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What does the statistics says about clicks on the links in the footer? Does users actually find the footer useful?

If there are some links in the footers that might be popular to the users, then keep them and erase the others. If you have 100+ links on your page, that's really bad. Keep the amount of links to a minimum and try to "listen" to the users by only having useful links in the footer. If you're using e.g. Analytics, it might be easy to check these stats.

Report these stats for me and I'll give you a quick analysis about which links to keep and which to get rid of.

Another follow-up question; Does your page has a link to a xml-sitemap AND a html-sitemap? If not, get it for best optimization

Do you mean like... for link building in blogs by commenting?

If this is what you're searching for (and if you're not a spammer in those blogs) - I would suggest that you instead of using any SEOmoz-tool actually Google some keyword relevant to your topic + "blog" or "comment". That will help you find those blogs.

Why look for high PR when you can look for high relevancy and blogs where you actually can contribute something good? Good content is KING

Happy Holidays!

My first thought is "No, you shouldn't".

First of all, nofollow is a tool to stop other websites from getting link juice. This is primary for websites you don't trust. But I believe you trust Youtube, right? Plus that it's your own videos on Youtube that you link to, another reason to not put nofollow.

I would prefer 301 before canonical. This is because you don't loose as much link juice/pagerank when using 301 as you are when using canonical. In this scenario, it's best to act like Matt Cutts says in the attached video.

Take a look at the vid' and please don't hesitate to ask further questions to me

watch?v=zW5UL3lzBOA

Ryan, your absolutely right about the .xml-sitemap. The important is of course that the sitemap is reported to the search engines and therefore it's not mandatory to place it in the footer. (Should have thought of that...sorry)

If your using Wordpress and a plugin for showing a mobile version, you don't have to worry. But if you're simple copy & pasting on another site - then it can be a problem. Watch the vid's John links and you'll see.

I'm also wondering what they are up to. I don't use PR as a rank in any way today, this because I find it worthless in the lack of updates. If Google is starting to update more frequently, then it's starting to get useful. Maybe this is what's happening? If were lucky, they'll update in a month - again.

Oh, if you're PA is 47 on the youtube-profile - it's should really have been indexed, especially if you've had the profile up for 2-3 months.

I'll throw you some tips:

• If you rank well on the .co.uk, then do the same as you did there on .com.au
• Build links from australian webpages.
• Use an australian server for the webpage.

Hope it helps

This might be a kind of basic question to ask but... have you any backlinks to your profile on YouTube? My Youtube profile has PA (page authortiy) 55 with 3 backlinks.

What does the SEOmoz-bar says? What's the data (page authortiy) for your youtubepage? You should really (!) have in indexed in Opensiteexplorer if you've had any backlinks in the recent ~40 days. The only way I can think of to speed this up is to actually build more backlinks but pinging won't help.