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LOL thanks!

Yes I understand that.  It is just a lot more work for us to do with our site map!  Thanks for your advice.

I see. but the rel="canonical" pages are good page.  I get the broken links and all that part but I guess i do not agree with rel="canonical" as much.  I can see their standpoint.  Do you do a lot with your site map and assign the different values to different pages?

PDF seem to not rank as well as other normal webpages.  They still rank do not get me wrong, we have over 100 pdf pages that get traffic for us. The main version is really up to you, what do you want to show in the search results.  I think it would be easier to rank for a normal webpage though.  If you are doing a rel="canonical"  it will pass most of the link juice, not all but most.

PDF seem to not rank as well as other normal webpages.  They still rank do not get me wrong, we have over 100 pdf pages that get traffic for us. The main version is really up to you, what do you want to show in the search results.  I think it would be easier to rank for a normal webpage though.  If you are doing a rel="canonical"  it will pass most of the link juice, not all but most.

Indicate the canonical version of a URL by responding with the Link rel="canonical" HTTP header. Addingrel="canonical" to the head section of a page is useful for HTML content, but it can't be used for PDFs and other file types indexed by Google Web Search. In these cases you can indicate a canonical URL by responding with the Link rel="canonical" HTTP header, like this (note that to use this option, you'll need to be able to configure your server):

Link: <http: www.example.com="" downloads="" white-paper.pdf="">; rel="canonical"</http:> 

Google currently supports these link header elements for Web Search only.

You can read more her http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Indicate the canonical version of a URL by responding with the Link rel="canonical" HTTP header. Addingrel="canonical" to the head section of a page is useful for HTML content, but it can't be used for PDFs and other file types indexed by Google Web Search. In these cases you can indicate a canonical URL by responding with the Link rel="canonical" HTTP header, like this (note that to use this option, you'll need to be able to configure your server):

Link: <http: www.example.com="" downloads="" white-paper.pdf="">; rel="canonical"</http:> 

Google currently supports these link header elements for Web Search only.

You can read more her http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Back in March 2011 this conversation happened.

Rand:    You don't want rel=canonicals.

Duane:    Only end state URL. That's the only thing I want in a sitemap.xml. We have a very tight threshold on how clean your sitemap needs to be. When people are learning about how to build sitemaps, it's really critical that they understand that this isn't something that you do once and forget about. This is an ongoing maintenance item, and it has a big impact on how Bing views your website. What we want is end state URLs and we want hyper-clean. We want only a couple of percentage points of error.

Is this the same with Google?

Does anyone have a good Photo Contest plugin they use for their WordPress blog?

But why would they rank the page lower than the home page was ranked if they think it is more relevant?  And the linking is something that needs to be worked on.  Up to this point there has not been much done.  We are doing more social now though and that should help a little.

Yes we know we need to fix that, it is just a really big project!

Are you talking about the URL structure?

We were ranking on page 2 and number 4 for the key word motorcycle tires.  Google was ranking our home page jakewilson.com; however, we have been adding new content to our site and doing some internal linking.  We pointed some links about motorcycle tires to http://www.jakewilson.com/cl/52/Motorcycle-Tires and now that page ranks but on page 3 not 2.  Any thoughts?

That is easier said than done   We are working on pointing more signals to that page though.

We are trying to rank for the key word Motorcycle Parts.  We have moved up to page 2 over the past couple months; however, google is ranking our home page not our http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/s/49/61/Motorcycle-Parts page that is for motorcycle parts.  We are working on internal linking to help point the right signals too.  Any other thoughts?  ( we have new content written to put in as well we just have to wait for an issue to be fixed before we can put it in)