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use some nice AJAX script to list them by alphabetical order or some other order?

I assumed from the title you were wondering if you needed to crop the number of links, the answer is not if it's just a few pages and it's clearly just a directory in that part of the site. Those links won't pass huge value due to sheer volume so webmaster tools may scream but I wouldn't be horrendously bothered by them.

directories have paid links, its fine in general. don't worry about it too much.

i doubt that is the reason for your drop in all honesty, i'd suggest if you can redirecting to a category to avoid any issues though.

Id suggest adding more value content to the front page, at the moment its just a link-out affiliate site, these don't usually do amazingly well in search - you are adding a blog and forum that is great but maybe look at surfacing them on the front page if you can to add some depth to the site other than via the top nav.

other than that without delving into your stats and GWT i can't say too much.

it's not free but yoast SEO have this awesome WP plugin, adds microformats etc - see benefits  @ http://yoast.com/wordpress/video-seo/

used it for a client, well worth it- adds something competition don't have for the most part

i believe they hold little real SEO value, but are memorable and can be used to help navigate around the website. This said breadcrumbs would work just as well and good categorisation

cost to benefit ratio is hard to really give you a good answer, benefits are given above the cost depends on the platform you use and also where the site is hosted. For instance changing urls on wordpress or drupal is fairly easy and relatively cheap, compared to say a bespoke system which may have various issues around url changing (i've seen many sites break due to url updates not being done correctly).

for a better explanation than we can all give in this small space check this page from SEOMoz (the best practices bit has benefits in it) http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/url

that could help but would just shift the issue elsewhere - but it's worth a try.

if you'd like a chat in a bit more of a private setting head to my profile and send me a message in private, or go through to the company site and get in touch that way.

open site explorer should work for you.

or use the link operator in google

eg. link:www.redstarcreative.co.uk

or robots.txt file

also nofollow isn't a rule it's also a guide - most SE's see and listen to it but  some ignore it, even Google has been known to ignore it on some sites.

It's all been said but here are a few more tips to get your going with the perfect page titles

http://seoandy.com/optimisation/perfect-webpage-title/#sthash.lcH9PSFM.dpbs

completely agree. also a domain doesn't mean its your companies name, in many cases it can be but not always. good luck.

it may be worth submitting the url again as a report via another ip/location/account - i seem to recall a conversation with someone at google who said 1 report will be ignored but 2 or more and they will flag it for a human to look at at some point (doesn't mean it will happen urgently though)

start another crawl. I've hit a few bugs like this, but when you submit a new one for the same url it works ... can't cancel or restart old ones (maybe something for Moz to work on)

very odd indeed.

Its a frame-forwarded url, it's something 123-reg.co.uk still offers

They sell it as "if you do this you can have two homepages/urls with different titles and descriptions but the same content" ... its nothing of the sort.

It would be near impossible to offer real SEO to the new url, it would do nothing for it.

It feels like a case of the company rebranding and this was the shortest way for them to "move" the site to a new place.

To do an audit just have one line - can't see website, it's in an iframe

good luck

long story short, rel canonical isn't the tool for the job - manual work (to an extent) is.

titles and content want to be unique even if you have canonicals. if you miss use canonicals you can have other issue within your site and serps  so be careful. my advice is point blank remove the dupe content whether by manually changing content and titles.

Hi Nico,

before i answer your question, its probably worth noting that if you manipulate your sitemap priorties too much they will be ignored - and should this "over optimisation" penalty occur you will be hit.

it also sounds like you are trying to manipulate "link juice" within the site, usually doing this is a bad idea - my advice is think of the user and not the search engine, even if it worked and you got visitors to your site if they can't find their way around you are in trouble.

your question

Rel canonical only effects duplicate content between your own pages and other sites - implement it if you want it wont have much effect. I think you've got rel=alternative mixed up, it is used to point to things like RSS feeds or copies for PDFs, not previous pages / content.

We have a number of sites that rank well on Big G but not on Bing - it seems to be an issue around search lag from our experience. We could be wrong but we've had sites who ranked in top 2 or 3 for a term on G and 6 months later it was top 5 for bing when previously it had been no where, its just possible bing is slow?

hang on Cody... things not to do "write something readable" .... i think you've mixed two lists into one!

Tom's point is spot on.

Syndication is a great traffic driver, no doubt - but it also means that the content usually worth a little less. Also implementing the canonical tag can be away around this but it will mean that the "copy" of the content will never get a chance to rank, though it will still drive some traffic.

The answer is always original content across the board - if you must repost on your own website use the canonical to point to the other site - show the love.

off topic: i was once asked "if i add a picture of a cute cat to any post would it become unique content?" ... answers on a post card to "sill questions here"

Google knows they are all separate niche's and so I can't see a problem in optimizing across them all. I would advise you mix things up so that your titles aren't all the same just with a word swapped out - same for the urls etc.

hope that helps