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Hey
Quite easy really just add the following snippet
rel="canonical" href="Your URL Here" />
This should be placed between the tags of the page.
BUT.......
Make sure you are using this correctly, if you have duplicate page titles due to canonicalisation (http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/basics-of-search-engine-friendly-design-and-development) then that's fine but if its just because you have duplicate page titles across your pages then they need to be rewritten.
Hope that helps
It will indeed but its not the whole picture but a good starting point read this twice then backwards!
http://guides.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization
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Hey I recommend you read this http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo there is not much point in explaining these as you won't know what to do with them if you don't already know what they are.
Read this guide it's not that long and you will have a better understanding of what's what.
I'm not 100% on what your asking here but if its what I think then It doesn't matter either way as I believe content from embeded facebook apps as well as comments from a facebook login system arn't picked up by google and therefore don't count as "content"
Sorry If I missed what you ment, hope this helps
I see
I don't really think it's a massive problem but to improve it why dont you take out the drop downs so rather then everything being one click away its 2 clicks
For example turn the parent pages into hubs of that category and this will cut down total number of links on pages across the site.
I hope that made sense 
Also I noticed your using tags, I advise against these but if your going to use them you should noindex, follow these pages I checked a few and they were indexed.
This of course can cause duplicate content issues.
Hey
Why not just set the main domain so its tracked by the US, UK and FR search engines and then enter your keywords for each language these will then be easily picked out in an excel sheet.
The only ones you might have problems with are the UK and US with it being the same language but that is just a little bit more excel filtering.
Hope this helps
Good luck
Howdy Mozzers
Does anyone know if the 'average time on site' in Google analytics is calculated with bounce rate included?
For example if you have a 50% bounce rate and your average time on site is 2 minutes the actual time would be 4 minutes as the 50% bounce rate time is classed as 0.
I hope that is clear!
Cheers
It's not very clear what your saying but if you mean to submit it to completely different sites then I don't see there being a problem however you might want to consider doing a little refresh of the content as the more relevant and up to date it is the more chance it has of going viral etc Best of luck
Having a quick look, I'd say keep the domain you have now as business is one of your keywords "helping small businesses do business"?
Your URL isn't overly large so looks good to me and it's within the 3 word rule/ memorable etc.
If you do decide to 301 redirect to the shorter URL and transfer your content you stand to lose up to 10% of your hard earned "link love"
If it was me I wouldn't bother.
Yep good answer cheers.
Conclusion - Totally inaccurate!
There can be other duplications of pages so it is advised to have the canonical tag on each page.
It's also good for other reasons as well so yea click the option for the canonical tag.
The campaign crawler will detect urls regardless of whether they are indexed of not, you should do as EssEEmily says and set up a 301 to the version with the most links if you haven't done already.
Oh and don't think just because one version isn't indexed now, it can still cause you problems down the road especially when linking is involved.
Also when setting up your redirects if you have a small number of links set it up regardless to the xxx/ version as this is the one most likely to be linked to.
Well done first of all, result!
What was the age of the domain?
Otherwise was it around the time of any major updates? It could have been one of the many minor changes to the algo that could have just tipped the balance for you?
I am not really getting it????
Why are you linking out to sites when you are writing the content? The whole point of having guest writers is to add more content to go along side your own content.
If someone can't be bothered to write a good piece of content for your site then don't link to them unless you think it helps your readers.
There is a fine line.
All I'm saying is any time wasters not wanting to contribute to your site doesn't deserve a link unless of course you want to link out to someone who will benefit your readers.
Hey
My advice is find someone who is already doing what you are wanting to achieve that is in the same niche as you, then follow their followers and add real value to your followers.
Following users will get you noticed and you will get some followers back from it but don't over do it thats just spam!
Also consider some competitions etc a good start is http://competwition.com/ this will get you some followers pretty quickly, just be sure to set it to a 30 day comp to maximise your followers.
Remember though add value, engage with people and don't spam.
Hope this helps
Yea strange one although I have seen it take month myself with very little improvement and then rapid growth.
At least you can use this as an example to the new client
Good luck man.
Hey Sean
If I were you select all links to "any" and don't exclude anything that way you can do with the data what you please in excel rather than restricting yourself.
But I guess it just depends on what your using the data for.
Cheers
If someone wanted a link from my site and wasn't willing to provide content they wouldn't be getting a link.
If it's something that I might actually like to link to then I'd expect the relationship to have started a different was rather than a direct request without content.
You have to remember it is a trade they are getting a link and you are getting added value to your site also.
Erm well I guess it depends on how dominant and broad the keywords your going after are.
Are you tracking long tail and still seeing no results?
Comparing to a pre seo report you'd expect to see at least something.
Just reports it to the moz its probably just a bug that they can get sorted.
Hahahaha never miss an opportunity!!
Thumb up for that lol
This should help and I'm sure its transferable to rank in google.fr
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/how-to-rank-higher-in-google-places-local-in-the-uk/
Haha don't worry your safe...for now!
Like all thing its should be used as a relative measure but it can be quite misleading especially for an obsessed client who doesn't know the real meaning of bounce rate, hence the reason for my question so I can explain it but the time on site is also misleading if the bounce rate is included.
Yea I agree if everything is kept the same you shouldn't see much difference but you should expect a drop and prepare for this.
That said you need to ensure the new CMS is capable of accommodation the changes, again be well prepared.
If you intent to make changes then ensure you follow all the necessary steps and procedures that come with a site migration.
As it effected the ranking last time you can be sure it will happen again, you might want to ask yourself why your wanting to change content management systems and weight up the pros and cons, I have a site on CMSMS and I personally don't like it but each to their own