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In my experience, it does a good job of picking up the canonical tags. In fact, if you go into your campaign, go into the Crawl Diagnostics section, then click the blue "Notices" button, it will show you how many "Rel canonical" URLs were picked up. If you're not getting many pages shown here, perhaps you should recheck to be sure your tags are implemented properly.

Ive run your site through the Page Speed tool here and you get 94/100 (which is awesome!). No idea on the JS sorry I'd be more than happy with 94/100!

Thanks Edward. Regarding the page speed stuff, Google rate the page speed of the GZ site at 91/100 – with the javascript being the only place where points are being deducated. The only problem is, the JS relates to the trustpilot widget, and social links at the bottom of the page – neither of which work when they are deferred. I'm looking into the content now!

It's hard to write this kind of code without being able to debug it, but hopefully this will point you in some sensible directions. First my assumption - based on the URLs you included, I'm assuming you want to rewrite http://www.diamondgeezer.com/anything to serve http://www.diamondgeezer.com/theultimate/search/index.php?sortprice=asc&followSearch=9673&q=anything behind the scenes. I think there might be some complications around replacing hyphens (-) with pluses (+), but just serving the search results page for the word appearing after the first slash should be as simple as: ^/(.*) /theultimate/search/index.php?sortprice=asc&followSearch=9673&q=$1 The documentation here should help: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Just a follow-up to my endorsement. It looks like Screaming Frog will let you control the number of pages crawled per second, but to do a full crawl you'll need to get the paid version (the free version only crawls 500 URLs): http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ It's a good tool, and nice to have around, IMO.

Having dealt with photographers for many years I would say that it is, but does not have to be. Obviously, there are more Spring and Summer marriages, school pics during school year, etc. Many photographers put their businesses in too narrow a niche and by virtue of that limit themselves to other opportunities. If a photographer is to build a name for themselves it will typically start in one city. They have to become known to a level that someone will say, "This family photo was shot by Bill Photo." But, there are many other areas to be explored: If a photographer is digitally savvy, the real estate market loves a person who understands what parallax is and how to best display a home for sale. They pay very well (Maybe a low of $150 for the lower end real estate up to $1,000's for high end homes). Be willing to set up drop boxes, etc. and teach agents and mls' how to retrieve photos and be prepared to assist them early in the process. Seasoned realtors are good at this, but new ones need help. You never know which new one will become a top producer. Industrial/Commercial photography is another area where they can make money and reduce seasonality. Make it easy on them to get what they want and then have it available when they need a copy, etc. (Get away from the "I own the copyright and a copy is $500 BS - charge a fee, but make the money on the schedule time, difficulty of shoot and setting, etc. - no one likes to feel nickel and dimed). Like any other business, you must be telling people you are there and constantly working the sales pipeline. If you are an "artist" and cannot be bothered with the mundane....good luck. Best

While I cannot speak for a whole platform (this will soon be happening), I just tested it with a single page of which I changed the URL structure as well as optimizing on-page - the whole website is one mess of spam. I can only second the advices the posters before have given you: Wait until the crucial time for you business is over. I experienced the following: I prepared an optimized text for the adjusted site, figured out the best keyword to rank for (quite competitive)  and decided which URL would serve my needs the best. So the structure before was like www.domain.com/brand_page/_22-key-word2-translatedkeyword.php (ranked 20). This was changed to www.domain.com/key-word.html. We used 301 Permanent Redirect. The outcome: After 2 days, the old URL was kicked out of the index. Then it took Google 6 days to index the site with the new URL structure but with disastrous ranking (28 first entry). Then it took around 5 days until we reclaimed rank 20. Three days after, we ranked 10 - and we're still there. So for the targeted short-tail keyword, it payed off. BUT: Nearly none of the  long-tail keywords that generated traffic for the old page are ranking keywords for the page right now. Only little by little we start to rank again for them, but it is 3,5 weeks now. To cut a long story short: I'd do it another time in the year, it is better for the client's business.

The second option is surely the best one. Not just because your visitors will thank you (I mean, they find you for B and you are redirecting them to A obliging them to start an internal search), but also is what Google itself suggest here: https://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83105&hl=en

You are correct Brian and I have updated my original response. The primary remaining advantage is any Google AdWords advertisements stand out more as they display the Google Checkout logo.

Thank you!

Thanks, that's a good idea!

Thank you!

could you please look at my site http://vervo.lv/ the mooz page grade says i have 72 keywords in page but i see just 9. So where is other keywords. Keyword is "Kravu pārvadājumi" or "starptautiskie kravu pārvadājumi" i yet did not decided which one use for first page. I thought the problem is using many targeted menu links but when i disable them nothing chages.

Thanks guys. That's what I suspected, but obviously I wanted to be sure before I went to the client.

Thanks guys. You've confirmed what I suspected. A trim is definitely needed!

Thanks Shaun!

Plus - look around! Check out other companies Robots.txt file http://edition.cnn.com/robots.txt http://www.nytimes.com/robots.txt You can see what they do not think is relevant for search engines to be looking at.

I use canonical references on all my pages no matter what. Most professional sites I encounter do as well. You will notice they are used on SEOmoz. I would use a rewrite rule mainly to do something alone the lines of directing all your non www traffic to their www counterpart. For the type of issue you are working on, I would use canonical tags on every page.

I have to admit that's exactly what I would do so I can't really suggest anything more exciting. Maybe someone needs to make an app that uses the SEOmoz api for intranet pages? No problem about the answer, very happy to chip in. Hopefully someone else with a better idea will drop by shortly.