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A URL 75 characters long is definitely not optimal. Imagine that you want to share it in IM, SMS, ... It will look ugly, it will probably occupy more than 1 line. So, you will have to use a URL shortener to make it more "sharable".

Contact them to remove the link to your home page. Most likely, they will not communicate back with you. So ALWAYS disavow those links.

Hi Madlena, For SEO both are important. XML and HTML sitemaps help search engines crawl your site. The main difference being that a HTML sitemap helps visitors gain a comprehensive understanding of your site, while XML more specifically caters to the search engines. When you add new pages or content to your site, you can use XML sitemaps to notify the search engines. Hope this helps. Thanks

I get exactly the same reports from Webmaster tools when I rename products on my website. The crawler just needs to catch up and so long as your redirect is set up properly (it also looks fine to me) then this will drop out in time as Michael says. George

Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way, Alex. Unless the server returns an actual 404 response code in the header, search engines will not consider the page to be an error to be removed from their index. Even though the content of the page may look like an error page, the http response in the header is the only thing that determines whether the engines will treat it as a 404 error. Paul

Hi Madlena, would you mind providing more details? Thanks, Christy

Anyone knows good submission directories but in Spanish language

I'm not seeing that Google is currently indexing either of these pages, so they may be too deep or duplicated in other ways. Pagination is a tough issue, but in general pages 2+ have little or no search value (and, post-Panda, can actually harm you). I would strongly recommend NOT using a canonical tag to page 1 - Google generally advises against this. You can use rel=prev/next, although it's a bit tough to implement and isn't honored by Bing. Generally, I'd advise one of two things: (1) META NOINDEX, FOLLOW pages 2, 3, etc. - they really have no SEO value. (2) If you have a View All page, link to it and rel-canonical to view all. This seems to be accepted by Google, but then the larger page will rank. Generally, I find (1) easier and pretty effective. Sorry, just saw Nakul's comment, and didn't realize you already have canonical tags in place. While it's not preferred solution, since it's already there and seems to be keeping these pages out of the index, I'd probably leave it alone. It doesn't look like Google is indexing these pages at all right now, though, which you may need to explore in more depth.

You need to encode it. [komimoda@home ~]$ php echo urlencode('http://www.geographics.com/Graduation-Stationery,-35%-OFF-Printable-Certificates-Blank-Gift-Certificates/c1353_1354_1359/index.html'); ?> http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geographics.com%2FGraduation-Stationery%2C-35%25-OFF-Printable-Certificates-Blank-Gift-Certificates%2Fc1353_1354_1359%2Findex.html[komimoda@home ~]$ It's bombing on the %-  that isn't a number after it. If you want to shoot me a email I can get it done for you for free? joseph@michael-chambers.com Without db hashing, it's nearly impossible to get those from htaccess into a rewrite table lookup. %20 for sure. apache turns the char back to a space before passing it on for comparison. and text based of course, uses the space as a separater between match, and replacement. It probably also turns %25 back into a % before hash tables too. sorry tmi. Oh look at this: http://www.geographics.com/Graduation-Stationery%2C-35%25-OFF-Printable-Certificates-Blank-Gift-Certificates/c1353_1354_1359/index.html