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Are you saying that all your pages have a canoncial pointing to your home-page? If so, then this is not good. Having distinct canonicals for different content is fine.

If you feel that some pages should not be crawled/indexed then rather use noindex/nofollow instead of pointing the canoncial to some other page.

I would go through this page first: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1093493 and then follow the instructions for implementing hproduct here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146750#usage

Before you take your pages live, use the Richnsippets tool to test your markup: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Make sure that you include category breadcrumbs in your product pages. The product markup and offer-markup is obvious and quite easy. If your site offers reviews on products, use the hreview tags as well - this will give you great exposure.

Be aware, that Google is quite difficult when it comes to "Your markup contains hidden data" - one example is if your price tag for example looks like this, Google will reject it: $100.50

I personally would update your robots.txt and then submit a sitemap with the URLs in question via GWMT - this will result in your pages being crawled very quickly (within 48 hours) and then dropped out.

I would also look at either using 301's if you see link-juice from those URLs or using 404s/410s.

I personally found that resubmitting takes longer than pushing an updated sitemap.

Some time back we implemented the Google recommendation for pagination (the rel="next/prev"). GWMT now reports 17K pages with duplicate title-tags (we have about 1,1m products on our site and about 50m pages indexed in Google)

As an example we have properties listed in various states and the category title would be "Properties for Sale in [state-name]".

A paginated search page or browsing a category (see also http://searchengineland.com/implementing-pagination-attributes-correctly-for-google-114970) would then include the following:

The title for each page is the same - so to avoid the duplicate title-tags issue, I would think one would have the following options:

• Ignore what Google says
• Change the canonical to http://www.site.com/property/state.html (which would then only show the first XX results)
• Append a page number to the title "Properties for Sale in [state-name] | Page XX"
• Have all paginated pages use noindex,follow - this would then result in no category page being indexed

Would you have the canonical point to the individual paginated page or the base page?

Yes it does improve CTR on organic search. Regular product pages rely on the content Google crawls (i.e. title and description).

With the hproduct spec you will get price, availability, product category bread-crumb and review information - i.e. your search result will stand out from everyone else.

I have only worked with hproduct and single offers, but I would say that the offeraggregate would allow you to cater for different currencies. A good starting point is http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146750

Don't use microformats. Microdata/Schema.org is your first choice but RDFa works just as well.

I think you would get more click-throughs by adding microformats and reviews to your product pages - like this.

The merchant feed specifications are quite strict about not including promotional context in your title (such as "free shipping").

In order to make changes to a Places listing you need to be the verified owner. Under places.google.com you should see the listing (if it is not verfied, then it will show this as well).

I have had similar issues - multiple duplicate listings and incorrect information and I was not able to resolve the issue via Google online tools (such as http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=177852) and had to resort to my GA account manager to get it resolved.

Don't use GWMT's removal tool to remove URLs which should not be in the index (unless those expose sensitive information). Best practise is to exclude them in robots.txt and to also ensure that the pages either 404 or have a noindex,noarchive tag.

Are those images for search results (i.e. product thumbnails) or actual product pages? A link would help to understand how your site currently looks.

If you have not done it yet, I would run you page through webpagetest.org (or pagespeed) and then look at obvious optimisations (CDN, HTTP cache directives, image-size optimisations) first.

It sounds to me that you are "caching" multiple products in JS and based on user interaction show then the relevant content. Depending on how this is done, you might actually not get any SEO value from this.

I would share your blog posts on all social networks. I would also consider creating a newsletter which goes out to your user base.

Promote and engage your audience on your blog with competitions and give-aways. You could also try and engage the other end of your demographics - I would assume that the majority of your users are male - kick off a Pinterest competition to engage with the female audience.

I would also feature specials/recommended products (links to your main-site) from your blog posts as well as feature excerpts of certain posts on your product- or category pages.

I would check where those 500-errors originate from. Your website does not handle errors well do - i.e. the link to "/About-Us/Partner-Profiles/Partner-Profiles/Anna-Mosey.aspx" throws a 500 and should really be 404's or 410's.

When I do the search (from South Africa), the search term is on page 1, 4th position.

I would perhaps have a look at validating HTML as well - found it quite strange that the anchor-texts in the have so much trailing whitespace.

Why do you think it's black-/grey-hat? I would not see the badge any different than the many affiliate-/referral programmes out there (or comparable to security-/trust-icons).

For me it would only be grey-hat if the intention was to improve page-rank or creating a large link-network. In Jame's case (the distributor) endorses resellers with their badge.

I honestly would not use Alexa - their stats are substantially lower than what Google will give you. Google Trends for Websites (http://trends.google.com/websites) might be a better option.

You might also get a rough understanding of SEM spent via Google Adplanner.

In-house. I think a nice follow-up question for agencies/freelancers would be how they work with clients marketing-/technical teams to improve SEO (and how do you overcome organisation barriers in this case).

I always found that SEO agencies (at least in South Africa) work too removed from clients and rather focus on link-building without any measurable metrics.

I think if it is done carefully it adds quite a lot of value. A proper site taxonomy is obviously always better and more predictable.

If you have funnels for the checkout process I would analyse if the conversion rate has dropped historically and if so, if it then relates to a drop of visitor traffic.

Just because a user adds an item to the cart is not necessarily a very strong purchase intent. Depending on the vertical conversions might just be okay if in the range of 3-5%. Reading through whitepapers, cart-abandonment seems to average at around 60%.

The funnel analysis would be your first starting point (in conjunction with a visitor analysis - i.e. newly registered users vs repeat buyers).

I would improve conversion through some call to action:

• Display a "only xx left" or "save XX %".
• It sounds your cart is saved - in which case you can send follow-up emails with a strong call to action - similar as above or offer a coupon/discount if checkout is done with 24 hours

If you have multiple sections listing the same products and there is only one product URL (and the product page itself uses a canonical) there isn't an issue. (and I am not quite sure where the duplication problem comes in).

i.e. "Bedroom" would list "/lamp.html" and "/carpet.html" as unique product URLs. Your "Hallway"-section would also list "/lamp.html" and "/carpet.html" - although there is duplication of products on the listing pages, this is irrelevant from an indexing/SEO perspective.

Your category URLs (Bedroon and Landings) are also unique and not the actual cause of duplication (i.e. a category map with unique anchor texts but duplicate URLs and not canonical)?

I would try and get links by guest-blogging on investment-/property sites and if you have a portfolio of properties perhaps go as far as syndicate those to property sites (affiliate scheme).

I personally would change the form into a HREF - this would reduce page-size on the form-elements by 50% (i.e. 40 x 195 bytes).

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I have not found that the amount of links on a page drastically affects link authority of other links (typically your important links would be structured above the product listing anyway)

If the products are exactly the same mark all products with the same canonical URL. If the duplication is not on URL level, but title suffix the title with the deparment/area.