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I'm considering changing my permalinks from:

http://www.musicliveuk.com/corporate-entertainment-1

http://www.musicliveuk.com/corporate-entertainment-2

to:

http://www.musicliveuk.com/corporate-entertainment-london etc...

(these are example pages and don't actually exist)

as I want to optimise pages for specific cities. This will create a load of 404 errors which I will have to 301 redirect (I presume that's the best way of doing it?).  Does having the keyword in the url help and is the added SEO value (if their is any) worth it?

I'm using wordpress and the all in one seo pack with the canonical option checked. As I understand it the rel="canonical" tag should be added to pages that are duplicate or similar to tell google that another page (one without the rel="canonical" tag) is the correct one as the url in the tag is pointing google towards it.

Why then does the all in one seo pack add rel="canonical" to every page on my site including the home page? Isn't that confusing for google?

Indeed I did have two plugins running... DOH!

Thanks guys.

Thanks guys. I also get warnings that some pages have more than one canonical tag. I don't add any manually and just use the all in one seo pack settings. How can this be and how do I fix it?

My site has over 80 canonical warnings. The report states the url is for example http://www.musicliveuk.com and the 'tag value' column says http://www.musicliveuk.com/ Is that a good thing? I'm new to seo and am running my site on wordpress with all in one seo pack. Does this mean the seo pack has automatically added canonical tags to my pages? If so why is it showing as an error? I am also getting lots of 301 permanent redirects and I haven't set any up manually. I'm getting them for every page on my site from the normal url to a url with a slash at the end.

I'm confused - seo moz crawl shows I have lots of pages with too many links.  150 - 200 or so. I'm not sure how any of my pages can have that many links and they don't appear to to me. Here's an example:

http://www.musicliveuk.com/tag/wedding-entertainment

They all appear to be 'tag' pages. These pages are blocked by meta robots anyway so is this a problem and how do I fix it?

I also am very confused by rel canonical. I have 300 odd pages with this warning. Is this good or bad? Plesae help!

I have a question about internal linking. I am trying to rank for the term 'entertainment agent' and wonder wether I should go through my blog posts (50 or so) and link the words 'entertainment agent' to my homepage which is optomised for the keyword. Will that add any SEO value? Should I be directing any 'link juice' from my blog posts to the main pages I want to rank or will that look unnatural?

I'm thinking of signing up to a couple of affiliate programs related to my industry. Will adding affiliate links at the bottom of articles for example negatively affect my seo? I intend to have lots of useful content on my site and not just affililate links.

I have added google maps to my site in a iframe. Will that cause me seo problems?

I am new to SEO and trying to rank for keyword 'corporate entertainment' and my site is currently at 26. However google is showing the homepage http://www.musicliveuk.com  in SERPS as opposed to my optomised page http://www.musicliveuk.com/home/corporate-entertainment. Any ideas why it is choosing so show the home page as the most relevant result?

I've just done a search on open site explorer for a competitors site that has is ranked number one. Most of their highest authority backlinks are from link directories. I just read an article on here saying to stay away from directories that state things like 'seo friendly directory'. Many of my competitors links are from these kind of sites! Will it harm me to get links from such sites? It seems to be working for my competitors.... confused.com!