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Delete the pages and if they are still showing up in Google's index 301 redirect them to home.

I can answer that question as I just did an experiment on this which you can review here: http://www.rlmseo.com/blog/seo-impact-blog-post-dates/ The summary is this: Assuming no displayed date as a baseline, recent dates (not sure exactly how recent - looks like up to 3-12 months but probably depends on industry, etc) will boost traffic significantly. Compared to the baseline, distant past publish dates will reduce traffic a good bit. I would recommend this: Display update date instead of publish date. If a post is still relevant, update it, maybe even add a disclaimer for your users that the post was first published on x date but has been updated and is current. We've seen dramatic traffic increases with this strategy and it ensures people know how relevant your post is, which is actually more important than the publish date.

True, no matter what the platform is if the Meta description is identical to the description of the product on the page it will not be considered as duplicate content but if the product page content is identical to some other page within or outside the website that will be considered as duplicate content. Hope this helps!

Hello All, Have you guys seen any positive increases in search traffic since you have implemented this schema to get the search bar within the search results?

Lets see, I submitted, if it works then all the better Trying something new from today, read an article by Eric Enge and Mark Traphagen about the effects of personalising posts. My blog posts are well read by people in my industry, but there's a distinct lack of engagement i.e. comments, so I've added an image of myself to half of my articles so I can track the results, hopefully get more shares and some comments - though a pic of me is likely to scare people off lol. As always ur a star

Ok, thank you.

Thank you Alan for helpful insight into page . i would definitely add  these points to my priority task list. Thanks,

Your comment: aman123 ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ MozPoints: 19 Good Answers: 1 Endorsed Answers: 0">[image: p]aman123 about 1 hour ago Yes i am in non competitive industy( mp3 download).  

Thank you so much everyone - that's great! I will look into all your suggestions I really appreciate it.

Interesting. I tried it on one of my sites and I just didn't like how glitchy it was. I'll probably wind up doing it the old fashioned way on the rest of my sites.

Sure, without /category/ in the URL structure I can't block Googlebot using the robots.txt No problem, now I can use the noindex for all the posts. Thank you so much Oleg. Regards, MIke

Hi Linda, Thanks for the advice, I was doing some reading of canonical URL's and your suggest does appear to be exactly what they are suggesting.  Looks like Ill have a bit of work in store for me!

Thanks for your reply I've been googling exerts of the content in tabs and nothing listed for our site so will try changing some of them not be in tabs and see if that makes a difference

How long have you been doing SEO for it? The keyword is in the domain so it "tends" to work faster. I would just continue to do offpage work (just be patient and it will start showing up) if you are already sure with your onpage SEO on the site.

First situation: for both options, in theory, you will be maintaining the same link power, however, I would choose option two. You won't have to worry about GoogleBot crawling the old URL to find the new one. Depending on the keywords you are targeting, you might lose some ground by changing the URL structure. If the old URL structure fits into your new web navigation model, I think you should stick with it to maintain the same results. Second situation: if you feel that the pages aren't of valuable on their own I would 301 them to the one URL. If they made sense to keep from a user experience perspective you would want to add "rel=canonical" tags pointing to the one URL instead. Hopefully that clears things up!

Hi Faye - It's unclear from your question whether these are all the same jacket that's available in different colors or if you have a variety of brands offering jackets of each different color. I also can't tell if you're referring to only 1 URL or if you plan to have each jacket on a different URL. I would caution against having a bunch of different URLs targeting KWs only differentiated by their color. For one, a Panda penalty is possible - your site's pages may appear spammy in the same way a bunch of pages for the same service offered in different cities is now considered an outdated tactic. It sounds like you're about to add a good amount of content to your site, so it would be good to better understand exactly how you're planning to go about this before moving forward. Happy to share my opinion if you can share a little more detail.

The site has been in progress for months now. During this time the company has developed some outstanding suppliers and subsequently more products have been added. Because of this we had to rethink the website structure by adding product categories. This has allowed us to implement cleaner urls which are better for SEO, as well as categorising our products which will provide a better user experience for our customers. It also provides the platform to add more products in the future. I really appreciate you help Linda. I wanted to ask questions on here before getting in touch with my programmer. This has confirmed my concerns as to "why" this has happened. Thank you.

Thank you so much for the response! That is very helpful. Cheers, Erin

Google really isn't all that concerned with the structure of your URLs. You could have domain.com/widgets/nfdi23ur2r255.rofl and they wouldn't care. Having a keyword in your URL is nice but not necessary. My advice is to pick URLs that are easier to remember. So domain.com/widgets/brown is not cleaner per se, but it is easier to remember.

Ok thanks for the answers.