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No you shouldn't concern yourself, it makes perfect user sense.
If you want to be nice to those with javascript disabled though you could place a <noscript> element with your hidden images.
I would also put the photo numbers in the alt tags, something like alt="Photo #2 of bmw 328 manual 2008 black 18 inch rims"
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Essentially this message means that we (Google) discovered a surprisingly large number of unique URLs while crawling previously-known URLs. This message is sent out before we attempt to crawl those new, unique URLs (since that can take quite some time), it can be useful to inform you of issues with regards to crawlability of your website's structure. Because ...
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Google reads content within a element that uses display:none, it also checks to make sure there is a trigger point, i.e that the content can be revealed though JavaScript.
Many people don't put in trust in Google being able to understand their scripts and many people opt to use <noscript> as Anthony has mentioned, using noscript ensures that Google ...
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There is generally no solution for this "problem". If your site has a large number of pages, you will get this message. When your site has a large number of pages, "an extremely large number of link on your site" is expected.
I get that message on one of my sites that has 10,000 pages. Another site that I worked with that had millions of pages also got ...
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Google Webmaster Tools is probably your easiest bet here. In the 'Crawl Errors' section it will list 404s it found crawling your site, along with the pages that link to them. It may not be a completely exhaustive list but it will have the majority of them.
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It is more or less the same as writing:
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
Interestingly, the "all" variant is not actually suggested by Google as an alternative, but it works* nonetheless.
Either command (when placed in the <head> section of your HTML code) tells search engines to index the page the tag is on, as well as crawl ...
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Ideally you want to carry on using only one navigation menu and style the menus using CSS viewpoint for desktop and mobile view, Google is fully aware of content within display:none and will see duplicate links, even though this may not result in bad SEO I believe that too many on page links do result in negative SEO.
Zurb Foundation or Bootstrap are fine ...
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OpenSearch has no bearing on search engine rankings. OpenSearch allows users to add your search engine to their browser.
To quote wikipedia:
“OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. It is a way for websites and search engines to publish search results in a ...
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When using international characters in your URLs there are a few issues to be aware of:
Percent URL encoding requires a character set. To display the URL correctly in the web browser, you should use "UTF-8" character set when percent URL encoding your slug. See: What is the proper way to URL encode Unicode characters?
If there are lots of encoded ...
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