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Canonicalization is a perfectly acceptable way to deal with this, particularly if you only have 3 or 4 of these pages. On the other hand, if you have quite a few, I'd be more inclined to block them via Robots.txt to save some crawl budget. For what you're looking to do here, the outcome is essentially the same, one just stops Google spending valuable resources crawling those pages unnecessarily. For more info, there is some helpful discussion and further reading in this Q&A Post if you're interested.

Hey Dino! Since the domain is not actually www.locksmith.com or www.locksmiths.com, we will not recognize the keyword usage and the entire domain name counts as a single keyword. We do not recognize broad usage in the domain name as an exact match. So what we are looking for would be considered as exact match hyphenated domains. So something like www.seattle-locksmith.com would be two keywords in the domain. Hope this helps!

This is marketing blather.  Ask this person to explain it, in detail and keep saying "I don't get it.  How is this going to help me?" until they hang up.

You certainly don't need to include every page of your website in your top navigation menu. Your plan of having a Locations page that then links to each of your location pages individually is a fine way to go. That said, the deeper into your site architecture your page is, the fewer ways there are for people and search engines alike to discover it - to your point, there is now only one page on your site linking to all of these location pages. One reason internal linking outside the navigation is important is that it provides additional ways for users and search engines to browse to your content. I would recommend taking a look at the pages on your site and thinking about what pages a user might want to visit next, and linking to those. Providing an intuitive next step for your users keeps them engaged, and provides additional ways for your content to get discovered.

HI Dino, I don't see any issues. It is okay to use multiple H1 tags for reasons such as this. Google has confirmed multiple H1 tags are okay. My example above was probably more alarming to you then I could have realized. My effort was to point out a simple case of how to use css for multiple device types. In your case having different text is for the benefit of the user which is exactly as it should be. Good job, Don

Hey Dino! Thanks so much for following up. If your story isn't proof of the importance of proper categorization, nothing is I'm really glad your client popped back into the pack and wish you luck with making them even stronger with the work ahead. It looks like a lot of effort has gone into their website, so that's a really good sign!

Hi Dino, How often does Google crawl your site? Google may not have found some of those inner pages. You can ask Google to recrawl any section of your site by using Fetch as Google, which gives you the option to "Submit to index". You can ask Googlebot Mobile to be the one doing the fetching, and I assume if you "Submit to index" after that, it'll get Googlebot Mobile to crawl the page again. But, it isn't clear. I would also double check that you have an XML sitemap which includes all of the URLs you'd like to rank. And, if this is at all possible, try adding links to the pages that still show "Try Anyway" to your homepage, even if it's temporary. Google crawls your homepage more often than any other page on your site, and is more likely to see those pages if they're directly linked off of there. Good luck! Kristina

Hi Dino, I would like to add one very informative article and please also do check comment section of that article there is also few good suggestion with great answer of Ryan. http://moz.com/ugc/8-reasons-why-your-site-might-not-get-indexed Thanks

Hi, Although it seems slightly strange, I can't see any significant SEO issues which it might cause. Have you asked the client why they want to do this? As I'm sure you know, usually one page should focus on one topic and therefore require one link from a main navigation. Something worth considering would be the internal anchor text which Google will take in to consideration for the linked-to page. If you have 2 or more links on one page linking to the same page, Google will use the first instance of the link as the anchor text. This is something you may want to have a think about.

If the aged domain has links going deeper than the homepage you should look at redirecting those pages/directories directly to their associated pages/directories on the new site.  Otherwise all passed link equity will go to the homepage.

Hi Dino For Moz Local we only query and display listings from the following services on moz.com/local/search: For business name and zipcode search Google Facebook Foursquare Yelp (need recommend reviews) Superpages Infogroup Localeze Yellow Pages Factual Citysearch Best of the Web Bing Yahoo Hotfrog Acxiom The links to these pages will not show up on Open Site Explorer as that tool is completely based on backlink strength to your website and has no relevance to the physical location of your business. These sites do have high authority but your links are likely too deep for us to index as those sites have millions of pages with listings. Just so you know, here's how we compile our index for websites: We grab the most recent index. We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains). We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index). Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. So for Local Listings, you do not want to use OSE for citation research.

There is really nothing to say about the mistakes made by SMB owners who believe that they've contracted with a great SEO firm - and find out later that is not so true... Which gets me to the real value of a referral. Look for - always look for an SEO firm that has the 'added value' of offering up a set of referral clients for you to check on yourownself. That is so important in that a real live SEO firm will always be able to supply that list- long or short - but that you can call on the phone or email to the CEO and ask "...hey, the XYZ SEO firm said you're a client...tell me about your experiences with using them...." type of contact. Without that - on what core values are you really buying an SEO contractor? Oh - the "recommended" list of companies can also be a great starting place too - use that list to drill down on, visit each of your final candidates from and THEN call/email their list of referral clients.... Anything else I'm afraid is just "burning" your money....sad to say...

Thank you. That's exactly the answer I was looking for.

Thanks, EGOL. It's definitely weaker, but will ask them to change it.

Hello Dino, The tool went live a few hours ago. In order to dig into the issue with inconsistent results that you continue to see, the ideal means of communication would be a direct email with more info sent directly to help@seomoz.org. If you ask for Abe directly, I will be able to answer this directly. Abe.

You're very welcome.  I'm glad I could help

Glad to be of service!

I've never had a problem on creating a large number of redirects on a site before.  It's something that happens quite a bit, for instance if a site is moving to a a site to a new domain or a new CMS, where it can often be very difficult to exactly recreate the same URL structure. There's no limit to the number of redirects, just the number of hops.  If the site had existing redirects in place, you might want to update those existing redirects as well, to point to the new final destination.

Thanks Gordon, I'm wondering why the SEO MOz crawlers do not follow the redirect as Google crawlers do? D

Seems to be updating now