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As I said, you can add reference to your sitemaps in the robots.txt file:

At the end of the file http://www.thesalebox.com/robots.txt add the following lines:

sitemap: http://www.thesalebox.com/AppliancesHomeEntertainment.xml
sitemap: http://www.thesalebox.com/Hardware.xml

I doubt that using different anchor texts for the same image will have a negative impact on SEO.
After all, a picture is worth 1000 words and since we can't put all 1000 in the alt attribute at the same time, we can put them in smaller groups

Not to forget, that technically even if your image source is the same, what you display can be totally different via CSS so Google can't blame you for using different anchor texts.

Here is a quote from Google's Webmasters Help:

In some cases, the image URL may not be on the same domain as your main site. This is fine, as long as both domains are verified in Webmaster Tools. If, for example, you use a content delivery network (CDN) to host your images, make sure that the hosting site is verified in Webmaster Tools OR that you submit your Sitemap using robots.txt. In addition, make sure that your robots.txt file doesn’t disallow the crawling of any content you want indexed.

Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636

According to the above, now that you have also verified the subdomain where you are hosting your images you should be fine.

You don't have to submit the sitemap to the GWT account of the subdomain where you host your images, but you may add reference to your sitemaps in the robots.txt located in the root folder of your website, by adding something like this to the robots.txt file:

sitemap: http://www.thesalebox.com/AppliancesHomeEntertainment.xml
sitemap: http://www.thesalebox.com/Hardware.xml

I sometimes put noindex on category pages too, because I have the manual excerpts also present on the blog index pages (the pages that list all blog posts in chronological order).

But is really a decision I make based on the type of website. There are websites where category pages present much interest then the chronological post listing. On these I don't use noindex, but I also do something to prevent duplicate content - I add some static text to the category pages so that they don't contain only the post excerpts.

Yes, if your images are on a CDN server you must add to GWT that subdomain too  in order to be able to see if the images are indexed by Google or not.

If I understood correctly you changed all your urls from ending with .html to ending with /

Please confirm you previously had the following urls:
http://www.domain.com/somepage.html

and now you have:
http://www.domain.com/somepage.html

If the above is correct the code I use to do the redirects is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.+).html$ /$1/ [L,R]

When deciding to index/noindex a page I always ask myself: "does this page contains any unique content, content that can't be found anywhere else on the website?"
For tags pages the answer is always NO. On a WordPress site Tag pages contain either automatic excerpts and this content is also available on the actual posts pages or in category pages, either manual excerpts and this content is also available in the category pages. So I decide to noindex tags.

In your case, where the tags pages bring less then 1% search traffic I would noindex them without worrying.

Hi,

I noticed your images are all hosted on a subdomain, http://pics.thesalebox.com. Did you added this subdomain to Google Webmaster Tools?

I don't see any use of Google Analytics Goals in Moz Analytics. From what I see Moz Analytics gets from the linked Google Analytics account only data about traffic from search engines.

I use WpLeadMagnet on some websites and I report: no negative effect on SEO.

To answer Matt Goulart question: the content blocker functionality is based on divs, similar to prettyPhoto, ligntbox plugins, so it doesn't have a negative effect on SEO.

If by "Site Wide Content Analysis" you are referring to internal duplicate content issues, number of words per page, page size, internal linking, broken links check then you may find this tool useful: www.siteliner.com. It was developed by the creators of copyscape.com. There is a free version that scans up to 500 pages from your website. For larger website you will have to go with a paid account.

The rel="canonical" was introduced to avoid duplicate content issues. It has nothing to do with links, internal or external.
 You use rel="canonical" to tell search engines which version of a page you prefer to be indexed.

If you prefer to tell nothing, or if there is no way a page may get indexed with a different URL then you don't need to use rel="canonical".

You are saying that your page has no external links pointing to it - but how can you control that? I may find your page, like it and link to it! This is how backlinks are supposed to work.

As you probably know each url can we written in different ways and still point to the same content. What if you prefer your page to be indexed as http://www.yourdomain.com/yourpage and I instead link to http://www.yourdomain.com/yourpage/ (note the ending /)? In these cases using rel="canonical" may help not losing any link juice.

I hope this helps.

Hi Chiaryn,

Everything is OK now, both data from Analytics and Facebook/twitters now show up.

Thank you!

Your unjustified enthusiasm for being included in a directory with such a poor design make me think that maybe you created this directory yourself and are just trying to promote it here... because I find it had to believe that Amazon, Google, Paypal payed money to be included there.

But I hope that is not the case and my answer to your question is: my small company chooses to list its contact details on the website and other places where it can be easily found by our clients, not by telemarketers like EGOL correctly pointed out.

I am getting this message: "We are collecting your traffic data now! You should see your traffic metrics here within the next 24 to 48 hours." for more then 3 days now and I'm starting to worry...

Is this showing only to me or is a delay on all MOZ accounts?

Sorry but I don't fully understand the issues you have.

Can you please give more details or give some examples?

Probably you will not like my answer and you will give me the thumb down but:

Your main concern should be your visitors. You are displaying on your website content that, as you personally say, "at times" is dangerous to your visitors. Studies show the percentage of internet users that don't have any antivirus software or use outdated/expired software is somewhere around 50-60%. You should care more about your visitors and stop putting them in danger.

I don't know what content you are iframing on your website, but you should find a more trusted source that doesn't get infected at all.

If they are WordPress experts like you say, they shouldn't stop at only installing Wordpress SEO by Yoast plugin - there are security plugins, backup plugins, analytics plugins, cache plugins, social involvement plugins that are on the "essential plugins list"  of every WordPress expert and when they care about their work they will add them without doubt.

Also, installing some premium Themes require more work then simply uploading the files to the server and hitting the "Activate" button.

WordPress install alone is a 5 sec job as we all know, but a robust installation of needed plugins and theme settings can take longer.

Even so, 40 hours looks a little too much in my opinion. You should ask for details.

The Moz data is not erroneous.
But Moz can't know if your rel canonical setting are OK or not, because these settings depend on your own website particularities.

You shouldn't ignore these notices, what you should do is check them, and when the rel canonical URL doesn't match the actual URL of the page verify that the setting is correct, that you don't want the actual URL to rank but instead you want the canonical URL to rank because the actual page is duplicate content of the canonical page.

Link building is not only about branded and generic anchor texts, of course you should try to get some links with keyword rich anchor text. There are a lot of useful resources on the MOZ blog about this, here is a recent one: http://moz.com/blog/how-to-build-links-to-your-blog-a-case-study

Also you should make sure you have good on-page optimization for each of the pages on your website, after doing good keyword research.