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We had the same problem, but decided to embrace it.

I started optimizing and adding content to a few of the search results pages (and made them static, not dynamic) and now they rank fairly well.

However, for dynamic search pages I suggest you noindex them.
Google recommends it, and it's best to follow their recommendations.

You may be thinking of semrush.com.

Unbranded organic traffic is the name of the game!

Personally I do not even waste time on trying to obtain BRANDED organic traffic, that all comes on its own.  The only time I try and affect our branded search results is if I am trying to push down a negative review or some unflattering page.

I believe he is referring to an actual site map html page, not an XML file to submit to Google.

I suggest you use either P3ConsultingSolutions.com (ideal) or PThreeConsulting.com. The main reasons being the other 3 options contain articles (for, a, with) or a hyphen, which is generally a last resort. Here is a great post about choosing a domain name: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name Hope that helps!

These are called long tail keywords.  If you focus on "ItemA for sale" you'll benefit from essentially 2 keywords for the price of one, and to some extent, also other long tail keywords since "ItemA" is in there.

As to targeting them all individually - it's all about your commitment and how much time you want to spend.

Unfortunately there is no way to view historical data for Page Authority, perhaps this is something Moz will consider for the future (maybe the top 10 or 20 pages per site according to PA?)

Here's what I know about sitelinks in a nutshell:

Google randomly chooses them, there is no markup involved.

From my experience, more prominent pages from your navigation tend to be chosen.

All you can do is choose which pages should NOT display as sitelinks by demoting them in GWT.

It is easiest to attain sitelinks for branded search terms.

Rel=publisher will display your company logo and Google+ page on the right hand side of branded search terms (search terms close to or exactly your company name).

Google will not allow you to upload a non-headshot (such as a logo) for a rel=author snippet that will appear directly in your search result.

I was the one who said to add a custom report, not Karl.

Personally I ONLY use custom reporting instead of the initial "Audience Overview" because I know those reports are inaccurate (it attributes some of our PPC traffic to Organic, etc).

It's up to you, but I'm a bit of a data fan and love customizing my reporting (I have 20 reports for one of our sites that I can quickly page through each day).

I find them particularly useful for segmenting specific pages on your site.

I agree with Schwaab that there was something wrong with the previous update (or it was just run differently).

All my competitors and I dropped in DA after the previous update, but after the most recent update it seems to have fixed itself (3 points down, then 3 points back up).

How do I get Update Date in SERP snippets as opposed to the Date Created?

Google Analytics is the way to go, but I would create a custom report for them to use - not just a login.

I agree with William's post that submitting through a sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools will help speed up the process.

After submitting your sitemap I would "Fetch as Google" your home page and submit to Google.
This will speed up the crawl process even more.

I think there is a high probability it can take more than 48 hours.  It really depends on how often your site currently gets crawled.

There are actually no redirects in place, so SEOMoz thinks they are both separate links.

If you redirect one of the pages to the other like you said, the duplicate content error will disappear.

You can check redirects using this tool: http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

No, it won't.

I suggest doing as Google recommends, removing the old URL and adding the new URL to your sitemap.

The sitemap only helps index your pages and optimize which pages get crawled more frequently.  It does not help with value transfer.

When Google crawls the new URL through your sitemap, I believe it will also see the 301 redirect pointing towards it.

Sit back and relax knowing it is out of your control.

After the last crawl, everything returned to normal and all the errors disappeared.  Roger must have just had a hiccup.

I have found it quicker to play the "good citizen" role and simply suggest an edit to a page rather than going the "I am the business owner, this is my listing" route.

I filled out the edit form to change the phone number of our company with a link to the website so the Google rep could easily verify the new number and had it changed in about a week.

However, when it comes to getting entirely new Google Places listings, I have been in the same long, drawn out process.

Hi Mozzers,

We're having a hard time getting our site indexed, and I have a feeling my dev team may be blocking too much of our site via our robots.txt file.

They say they have disallowed php and smarty files.

Is there any harm in allowing these pages?

Thanks!

Yep, just now you will see a Canonical "Notice" in SEOmoz instead of a Duplicate Content Error.

It works the same way as  301 except the user can still visit the page.

It certainly doesn't help.
You should remove the canonical tag.  All it will do is confuse Google.

I thought I was only supposed to have one h1 tag per page.
Is this not correct?

I don't want to sound like a smart butt, but you should reduce the amount of characters in your Title Tags to less than 70 to remove the errors.  It is that simple.  Anything more than 70 does not display in Google, anyway.

I would do some research using OpenSiteExplorer to see if there are any nasty links to the page, but it sounds like you should be fine.

If you have a list of all the URLs on your site, it is easy to create a sitemap using excel.  I have a template that I use and I can crank out a 50k URL sitemap in 5 minutes.

I too work with an ecommerce site.
It's tough.

Site structure is key.  Breadcrumbs will be your best friend in getting link juice deep into your site.
Once the structure is good, focus on getting links to your home page and a sprinkling down into your product pages.

Hey Intermediate,

Here's my setup - image - http://screencast.com/t/qThC401hQVUp Be careful of the line breaks if you want your sitemap to be pretty (I'm not sure if it also works if everything is on a single line).

Column A:

Column B:
URL

Column

<lastmod>2013-08-27</lastmod>

Column
<changefreq>always</changefreq>

Column E:
<priority>1</priority>

Column F:
=CONCATENATE(A2,B2,C2,D2,E2)

You will need to add this as first 2 lines in your sitemap:

and add to the end, but you should be good to go!
I Hope that helps!

Yep, I mean a trail of category page links on product pages, like this - http://screencast.com/t/YSlLeuXeG
Personally I have noticed this not only reinforces the site structure, but helps more pages of my site get crawled because it makes it easier for Google's spiders to navigate my site.