I'd use folders or categories if the amount of products/items is large and/or going to expand

If it's a small amount & finite then make the URLs as short as possible

you could try blocking via x-robots in the htaccess file:

http://www.blackdog.ie/blog/remove-sitemaps-from-serps/

Hey Duncan, Not sure what you mean by they'll get redirected to the httpS - if they come in from a link that is

(https://www.getvetter.com/)

[They will just pass through the SSL cert without redirection - returns a 200 code - which is fine. The canonical will take care of assigning 1 URL to the homepage

And.. yes, this is correct "and for internal links, say to other blog posts, i should also drop the secure 's' but the URLs in the example are back to front ;)](https://www.getvetter.com/)

Oh I just found the culprits.. in this blog post:
http://www.getvetter.com/posts/35-continuous-improvement-continuous-innovation-at-toyota-in-the-1950-s-classic-photo

the anchor "employee creativity" points to:

https://www.getvetter.com/posts/29-employee-creativity-encouraged-by-crazy-office-decoration

also in,

http://www.getvetter.com/posts/44-disrupt-think-the-unthinkable-to-spark-transformation-in-your-business-something-for-the-to-read-list

the anchor "employee creativity" points to:

**https://**www.getvetter.com/posts/33-what-is-incremental-innovation-is-vetter-incremental-innovation-software

there are more.. too check the internal links throught the blog and change any https:// to just http:// and crawlers will no longer find them

Ensure that the canonical & what you point everything to is the same..

i.e. http://www.getvetter.com for all inbound links & canonicals

or https://www.getvetter.com for all inbound links & canonicals

Given that the link profile is strongest with just http (& SSL certificates are generally slower for crawlers and end users) I'd go with that one

Looks like there are inbound links split between http://getvetter.com, http://www.getvetter.com and the https versions (https://getvetter.com & https://www.getvetter.com)

I always recommend to either use https sitewide - always on, or to only allow it after a form has been submitted so it doesn't get crawled

A link canonical should be applied to the homepage at least, the https issue may take longer to resolve:

If you're comfortable, then add a canonical to each page, e.g.
to the www.getvetter.com/tour page

(but be careful to ensure it is respective to that page)

This may not fix the specific PR problem but should be addressed nevertheless

There are 980 pages in the main Google index & the rest are in the supplemental index. Bing has around 129 or so in the main.

A lot in Google are for the subdomain philippinemining.imaginet.com.ph but not many subdomain ones are in Bing

My pleasure If you set up redirects, you shouldn't loose any traffic

This can also be controlled via htaccess

In google, search for this "site:bartramgallery.com" (without the double quotes) & you will see all the pages you need to redirect

I see the Charles Cramer page as the first photographers page that comes up & the redirect would be something as simple as:

Redirect 301 /results.php?category=10       http://www.bartramgallery.com/charles-cramer

I'm not familiar with Cartweaver but these are just guides..

First define an organised URL structure - on bartramgallery.com, at a quick glance, a good one could be:

• bartramgallery.com/photographer (e.g. bartramgallery.com/gordon-michael)

• bartramgallery.com/photographer/photo (e.g. bartramgallery.com/gordon-michael/juniper-study-joshua-tree)

  OR
  bartramgallery.com/landscape-photography/photo (e.g. bartramgallery.com/landscape-photography/juniper-study-joshua-tree)

Keep in mind that the shorter URLs the better (could even have bartramgallery.com/photography/juniper-study-joshua-tree)

Second, rewrite the URLs using Rewrite Rules in the htaccess file (see this post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/rewriterule-split-personality-explained)

I did a search on the Cartweaver support forums and found this:
http://forums.cartweaver.com/topic/google-analytics-identifying-products-and-categories

Oli, from the Cartweaver Support Team, seems to suggest the same "untested" approach as above

Let me know if you need any further help

@Simon agreed - could be a 302 & check WMT

Also, it may not be a bad thing having results in position #1 & #2 in the SERPs Means your client has listings in the best positions

Another option could be to use a rel=canonical to wipe the site out very quickly - see Rand's example of how he removed his old blog: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday (generally, be extremely cautious with this approach but given your goals , i.e. remove site from index, it should be fine)

Thanks Charles I'm really happy with him

The 301s are warnings and could be in place for a reason - you can also download a spreadsheet with all the crawl findings.. it's really useful.

Generally, fix all the errors (in red) if any.. fix warnings as required & examine the notices

For example, I have a site that has 100+ canonicals - all fine & a couple of warnings (titles too long but only over by 1 or 2 characters)

Hope that helps a little

Is it using response.redirect in .NET by any chance?

I haven't encountered any problems with using the same address accross different cities / places listings

You may like to consider setting up separate "branch" pages with some details specific to each dealership - it would enhance usability and you could point the website field to the different pages:

• www.carstore.com/contact/suburb
• www.carstore.com/contact/suburb-east
• www.carstore.com/contact/suburb-north

Absolutely. If there isn't a relevant page then 301 to the home page.. eventually the old page will get removed out the respective indexes

Agree with all these responses.. add 301 redirects via .htaccess (or relevant technology applicable to your server) that will permanently redirect humans & crawlers to, at least, the home page or a relevant page with similar content.

Some of the deleted pages may still be linked from other sites or internal pages within you site...

Order of heading tags is important... use CSS to control size & tags other than headings!

Think of a HTML doc as you would any other academic document..

Animals

Cats

Red Cats

Pink Cats

Dogs

Round Dogs

Square Dogs

..you get the idea

To achieve a balance between visual aesthetics and search engine interoperability, you could use a Javascript font renderer like cufon: http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ - which will give you nice anti-aliasing.

Look at Google Fonts too - http://www.google.com/webfonts#ChoosePlace:select

I would redesign & work towards getting a H1 on there rather than working backwards

Thanks Ryan - yeah that's what I was leaning towards.. I need to check all the inbound links too

I've already discovered a tonne of duplicate content slaps forehead

Delete!