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  • Have you checked out our Help Hub that has some more information about the crawl report? It's at http://www.seomoz.org/help/crawl-diagnostics Some of the answer also depends on the cause of the error. Is the duplicate page title because you have five sort options so you're getting five URLs for essentially the same page and they all have the same title? That's one type of fix, versus you just have your company name as the title tag for all of your pages, which is a different type of fix. Regarding the too many links on a page, check out Dr. Pete's post for some more information at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

    | KeriMorgret
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  • Thanks m8! Transcripts for videos is a great idea! Will definitely need to utilize that! Regards, Jungle

    | Jungles
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  • Hi, are you talking about the keywords that one can add to a page or words that make up the title and content tags? Thanks.

    | THMCC
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  • Thank you all

    | BistosAmerica
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  • Thanks Shane, That was exactly what I was looking for!

    | absoauto
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  • Hi, Just to clarify - my company sells geo-location specific products that can usually only be sold to people living in the local country.  The sites will therefore be something such as: Widgets in Australia Widgets in UK Widgets in South Africa Do you think having them be hosting on separate IPs be a high priority (currently they are scheduled to all be hosted on the same IP and changing the strategy will be one of those SEO vs R&D discussions)

    | theLotter
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  • One possible option would be to pull-in the duplicate content (shipping info) via an iframe on every page, so the content doesn't actually live on the page. That being said, you have a lot of unique content on each page, and I don't think the duplicated content on these pages would be a problem.

    | anthonydnelson
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  • Great info Kristina, Thank you

    | BistosAmerica
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  • If i understand the question correctly.... Add in a rel=canonical tag to the page which your 'home' tab links to. I would guess that for this to be showing as duplicate content that you may have some subtle difference in the url you are linking to eg www.domain.com, www.domain.com/, www.domain.com/index.html etc Adding in rel=canonical will solve a whole host of issues when linking to the same page using different url's See the SEOmoz best practices guide for a full explanation and examples of how to implement rel=canonical http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization Hope that helps Justin

    | JustinTaylor88
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  • Thanks for your input Frederik. I've used the website you mention and it look absolutely fine.

    | CarlDarby
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  • With Wordpress you can no-index category pages, tags, author pages, archives etc. Most of the SEO plugins let you do this, I know Yoast's plugin does it for sure. Also make sure your site is using canonical tags and you should be good.

    | David_ODonnell
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  • I am a business owner and have multiple services. So I can give you my recommendation from my experience. Maintaining multiple sites is a PITA. One problem is you have one company name but two websites for it, or if you do have a different company name for each, how will the phone be answered. Sure, you can get around that but there a many other inconveniences, like multiple business cards etc.. or with one physical location will only allow you one google-local entry. The main page has a main h1 heading at the top  listing the services ie   "Epoxy Flooring, Concrete Resurfacing, Stone Restoration serving Delaware" What I did is Summerize each of my services on my main page with h2 headers followed by a paragraph below the heading optimizing the text as best I could. The h2 headers and paragraphs are formatted in 2 columns by 3 rows (6 services) on the main page as try to dilute any top to bottom bias. What's very important is what EGOL said about cross services ie cross selling, Its much better to expose your customer to all  your services.

    | noweare
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  • Personally long term I would work on changing the URL's so they are human readable but for now to "fix" the issue I would advise you use rel=canonical here is a guide... http://www.seomoz.org/blog/complete-guide-to-rel-canonical-how-to-and-why-not

    | SEOKeith
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  • Google should recognize the original source and give credit due. Not true.  The domain with the highest authority often outranks the original source.

    | EGOL
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  • they do like more descriptive anchor text  good example on my site i had dangerous drugs listed as just the name Example: "Topamax" had not done any seo to that page. it was on page 3 for "Topamax Lawyer" switching the menu anchor text to "Topamax Lawyer" made it jump to 2nd from the top It only really works when you have only like 3 key words you are targeting if u are targeting 10+ than does not matter as much

    | goodlegaladvice
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  • If Google ever detects an issue will I be notified via webmaster before anything occurs? No, you will simply see a traffic / rankings drop. If you were in my situation how would you handle this? If this was my site and I didn't depend upon it for my income I would let it roll "as is" but get lots of unique content up ASAP. If this was my living or a client site and it was doing really well I would  get a larger budget or a loan and and get the content beefed up really fast with hired help. Or, if I was really conservative I would do some deindexing.

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