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And if you're scraped, the links still point back at your site.

Keep in mind that (to the best of my knowledge) Google is pulling the above data just from visitors that have the Google Toolbar installed, and does have a low number of data points for this conclusion.

In looking at your current home page, I'd say the image file sizes are something you can easily work on to help speed load time and increase user experience. In Firefox, right click on any image, and click View Image Information. It should take you to the Media tab of the Page Info dialog, and show you all of the media you have on that page, including background images.

Your theme files are large in some cases. The main-right.jpg file is 20k, header.jpg is 35k. Your logo is a 12k png. There are also several post images in the 20-40k range.

Yahoo has a tool called Smush.it which offers lossless compression, and there is even a Wordpress plugin that will compact new photos on upload, and reduce file sizes of existing images in the media library on demand http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-smushit/. For time invested, the plugin is probably the easiest fix to reduce your file size and speed up your page load time, in addition to fixing the images in your theme.

Marty Weintraub from Aimclear has a YouTube SEO Cheat Sheet from his Pubcon presentation in 2010 to share at http://www.aimclearblog.com/2010/11/09/youtube-seo-cheat-sheet-for-pubcon/.

This doesn't address ranking, but the YOUmoz post does talk about best practices for optimizing PDF content and may help you. http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-optimize-pdf-documents-for-search

Barry Schwartz has written about the last part (when it's not a DMOZ listing) at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html. There have also been several comments in Q&A about Google not using either the site's title tag or the DMOZ entry for the title in the SERP.

The Google Webmaster Central blog advises to use a 503 for planned downtown (and bandwidth-overruns) in their January 2011 post at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-deal-with-planned-site-downtime.html.

How often do people repost the same ad after they expire? Or do the ads expire? I'm thinking of Craigslist, where the ads expire after a certain number of days, and people repost the same ad. I would think you wouldn't want four copies of the same ad indexed, and especially for people to come to an expired version of the ad when there is a fresh one. Also, you'd be competing against yourself with multiple copies of the same content.

You'd need to make clear to the user that the ad could still be indexed, and give them a way to totally remove the ad. I agree with the other comment about wanting to strip out any contact information.

I don't know the best answer from a technical perspective (though I'd lean towards a), but wanted to point out some implications of other solutions.

If you're using wordpress or a CMS of some type, look for posts and tools related to that particular software. The SmushIt tool is available as a wordpress plugin, and it will compress pictures on upload, and will compress (on demand) pictures in the media library.

I use Irfanview for batch resizing images (in the same directory).

rel=canonical is one of the things google will not always follow, if they think it may be implemented wrong. Barry Schwartz reported from SMX West on a slightly different question about implementation (paginated results) at http://www.seroundtable.com/seo-canonical-pagination-13094.html. The following excerpt should apply to your situation (emphasis mine). I have seen other reports too where Google has determined that canonical wasn't implemented correctly and ignored the instruction.

Not only that, if you do, Google may ignore it because Google uses methods to determine if the canonical tag command is actually something valid for that case. So if you canonical page 2 to page 1 and page 2 is not similar enough to page 1, Google may ignore your canonical tag.

As Barry's blog post title says, you're not alone with Google not always listening to your title tag. He has a post about it on Search Engine Roundtable at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html. In short, it's Google, it's not you.

Have you been indexed yet? Wondering the status on this, and if you need any more assistance.

Asif, here's the page with the information on the SEOmoz bot.

http://www.seomoz.org/dp/rogerbot

Blueglass has produced some good infographics, and has also blogged about what makes a good infographic a couple of times. This can be helpful when thinking about ideas for how you want it designed.

http://www.blueglass.com/blog/what-makes-a-good-infographic/

http://www.blueglass.com/blog/foundational-infographic-elements-for-link-baiters/

SEOmoz also has an extensive post on the infographic development and marketing process at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-build-links-with-infographics.

I went to search.yahoo.com, entered site:atglimo.com, and also found the 10 external links to the domain -- including mashable. I've attached a screenshot.

On a different note, if you ever do get access to the server or can even just adjust the images, reduce the file size of your images, convert pngs to jpgs, and consider removing that picture at the top of every single page that pushes the content down on the screen. Your header, background, and main images all have large file sizes. Page load time is one factor in Google's ranking algorithm, as well as a factor with user experience.

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Like Rick said, it's just a "hey, make sure that you really wanted to do this" type warning, since you can easily write a robots.txt that blocks things you didn't really think would be blocked. Or someone else can modify the robots.txt without telling you, and this can be a warning that you need to go find someone and get that fixed.

I see a number of pages indexed, including the home page. I notice that you're running on an older version of WordPress. While likely not related to your question, I highly suggest that you make a backup of your site, and upgrade to the current version of wordpress to prevent attacks on the site from security vulnerabilities (that can end up killing your rankings).

I also suggest logging into Google Webmaster Tools, if you haven't already, and seeing what information is there about your site that could help.

I agree that the sub-pages seem a bit keyword-stuff and repetitive.

The phrase "blog entries" makes me ask are you on a CMS like Wordpress, or are the blog entries pages you are creating from scratch?

If you're on WP or a CMS, you'll want a robots.txt so that your admin, plugin, and other directories aren't indexed. On the plus side, WP (and other CMSs) have plugins that will generate a sitemap.xml file you as you add pages.

Google will find pages if you don't have a site map, or forget to add them. The sitemap is a way to let Google know what is out there, but it a) isn't required for Google to index a page and b) won't force Google to index a page.

Not a direct answer to your question, but from a user's perspective, when I click the "read more" I'm expecting to see more regarding maintaining the exterior wood decking, not the entire intro sales pitch repeated again -- more like the page on How to Clean a Deck that you also have linked from the home page. If you did it that way, you'd only have the paragraph of duplicate content at the above question would be a moot point.

And OpenSiteExplorer, of course.