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Sorry I don't have an answer, but I would love to know one as well. This is a great question.  Even when I know and work with a fellow webmaster in the same category, everyone always puts rel=nofollow.   I understand doing this in forums or comments, but in article content or other site areas is this helpful or hurtful.

I am a programmer, not a marketing or social media genius.  It also takes A LOT of time to market your website properly.  Are there services that people can recommend that can help get my site out there and known to people more.  I am always working on the SEO part and that takes time to improve.  Just looking for suggestions.

Thank you!

I personally never see Pinterest in my search results.  I just did a few searches for topics I like and they have awful descriptions, etc.  I don't know how many people search goole for Pinterest topics instead of just going to pinterest itself.  I do understand what you mean.

Overall it doesn't seem like it helps it any that is for sure.  I will put noindex,nofollow on those pages since it is not my content.  Thank you for the links

I have a news section on my site that I aggregate from multiple RSS feeds.  They are stored on my site and I have sitemap that links to them.  Is this a negative thing to do?  Since its overall duplicate content to another site, it may be a strike against me.  Should I just leave it as an updating feed and not keep the articles visible on my site?

Thank you for your response.  I thought it may still do something since they still have it around and it does update from time to time.

I got notified that my domain went from a google pagerank of 3 to 4.   When this happens, does google raise me in the searches which can then hopefully get me more traffic, or is it a worthless number.  Maybe only google knows

What do you recommend as far as the indexing.  I really don't know, that is why I signed up for this service and learning as I go.  Is it better to allow it to index page 1, then noidex,follow the rest.  Is it better to not index a forum at all?

Like many people, I get a lot of alerts about duplicate content, etc.  I also don't know if I am hurting my  domain authority because of the forum.  It is a pretty active forum, so it is important to the site.

So my question is, right now there could be 50 pages like this

<domain>/forum/index.php/topic/6043-new-modular-parisian-restaurant-10243-is-here/
<domain>/forum/index.php/topic/6043-new-modular-parisian-restaurant-10243-is-here/page-1
<domain>/forum/index.php/topic/6043-new-modular-parisian-restaurant-10243-is-here/page-2
<domain>/forum/index.php/topic/6043-new-modular-parisian-restaurant-10243-is-here/page-3
all the way to:
<domain>/forum/index.php/topic/6043-new-modular-parisian-restaurant-10243-is-here/page-50</domain></domain></domain></domain></domain>

So right now the rel canonical links are set up just like above, including the page numbers.

I am not sure if that is the best way or not.  I really thought that all the of links for that topic should be
<domain>/forum/index.php/topic/6043-new-modular-parisian-restaurant-10243-is-here/

that way it would passing "juice" to the main topic/link.   </domain>

I do have other links setup for:
link rel='next',link rel='up',link rel='last'

Overall is this correct, or is there a better way to do it?