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Thanks so much for the recommendation EGOL. Matthew, I've sent you a p.m.  I'd love to help.

My traffic and rankings are all normal. So I'm making an assumption that Google is just doing some cleaning up in Webmaster Tools by not showing a lot of of those internal links that are not being given a lot of value anyway. It's been almost two weeks now, and nothing is affected. Thanks for your reply and input. If anyone else has seen this with their internal links, I'd be interested in your outcome.

Tried rel=canonical tags in the ? Usually clears up dup content issues better than noindex

Well, that is telling Google those pages are related and are part of a series. I don't think that has anything to do with the duplicate page title / description directly. Can you do a "Page 1 - Current Page Title" on these paginated pages in the title or something like "Page 1 of 26 - Red Widget Photos from Amazing Gallery" or whatever you might have. I hope this helps.

Hi Ganesh, Keep in mind that what you're seeing as PageRank is the toolbar PR that Google updates once every few months and is not necessarily what Google internally uses (which is updated very frequently). I'd look at other metrics. Are you making sales/conversions? Getting leads? Getting targeted visitors?

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I think I have found something that will help you. This claims to be able to control your inventory automatically that would alleviate need for you to pull pages and more hassle. I hope this helps. http://intuitPayments.com/pointofsale Sincerely, Thomas

Hi, 301 redirect is best solution of your question because with 301 you can transfer your all traffic and bcaklinks to your preferred domain. You can check your domain in open site explorer and redirect domain which contain less backlinks. After redirecting you also set a preferred domain in webmaster tool for displaying your domain into SERP. Redesigning of website is really good because it gives Google fresh content of your site you can update content regularly.

mind is blown at people moaning about weekly on page factors. I think it's great, made a lot of changes ( can only be positive! ) but ye, maybe more updates on link building etc would be cool!

Thanks for all your responses, I never knew wordpress could cause so many issues. Thanks again.

Hi Umar, You've gotten some helpful replies here. I'm a professional copywriter, and will share my own guidelines with you here. Discover a topic you want to write about. Do keyword research to determine how people are searching for information about your chosen topic Cover your chosen topic as thoroughly as you can. You may only end up with 600 words on a given page, or you may end up writing a 2000-3000 word piece if a certain topic merits it. Don't focus on word count - focus on the thoroughness of your coverage of the topic. As you write, keep your keywords in mind. Don't focus on including them a certain number of times. Use them where they make sense from a human perspective. This means your keywords will be sprinkled throughout the page, rather than crammed together in any one place. This is natural. Make the copy a pleasure for humans to read. Yes...those keywords are in there, but they have been highlighted in a natural, non-robotic manner. Once you've written the copy, read it through and craft a compelling title/headline for it, again, taking your keywords into proper consideration. Run spellcheck and read the piece through at least twice before hitting publish. Weed out any typos, errors and awkward language before you go live. Where appropriate, enhance the text copy with images, videos and other relevant tie-ins. Hope this helps!

I do use in my pages, but only when it makes sense to do so. **Does it help search results? Probably not anymore. But It still represents a useful tool for highlighting calls to action or other text which you may want to attract the visitors attention too. Then if this increases interaction on the page, then you could say that its helping reduce bounce rate, thus its helping SEO.**

Hi Kris, Thank you for giving me a clearer picture of the business model. Unfortunately, there is a serious lack of documentation as to a 'correct' use of Schema in this scenario. Presumably, you've already seen documents like these: http://schema.org/LocalBusiness http://schema.org/Restaurant This is the only type of example I have seen of this, and while these documents identify elements you can use, they don't give directions for how you MUST use them. To my mind, the branchof tag would be for something like a franchise - a fast food chain or bank or something like that which has a corporate headquarters and branch locations. Please understand, I'm saying this is just my reading of the definition of that tag, but I have a feeling every business experimenting with schema is coming up with their own definitions of what these things mean. Before Schema, when I was doing everything in hCard, I would simply create a different hCard data set for each business in a multi-location situation. This was pretty simple, but Schema offers so many different attributes. I'll ask the other moderators here if they can give any additional input. In the meantime, in case this helps, here is a very nice free schema generator tool I found out about a month or so ago: http://schema-creator.org/ Please check back in. One of our other smart mods may have more to add to this subject.

Hey Moosa, Thanks for replying - I've found 6 instances of "horse racing" across the entire page, but agree that it might be also counting instances of "horse" and "racing" separately. Thanks for your help Cheers, Jez

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Kyle, There's a new way to use fonts - Google Fonts https://developers.google.com/webfonts/

Rebekah, Igor, and Greg - thanks for the helpful (and quick!) responses, I appreciate it.

I think you have to be careful when leaving out "Stop Words" because there is not a definitive list of what is a stop word.  There are occasions in phrase search where it doesn't make sense for the search engines to leave out what seems like a stop word.  For instance "The Who" (rock band).  If you do a Google search for "and" you get results that refer to businesses and entities with "and" in the title.  I would stick with "and".