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I don't think anyone has mentioned this but your number of internal links is borderline nuts.  I found about 190,000 internal pages.

If you remove those internal links and Google this:

"www.phuketproperty.com" -site:www.phuketproperty.com

You'll see that your site has 13,000-ish backlinks.  Take a look at the highest ranked ones.  They're mostly all cheap/low quality inbound links.  You don't have a huge backlink profile based on the tremendous size of your site.

To put it in perspective

www.microsoft.com has 688,000 internal links and  28 million incoming links.

www.century21.com has 11 million internal links and almost 50 million incoming links.

www.phuket.com has 5530 internal links and 287,000 incoming links.

Internal links are not usually 10x incoming links.  That could be part of it.  You have 13,000 not-quality inbound links.  And 200k indexed pages.

In addition to what Adam said, you can just search your site on Google and I come up with over 14,000 results:

Both ways should give you a good insight into what's being found.

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Similar post about the exact same domain here:  http://www.seomoz.org/q/strange-nothing-site-ranking

Doesn't seem like anyone's analyzed it.  However, Woolworth's is a huge business here so I'm guessing somewhere on Woolworth's corporate site is a high value link back.

The site now has 59,900 links showing up on Google and Everyday Rewards (an older site with decent rankings) links in a menu to them:  https://www.everydayrewards.com.au

When you have a corporate site with a mozrank & moztrust in the 5s, 250,000 links back and a DA over 60, you're going to have decent power on ALL of your sites to push this new one up the rankings.  Woolie's has built trust and as a huge brand, Google rewards that.

Subfolders are better for blogs as long as the main domain is related to the same topic, the blog is regularly updated and the main site ranks currently.

Let me link you to a few similar answers recently:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/subdirectory-vs-subdomain

http://www.seomoz.org/q/blog-on-a-separate-domain

I think you'll find what you need in there.

Subdomains stand alone so they're good for creating a second top-10 but they need to be SEO'd alone as well so it's double the work.  Assuming you want to get both ranking no matter what eventually, subfolder is the way I'd go.

Agree with what Keri says.  Also, when looking at your link exchange it says Funny Jokes, snowboards, medical transcription, Loans.net, etc.

From Google's Quality Guidelines:

Avoid the following techniques:

Participating in link schemes

Loading pages with irrelevant keywords

From Google's SEO Guidelines:

Avoid SEOs that talk about the power of "free-for-all" links, link popularity schemes, or submitting your site to thousands of search engines. These are typically useless exercises that don't affect your ranking in the results of the major search engines -- at least, not in a way you would likely consider to be positive.

Also, looking at your rating stars on Google in rich snippets.  RS spam and fraud will be the next thing they crack down on.  I'm not saying you didn't get 5 stars but you have a lot of pages that no longer exist with 5 star ratings... some of which never allowed on-page rating.  This "looks" like RS spam.

Looking only at the site:

1. Why is your sitemap in the navbar?  Does it help visitors get anywhere except to your link exchange, which is hidden on the navbar?

2. Quotation should say Quote.  We don't give quotations.

3. The quote about Google makes no sense to me.  Maybe I just don't "get" it.

4. You swiped the SEO process graphic directly from a recent Moz post (although Moz didn't create it either. It seems to have come from http://www.webcopywriter.it/seo/ - they have the oldest record of it on Google Images.)

5. You aren't an English speaker natively.  I'm not sure selling services in English will work well for you.  "We believe that the web and first page rankings are for all."   "Art is priceless, alike the SEO"  You really need a native English speaker to fix most of the site pages if you're going to continue this direction.

I hope this review is not too harsh and is what you are looking for, if not what you wanted to hear.  This site has a LONG way to go before I'd make it public.

If you have trouble tomorrow, add me on Facebook or skype and I'll try and chat you through it.

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The entire documentation is here:  http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/

I haven't used this plugin - only Simple 301s - not Redirection.  So I'm not entirely sure if they want the whole URL but it should be simple to test.  I would think you would put in the http:// but try it without - maybe that's the issue?

No worries! Let us know how it goes.

Yes, don't use the plugin on NJCruise - just Aurora.

If they don't work, just deactivate (don't remove) the plugin and try the one I linked above (Simple 301s)  It's a much easier plugin and it should work easily.  If not, you can always delete Simple 301s and reactivate Redirection - so you'd still have all your work.

You set up the plugin exactly as I said and it didn't work?  That's odd.  I think it's the way we're writing URLs then.

Deactivate the plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-301-redirects/

Install and try Simple 301s ... try that.  If it doesn't work, we'll keep working on the URLs for the first plugin but this should make your life better in like 5 minutes.

What Oleg said - the pages should be no-index.  They aren't for search engines, they're for the magazines.  I wouldn't necessarily set canonical for all those pages because I'm not a fan of having 50 pages say their real link is something else.  In your situation, just no-index anything that's for people, not SEs.

The problem is on aurora17.com - your Wordpress Redirect plugin is not working for some reason.

You're using this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/ ?

Source URL: http://aurora17.com/?page_id=2485

Target URL: http://njcruise.org/alaska-cruise-tour/

Type: Simple redirection

Method: 301

Then you just push "Add redirection" - it should be ok?   Is the plugin activated on Aurora or NJCruise?  You want it on Aurora to "push" the URLs to the new site.  More info if you can...

I agree with Robert on all points.

To keep it out of the dev team's overwhelmed hands, just use http://code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/ or one of the many free generators online to create your sitemaps intermittently.

Maybe 3 months or 6 months down the road the dev team can come up with something when they're less crushed from the site move and you can have them do something similar to Google XML sitemaps plugin for Wordpress which updates the sitemap everytime you add new content.  Until then, submitting the freely generated ones should give Google at least a little heads up and feel like you're doing the right thing.

Another thing - if he's friends with you on G+, he's going to see your content higher than other sites.  So he could see you 10 results higher.  Google probably doesn't think you're Googling to find your own content but they would definitely assume a socially connected friend of yours would want to see your content.  Plus, he may have Googled that term before for you?  That would also personalize it.

Fiverr?  Only for negative SEO. lol  It's all SENuke and xrumer.

No, it's not good for SEO.  It's great to send your competition there, though.  I'd tell them it worked great! lol

I'm new but yes, I love it here.  I joined after feeling like this is a great group who can definitely help me grow and hopefully I can help a bit as well.

As far as I understand, subdomains are good when you want each subdomain judged on its own merit.  For instance, Wordpress uses me.wordpress.com and you.wordpress.com  That means my site may not bring everyone down if I get penalized.  However, if you had wordpress.com/me and wordpress.com/you, we're on the same domain so you'd find it harder to improve your own SEO while I am bringing you down.

So if you're trying to separate content, use subdomains.  If it's all one company/organization and you are confident all franchisees will do the right thing, use subfolders.  If you wanted say

Atlanta.franchise.com

Boston.franchise.com

The SEO work would be 2x (or 50x if you had 50 franchises) but it would stand alone.  That means if the Boston Franchise did a lot of work, they'd be much better off than the ATL one who did less.  If the main franchise.com is doing all the seo for everyone, you'll want to use subfolders.

At least that's my understanding of the difference!  

Google does support RDFa.  However, on their own site (which is notoriously bad at giving us info) it says "Google suggests using microdata" - that's enough for me.  I have a few clients still on RDFa and from what I've seen, as long as you can get results through the Structured Data test link, you're usually good to go either way.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Cache won't be built or updated overnight so sometimes the first few caches are a waiting game.  How long has this site been live?  If it's fairly new, what you're experiencing is common.  If it's an older site and you recently started changing a lot of the technical stuff - redirecting, canonicals, etc. it may just take a little while to settle in.

The other major recommendation I would give you is to change your sitemap "change frequency" to be slightly more accurate.  Does this page http://www.fuchia.co.uk/products/clothing/dresses/dog-tooth-print-dress.aspx  really change "daily"?   By having daily on every page you aren't helping Google prioritize their crawl, which means you may get a cache for your dog tooth print dress before you get a new cache for your main page.

So I would fix that, resubmit sitemap and then it's a waiting game.  Could be a week, could be two, I've seen it go almost a month but not if you use G+.