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Hi Rodrigo, Ah I didn't realise we're using XLST so you're not seeing the source code but only the marked up versions for the stye sheets. I would recommend to check the source code of this URL for example: http://thenextweb.com/post-sitemap71.xml it will show you the image:loc tags for almost every URL.

Hi Rodrigo, OK - so I was able to find the page functionality in question on your actual site just to double check what was going on. Since this content isn't important to the page from an SEO standpoint, it makes sense to just remove these pages from the index. To do that your best bet is probably robots.txt. Here's a good stackexchange with John Mueller confirming that. I believe any one of the following entries can do the trick, but highly recommend you double check my work and test this before you implement it. This is also a good time for me to add a liability disclaimer if you accidentally noindex your whole site. Disallow: /AjaxPages/PopUp/CheckPrice Disallow: /AjaxPages/PopUp/CheckPrice.aspx Disallow: /CheckPrice (choose one of these, you don't need to use all of them) Pretty sure Robots.txt is case sensitive, so /checkprice may not work. There is also something called an X-Robots-Tag that could do this instead of your robots.txt file. Instructions on that at https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_meta_tag?hl=en Finally, consider testing this on your staging server before rolling it out live.

Ya, that's a mess. Either 301 to a live page or let the 404 be delivered on its own.

An aspect of the software people do not utilize enough is the key word tracking combined with the page grader. If you look at the keyword tracking you may notice a URL on the right hand side to some of the key words.  That is the specific URL that is ranking for that key word. I use this to see what key words I have ranking and then use the page grader to optimize pages for each key word or key word set and make sure that each key word I care about is ranking on a specific URL. just keep going through this process until you are ranking on all the key words you are targeting. As SEO is a "no one thing" art form you need to fix all the crawl errors on the site as well as build up your domain authority in the background. An aspect people often do not think about on the front end is bounce rate and conversion. Right away I would set up conversion events on the web site itself and tie these to Google Analytics.  I would also add Crzyegg heat mapping software to your pages, While tracking the traffic to your web site look at what that tracking is doing once they are there.  i

Ray did a great job explaining what and how linking c-blocks do to affect your domain authority. Generally speaking it is better to have unique linking c-blocks as it means a variety of sources are linking to your domain. If all come from the same c-block it may look spammy or fake according to search engines.

Thanks Everyone, This has been very helpful I will move forward with custom reporting by weekly

Awesome thanks for checking but I see that is the XML sitemap and I'd need a HTML version that is customer facing.

without a price, how can I determine if you are making the best offer...this IMHO is so important for commodity products...

Forgive me if this is a silly question, but does this mean you would need to go and identify all the urls with extra parameters, and add canonical tag pointing to the primary url? Coz if so, that would be an extremly labourious task, no? Some of my duplicate issues, have 50+ urls that are being counted as 'duplicates'. There must be a better way, hence, I fear this must be a silly question...  

In my experience XML is really the best practice. You can have more than one site map technically, but you should always have an XML version.

The task I was given was to find the average search engine ranking for the "Brand Name".  My company has multiple stores in all the states in the US.  Lets say over 150+ stores,  How would I check the search engine rank position for "brand name " or "Keywords" by either zip code/city/state

Wow! Jennita that was a spectacular Link to a very through share slide THANKS!

I have never done a migration of a website with so many URL's it is kind of overwhelming.  I do have a 404 page with the catchall rule in place.  See i'm coming from the business side of SEO i'm not really the developer getting in there and actually doing the migration ( I tip my hat to all you developers without you I am nothing but a voice).  I'm guiding my developer to the safest route.  Doing the migration all at once does make sense to prevent both sites being cached

I understand linking to the page only if it makes sense.  What are your thoughts on the location of the link? should they be placed at the top left/right or just place them in the footer. The major differentiation between the two examples of branding I gave were one brand is promoting its sub-brand with a 1 way link they are not linking to one another (example : Brand A is only linking to Brand B & Brand C while Brand B&C do not link to Brand A).  The other example is all of the brands are interchangeably linking to one another (example : Brand A is linking to B&C while B&C also Link to Brand A)