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Screaming Frog SEO Spider could do that for you.  You'd need to set up a custom filter to look for a copy identifier (ie: a div that always contains the main copy) and have it scrape that for you while it's crawling.  Do the same for the other site and then you could match them up pretty easy I think.

Here is a good resource on different ways of using the tool - http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide  We use it almost daily for a variety of tasks and find it to be pretty flexible.  Good luck!

Your best way of handling that is to canonicalize all pages to a "View All" page for the search engine and use rel="prev" and rel="next" for your "Next" and "Previous" links respectively.

That's the best way to handle pagination if you're going to use canonicals.  To answer your question directly though, the paginated pages should not canonical themselves.

Another solution would be to noindex,follow pages 2 - n.

Hope that helps!

It may be difficult, particularly if the .com is also a well established brand in the UK.  That being said though, it isn't impossible to have your client rank in the SERPs as well for the same brand if you can establish them as a brand entity with Google.

For example, here is a search I did for Peak Auto, a well known, established brand in the automotive supplies industry- http://screencast.com/t/ycYugMK876  You'll see there are two other local results in the mix of primarily Peak Auto results.

Another example is to search for "Merck" in the .co.uk Google.  Some results will be from the US-based company of that name, the other results will be the German company of the same name.  And interestingly both are drug manufacturers.

So it may not be an easy task, but it certainly isn't impossible.

As Dana said, this is a pretty typical issue in e-commerce, particularly for merchants with large numbers of SKUs that are pretty much the same thing with very slight variations.  Think about trying to sell something like light bulbs.

In the recent past we have basically reinterpreted an old-school, spammy SEO technique that actually has a pretty useful, legitimate purpose in this scenario.  Spinning text.  You can use the variables from your product to create "unique-ish" content that will likely pass a duplicate content sniff test.

For example, there are many ways to write your call to action and it could be written like the below and run through a content spinner to produce different variations--

{{Call|Call us|Call Today|Telephone us|Ring us}} for {{the best|your|our best|daily best}} price 615-406-3255

Disclaimer: I'm certainly not endorsing this as a way to fool the search engines, but sometimes trying to get enough unique content to interest the algorithms takes a little creative effort.

1. I would argue there are (as you might expect) pros and cons for both approaches.  For example-

• By having "Dr. Who, DDS" and "Whoville Dentistry" as separate entities and creating citations for both, you easily address users who might search for them in both ways.  For example, I never can remember the name of my Dentist's office, but I do know his name and that's how I search for him.  Same sometimes for other services where you associate with the provider much more than the name of the business.
• One con of the above example, is you now have two (or way more, thinking real estate) separate entities to maintain and twice the work in building citations to them.

2. If it were me I would go with direct line or extension and make sure all citations were formatted exactly the same and reserve the main, primary number for the business entity.

3. It depends on if this is a single-location brick and mortar or one of many branches.  If a single location, go for the home page.  If multiple locations, to the profile page of that location on the main website.  Same for the individual person entity, it should go to their personal profile page on the website.

So those are some thoughts of mine.

Ah I love Raven.  But which part in particular?  Is it being pulled in from your Analytics?  Can you share a screenshot of what you're looking at?

Link reclamation is a pretty common practice in SEO.  I believe generally, as long as you are following best practices (ie: avoid Penguin issues) and not being overly aggressive you will be okay trying to reclaim broken and/or lost links.  Links appear and disappear to sites all the time as the Internet ebbs and flows.  Consider a blog home page.  As new blog entries with external links cycle through the page, links come and go on a regular basis.

Just make sure the sites you are reclaiming links on doesn't have it's own red flags in its link neighborhood.

A quick question: Where did you discover this page?  Using a tool like Xenu or Screaming Frog or in Google Webmaster Tools?  Other?  That'll help narrow down the issue.

Oftentimes WordPress or WordPress plugins will spawn various URI iterations (especially with URI variables) that you may not be aware of.

If you're looking to redirect ALL sub-pages to the new main page then you would use mod_rewrite with your .htaccess file something like-

RedirectMatch 301 ^/blog/dental-tips(.*)$ http://floridadentist.com/dental-tips/

If you're trying to redirect to the matching URI just under that new sub-directory this would be more appropriate-

RedirectMatch 301 ^/blog/dental-tips(.*)$ http://floridadentist.com/dental-tips/$1

The name of the post type only matters for your menu items in admin but yes it is an issue sometimes.  You could call it "News Item" and "News Items" or just go all grammatically incorrect with "Media Coverage" and "Media Coverages"  

Hi Philip,

You definitely want to look into Custom Post Types.  By creating a new Custom Post Type, it can allow you to create another set of content in the same manner as "Posts" (non-archived) or "Pages" (archived & hierarchical) you can then use to separate your content into buckets like you mention.  For some folks we will create very specific custom post types like "Products" that feature items for sale.  You can also create custom fields that apply to just those post types that can then be used to add additional meta data to the custom post.

Two plugins we use for this are-

• Types - https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/
• Advanced Custom Fields - http://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/

Obviously there are others but that should get you started.  I'm happy to reply to any other questions you may have, just leave a comment.  Good luck!

Some usability experts are actually recommending avoiding the mega menu - http://www.uie.com/articles/mega_menus/

DMOZ wait times are typically measured in months and/or years, if you ever hear anything.  Don't stress about it; move on and cross your fingers!