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Yep, it is definitely best practice to come up with unique titles and descriptions for the shopping sites. If you have a large number of products, you might want to use a service like TextBroker or ContentWriters.us to handle the work for you.

Interesting that in DuckDuckGo.com and StartPage.com it is showing with the new title wording, and in increased position (#3 on DuckDuckGo.com).  Still not up there in google. Any idea if this means anything?

Depends how unique the pages are. If the "landing pages" only have minor differences then you could well be penalizsd a may want to canonicalise them back together.  Certainly if you have the exact same content on both of those sites separately then you'd run the risk of duplicate content. 25k landing pages, to me, may also be thought of as spammy as you'll have more landing pages than anything else.

I would recommend dropping the .html / htm extensions from both URLs. The first URL is quite long and has too many folders. I am concerned the page requires too many clicks and/or you are stuffing too many keywords in your URL.

Thanks .... Hmmm, I learn something new everyday .... Well I learn lots, but this one in particular will inevitably lead me to changing very old habits

We're having a similar issue, but the exact keywords are in the content, page title, and Header tags. The site is hitchweb.com and the keyword is "trailer hitch".  Is it an issue with our site, or is it a common problem with the on-page optimization tool? Thanks!

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http://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-rel-canonical-bug ?

I wouldn't do it, as I would only put the content in one place. In another question, I listed some resources regarding link building that may help you instead of placing duplicate content for links.

You can use both php and html pages. An example would be shopping cart html site. All the cart pages would have to use some sort of php, asp, cfm etc for dynamic purposes. Another example would be quote forms. Many of our sites are html while our quote forms are php. I think you would be fine to use both php and html. If you choose to go all html for ease of updates and maintenance purposes you can always 301 redirect php pages to new html pages.

You can still submit a url removal request from GWT, because it checks for 1 of 3 things: 404 header response code NOINDEX meta tag Robots.txt disallow rule So even if its not 404 Google will still do the removal.

Hi Pharcydeabc, This is a good question, indeed! I'd suggest you start a new Q&A for this under a new category so that our experts can help you with this new topic. We really enjoy your participation in Q&A! Miriam

HI Doug, Thank you for your input a while back!  Wanted to see if you could give me some insite on best practice for this........ On this site http://www.austintenantadvisors.com/ I have my main landing pages listed in the navigation under "Types".  The reason why I did this is because I am not sure where to put those on the home page where it does not look spammy to Google and looks natural for users.  Obviously they need to appear someone on the home page for Google to be able to crawl and index them. Your thoughts?

Yep, I've been brought on the help out a bit. The internal links are excessive but hard to manage since it is an ecommerce site. I have to draw out something for the linking of categories. Traffic is roughly 200-300 visits but pageviews are about 5-6 per visit. Keywords are all general but mainly the domain matching keyword. Rankings have fluctuated some moved up and some moved down. As mentioned our current ranking for our own domain is 3rd.