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Taylor, you are 100% on the right track. All the answers exist in your question.

#1. These are "redirect notices", not errors. More like warnings.
#2. As long as they are canonicalized correctly, which you said "do I need to do anything if both those pages are canonical to the parent product".

There's absolutely nothing you need to do. You are good. It's always good and important to verify these technical SEO issues. I hope this helps.

I checked and saw that other pages from your site do rank. For example, reward charts, reward charts for kids, chore chart template at #5, #8 and #15 respectively. Looks like Behavior Charts is relatively a higher volume keyword and to me it's a page authority issue. You probably need to build some internal and external links to improve your PA and DA to better rank for this and other keywords as others have also recommended.

I hope this helps.

Think about it from the user's perspective. You work for a company based out of Chicago and are looking for. It sounds like you are a venue. I'd make the page rich with information that people are looking for. Think about the frequently asked questions that people call and ask the venue. Incorporate them into the website. Not everything goes on the same page. But all these pages as well as the menu act as supplemental pages for your main page, site and the keywords.

Think about it. Help the consumer a little bit better. This would also lead to better conversion. When in doubt, think about the consumer and the answer is right there.

I think if I am looking for a location for a corporate event, I am interested in:

Size, Seating Capacity, Catering Services, Menu, Pricing, Planner, Parking, Location, Types of Seating, Decorations, Themes, Projectors/Large Screen TVs, Sound System and other add-ons etc.

Menu is one of the items I am looking for. Do I want it on the page right on my face or do I want all the options and be able to expand on the information I am looking for ?

Are the URLs, pages/filenames 100% in sync between the secure subdomain and the main/public site ? If that's the case (and if it makes sense, you add a canonical on your secure.subdomain.com to public.subdomain.com pages). This way your secure.subdomain.com will not get indexed in the SERPS and will act as a 301 redirect.

P.S. Only do this if the pages are 100% in SYNC and the only difference is price etc. This way only 1 version of the pages get indexed. Users linking to your secure site will NOT get redirected, they will still see the secure site. But when the bots follow the link, they will see the canonical link as a strong directive not to index this page but your public equivalent of the same page.

OMG, looks like there are results all over the web with those links. See:

https://www.google.com/search?q=allinurl%3A%26tag%3Dvebidoo_com-21

I'd suggest you make sure yourdomain.com/randomurl.html contains a canonical to itself. That way, if somebody links to yourdomain.com/randomurl.html&tag=vebidoo_com-21, Google will ignore it. You can also add it as a ignore parameter in your Google and Bing Webmaster Console.

I hope this helps.

James, OSE only crawls a portion of the web. Even Google can not technically crawl the entire web. There's almost an infinite amount of information and web pages out there. So as long as it's cached in Google, which it is, I wouldn't worry about it. Eventually it will show up. The good news you shared is the fact that it shows up in webmaster tools. You are good.

I think that's a little too much. Slow down. Revisit your link profile. Do a complete audit for yourself and the competition. See what you really need. Revisit your On-page and then fill the gaps. That's a little too many unless you are talking about an authority site/brand with considerable customer base, traffic, audience to justify this as natural. Are these all same kinds of links/citations ? Blogs/Blog comments/articles/press releases/guest posts etc etc ?

As long as you are not over doing any one specific kind of link building, I won't worry. A good mix is natural. Don't bother too much if there are certain citations, follow, nofollow. It's the normal nature of the web.

As Chris said, How many citations are you adding in what period of time?

I agree with Paul, 100%. Just do a 301 redirect and move on. As you said, it's dropping in the SERPS and there's really only type-in traffic and there's no SEO value of it's own. Minimal PA, DA. 301 Redirect and Issue Resolved.

You are asking this question, which means you already know and I am presuming retaining the same URLs is not a possibility. Even if it's a slim possibly, I'd suggest looking into it further. If not, then as long as you can 301 each and every URL to the new target URL, you should be fine. I have seen a +/- 10% Dip in traffic and rankings (if any) and it all varies on the authority and strength of your website. If you say, you are ranking well with some traffic, it definitely has some strength and I would not worry about moving it as long as you are prepared for it, in terms of redirects and maintaining similar or better On-page SEO and Internal Link Juice. Typically, when CMS's change, so does the internal link juice etc and that can have an affect even if you do the redirects fine. So you need to do an Audit of what's before and after, how optimized is the after compared to the before and what does your competition look like (if any).

I hope this helps.

There's a definitely value. If that mention was  "we used TVFoodMaps.com for our trip", that's better and if it's a link, it's even better.

All that combines, makes up for a Natural Link Profile :).

I hope this helps.

I agree with Branagan. Simply put, there's absolutely no reason or added advantage of doing that to your internal links. However, as Matt has said in his video about this topic, you could potentially do it for your View Cart page or maybe pages like Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, etc, but there's no need or advantage in doing so. So why bother ?

I hope this helps.

If your product names and brand names in itself, I'd totally use them/track them if that's what my goal is. There might be very little search volume but your conversion would be high, so you'd want to make sure all those review websites are not outranking you for your own brand name/product name keywords. So yes, you are right and on the right track :).

Are you contributing to both the websites as an Author ? Do you have real content that is being authored/posted under your name on both the websites ? Do you have people that relate to both industries in your Circles or following you ? If yes, I wouldn't mind using the same G+ Profile. It's what's correct. That's what makes sense.

It's like if I am working for a Pet Supplies company for example and I am posting on it's blog everyday, but then at home I am also a Coin Collector and have a blog about it. They have nothing in common but it would still make sense that I am the author of both the websites since I really do contribute to both of them.

I hope this helps. Most of the times, it's a very easy answer if you try to think search engines don't exist. What would you do ? You get the answer and apply that. That's what is correct, right and the most accurate way of doing it.

Mark, there are always certain niche directories that are worth getting listed.But it all depends upon the niche of the site, the current link profile, the competition link profile and what I am trying to overcome.

Presuming you have a brand new website that you are trying to promote and have absolutely no link profile currently, I'd look at a little bit of directory links to start with (0-10 niche directories only including submitting to DMOZ, Yahoo Directory if it's in your budget, BOTW (same budget rule) as well as any industry specific niche directories and/or Yellowpages if you are a local business).

I hope this helps.

Craig

That's a great example and I agree with you, you are on the right track. Think about your competition. They would also have the similar kinds of links. So you have those low quality, but natural links should be totally okay. With the nature of the web, nobody can control who links to them. Think what kinds of links Google, Yahoo or Amazon or Microsoft might be getting all day long.

I would only concentrate on the actual links that are problem, should out manipulation, clearly blog posts, guest posts, reviews which were done from crappier sites, spam blogs.

I hope this helps.

Atul

The duplicate meta data from Google Webmaster Console is for Page Title and Description which is the same on your Paginated Pages.

| <title>Hindu Wedding Cards Catalogue | 123WeddingCards</title> |
|   |

Maybe on Page 2, you change it to:

| <title>Hindu Wedding Cards Catalogue - Page 2 at 123WeddingCards</title> |
|   |

That or something else in the page title which changes on every paginated page. Something similar in your Meta Description.

I hope this helps.

Michelle, just be careful on whatever link building techniques you are using. Don't overdo any one kind of links. Think natural. Also, I'd recommend building more brand links to build your overall domain authority rather then getting the perfect SEO anchor text links. Think long term. You don't want your website to get penalized for manipulation of the SERPS via Anchor text link building.

As for your question about links to your main domain (homepage) or deep links, I'd say go for a combination without trying to do too much anchor text links. Concentrate on trying to build great content that people naturally link to and share. That would do the perfect link building for you.

I hope this helps.

What makes you think it's an over optimization penalty ? Have you received any webmaster console messages. Were you ranking 2 weeks ago and now all of your rankings have dropped or is it that some of your rankings have dropped. Please explain the exact situation a little bit more before there can be a solid conclusion.

Real Press Releases get picked up by traditional media and get redistributed/reworded all over the web, which is lesser duplicate content. That's how the traditional news world works and helps in all aspects of SEO/Brand Building. But to your point, if it's the same release over and over again, it would get combined and in most cases you'd only see 1 (if any). Most of those PR sites don't even make it into Google News.