If you don't mind what is the site...also if you don't normally use www before your url then try the command without that in the URL.

I would strongly consider using the rel=canonical tags on your pages.  If you have 1 main product 20 variations in color and 3 different image prints as well then here is what I would do.

Find the most popular of the 20 variations in color and utilize the rel=canonical for the 19 other pages to point back to that most popular page.  Dont worry about changing copy or anything drastically for this.

Now lets assume that the three different images are a disney print chair, a LOTR print chair and a Pixar Print Chair.  You believe that people might actually be searching for these 3 products in a different way than your other 20.  You should then try to create unique content for all 3 of these pages that differ from not only the other 20 color variations but also each of the other image print chairs. To make sure it is different I would not scrape any content from the other pages and re-purpose it but rather write 3 new descriptions and pages, Header Tags, Title Tags, Alt Tags, etc...

Now a best practice would still be to utilize a rel=canonical tag on all of your pages so that tracking parameters and the such do not end up getting linked to and you end up splitting your authority among different pages in the SERP.  For a good source on rel=canonical I would look here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps
Hope this helps and isn't too confusing.

H1 tags do carry some weight in SEO and if that is something you want to rank for then I definitely see doing this.  You have the keyword used in the Title Tag with a concise description of the page and then utilizing the H1 tag as the product name reinforces the fact that this page is going to be highly relevant for that term.  Now the H1 tag is not as important as the title tag but is an indicator to the SE's that crawl the page and show relevancy.  What else would you consider making the H1 if you don't mind me asking.

If you don't mind sharing, what is the site?  Doing some exploring might help us better understand the situation.

Well I am not sure exactly what you need but if you want to use Google to get an idea of who is linking to you than use the following:

link:www.yoursitehere.com

I believe this should solve your problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7610787/htaccess-wildcard-redirect-fix

I would not consider this to be a good measure of what you want to rank for.  I have lots of terms that I benefit from ranking for that if I were to place in adwords would not result in a conversion for me.  A lot of this is informational or non-revenue based benefit.  Email Signups, Newsletters, Contact Info, etc...  You must consider that those who click on ads and those who click on organic come from 2 different groups and even though in many ways there is a similar desired result from a click by both groups it is not the case 100% of the time.  I could probably elaborate for hours on this but do not consider one to be a good barometer of the other because in essence they are different.  I hope this helps.

I will admit that the URL itself is a little weird but if you are pulling this from a tool in SEOMoz it will tell you what other pages have the same title as your homepage.  Not sure why this is picked up but your title tag is <title></span><span>Andie Mueller Web Works | Wordpress Support | SEO</title> so I would just verify other pages are not using this and if you cannot find it, well I wouldn't worry too much.

I don't necessarily have the answer for you but I can tell you that you ABSOLUTELY should NOT get into Site Optimization with MVT or A/B.  You want to make sure that your tests reach statistical significance and to do this you need numbers.  If her conversion rate is only 5-10% of all visitors then you can expect that only 10-20 people a month actually purchase a product.  Even if she has 50% conversion rate you are only looking 100 conversions a month.  That is fairly insubstantial ESPECIALLY when you are considering a MVT.  At a very minimum when I am testing on a clients site I need to see 150+ conversions and even then I do not feel very comfortable in making a conclusion unless the lifts are enormous enough to extremely outweigh the interval/margin or error.

Links are going to help quite a bit as well as making sure that there are no big impediments to her site ranking well, hence a site audit.  I would also strongly consider looking at some pretty interesting techniques in doing local to attract business.  Does she have a B&M store as well?  If so look at hosting a geocache.  She might look at signing up with Help A Reporter Out (HARO) and trying to find some articles she could help out with.  Try and think outside the box.  Also just revisit a lot of the basics to validate that everything is done as well as it could be.  But I highly recommend that until traffic picks up, you stay away from testing or at the very least MVT.  You need confidence to choose a winner, statistical confidence.

We built a new store on another ccTLD and linked to it from some of our other domains in a few locations. I am noticing that with the Google operator command "links:" we are seeing nothing linking to our site anywhere.

Some things to clarify:

• These are not no-follow links
• These pages linking to our new domain are indexed
• The pages being linked to on our new domain are indexed
• This is not a flash site or heavy in JavaScript
• The links existed the day the site was launched so when the new pages were crawled they existed.
• "Site:" command in Google shows me that my new site is indexed.

What could potentially be causing this?  I am trying to get these newer ccTLD's to begin ranking and I understand that I need to get links going to these pages since they are fairly new (2.5 months) so I can outrank the .com in the SE's in those locales.  (Like Google.co.uk)

We had a ecommerce website that used to function as the website for every other locale we had around the world.  For example the French version was Domain.com/fr_FR/ or a German version in English would be Domain.com/en_DE/.  Recently we moved all of our larger international locales to their corresponding ccTLD so no we have Domain.fr and Domain.de.(This happened about two months ago)  The problem with this is that we are getting hardly any organic traffic and sales on these new TLD's.  I am thinking this is because they are new but I am not positive.  If you compare the traffic we used to see on the old domain versus the traffic we see on the new domain it is a lot less.

I am currently going through to make sure that all of the old pages are not up and the next thing I want to know is for the old pages would it be better to use a 301 re-direct or a rel=canonical to the new ccTLD to avoid duplicate content and those old pages from out ranking our new pages?

Also what are some other causes for our traffic being down so much?  It just seems that there is a much bigger problem but I don't know what it could be.

So I understand that this is a fairly broad question but I am trying to work through this on a bunch of different levels with a bunch of different sites that have multiple different issues.

First I am wondering if I have an e-commerce site on a .com that is used to serve to different languages and locales around the world.  Instead of a Domain.com/ES/ for a site that is supposed to serve Spain and a Domain.com/DE/ for a site that is supposed to serve Germany, we do Domain.com/en_ES/ and Domain.com/es_ES/ for an English and a Spanish version for our consumers that come from Spain.

My first question is this a bad way to set this up just from a structure standpoint and my second question is what do I do about duplicate content on different locales but same languages?  I am afraid that if I rel=canonical this to 1 region for each language that it may not show up in SE's for other regions but the same language.  (Example Brazil and Portugal for Portuguese, Belgium and Netherlands for Dutch, Canada and France for French, Spain and Mexico for Spanish, etc...)

Second do the language meta tags actually do anything or not?  I am finding mixed opinions on this.

Third what is the IDEAL website structure for a website that will serve multiple languages and locales from the same ccTLD?  I understand this is not ideal but what is the best setup with this situation?

Again I know this is a broad question but I am coming across a lot of e-commerce sites wanting help and dealing with this situation.  The duplicate content thing is worrisome and I want good, localized indexing.

Thanks!

So I just want to make sure I understand what you are looking for here...You want to make a temp redirect to a new homepage that will, realistically, only exist for a little while, few hours tops, and you don't want it indexed.  I am imagining that this new HP is going to live on the same domain?

If so why don't you do a 302/JS/Meta Redirect to the new HP and then also adjust the robots.txt file to disallow that from being indexed and to be SUPER SAFE you could rel=canonical the new page to the old page.

Does that help?

Yeah the page was definitely indexed and that is how I found it.  The issue is pretty much over at this point as this was supposed to be a surprise announcement later this week but people found it up, posted it to forums and well...so much for that.  It was a client side error so I am not worried.

Now what I want to figure out is how to make sure that, if I am running a promotional page for specific traffic during a promo period and do not want the page indexed and am limited to only alter within the , it doesn't get indexed...Is this possible?

So say I was interested in what is popular in India right now these are the steps I’d follow:-

1. Go to http://www.google.com/insights/search/
2. From the radio buttons on the left I’d select Locations
3. From the Locations drop down I’d select India
4. From the filter I’d select Last 7 Days
5. I’d hit Search

I am in a situation where a page was pushed live  (Went live for an hour and then taken down) before it was supposed to go live. Now normally I would utilize the robots.txt or  but I do not have access to either and putting a request in will not suffice as it is against protocol with the CMS.  So basically I am left to just utilizing the and I cannot seem to find a nice way to play with the SE to get this un-indexed.  I know for this instance I could go to GWT and do it but for clients that do not have GWT and for all the other SE's how could I do this?

Here is the big question here: What if I have a promotional page that I don't want indexed and am met with these same limitations?  Is there anything to do here?

A quick couple of things you may want to focus on:

: Instead of just using the movie title, incorporate creative uses of keywords you would like to rank for.  Start by doing a little bit of keyword research and see what looks competitive and what doesn't.  Not a huge impact but will help.

Category Pages: From what I can tell all of your category pages "/category/crime" do not contain any

tags.  I would see if you can find a way to have an

for these pages.

Alt Tags: I would vary what you use for your alt tags.  Instead of just using "Movies 2012".

I see you have the XML sitemap and you may want to consider just creating a basic HTML Sitemap for the footer.

Also because this works well for movies but can require a little effort, I will just throw it out there as something to look at:
http://schema.org/

I think a previous article deals with this pretty well.  I would read the whole article but also take a look at utilizing GWT to not index particular URL Parameters.  Here is the link and I hope it helps.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world