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Hi Todd,
first we dont know what is the exact penalty, but it seems to me that is an algorithmic penalty.
Just for your information concerning filing a reconsideration request, Google will only look(or react) at it if your site got affected by a manual penalty.
If your site was affected by an Algorithm then they will leave it for the algorithm to resolve it.
Yes , its temporary and ur page will be back
I advise to keep domain.com/keyword
I don't think that the transition to new URL had anything to do with the drop.
Definitely in a week your page will get back to the index, and wait for a month and bring back the high PR links.
Oh great,
Check this post by Joost de Valk, it very good guide for SEO in magento
http://yoast.com/articles/magento-seo/
he meantions there is a plugin for canonicalization.
Its not a major problem and Google is pretty smart to pick it up.
But to be safe is better to 301 redirect domainname.com/stores to domainname.com/stores/
Most of the popular CMS. have solution for this. what kinda of CMS ur using?
please explain,
user can access http://www.domain.com/Product-Describer-Keyword.html and http://www.domain.com/product-describer-keyword.html ? if yes then you have a duplicate content issue, just to let you know that Google is smart to picking up the Url that is used by the CMS, but when you start getting links to the one not used by CMS then you have an issue .
I have input and pointers
I see couple effects
Ok Rafael
It has no PR, because the Toolbar PageRank only updates multiple times a year. but Internally (Google) already have an actual PageRank for these pages.
one other think that you have to make note that where is the link is located?
Footer? Sidebar?
What most probably will happen, is it will pass link juice and PR flow to your site, BUT the anchor text will be some devalued.
Nick Its located under My questions and you can filter out by "Questions I've Answered"
Dear Florakel,
Google clearly mentioned couple of times that PR will be distributed equally to all links.
so to go back to your math, PR will be divided by 100 (1000/100). I encourage to link out to authoritative sites, because it will also tells google to which neighberhood you belong to.
True, some links that you can't control/communicate to get removed (scrapers) but at least you try 
I am against this to be honest.
I would certainely see drop in rankings if these old Links has been removed and not being replaced with good one's
There is alot of controversy how effective or if it still effective to submit your web site to directories.
Nevertheless, you can visit http://www.directorycritic.com/ and from there you can filter results to find web directories thats worth submitting and free too.
PS: try to find the most relevant directories to your niche first.
I think your talking about indented listings.
If you are using a good pluging or add on to your private area, then No your private content will not be crawled by the Search engines, thus there is no SEO value to Optimize these page.
you can check your pages that is crawled by Google using the "site:"
for ex: Go to google.com and type is the search: site:www.website.com and check if your private area is indexed.
Dear Neil,
I wish you good luck @ your Conference, here's a couple of reference for Local Results
Concerning Google Boost, I think it very valuable, here is more details about discussed by Mike @ blumenthals
http://blumenthals.com/blog/2010/10/25/google-boost-more-details/
Ok cre8tive1
-I think your CMS is structured with SEO in mind, the current URL structure help you not getting Duplicate content concerning your product pages.
if you wanted to have a product with a URL "bike/beach-cruisers/mens-red-hawaiian.html" then the Same Product will appear under "bike/mens/mens-red-hawaiian.html"
Concerning Repetitive of the Keyword "Bike", In my opinion I dont think it will hurt your SERPS.
Concerning Page Title i would suggest going with {Product Name} {Color} - XYZ
if the url is http://blog.website.com
then the Robots.txt should be accessable threw http://blog.website.com/robots.txt
I would suggest these steps
There is another way if you are using Wordpress.
There is a All in One SEO plugin / Wordpress SEO by Yoast. threw the settings you can specify to add NOINDEX to all Category, tags, author and others. its faster and error free.
Usually when you update a Google place Page it might take several weeks to be deleted permantely.and get update with one listing across the web
Do you have the new PDFs Linked from pages like the old ones?
Try to create a page listing all the new PDFs, and basically Google might take time to recrawl your site and add these new PDFs ( by the way the last copy saved in Google Cache is from Feb 11)
2 ways to correct canonicalization
Access your.htaccess file and add this line:
redirect 301 /index.php http://www.website.com
It depends which CMS you are using, you can add this to the "homepage" source code
Assuming all NPA (Name, Phone, Address) are identical to Google Places Page
It might take a while for google to include these reviews or Citations to your Google Places page. so I assume giving more time will resolve your questions, but Keep building Citations to your Google profile Page in the mean time.
if you check here all the pdf are indexed in google
so i will check the settings on CSE
reference here http://www.google.com/cse/docs/resultsxml.html#wsQueryTerms
If a search engine cannot read the text, due to it being a graphic and not text, then it won't be able to fully index the words on the document.
so make sure all your PDF are 100% text that was converted to a PDF and not a "Scan" (image) of the original document that was saved as a PDF
there is alot of good directories, please put in mind the more relevancy of the directory to more valuale it is for you
here is a couple:
Hi Candida,
Long time ago Google was recommending 100 Links per page and it was one of their Guidelines, But they don't anymore. (Matt Cutts Reference it in this Video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6g5hoBYlf0)
Try to audit your 200 links and see if all the links are important and adds value to your visitor. but IMO i don't think there is an effect of you having 100 or 200 links more in consideration of your SERPs.
Try to use Linkscape and see your competitor links, and try to pull and acquire the most relevant links linking to your competitor.
Cheers