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Ok, thank you.

I agree with the others about using a description tag properly to avoid your donations showing up in the Meta Description for the page.  If you want to post a link to the site, I'd be happy to take a look at the page and see if there's a quick fix / work around for you... Thanks, Jeff

Hi there! Ideally if you're going to be targeting another country the best way to go is with a ccTLD, in this case, .ca. In case you're not able then you can go with a directory and at some point switch to the ccTLD (when you're ready) with a migration, when it makes sense for your business. You can take a look at the different criteria you can take into consideration in this post I wrote some weeks ago, where I also gave my recommendations from a web structure perspective when you target many countries with different languages for each with a generic domain. In this case it would be the following one to maintain a consistency from a country/language perspective and keep the URL structure as simple as possible for a user and crawling perspective: USA: yourbrand.com Canada in English: yourbrand.com/en-ca/ Canada in French: yourbrand.com/fr-ca/ In the post I mention you will find also some examples with this different structures and other best practices to follow. Good luck with the site Aleyda

I'm pretty sure it's a 301 redirect Just to add -- they must have used ikea.ca at some point because opensiteexplorer is showing that they have 6,135 links and some social signals pointing to that .ca domain. Does the fact that is has so many links to the .ca help it rank? even though the value of those links are being passed over to the .com site?

Search engines can and sometimes do crawl JavaScript, but you shouldn't count on them to do so.

I believe that the answer to your question depends upon the type and amount of information that you have for each question. This method would be the best if you have lots of content for each question.  I use this method when I have several hundred words and a couple images for each question. This method is good if you have lots of very short answers - too short to justify a separate page for each answer. This method is very good if you have started with #2 and have so many questions that you can make separate pages by category. Bottom line... Use #1 if you have lots of content.... or... start with #2 then go to #3 when you have lots of questions.

Interesting - I've very rarely had issues with GWO, but if a new URL was created and someone linked to it, I can see where you might have a problem. (1) None of these things are absolute, I'm afraid, but typically, yes - a rel=canonical to a different page should keep the first page out of the index. (2) Usually, but it depends. The problem here may be that Google just isn't crawling the test variant very often, so they may not be processing the rel=canonical yet. If it's just a couple of pages, I'd give it time - it's probably not an emergency situation. Again, you could just tell Google to remove them in GWT. I think you're doing the right thing with the canonical tags, but it can take Google time to process them the way you want to, in practice.

I'd go into www.opensiteexplorer.org and see if you can find this backlink.  If you can't, then it probably doesn't count. Check it out, it's cached with your link - search this... inurl:www.nyc.gov "cars for kids"

Here's what Google officially has to say about how they determine organic sitelinks, updated in October of 2010. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334