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From a human point of view they are different.  But humans don't manage bots, just bot rules.  Bot rules will follow logic and thus the answer I wrote out below is accurate.

IMHO your canonical tags are wrong.  That's the problem.  You have told bots that both pages are "the same" (canonical) to /score/PatrickCollectionFlPf.html  They aren't - they have separate content.  By putting in the wrong canonical tags, you've confused search engines.  Bots follow the rules as stated.  Your rule says they are the same, so search bots treat them the same.

**Canonical for the first link:  **

http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/score/PatrickCollectionFlPf.html" />

Canonical for the second link:

http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/score/PatrickCollectionFlPf.html" />

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You're telling search engines, including the Moz Bot, that the two pages have the exact same content as /score/PatrickCollectionFlPf.html

Now I'll break this down simply.  First link is A, second link is B, canonical link is C.

A=C

B=C

Therefore A=B.

You've told bots that the mp3 tab is the same content (canonical) as the .html page.  You have told bots that the pdf tab is the same content (canonical) as the .html page.  Therefore if they are both duplicates of /score/PatrickCollectionFlPf.html, they are duplicates of each other.

Show them this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk4qgQdp2UA

If you mention it once, good.  If you mention it twice, ok, you're about this. If you mention it 3 times, ok ... getting less helpful.  By the 4th, 5th, 18th time you mention it, it's not really helping. And if you overdo it it does hurt.

I've found (and YMMV) that keyword consistency is more important than density.  If my article is about flowers and I mention roses and daisies, sunflowers and tulips - that's more important than saying "I like flowers because flowers smell nice and flowers are pretty flowers and you can give your wife flowers on Valentine's Day, a flowers holiday."

Also as far as consistency, use the main keywords in the title & description but don't spam them in there 3 or 4 times.  Then use those keywords and the related set of keywords (types of flowers, potting, plant, garden) on the page.  That's more helpful, I think.

(I'd suggest you could show your client a forum topic where a bunch of professional SEOs say keyword density doesn't matter but I'd really avoid using the word "idiot" when talking about the people who pay you if you want them to continue to do so.)

Just to update my reply in case someone else finds this question on the forum search.

My stock friend Amos just did a comparison of stock agency pricing:

http://www.stockphotosecrets.com/buyers-guide/7-of-the-cheapest-stock-photo-subscriptions.html

I think that's the freshest look at some of the best stock subscriptions if you need more than a 1-off photo.

My strategy has always been to point them at whatever suits your industry (amazon for product reviews, tripadvisor for travel/tourism, Google and Yelp for local biz, WeddingWire for wedding vendors, etc.)  Then make a page on your site that is site.com/reviews and syndicate your reviews to that page.  When someone Googles me + reviews, I want MY site coming up so I can highlight what I want when I want.  It's just good reputation management.  They can still see the rest further down the page but if I can come up #1 for highonseo reviews I sure want to.

You will want to research and understand the HREFLANG tag.

I'll give you a starting place:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2620865

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192&topic=2370587&ctx=topic

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077&topic=2370587&ctx=topic

I answered a similar question here:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/international-url-puzzle?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sort=newest&commit=Sort+replies

And two of us tagteamed an answer here:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/spanish-version-of-site-best-practice

Once you read through that, if you have questions let us know!  

~M

First, take it up with Screaming Frog to see if it's still an issue.  http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

Once you know where your 404s are and where they're coming from, just use "view source" and search the supposedly broken code to find out what it's linked to.  You can usually tell just by looking around the code and poking a bit to find out where.  If not, give us a page and a 404 to look at and we'll do our best!

I'm never super-comfortable linking off Moz but if you want to, go Google

data-centric 404

You'll find a great post from SEL that talks about finding which 404 error pages to keep. I would apply a similar methodology to finding which "old" pages to keep and which to redirect generally or just let go.

Sure, you could recreate the /page/ paths pretty easily in Wordpress.  When you set your permalinks, you can easily make those a page that ends with the slash.  ie.

site.com/path/

In Wordpress, that's as simple as creating the permalink to your new page as path.  That becomes site.com/path/

For the site.com/path/index.html ones, 301 redirects should be simple enough.

Redirect 301 /path/index.html http://www.site.com/path/new-permalink/

I'm sure there's a way to ModRewrite that whole thing but I'd be careful not to "catch" the wrong links in that type of bulk work.  It's probably easiest to create a sitemap, recreate what you can and figure out the rest from there.

Actually, before you redirect ALL errors to the homepage, please do some reading on that tactic:

http://www.rimmkaufman.com/blog/seo-and-404-pages/01022013/

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93641

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2409439

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/do-404s-hurt-my-site.html

And in this: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

Google specifically says (page 13)

Avoid not having a 404 page at all.

Finally:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83105

Use a 301 Redirect to permanently redirect all pages on your old site to your new site. This tells search engines and users that your site has permanently moved. We recommend that you move and redirect a section or directory first, and then test to make sure that your redirects are working correctly before moving all your content.

Don't do a single redirect directing all traffic from your old site to your new home page. This will avoid 404 errors, but it's not a good user experience. It's more work, but a page-to-page redirect will help preserve your site's ranking in Google while providing a consistent and transparent experience for your users. If there won't be a 1:1 match between pages on your old site and your new site (recommended), try to make sure that every page on your old site is at least redirected to a new page with similar content.

Google does not recommend this tactic and says "Avoid."  That's enough for me.  I don't know how to help you with the Mod Rewrite but I wouldn't 301 your 404.

I agree with Bryan that it should match a confirmed address - however, if you want to PM me the full address, I'll try to find the USPS match for you.  I don't mind doing some exploring.

The new Wordpress installation will take all the homepage juice so you don't need to direct home to home.

For all the rest, do you have an old sitemap or directory?  You could easily direct old pages to the same relevant new pages or even back to homepage if you need.  If you just want the new site.com to take all site.com's old juice - that will happen as Google indexes the new Wordpress.

After that it's simple enough - just Redirect 301 /old-directory/ http://www.site.com in an htaccess file.

Am I missing something in the question?

No real surprise. Any site that gets abused eventually goes from dofollow to nofollow.  I'm pretty sure at one point Twitter, Wiki, Pinterest and more of the main sites were follow ... but then it gets abused like crazy and then boom, nofollow.

No worries! It's a question that often comes up. I found I was answering it by typing out long answers each time so I wrote the Moz post specifically for this type of question.    It's good to have as a reference and it's understandable that you may not have found it.

Glad to help!

Hi Chathuranga,

This is a fairly common question on the forums. When we see the Moz metrics, we assume that better numbers mean you should rank higher but Google uses a couple hundred ranking factors and Domain Authority and Page Authority are not the whole story.

I did write a whole post about it here:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/going-beyond-moz-metrics-to-answer-why-is-this-site-outranking-me

Hope that helps!

According to a previous Q&A answer, SEOMoz is working on adding other Google search engines but Kuwait is not currently supported:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/is-it-possible-to-add-kuwait-google-if-yes-when-it-will-be-ready

"We are currently working on adding more search engine options in our web app and Google Kuwait is among them. Unfortunately, we don't have an estimated date for when this search engine will become available, so thank you for your patience while we work on updating our system."

I think if you're looking to save money, Canstockphoto is usually cheapest for good quality. I'm a former stock photographer so I could refer you around to all the main places if you want.  I would start with Canstock, Shutterstock if you need a lot of images, Dreamstime, Istock and Fotolia - as the main players.  Depends on your needs though.

If you are strict about categories - 1 category per post, no exceptions, then yes, that should work.  It's when you tick two boxes that you get into trouble.

As far as the syndication issue, it's not so much the "syndicated posts contain very small snippets" that is getting you.  Perform that search again:

"Website Analytics 101: The 4 Web Metrics You Must Master"

Click on the networkedblogs.com link.  It takes you directly to your site.  It's acting like a redirect (not sure it's technically a 301, but it's at least an instant meta-refresh.)

So the way Google sees it, that is your link.  Look at the link when you get forwarded. It's your link + UTM info.  That's the "first time" your link is in Google - and yes, the redirect must have more juice than the original.

Ok, so technically the "NetworkedBlogs.com" is a redirect directly to the text of your article.  For all intents, networkedblogs.com is ranking higher than you for your own content.  If you want your own to rank, you can't have it directly competing with itself.  There are a number of articles on SEOMoz about competing with yourself.  I was trying to find one I answered not too long ago but can't seem to find it.

(It took awhile - http://www.seomoz.org/q/searching-for-my-post-titles-nothing-in-serp)

Basically, your result IS showing up - just on a site other than your own.  It's the same article so Google is just picking one.

I'm confused - isn't the second result the "article itself?"

I see:

1. The archive result for "The Geek Free Guide to Analytics"

2. The actual post for "The Geek Free Guide to Analytics"

The main problem is that you have a lot of duplicate content in archives, tags, etc. so having them all index, dofollow means Google picks which to display.

The main thing I would do is fix your Yoast settings - only keep one thing open (archives, categories, tags - I usually do archives because each article is only posted one time but may have multiple tags and/or categories.)

But I'm confused as to which isn't ranking that you want to see.