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Hi Franck, Thank you for all the tools and methodolgy suggestions!

Hi. Can you please point me in the right direction concerning a site whose default page has a PR of 0?  There does not appear to be any errors in the robots.txt file (that I can tell).  When I ran a duplicate content check by searching the title tag and first sentance in quotes it did not return more than 2 sites.  When I ran a site:  it is reporting 287,000 results.  Does this mean that they purchased links and have now been penalized? Or where should I go from here? Thank you for any feedback and assistance.

Simon, Thank you again. I can feel your strong views in your messages. I too am disheartened by such advertising and business ethics. It's certainly puts a damper on anyone learning SEO and striving to make a difference and an ethical business out of it.  I presume that time will tell!  I am only a novice although I have been studying SEO for many years there is so much to learn and it's always changing. Thank you for all your help and input I really appreciate it and look forward to continuing to learn from the community!

Simon,

Thank you very much.  I am wondering why all of the sites that they have done work on are indeed ranking #1 on Google but not penalized?

I've been viewing an seo companies website that claims to get small business websites to Google Page 1 for free or starting at $150/mo. I'v noticed that on all the website this company has done work on they include in the footer (usually as a watermark) all the keyword phrases. There don't apprear to be any sites that have been penalized. Isn't this poor SEO practice?   I've included a screen shot of what I'm talking about. I just want to be clear. Thank you for your input.

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I'm confused about the best way for seo to set up the site structure . i understand the examples of the pyramid diagrams and how link juice flows, however does this mean that global navigation is not good?  It appears the pyramid structure leads to the designated number of category pages (we'll use five) and they lead to the 5 content pages etc and some "superman pages" can be linked to from the home page but is this is global navigation or anchor text navigation and is gloval navigation acdeptable for content pages?  Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Simon, Thank you again. I can feel your strong views in your messages. I too am disheartened by such advertising and business ethics. It's certainly puts a damper on anyone learning SEO and striving to make a difference and an ethical business out of it.  I presume that time will tell!  I am only a novice although I have been studying SEO for many years there is so much to learn and it's always changing. Thank you for all your help and input I really appreciate it and look forward to continuing to learn from the community!