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Good tidbit Ruth. Slightly different image names and descriptions. Will do, thanks.

Great thank you Martin. Actually the full-size images WILL be accessible by a normal link. We're not selling photographs, rather furniture, and that's my MO for providing good content to customers. Images and description on .com, super-big images on .net.

I take lots of picture of product on my fancy new (well, used) dslr camera. My ecommerce platform charges by the amount of data transfer, so I want to host the full-size images on another site.

So if Example.com is my e-commerce site full of 400px-wide images, I'm thinking of using Example.net as a sister site to store the 2400px by 3200px pictures, avoiding giant overage charges from volusion.

Is there any likelihood of Google viewing this as a doorway or mirror or anything bad?

Thanks for your thoughts and time.

Thanks guys, of course it makes sense to do things the natural way. Was just over-reacting I suppose.

I've stopped putting my url behind my handle on the blogs in which I participate, out of the fear of the appearance of comment spam. It's not comment spam, we're talking about real interactions on a few blogs and forums.

What do you think? If it is limited to a handful of domains on which I am active, and there are no indications of comment spam in my overall link profile, is a handle link a bad idea?

The real purpose of the link is not to gain any link juice, but to direct the people I interact with in these comment conversations to my site if they would like. But it's not worth the risk of a google-slap.

Great thanks Casey

Going over the link profile of a competitor who gets 5x the traffic we do.... of course frustrated that the majority of their links are spam blogs (full of words but don't communicate anything) and forum profiles. Thanks Google for telling me what not to do, then rewarding my competitor for doing it shamelessly.

Question regarding sites listed by Open Site Explorer as linking to said competitor, but that don't even load when I visit their url. Some go to a godaddy parked page, like the domain name expired long ago.

Is this simply a limitation of OSE, and can I assume Google has indexed differently and therefore awarding no link juice from these urls?

Great, thanks guys, will disallow those two pages in robots.txt.

Crawl Diagnostics gives me 1650 duplicate page content errors. 800+ are for photo gallery, the link upon which my large image is shown. 800+ are for the Email a Friend form page.

Presumably SEOMoz's tool is getting there by following the link inside a product page, which as you can see will differ only by the ProductCode of every product.
www.completemobilehomesupply.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=anchor101
www.completemobilehomesupply.com/EmailaFriend.asp?ProductCode=Shutter001

1 - Is it critical to fix?
I am assuming Yes, but if for some reason the answer is No, please share.

2 - Any idea on how to fix?
The site uses Volusion, fyi, so it may be a limiting factor of the platform.

Thank you for your time.
Also if this topic has been previously covered, please link and I'll read there instead.

Could be that page received rankings initially because content was so fresh. When algorithm determined that fresh was all you had, that people weren't sharing your page frequently to the point of virality, that fresh wore off quickly and the page disappeared from SERPs (as it should).

Could be that page received rankings initially because content was so fresh. When algorithm determined that fresh was all you had, that people weren't sharing your page frequently to the point of virality, that fresh wore off quickly and the page disappeared from SERPs (as it should).