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Awesome! yea I submitted them to bing and google by hand, I just figured it couldn't hurt to have it in my robots too. Appreciate the feedback

We are trying to use the game to indirectly promote products, not to get traffic to the game itself. We would like to increase our brand awareness and generate any of the signals that Google would smile upon.

Unfortunately, that's a lot more tricky. If you're trying to rank both the .com and .sg version for, let's say, US residents, and those sites have duplicate content, then you do run the risk of Google filtering one of them out. If you use canonical tags or something like that, then one site will be taken out of contention for ranking - in that case, you won't rank for both sites on the same term. The only way to have your cake and eat it too is to make the sites as unique as possible. Even then, you're potentially going to duplicate effort and cannibalize your own rankings, so it's a risky proposition. In some cases, it may be better to try to promote your social profiles and other pages outside of your site that have some authority. It doesn't have to be your own site ranking, just a site that's generally positive or neutral.

Hey, Another Shock! Things are coming harder and harder. I am reading it out from last 2 hours. Here are all related sources http://www.seroundtable.com/google-spammy-structured-markup-notifications-18061.html http://www.seroundtable.com/google-rich-snippets-spam-14638.html https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/webmasters/xfRvnaiNZ_Q https://plus.google.com/+PierreFar/posts/HZJZ2kWyjVY http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4400099.htm https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/webmasters/xfRvnaiNZ_Q This is going to hurt lots and lots of websites! Regards

we`ve experienced marginal effects within our corporate blog when using it... on the one hand the advantages can be found mainly on the side of UX/UI - if your visitors are Google affine they will like this feature because they know it. If you have enough content (especially a lot of articles in an archive for example) then this will help your visitors to search for the relevant info... on the other hand there is a very powerful feature within analytics tools (Google Analytics and many more) to track what your visitors have searched for using your Site Search... I think I don`t have to tell you how useful this data can be...

Yes your short robots.txt idea would create a huge problem. In your Magento admin if you click in the menu Catalog > URL Rewrite Management You will see the magento feature  that creates all the "pretty urls", in that page you will see a table. If get value from  Target path column and copy and paste after your site domain, for example domain.com/value_in_target_path... You'll see that the page loads fine, you don't want Google to rank those pages with the "messy" URL so that's why you need all those stuff in your robots.txt

If you're using the WordPress SEO by Yoast you can easily do this by adding %%page%% to your title template. It appears as "Page 2 of 5".

Thanks for taking a look, yesterday out of desperation to understand what was happening I replaced the text on my site with an image to see what, if anything, changes. I have reported it to Moz, and they agree it looks odd.

The Link Cleanup and Contact tool is dead. Just send me to a page that says sign in with twitter and when I try that it goes to a dead page.

Thanks for the responses!

Jorge, thanks for your question! You've received several solid responses. Did any of them answer your question?

Thanks Matthew, while I am aware of duplicate content on this site, I wasn't aware it it specific to some of the pages that aren't being indexed.  I will do more research on this!

Mike, I specialize in on-site audits and related consulting - sent you a private message through the Moz member system just now about it... Alan

you need to tell people where you can take them in the section above the fold in your website. I would have a very large text that is clickable stating We give guided tours to  then allow people to click on their destination of choice. New Zealand, South America Himalayas If you want to get clients that are in the United States for instance, and you use a New Zealand TLD you will be unable to geo-target in Google Webmaster tools therefore it will rank better in New Zealand than the states. Moosa is right on the money asking about what you did prior to changing your domain. Then you converted everything to one site did you use a tool similar to screaming frog  let you 301 redirect all the pages perfectly to their new domain? http://activeadventures.com/ Did you tell Google you are moving domains in all 3 instances? Try using screaming frog with this guide http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/screaming-frog-guide this post as well should be of help to you. http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-keep-old-url-juice-during-site-switch & http://moz.com/blog/achieving-an-seo-friendly-domain-migration-the-infographic I hope this is of some help, sincerely, Thomas PS if the photograph is too small use this link http://i.imgur.com/LfTUEjO.gif LfTUEjO.gif

I checked the link profile in Majestic. It seemed to hug the X axis in a bad way. There were likely precious few links of any value. When the vast majority of links appear to be garbage, you're pretty much back at ground zero. And that's given a clean bill of health. Best of luck, cleanup can be a thankless job.

I've overseen a few websites that duplicated the occasional article between themselves. I always recommended exactly as EGOL said, and it worked fine. The duplicate article on Site B had a canonical link to the original on Site A, and the "Originally published here" link was added at the bottom of the duplicated version of the article. If the page is relevant to the audiences on both websites I don't foresee any major problems. The only issue I'd see is if you overdid this and started to copy a high percentage of pages. The search engines don't always get it right - they can choose to ignore a canonical and sometimes a duplicate on a higher authority website might outrank the original on a lower authority website, but this has never happened to me.

Gary, I'm not even sure their algorithms can automatically detect duplicate images purely by the image visually.  As a forensic audit professional I have not seen this.  Where I would have concern is from a manual reviewer perspective.  Google employs a large network of manual reviewers, so in that scenario it would be possible for detection of duplication of images. Again though, what matters is context.  If they are on a site where the majority of content is not those specific images, and if that site is a quality site that offers unique value to site visitors, this should not be a problem or a concern.

Thanks, guys! The tool Shaharyar suggested was exactly what I need. Cheers.

Hi, As Alex mentioned, as long as you use 301 redirect from old content to new content, that will pass on most of the link juice and Google will know to crawl your new site. However, keep in mind that while doing 301 redirect, you should redirect to content on the new site that is similar or same as content on the old site.  For example: www.example.de's Content A to www.example.com/de's Content A