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Thank you I will look into it!

1. It sounds like the site already has the www right now. You don't really need to change it, but since you want to, then go ahead and forward it. I have never experienced any bad coming from this personally. I does take a while to get ALL the urls that are indexed to show the right one but aside from that, none really. 2. Is it going to be an easily spammable, unmoderated platform? Then I'd go with user.domain.com. But in most cases, use the /folder.

Thanks guys, I'll take a closer look at the history of site B before making a decision. There's no more data to be found in the WMT since it's almost a year ago, but I could recover a long forgotten GA account.

Is there really no respond?

Absolutely! I advise you do this as soon as possible as this will be seen as a black-hat technique by search-engines. No matter how high the domain authority of those websites, it will be seen as highly irrelevant and will be recognised as a technique to manipulate search. I would also look at getting in touch with the webmasters of the websites and trying to get them removed entirely before disavowing them. It takes more time and effort but disavowing can take up to 3 months (sometimes longer) and that is a long time in the world of SEO. Let me know how you get on.

Hi Moaz, How are you specifying the redirect? If you put the redirect in the .httaccess file I don't think a crawler will ever see an HTTP version. I just tested the site and changed the https to http and was redirected so I know client side it is redirecting. However crawlers act differently but will have to follow rules if they are defined in .httaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

Yeah, this is a good starting point. Create a sitemap in GWT with just these pages (it's easier to monitor that way), and re-fetch any specific pages that are critical. You can also build internal links (even temporarily) to kick the crawlers or try promoting some pages via Google+. There's no foolproof method, though - just nudges. This assumes, of course, that you've corrected the canonical tags. If there shouldn't have been a canonical tag at all, then I'd recommend adding a self-referencing canonical (i.e. one pointing to the page itself). A new canonical tag seems to overwrite an old one better than just removing, at least that's my anecdotal observation.

Regardless of what the competitor is doing, it does not violate Google guidelines to put a phone number in a meta description. You can put whatever text you want -- especially since the meta description is no longer a ranking factor. Putting the phone number there can be a very good idea -- it minimizes the distance between the prospect and a salesperson. However, the issue is that such a scenario is not easily tracked in analytics (and it probably cannot be tracked at all). I'll post a few links have on how to integrate phone-based inquiries with Google Analytics: How Call Tracking With Google Analytics Increases Your Profits Mobile Calls Are the New Conversions I hope this helps!

Which leads me stumped as to whats stopping these two subfolders being ranked.. we're no.1 for branded keywords in the US for some pages on example.com/us and not even ranked in the UK for example.com/uk for the same keywords.

From a UX perspective: This allows the visitor to refer to the linked page/info but be able to continue on with the article/page from your site. From an SEO perspective, IMO This helps your bounce rate from jumping when people engage the links you have on your site. Check out this previous Q&A posted by our buddy Max Minzer! Hope this helps with your question!! http://moz.com/community/q/when-is-it-good-to-use-target-_blank

Thanks for your quick and informative sugestions. yes, satisfy with you, but i used simple image slider i think the site is not too heavy for loading. And other Green lotus trekking is company name so i wanna used only proper title, i mean only search for everest base camp trek for this url http://www.green-lotus-trekking.com/everest-base-camp-trek/ but google doesnt cached proper meta description it catched non meta description can you give me any ideas about this?

Thanks for confirming that. As its a old partial penalty, and from a quick look at their analytics I can't see any main pages that have been penalised , is it best to leave it alone ( in the short term at least)?

It's likely Panda and your titles.  You have "Care Fundraising Supplies" in every title.  This is splitting "fundraising" to every page. Try removing the branding - it should help. You don't want to compete with yourself on every page.

Hi There It's questionable how much weight H tags carry at all. If they carry any, it's probably really small, or relative to how easy the keyword and industry is. H1's may help a bit more than all others - but when you start getting into H2's vs H4's it's splitting really thin hairs. This is the best resource on H tags and SEO I know of: http://www.seobythesea.com/2012/01/heading-elements-and-the-folly-of-seo-expert-ranking-lists/

It really depends on your developers and your budget. I do development and SEO, so this is how I would handle it. On searches that are returning just one result, I would put something in place to see how many results are returned, if it is only one result returned, in the head of the page I would set the canonical url for the search page to the actual page that is being returned as the result. If more result is being returned, you can handle that in many different ways. One way would be to create a pseudo category out of the results page. I would use this sparingly and only for popular search terms. But you could have an extension written for your site that can give you some on page control of the text, the url, the meta areas, and things like that. I wrote a module for a platform I use a couple of years ago that does something like it. http://blog.dh42.com/search-pages-landing-pages/ You can get the gist of the idea by reading about it there, but that is one good way to handle a limited number of them to get them to rank better.  I would not do it with every search result though, you might get a penalty.

In my opinion, kulraj.org/author/admin/ is essential because it is the main listing for your blog. As the number of posts on your blog grows you might want to add categories back.  They can bring in a lot of traffic if the category names match a topic that people are searching for.  With a small number  of posts on your blog it is very easy to encounter duplicate content problems.  However, once you have a large number of posts then breaking them into a small number of category pages can become an important opportunity and a minimal duplicate content risk. If you do that I would limit the number of words that are displayed for each post.  I would also carefully choose the categories to match what people are searching for. I have a blog that does not have tags and does not have categories.  I do that to avoid duplicate content.  However, lots of my topics overlap and I have lots of linking from one blog post to another.  I also have some hand-built FAQ pages that link to my blog posts and other informative content.  These pages can bring in a lot of traffic.

Thank you, great answer.

You'd want to decide pages based on how to best optimize for keyword searches. If you find more people search for drug possession than marijuana or cocaine possession, then it would be better to condense all of that info under one page. It really all depends on what is going to net you the most opportunity. You could have one umbrella page for drug charges and then a couple of sub pages with details on each type of possession charge. Beef up your content with info about potential sentencing/outcomes, what to expect during the trial, etc. That will help you capture additional long tail searches as well.

Thanks guys, you have pretty much confirmed what I thought. It looks like I have a fun weekend ahead of me redirecting and testing things out. But it will be a good notch to add to see how the traffic goes. One thing I wanted to ask about, this is not the case in my instance, but would the recommendation be the same if the subdomain had a higher PR than the naked domain?

Thank you that is what I thought I just wanted a second opinion.