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Hi nvs.nim, could you tell me what you did differently? I also get an empty AF column.

I believe he was referring to the 90's site ranking top for the keyword space jam. I just assumed nobody was really trying to compete for that term.

I suggest looking through previous Q&A forum results for various answers that have been provided for this question. Here's the query to find them: https://www.google.com/search?q=seomoz+base+href. Basically, you are right, you should use absolute links instead of relative links. You only need to use a base href if you are using relative URLs on page and the base href is needed for them to resolve correctly. The base href you are seeing in the code shouldn't be causing any issues for Google when following internal links. The issues, if any, would be caused by the relative links themselves if they are not set up correctly (this should be easily tested).

There's also a blog post about how to handle expired content at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-should-you-handle-expired-content

So if the site has a structure like this: www.xyz.com/overview and the filter on this page has several options like /?order= , ?brand=, .... I have to rel-canonical them al to www.xyz.com/overview

will do! How many moz-points do you have atm?

Thx for your response, the line break is only for displaying it here...

Great stuff, glad it looks to be sorted. Come back and pop a reply should you need more help! Good luck!

Thanks for the advice! will work with that. Gonna setup a Google Docs form and send it to the business owners.

Hey Joris, As of now it will most likely see it as duplicate content, because technically it still is duplicate content to a crawler bot, they won't know your intentions or target audience for each subfolder. The only way you could get around our crawler seeing it as duplicate is by blocking rogerbot with robots.txt or meta robots from that subfolder. Then there is putting up relconanoicals, which is the best way. Hope this sheds some light on the duplicate content issues. Best, Nick  SEOmoz

The issue is going to be around how you use the name. What Google does not want is what I would call a misdirection by a business (and many unscrupulous ones try often). So, if you are in a town and your business is John's Coffee in town, but your national brand is HotTime Coffee, the issue will be around who you are. Due to the number of people utilizing Places, you need to be clear prior to the upload that you are using a viable (within the guidelines clearly) method or presentment.  My suggestion would be to first do one or two. You can get those verified in a day or two. Once you have the format of presentation correct, try one more to be sure always utilizing a distant location so you have a good view of the landscape. Then do your bulk upload.  To me, this would be better as you would spend 2to 4 days getting ready and reduce time on the backend by having had it right to start with. Best to you

Thanks, I'll see what we can do with the funny video idea if the client accepts on doin' it I will show you the result

Great explanation. I will surely apply these steps for my service company website to optimize it for ranking.

Very helpful Ryan, thank you.  Was just on botw.org and had Paul's exact question.