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Where did you find out that it only has one link? The link: operator from Google doesn't return the exact number ... or even a useful number.

But your "research" obviously wasn't too exhaustive, just try to enter the URL on google and it'll return more than one link...

If you can do a 301, go for the 301. As far as PageRank is concerned, there's not much of a difference. See Matt Cutts on exactly this topic.

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But you don't want your https pages crawled if there's the same version available as http. This is mostly a technical issue, but crawling a https site is way more expensive for both bot and server.

301 redirect doesn't exclude a canonical. If you just want to use one solution, use the 301. There was a YouMoz post about exactly this topic a time ago, have look at it

They changed how the regex work. You have to click on the "advanced" link next to the filter box, then you get "Include Keyword Containing". Click on "Containing" and select "Matching RegExp", then write the regex  ^ ([^] +) {5.50} [^] + $ into the box. That should do the trick.

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That's a bit off topic but I'd like to know what the "pain in the butt" for having the stolen content in the Czech Republic actually is. I know the DMCA is an US law and it would be easier if the guy was hosted in the US, but the Czech Rep isn't at the end of the world. As a member of the European Union I could imagine that it's not that hard to take legal action against a Czech company. I.e. not harder than against any company hosted in any other member state. Or are there other rules that apply for the Czech Republic than, say, for France or Germany? (Provided your company is hosted in the US)

There's nothing wrong with the links and with your robots.txt. But ...

You obviously have a huge duplicate content problem. Just look at the search result the site: query returns. There are a lot of old links (from the old CMS I suppose). Click through the links and you'll always get to the main page, but the URL remains the same. I.e. no redirect to the correct page with the new URL or to the Homepage.

You should have a look at your old URLs and redirect them with a HTTP 301 redirect to the new URL.

As a quick fix add a rel="canonical" tag to your new pages. This way google will index the correct page (and only the correct page) on its next crawl. Setting up the redirects should have happened prior to switching the CMS ...

It really wasn't easy to find out what you mean by posting a sentence completely out of context

But you were obviously referring to this thread. This simply means that whenever you find an IP address in you hostnames report in Google Analytics, you should be able to look it up in order to see the host it comes from, rather than just the IP address, as most businesses map their IP to their hostname. E.g. 123.123.123.1 could be mapped to business.example.com and therefore you could find out that 5% percent of your visitors that show up in your hostnames report are from business.example.com.

(I made up all figures and names of course ;-))

Valid markup can help the crawlability of your page and should also be encouraged as far as usability is concerned. But there's no difference in SEO if you add or remove a div tag. If you want to emphasize keywords on your page you might consider using "strong" or "em" tags. Also h tags e.g. h1, h2, ... have effect on SEO, although not the big effect it used to have some years ago.

What do you mean by saying "a div in place of normal text"? Apart from that, what's that got to do with CSS? All I see is valid markup and that's how wegpages should look.

Yes it still counts. Google changed that some years ago. For more info see this blog entry and also Matt Cutts take on this (both articles are about 2 years old, that's when the change happened).

Sorry for editing a third time, but please also have a look at Google's newest statement about the 100 links per site guideline on youtube.

What do you mean by saying "new pages"? How old are they? A minute, an hour, two weeks? I've seen the strangest behaviours of pages showing up and getting dropped. This had to do with site age, links to the page, duplicate content and a ton of other things. So a bit more information would be appreciated ...

If the client isn't into SEO and usability (well obviously the client isn't) and insists on keeping the weird names, there are still some places to put the keywords in while still staying on the white hat side. Good places would be the alt tag of the picture. It's even possible in the title e.g. '30" BigBoy Dildo - Magical G-arden | Client.com". I think there's enough space for both ways, SEO and crazy names.

Off topic: and they move according to the music I suppose? What if you're into Death Metal? Health risk?