EGOL

This may be the best answer I have seen to any question. The beauty of it goes on and on in that anyone in SEO dealing with clients must always ask themselves: Can the client handle the truth and/or understand the explanation?

The explanation is what you just gave and the truth is that no one knows for sure and it will often cost you a lot to get there. The other difficulty for SEO clients is that we live in a world of instant gratification. I have clients who spend a lot with me and regularly ask what they are getting (yes, they get reports, etc.). Interestingly, these same clients will mention they have just authorized a $250,000 TV ad campaign. (Trust me we are a bit cheaper.)

They understand the tv ad no matter what the results; even with excellent results (more and more customers) they have a hard time understanding the SEO.

Egol,

Thanks a bunch for a truly excellent, thought provoking answer.

Robert

Howl,

1. I would mark all up as a food establishment. Under menu/cuisine where you serve no food I would simply put an alcohol menu or link or on cuisine put we server beer, wine, tequila. etc. The reason is this: you are using schema because it is good for you and the search engines. Within the various schema are other properties. So for FoodEstablishment there is ... Bar or Pub. A bar or pub is a food establishment. So is an ice cream shop, winery, brewery, etc.

2. This is the page url. For me in Houston... http://www.howlatthemoon.com/locations/location-houston

3. I suggest you put in your own review schema and make the site where your customers can review you. Why would you want to serve yelp?? What do they do for you? Your site is using Joomla and with a quick check I found several review plugins you could utilize to make life simpler. We do not use Joomla as much but we often use a review plugin with our WP sites. And, it passes the markup test with Google.

4. Opening Hours - Here is the schema for opening hours. Pretty easy. If you look at the bottom of Local Business, you will see what will or will not work.

5. Here is the actual event schema from Schema.org

1. Upcoming shows

2. <div< span="">itemprop="event"itemscopeitemtype="http://schema.org/Event"></div<>

3. <a< span="">href="foo-fighters-may20-fedexforum"itemprop="url"></a<>

4. <span< span="">itemprop="name">FedExForum</span<>

5. <span< span="">itemprop="location">Memphis, TN, US</span<>

6. <meta< span="">itemprop="startDate"content="2011-05-20">May 20</meta<>

7. <a< span="">href="ticketmaster.com/foofighters/may20-2011"itemprop="offers">Buy tickets</a<>

8. <div< span="">itemprop="event"itemscopeitemtype="http://schema.org/Event"></div<>

9. <a< span="">href="foo-fighters-may23-midamericacenter"itemprop="url"></a<>

10. <span< span="">itemprop="name">Mid America Center</span<>

11. <span< span="">itemprop="location">Council Bluffs, IA, US</span<>

12. <meta< span="">itemprop="startDate"content="2011-05-23">May 23</meta<>

13. <a< span="">href="ticketmaster.com/foofighters/may23-2011"itemprop="offers">Buy tickets</a<>

So, you are going down the right path, I have never been to Howl in Houston but will check it out.

Best,

Robert

Will2112

You have a good question and I agree with Anthony. You can kill the feed and be fine - if that is the only consideration. If the feed is bringing you something in return, say more people reading and interacting with your blog, that is another consideration. 
With the image you have here, it appears almost all of the scrapers are the same person, group, company, etc. They appear to be out of Turkey and are taking part of your contact, then placing the Pinterest link hidden where there should be an image. What actually happens is the person clicks thinking they are going to see an image, and their item gets pinned. (Funny, but if the person does not have pinterest, it won't happen and, most are going to "Books Worth Reading.") Also, most of the images have your CDN url. No help for them.

I hope that at least gives you some info to work with. Good luck. I hate that these types can get away with content theft, but I doubt their sites would actually outrank you for an actual keyword term search around the subject.

Best

Robert

Kimberly,

It can, but without which 5XX it is, it is harder to diagnose. (Is it an endless loop, or something else)

I would suggest (based on you trying to redirect what appears to be homepage whether or not the request is for asp or html) this help from Apache.  It is a bit deep, but you appear to want to do it yourself and this is a resource I would suggest.

If you look about a third down the page there is a content box that covers tons of variables.

Best,