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WEBBY! Nice topic. Let me share something.  My clients have great rankings too. Yes there is always room for improvement, but how much? Get a REAL Google Analytics report to uncover opportunity.

In addition, look at your incoming traffic. I told my clients that I have to stop being so dependent on Google because a change in their algorithm can cause a dip in traffic. I started changing focus from link building to relationship building. Some call it community building, some build their Fabebook/Twitter account. I help individuals and try getting them to grow so I can get my clients repeat business. That's the key on my end, repeat business.

csmith, you just got a great site review and FREE. Egol is right, you are competing with the savages. That's like trying to compete for the word "car insurance" or "real estate". I have a small site which ships cars overseas and I am launching a new campaign to compete in "container shipping". I am in the process of hiring our a couple link builders because I know that's a very competitive field, but not as competitive as yours.

EGOL, I'm going to watch that movie now. I can see the similarity of cannibals. Call it cut throat marketing!

Hey Zeph! Hope your company is doing great.

@Ben, screaming frog is good for this. You will need to get the paid version of it. There is a video on the site http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/. Use filters to get to your real URLs.

Do not just copy the content. It is okay to copy the manufacture's specifications for the products. I have done this many times in the past and never had an issue. But if you are copying all the content, it will look like spam.

What CMS are you using? This sounds like Magento. If so, go to your system > config and make your default site rel=canonical all the pages to the main product listing. Also drill down into all the stores and do the same thing (again if this is Magento).

James, I had to read your question twice. Your client has a subdomain like joe.company.com and you want to redirect to joesmith.company.com?

Don't waste your time. Build quality links and watch the rankings go up. If creating a subdomain had the effect of having an exact match boost from Google, all of us here on SEOmoz would have created spammy sites. SEOmoz will not rank for SEO Tools by creating a subdomain seotools.seomoz.org

Read this and bug Rand about it:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/is-this-directory-guide-by-seomoz-still-accurate

Oh yeah! Even I would hit you with a penguin. You might not like my response, but you asked for it.

1. Keyword stuffing in the footer.

2. Sitewide links in your footer linking to external sites. Why aren't they on the same site? Why are you making microsites? SPAMMING?

3. What's that? OMG same C-Block?

http://www.creloadedpro.com/ IP 72.52.235.211

http://www.adultsextemplates.com/ IP 72.52.235.209

Sorry to be blunt, but you get my point. I found all that within 2 minutes.

In this case, example.com would get credit for "cat", but not for "dog" nor "bird".

blog.example.com will not enjoy the link juice as would example.com/blog. By using the subdomain, you are basically starting a new site.

Hopefully that answers your question.

I wouldn't think that is too much to worry about. If it did have an affect, it would only affect that particular page. As Remco said, perhaps a plugin would work, but then again I wouldn't worry about it.

Hi Cecilia, my client's site crashed for a couple days too, but this was about 1 year ago. Actually it was an attack (DDoS). Our rankings disappeared, but once I was able to get the site back up, most of our rankings came back to were they were before immediately. If I remember correctly, I think we were offline for 2 days and completely recovered within 1 week. The reason I think it took one week was it took Google a week to come back to my site and crawl it.

My advice: Don't worry too much about it. Your rankings should come back because it's an algorithm.

Don't do directory submissions if that's what you are talking about, especially if your site is new. Link building is important, but don't get fooled into thinking the more links from link directories is going to get your site ranking. A lot of them are straight out spammy sites anyway. Instead do some manual directory submissions using this: http://www.seomoz.org/directories  I would recommend to build one real link and one directory submission at a time.

Focus on writing KICK ASS content and people will link to you. I have Universities link to me and I have nothing to do with education. But these Universities link because they find the information useful for there students.

I suggest reading the Beginners Guide: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

PS, I, along with everyone in this forum, have been waiting 2 years for DMOZ to index our sites. Submit and move on.

A very strong home page will help out wack landing pages. If you have the time to breeze through chapter 7, it may help to grow the popularity: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo.

There are way too many factors in trying to find out why one page ranks over another.

And let me tell you one thing.... always remember this.... OSE is not that accurate, but it's the next best thing to have since you can't get your competitors username/pass to GWT. Compare your GWT inbound links to OSE's inbound links to see if there is a difference.

My recommendation is work on your pages. Jesus Christ! If you were Google, would you rank a page with only 3 sentences? http://www.rainchainsdirect.com/collections/todays-deals/products/contempo-chain  Those pages are probably bringing down the rest of your site.

Sorry to sound so blunt, but that's my answer.

Cesar, you are bringing me back to times when I first asked questions like this.hehe

Ok, think about it like this. "IF" that were true, don't you think all of us on SEOMoz would have already done it.

Don't optimize for search engines. Optimize for conversions! Do the best thing for your visitors.

Your answer is... not likely if those pages have no authority.

You would point like this:

redirect 301 /AboutUS http://www.NewDomain.com/AboutUs

the /AboutUs is the URL you want to 301. The NewDomain is the domain to want to point to.

I answer a LOT of questions here on SEOmoz. Don't forget that you have access to a lot of tools here like the Beginners guide to SEO http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo.

Piece of advice from me to you... if you are trying to rank higher by doing something that can be easily done (like paid links, directory submissions, article submissions, and even crappy guest blog posts, blog network for backlinks), there is a HIGH likeliness that you will unintentionally hurt your site.

Ask questions here in Q&A before doing something stupid, but 1st read the beginners guide.

I don't quite understand the question "**They fix 20 on-page links every month. " **Is your site that broken where you have 20 broken links per page?

It sounds like you are a beginner. Please read http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

There is a section, Chapter 7, in there about link popularity. It should help answer many questions. In fact I recommend to many people that they should print this out and go to a coffee shop.

3 - Outreach x people.

Here's is where most companies need to focus. I feel that many people do not offer any value to webmasters whe  conducting outreach. Every week I get approached with something like "Hi, I have some copy that's original content. " To me the's bs because I didn't ask for it and I know it's probably being re-spun. My link builder gets about 1 new domain that links to my client every day. It's a slow process, but what makes it more scalable is using a software like Buzzstream.

So I would encourage you to learn how to use Buzzstream effectively and to use Advanced search operators to make it easier. If you have any questions regrading buzzstream, PM me.

Also, WRITE SOME SUPER KICK ASS CONTENT PEOPLE WANT TO LINK TO

I would run a test and create a URL example.com/test. Check to see if it's in the sitemap, then delete it and check to see if it dropped from the site map. It should, but you never know.