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Granted, this correction probably doesn't matter, but for posterity: *there's no distinction (in the video) between if it's the first followed link or no follow."

The only results I've seen is "x-rated" lol I had an article called "My X-Rated Secret" which was in no way adult oriented. Other than that, I have really random words like: x-rated   2 xrated    2 alt          1 ctrl         1 ctri         1

This is a very normal thing for Google to display a different Page Title for the home page of a website. If you do a search for a head term like "Vitamins" you sill see the page titles for a few of the listings automatically get switched to "Company Name: Rest of Title" Simply put, you can set a Page Title but Google does not always honor it if they think they can pull in a more relevant title.

Thanks for all your answers.

I agree with Travis & Moosa. You shouldn't try to target a page to more than one phrase. You will quickly run into keyword dilution (cannibalisation) where Google won't really know which page to rank for a particular phrase. The net result here is that generally, none of the pages will rank well, or perhaps only one of them. Keep each page highly targeted, make good use of prominent internal links and ensure that the content on each page is well written to explain exactly what is on there. Remember, there are billions of pages out there, millions of them all trying to compete for the same phrases - do everything you can to make yours the best it can possibly be, but try not to do everything (or anything) just for the search engines. Write and design your pages for maximum user experience. -Andy

Hi there, Are you using the rel="alternative" tag (also referred to as the href lang tag) on the site? This tag will do the following: if your page for "FCR Media Lietuva, UAB" is available in English, Lithuanian and Russian, for example, but all of these pages are meant for the Lithuanian market each page will contain a different tag. They will look something like this: That is, the hreflang part of the tag says "This content is in English but it's meant for Lithuania." The second says "this content is in Lithuanian and is meant for Lithuania". The third is in Russian but is meant for Lithuania, etc. You can include as many country / language pairings as you like. This is a really handy tag for both countries where multiple languages are used, and for languages that are spoken in multiple countries. You can also end up with a situation where you have a set of tags like this: That is saying: "these two pages are the same, but one is in Czech and is meant for the Czech Republic; the other is in Lithuanian and is meant for Lithuania. But the content is actually the same, just directly translated." This tag is not intended specifically for this problem, but for duplicate content as a whole, where that content has been duplicated for the sake of providing content to people in different countries. As a result, I believe it would be a good tool to incorporate here due to the small amount of duplication as a result of title tags.

You may also want to go into your Google Webmaster Tools and "Fetch As Google". Open your GWT > Click Crawl > Select "Fetch as Google". If you want Google to fetch your homepage you can leave the URL field blank and just click fetch.

Thanks team!

Hey Tom, Can you confirm that there has been no penalty on your blog domain? If not, you should be careful because penalties are known to hop 301s and JohnMu recently revealed that penalties will follow content without a 301. That said I would prioritize what you redirect based on what has links and shares. There's no reason to set up redirects for page that no one is visiting or linking to. Go with your first option, but 410 them to get them out of the index faster. -Mike

Thank you for the information ... but the situation got fixed and here is how I did it Your input lead to the solution ... we double check the uploaded files one by one and found one missing. The site now works! Wow, we appreciate your taking time out of your day to help with this problem! David

Hi there, I'd echo the points above regarding on and off page, especially off page: a poorly optimised site from an on-page perspective can gain rankings based on its great backlink profile. A perfect website with perfectly optimised pages will not rank if it does have links. Have you engaged in any link development during the fours months? Along with looking at the points Erwan raised, I would look at the backlink profiles of your competitors in the area and decide on a 12 month goal for how many links you need and from which types of sites. Have a look at the link development category on the Moz blog for years worth of good ideas as well.

Hi Christoph, It's certainly true that there's a lot of room for improvement, even given the page you're working with right now. As Martijn notes, this image includes text that could be incorporated as HTML - whether you use image replacement, HTML 5, etc., a basic like this means that Google understands nothing about what the image is about / says. In general, creating a page with more "text" on it (or, more specifically, a page set up in a way that makes it easier for Google to understand all of its content) is beneficial. It may not make a marked, noticeable difference to traffic straight away, but the site / page has the likelihood to rank for more terms if you include all its terms as readable text.

Many thanks!! I thought so.

Hello Kevin, thank you so much for your help. I will do the changes now.

Hello Carl, I tried to access those pages but didn't find anything on those URLs even after fixing them. The rel next/prev is being used properly for the issue you're having. I think the bigger issue is that you say all of your product descriptions are duplicates of any other site using the same affiliate feed. That is a big no-no and I don't think relying on category pages to rank for product searches is a good business plan. I hate to say it, but these types of sites really just don't do very well these days. Nevertheless, your question was about the paginated URLs and I think the rel next/prev has you covered there. If you are more worried about it you can use a rel = canonical tag to ensure the first page in the series is seen as the canonical version.

Thank you both! I appreciate the responses very much!

Hi Kevin, Thank you for contributing your thoughts. I think keywords in URL's are useful in two ways 1. They give an indication to users what the page is about 2. They give an indication to search engines what the page is about Although the keywords "Cane wood furniture for sale" can be used in the Meta Title, H1 tag and onsite content, I don't see any harm in adding them to the URL as an additional indicator, other than the downside of increasing the URL length. So I suppose it depends on whether google gives more preference to keywords in URL's over their length or vice versa

Thank you. Will have to study this

hey johnsantillan, I like your response.  can you do me some justice?  what do you think of my home page www.bestfitbybrazil.com?  I get good pull on my keywords, but many pages I've optimized for specific keyword don't have much pull and searches send them to home page.  and the grade for my home page for several keywords are F.  How can i possibly optimize homepage for several keywords to the level of A?  I have done this with other pages on site, but home page keeps winning the search. ??

Hi Nick, I believe there is no longer a "character count", but more a space or pixel limit - http://www.seomofo.com/experiments/serp/snippet-ascii-art.html This has been played out by a few people's experiments, so looks fairly solid - the limit relates to space, not character count. You could certainly try to create something that looked good both as a regular result and a sitelink.