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Sorry about not clarifying that

Tools or tags used to channel spidering and indexing and circulate page rank (e.g. robots.txt file, pagination with rel="next" and rel="prev", x-robots-tag, etc.....)

I just read an article on pagerank sculpting in visibility magazine that inspired my question

Sorry about not clarifying that

Tools or tags used to channel spidering and indexing and circulate page rank (e.g. robots.txt file, pagination with rel="next" and rel="prev", x-robots-tag, etc.....)

I just read an article on pagerank sculpting in visibility magazine that inspired my question

Thanks for the post Peter!

In addition to the canonical tag are there any others that you guys have heard of people having success with?

Thanks Adam for posting a response.  Very helpful.  I read an article about pagerank sculpting and it got me thinking about the best use of canonical, robots.txt files, etc...

My site currently does not have any canonical tags or any of the others used to channel page rank.  I have been told that the proper use of certain tags can possible help with rankings by directing page rank to the more important pages.

I've noticed that some website owners use canonical tags even when there may be no duplicate issues.For examplewww.examplesite.com  has a canonical tag.......rel="canonical" href="http://www.examplesite.com/" />www.examplesite.com/bluewidget  has a canonical tag.......rel="canonical" href="http://www.examplesite.com/bluewidget/" />Is this recommended or helpful to do this?

On page is good however can always be tweaked a bit.  Site is all about one topic so very relevant.

Domain Auth = 41

Page Auth = 51

Thanks Egol.  What is your website?  I would like to check it out.

When you say focus on making a better website what do you mean by that?

Say you have a site that has better Domain/page authority, more links, more social media sharing, and a lot more indexed pages (thanks to blogging) than the competition.

Of course all of these metrics are based off of data from SEOMoz open site explorer tool which I am not sure if it produces accurate data.

1.  Other than exact match domains or the age of a domain what would be other reasons why competition would outrank you?

2.  Can anyone suggest other ways to help increase a sites domain/page authority besides creating more indexed pages, link building, etc..?

Thanks Phil I guess my main concern is avoiding duplicate content situations. So it sounds like only allowing categories to be indexed is the best bet

Thanks Phil.  The blog post you reference only talks about Yoast seo pack.

Any thoughts on the All in One?  I'm looking for a good resource that will explain the best way to set it up.........specifically the index or noindex

I'm finding conflicting information about the right way to configure the All in One SEO Pack wordpress plugin.

Do I index or noindex for the items below?

Use noindex for Categories - yes or no?

Use noindex for Archives - yes or no?

Use noindex for Tag Archives - yes or no?

I'm looking for a new hosting provider and have been told to find one that specializes in Wordpress hosting because of higher page speed load times, etc..

Can anyone recommend a couple of Wordpress Hosting providers

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best wordpress themes to use?

Here is one that has been recommended to me before:

http://www.smallbiztheme.com/

Thanks for the info!  I'm working on loading up the xml-sitemaps software now.

What is the purpose of a link to all the sitemaps in a robots.txt file?

I have an existing xml sitemap that my website developer loaded, however I don't think its set up properly.

What is the best practice for replacing an old xml sitemap?

Is there anything I should be concerned about?

there is already a sitemap on my server that was generated by my web developers.  What is the best practice for overriding an existing site map?

Thank you Cyril.  Based on my research as well this seems to be a good option.  Google webmaster tools also recommends it.