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Hi Rebecca What are the crawl errors exactly? From that report screenshot it looks like you have a variety of them, so the fixes will all be different. Let me know, and in the meantime you might want to check out my article on Moz about setting up WordPress -Dan

I'll give it a shot, thank you again for your help!

Her general example was based on her, Matt Cutts and another Google employee having Fitness websites that she then buys and how she would go about the use of canonicals and 301s to show users and search engines that she is the most relevant authority. One of the pluses with the canonicals involved branded searches that would still pull the Matt Cutts site instead of the Maile Ohye site but link equity would be directed to her site and users would be less likely to bounce since the canonical would serve the Matt page whereas a 301 may be jarring at first because if you're looking for Matt and get Maile you may be more likely to bounce even though its the content you are looking for. (God, I swear I can explain this better in my own head than I can once I attempt to write it out... which is bad considering I actually make a living writing)

Thank you for these resources, they've helped a lot in trying to figure out the Google+ vs Local issue. Unfortunately, it looks like my client is best suited to wait it out - He tends to be an action-first type of person, so it looks like I have some convincing ahead of me I think one of the comments on the blog post was dead on when they said "You know someone said the abilty to make complicated things simple is genius. Well.. Google is no genius!" Hopefully this is just a temporary confusion that will work itself out for business owners as Google continues to perfect the merge...