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Wow, nice follow up Daniel. I posted it early in the morning while doing my rounds and should have given a more detailed post like you just did. Thank you for expanding on it for everyone.

I agree it is labor intensive, but as you mentioned it can pay off.

EGOL listed a few items that I tend to overlook because I am not doing as much content distribution as I should.

Redirect doesn't allow for (.*).

What your looking for either: RewriteRule to show the other page (which it doesn't sound like your looking for)

RewriteRule /category/diamond-pendants/nstart/1/start/(.*) /category/pendants/nstart/1/start/$1 [QSA,L]

Or the hardly used: RedirectMatch

RedirectMatch /category/diamond-pendants/nstart/1/start/(.*) http://www.provada.com/category/pendants/nstart/1/start/$1

Ya, the back-links are a little excessive, wonder who they are really competing against. Without spending time on it I'm betting there is another competitor that is also doing a massive back-linking campaign.

As Cyle stated, look at the different tools SEOmoz offers to do a full analysis of it if you plan to compete.

Here is one possible way to handle the situation:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tracking-traffic-from-google-places-in-google-analytics

Business directories work wonders here.

Because of the 5,937 incoming links compared to the 6 the next highest link has.

In that case I would be curious what the answer is as well because I have the same situation with pages that are named "Example Title | Page 1 | Company Name", "Example Title | Page 2 | Company Name". I'm assuming the algorithm looks the percentage difference to dictate whether a title is different, not the actual different.

The above would drop over 500 Duplicate Page Title errors if the Page 1 & 2 were considered actually different.

Did you look at the pages themselves that they are showing the link to? I had the same problem when I started and it was because of the dynamic linking. RogerBot was able to crawl through pages that were auto generated, example a previous page link that would allow you to go back 6 years by stepping through each month, I figure no human would follow that link when it said "There is no data for this or any previous month", however a bot would just keep going and see duplicate content pages.

Note that there are "Duplicate Content" and "Duplicate Title" items, what you explain with the company title would be a duplicate title issue.

Try this: http://www.stevenferrino.com/scripts/google-api-search.php

And would someone please tell me how to add links that open, like Barry's Soap example

google-api-search.php

The difference between a subdomain and a subfolder:

Subdomain: http://blog.mydomain.com

Subfolder: http://www.mydomain.com/blog/

Miss read the question.

The 101 part, someone correct me if I'm wrong, comes from the calculation that 101 PR0 links = 1 PR1 link, and 101 PR1 links = 1 PR2 link, etc.I can't find the actual page that I read it on.

I have no idea what they are referring to with the 101. Sounds like the parable of the 101st monkey to me.

Moved over to: http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html

If you can't find an example that helps let me know.

Not a function, and I didn't mean to state that you had to use PhpED to see the problem, just pointing out how I did find it.

With any page loaded, on the right hand side you will see a handful of tabs, next to that is a pinkish bar that will have a Red circle, indicating that there is an issue.

phped_error.jpg

Ok, you haven't stated how big the site is. As I already stated, Google will not show you everything it has in it's index, Yahoo will give 1000, SEOMoz might have additional, also check your Google Webmaster Tools (if you have that setup).

The second thing to keep in mind is incoming links from other places. It sounds like there was no housekeeping before the restructure, so I would keep an eye on the web server logs, analytics, etc. and add 301's for anything else that comes in that doesn't exist.

It's not just about Google, it's also about the user experience. Going to a non-existent page can give the impression that whatever they are looking for is no longer mentioned on your website, which potentially looses customers.

Well here it is for those paying attention to this thread:

http://www.stevenferrino.com/scripts/redirect-parser.php

Not sure if posting a link will work, they tend not to for me, you can always copy and paste.

I'm considering the YOUMoz addition and already sent you an email Jennifer

I just copied the html and threw it into PhpEd and noticed right off the bat you are missing a quotation for the gb_styles.css

I agree. I do it for the user, not for Google, which I think is what Mr. Cutts says to do all the time.

There might be an open ended tag somewhere that is causing the program to choke. Can you provide a link?

Completely agree with Damien. If they don't exist but Webmaster Tools is showing them, 301 them, there has to be a link somewhere on the internet that is causing them to think there is. I would also go through the server logs to see if there is any additional information like a referring page to the non-existent ones.

Another reason for doing it is for the user experience. They no longer have to scroll back up to the top to change pages. The one problem that I ran into was having too many links on one page by doing this, I fixed it by using an iframe instead. It looks the same, and still provides the linking to the user that I wanted.

Looking over this real quickly and running the 2 sites listed, yours and wholesale flights, through OpenSite Explorer, I see that yours mostly has img alt links titled "Lets fly cheaper", some of your other high PA links are titled: "Ramon Van Meer", and "Cheap International Flights", none of which are your target keyword mentioned above.

Your Wholesale Flight competitor has links titled "Discount business class tickets", your desired keyword.

You would be better off with text, not img alt links. See if you can get those changed out.