracy

Hi Tracy, I'm glad to be of help to you. You can always run different background link checks using. http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ Moz (Open Site Explorer), Ahrefs, Majestic SEO, Raven Tools & SEO Spyglass. You get free access to open site Explorer with your subscription to Moz.com I hope this is of help sincerely, Thomas

Hi Andrew, Thanks for the advice on this.  I will find out where this came from.  No warnings in google webmaster tools and the site is showing up as healthy but this site has taken a serious knock and drop of traffic since the 23rd May. Thanks for the advice Andrew much appreciated. Tracy

Hey Tracy, Yes i think it would be a good idea to start from scratch if the bad links cannot be removed, because they are only going to effect your site more and more with every Google update. You should check If the 1500 visitors a month are returning users then they can be made aware of the domain change and you can keep that user base, however 1500 unique visitors a month would suggest that you have some good rankings somewhere so i would check to see where there being referred from and if its a particular link on a website perhaps contact them to get it changed for your new one. Also make sure you get your old site De-indexed so there are not any duplicate content issues if you wish to keep the content you already have. Hope i helped!

If you could send help@seomoz.org a note about going from a to f, that would be great, as it sounds like that could be a bug.

Hi Tracy, You can use the On-page tool to optimize for any keyword term as long as it is loaded into the keyword list in your campaign. By default the On-page tool offers a report card for every keyword already loaded that it finds relevant to your home page. You can create Report cards for individual pages and keywords by digging a little deeper into the tool. There is an explanation of how to use the tool for specific pages in this recent thread about SEOmoz On-page Tool issues. If you have not specifically selected the URL of that page (as described in the other thread), then the B Report Card you are seeing would be the Grade for that keyword on the Home Page of the site, not for the specific page you have optimized. If this is not the problem and the tool appears to be malfunctioning, then the best thing would be to contact the Help Team using help [at] seomoz.org.Let them know the details of the specific campaign and the issue so they can take a look for you. Hope that helps, Sha

Hi Ryan, If the target audience are in the USA, then it seems like the sensible thing to do. Good luck Regards, Gordon

Hi Ryan Thanks for this we are building backlinks for the url but we do have some blogs that point the category and we had a bunch of external links to categories that were on on every page of the site so have changed this now to internal links to see if this helps. thanks again Tracy