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Improving your speed will help more from an SEO perspective as Google likes to count it towards the 'visitor experience'. Country specific really makes little difference these days, especially as many businesses use content caching such as Cloudflare - which could be based anywhere.

Webmaster tools will only be interested in the domain that actually hosts the site, others you own but do not actually have associated pages, would not need to be registered.

Hi Martijn,  This sitemap doesn't contain images at all I can't put the URL here in plain text, please see attached image. sitemap-issue-moz.png

I also like "openings" in the URL, because as a user, if I were to land on that page or see that URL in the wild, I'd have a better idea of what the page is about. -Dan

In theory, if that content makes sense, you should not worry too much. But I'd make sure that besides that content, I have some unique content, too on every homepage. You can use various testimonials, attach a blog to each website and pull some feeds, etc.

Hi, let us take a scenario. test.html has been blocked using robots.txt file. In this scenario, the bots that respect the robots exclusion protocol will not crawl the page to encounter the page level robots noindex attribute. So does not make any sense to use both the page level robots exclusion method and server side robots.txt file. Here you go for more: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93708 And here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93710 Best regards, Devanur Rafi.

Can you post a link so I can check it out?

What errors are you getting?

uwaim,  what happens when you disable Page Titles and set the titles in Metatag?  Metatag handles page titles, so the two modules may be stepping on each other. Also, can you confirm the latest versions of your metatag module?  They've been rolling commits, so confirm you have the latest.

Many thanks Moosa !

Thanks a lot Chris, that definitely helped.  Bit of a messy situation, but I'm glad that things should go a lot better once it's all cleaned up.

Thanks is there a way of doing a 301 of something similar inline on the page code?  For example if the old page is called product.html and the new page is called newproduct.html what could I add onto the product.html page to provide the redirect.  I dont have access and dont really want to mess about in apache

Hi, So you did add a meta noindex tag? Great. Remember that Google needs to crawl the page to see the meta noindex, so blocking it in robots.txt will mean it's still indexed, but has about 0% chance to show up in search unless you search for that URL. Also, I wouldn't spend any time worrying about obscure pages that are indexed. It's not going to hurt your rankings.

No, I understand. Thanks for jumping in. The only reason why said it was a uglier subdomain, just to express that - even that didn't have a impact impressions, traffic, or CTR on images in my case. Note, I get 80k+ UV a month and I spend more time monitoring traffic sources and do date comparisons than I should. I have alerts that tell me if I loose x% of traffic on a landing page. As you can see - a lot of GB - we get a lot of image traffic - no impact, with my ugly url that I wont even make a effort to change. Joseph cQlysj8

Well, in that case G must have picked up complete titles but maybe Irving is right here.

Hey Guys, Thanks for taking the time to respond! @ruth that's awesome Looking forward to it. Jon

Thanks for the replies, I ended up getting a techie to run a script through the site for me which gave me all the info I needed.  None of the tools mentioned did exactly what I was looking for.

It should be easy to install a 404 page that records the agent and if you notice googlebot is still hitting these pages, no harm in 301ing them to let google know that we have moved and it doesn't need to bother about this urls anymore.

Appreciate the response. Will test this on a few pages and see if it leads to better results. Thanks.

I have had a lot of success using internal landing pages that are targeted to a single topic.  For your client, their homepage might be rentaluxurycar.com that is more general in its content; but then have individual pages that are focused on each make and model, i.e. rentaluxurycar.com/astmonmartindb7, with keywords focused on renting a DB7. I would also push the client on letting the six subsites run alongside the main site.  If they have different domains and unique content, then they can crowd the search results.