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Yes, everything changed finally but we just were doing same thing, adding more good content and with time bing finally show us there.

It doesn't matter at all.. in my opinion and would be shocked to find im wrong...

easy test... add ALT element to any picture.. .before and after SRC... if it works properly in both situation, the same should be with rel canonical...

if you are still wondering about proper use.. always you can validate your document on W3C.org... it would point it out I guess.

Please someone help me and tell me if Im wrong - some time ago some (maybe even now), some websites like technorati or other kind of... were (are?) using tags to categorize posts, so if you wanted to appear under some categories with your freshly added posts, you should have them tagged -> but I tell you, I checked that long time ago, I might be wrong that's why it would be great if someone would add something to this...

and if it's the way I mention... was it (is it?) technorati or other sites?

However, I like to tag posts as it may be useful for you. You never know if in the future you will want to add section, page or something else on your blog... and tags might help you to easier accomplish it...

I still do not need it, so I can't give you any working example... but in my opinion it's good to tag posts. I do that "just in case", as maybe in the future I will need them, or any of plugins will want to use them... and if I have 200-500 posts I will not be happy to go back and add tags to each of them - and im sure there are some good plugins that need post tagging.

If users find it useful? Depends... each user is different... however good tags are always helpful and gives something extra... however, sometimes may add "mess"... (I know my answer is a bit messy, but I hope it gives you some answers.. ideas).

Do you like raven tools? I was thinking of using them

Creating different page for every city and county is someway spammy and actually doesn't give great user experience... just think if you would like to visit a site where are "tons" of pages, actually not adding anything valuable to the website.

Create one page where you can list in nice list style cities you offer your service and look for interesting local directories where you can add your business. If any specific city is more important than others... you can create an article about it... like... How to Find Good Pool Cleaning Company in New Jersey... and give some good tips how find company, without excessively promoting your own company... you can refer there to review sites and other places, where your business is listed and has good reviews...

About local listing, you can find some information here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-beginners-checklist-for-small-business-seo - but for this one is important where your business has office.

Hopefully it's useful information Bill, good luck with business!

Glad you like it! Hope you will enjoy using it. They did really good job creating that tool... I'm sure with time you will like it even more!

Well, there is nothing else to add, guys said everything. I just want to add one tool you may use with success... http://soloseo.com/tools/linkSearch.html play with it and you can be shocked with results.

thats interesting, I dont see it on international and US one, I like australian one!

In my opinion many pages are lower than they should be... and yes, site is indexed properly, have no idea what the problem is, maybe because I place google ads and not bing

I had a chance to read it some time ago. Well I guess I need to keep going and maybe soon I will find the answer, have no idea where's the problem.

Well, there is nothing else to add, guys said everything. I just want to add one tool you may use with success... http://soloseo.com/tools/linkSearch.html play with it and you can be shocked with results.

In my opinion there is no difference. Why you have this situation?... Consider things like:

1. How old is the page, links pointing to page (posts), maybe you have more links pointing there? And site structure. Often posts are accesible from your homepage or from categories, however each page you have (like About Us, etc.) like you mentioned is linked from every single document on your blog, posts are not...

You could change your each post to page and have them listed same way but it's not the point....

2. Consider creating special pages, where you can manually asign and lists more important posts... so each of that page will be optimized for keywords you want and contain posts about the same topic... however do not create to many of them and yes... they would be similar to "category" pages, but you would have more control inside.

Oh, had to edit cause forgot to actually answer, I wouldn't change posts to pages... as in fact there are just the same, just because of the side structure may seems different.

Creating different page for every city and county is someway spammy and actually doesn't give great user experience... just think if you would like to visit a site where are "tons" of pages, actually not adding anything valuable to the website.

Create one page where you can list in nice list style cities you offer your service and look for interesting local directories where you can add your business. If any specific city is more important than others... you can create an article about it... like... How to Find Good Pool Cleaning Company in New Jersey... and give some good tips how find company, without excessively promoting your own company... you can refer there to review sites and other places, where your business is listed and has good reviews...

About local listing, you can find some information here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-beginners-checklist-for-small-business-seo - but for this one is important where your business has office.

Hopefully it's useful information Bill, good luck with business!

Do you like raven tools? I was thinking of using them