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If the products are all but the same besides color, would you be able to implement something like amazon has, where each product is only one page and you select the color/size option within the the product framework?  This way instead of having a bunch of pages that are basically the same product, all of your effort can go to one page per product.

Bas is 100% right, you do not have to but each social media outlet's audience act differently. To get the most out of your social media postings you should tailor your message delivery and content based on each platforms strengths and what your customers respond best to on each independently.

It looks like a lot of those blocked pieces are not on your site but are located on other sites and you are pulling them onto yours.  Now it also looks like, besides the gallery, the rest of these pieces really are not important (social media buttons, placeholder images) so you should not be worried about them. The only one you should look into more is the Gallery box script, your best bet would be to go to either the developer of that plugin or a wordpress technical forum to see if anyone else has had a similar problem and come up with a solution.

Sandra,  be very careful with the statement you just made. One of the most dangerous things you can start doing is putting yourself in as a stand in for your customers.  Google has seen correlation between search relevance and clean URLs, and when looking at web pages a clean url reinforces a persons want to click on it (page trustworthiness), while a large alpha-numeric string looks worse and is viewed as less trustworthy by the average person.

That is your page's social metrics not your whole FB page.  It is pulling from FB and counting the times that your home page has been linked to from FB and the number of likes on those posts.

You put all the work into those articles, why would you throw away all the search relevance that they have earned? I would never ever move content and not redirect it, no matter how many 301s I would have to add.

If you can actually load the regular URL then you should canonical to it (it is best practice to canonical all of your pages to themselves), but if going to that page just redirects to the escaped fragment then you should update how your site build is set up so that you don't have the escaped fragment any more.

The idea of redirecting a user to a car that might not match their search does not seem like a very user friendly option, if they wanted a mustang and clicked a search listing for it but none are available and were then redirected to a camaro page the user would not be happy, and that flow is built only for the site and not the customer, IMO.

If you have a website with over 10,000 pages that is partially e-commerce then you should not be afraid to pay for a proper solution. Free is great when you are starting out but there comes a time when you need to invest money (and it will be a small amount) in the proper tools to continue your site's growth.

Rosemary,

Different domain name extension (.com, .biz, .tv) do not effect your site's ability to rank on Google.  While it is hard to find the official Google response (I heard it answered during a Q&A at a conference hosted by Google) many independent studies have also proved this, if you search for them you should be able to find them.

Here is the most concise answer to your question:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/r1CxMI8JgPM

I think you are asking a large, loaded question.  I do not think there is a "yes you should" or "no you should not" answer for your complex question.

This content is upwards of nearly half a decade old, is it still relevant?  Instead of a blanket yes or no, I think you should go through all of it and see what is still valuable, depending on your industry it could be half of it, or it could be none, but you should be looking at each piece individually, not the entire site as one whole. For moving it, if the content is good I think placing it on your site (as I assume you want to consolidate) and redirecting to the new location is fine, plus if you do it as you go, you will not have a massive surge in your content, or drop in the old site but a gradual shift over a period of time.

Hope this helps.

While you might see a small down tick in the beginning as Google indexes and updates, overall you should not suffer any long term negative effects from standardizing your URI structure.

If you are generating pages dynamically in your e-comm then yes you will want them to have static URLs, along with all of the proper formatting and parts just like any other page.  There is nothing wrong with dynamically generating pages as long as you still follow the rules.  If your generation creates multiple variations of the same page/ page with similar content then make sure to use canonical tags to point each group to one static URL.  Lastly, do not worry about creating more pages, worry about creating relevant and useful pages/content based on what your customers are looking for.

Why would you worry about SEO on pages that targeted? The only people you want finding them are the specific companies, I would no index all of them and use the best versions of the copy to create a few general landing pages.

Some CMS would do that automatically, if the company you are working with had one of those (or the decision maker is used to seeing that) they may just think that it is normal and a best practice. At the end of the day, while odd now, it should not matter from an SEO perspective (just make sure that you redirect the base url to that page).