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Bad idea in my book. It sounds like you're trying to cheat Google instead of win it properly, that never works out in the long-term.

Thanks for your time, will do that.

W3 Total Cache is what's adding these URL parameters, Jill. It's done so that you can expire the long-term cached version of those images quickly and automatically should the image need to be updated. (This can be controlled in W3TC's settings) And no, in my opinion there's no way this could be the cause of a rankings drop. There have been some major fluctuations in search rankings around 7,8,9 May. Is that about the time frame you saw the sudden drop? Many are speculating that Google applied another Panda algorithm update very recently. Paul

I don't think it will hurt rankings for your other important keywords, it will just increase the number of keywords that attract traffic.  Links from development sites should help your overall keyword rankings. To me, it makes sense that developers would naturally link to a site that has created a web application. SEOMoz appears to have taken the approach you suggested with their development blog: http://devblog.seomoz.org/ Other examples: http://dev.hubspot.com/ https://developer.apple.com/news/ https://developers.facebook.com/blog/ https://developer.amazon.com/blog/index.html https://engineering.groupon.com/ http://www.bigfishgames.com/blog/category/game-development/

Hi Dov, It's a difficult one. I personally don't like the idea of separate mobile sites, you're unnecissarily competing with yourself and probably confusing users. Is it too late to go responsive? Anyway, the way I would do this is to target "Googlebot-Mobile" and write suitable 301 redirects from desktop to mobile. Googlebot will still index your desktop site but Googlebot-Mobile will be smart and follow the 301 to the mobile site. The following should work for an .htaccess file if both your desktop and mobile sites share the same URL structure, else you may need to manually write some 301s. Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "android|blackberry|ipad|iphone|ipod|iemobile|palmos|webos|googlebot-mobile" [NC] RewriteRule ^/?$ / [R=301,L,NC]

If Google has said to look at their list then I would dig deep into that list.  It could be something other than a overly optimized anchor.  Check out the domains, pages links are placed.... are they selling links or up to something sketchy?

I agree with John. Use that .htaccess code. Apart from that, I'd also recommend that you setup your preferred way in Google Webmaster Console under Configuration > Preferred domain.

When I say just translating, I mean only translating to the main language of the country and not changing the content. Just translating content is not targeting the country. You should be hiring someone native to that country to help rewrite things for the people in that country. Geotargeting means each country has content that is targeted to them. If a company is not going to take the time to target the content to the country in question, then it is just mere translation and that can cause duplicate content issues.

Hi John, Thanks for your reply. I understand your point. Now guide me what I have to do with these plenty of categories and tags at  blog.cufflinksman.com . As SEOmoz showing approx 1600 duplicate content due to categories and tags at blog. What approach you suggest me to remove these duplicate content and also improving ranking of cufflinksman.com(Our main site). Hope you suggest excellent solution for this as I didn't like to no index these categories and tag as they have excellent content.

I don’t really have any study available with me that proves that OBL is going to help you life your DA even a bit but if the link that is going out to authority site will help enhance user experience then you should use it without any second thought! OBL to quality sites can allow your visitor’s to trust you and you can get positive brand image but SEO value of OBL in my opinion is questionable.

Hi there Christina! Thanks for reaching out to us!  I can definitely see how something our crawl diagnostic can be a bit noisy, since our tool has to be over-inclusive of information we provide.  One thing If you are having some issues on your crawl diagnostic and you think the error is not correct, you can post some examples here, or if you don't feel like posting sensitive information you can certainly email us with your examples at help@seomoz.org. Hope that helps, please let me know if you have any questions! Best, Peter SEOmoz Help Team.

You would point like this: redirect 301 /AboutUS http://www.NewDomain.com/AboutUs the /AboutUs is the URL you want to 301. The NewDomain is the domain to want to point to.

Dr. Pete wrote a great post regarding that warning and the meaning behind it, and when to pay attention and when it can be ignored. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

If you're asking whether canonical tags pass PageRank, the answer is yes. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

Thanks for the advise Carson!

You're welcome. Good luck with your project.

These pages, which are search results pages, are often viewed by the search engines as thin pages - I would recommend adding the noindex tag to your search results pages, so that these pages won't dilute the index with thin, low quality pages that are yummy food for the algorithms. By adding the noindex tag, you'll be fine in terms of duplicate title tags. As an aside, you also have two versions of the meta description tag on the page - I would modify this so that for each page on your site you only provide one meta description. Mark

Well, just took a look at your subdomain links and there's nothing bad there. You can go ahead and remove the subdomain placing a 301 to your homepage.

Hi Justin, Do you really want the feed of comments on posts?  In my experience, this tends to be of limited use anyway.  One easy, easy option is to delete the comments feed line in your header.php file (go to Appearance...Editor and look for header.php). Alternatively, you could block the feeds pages with robots.txt. Alternatively to that alternative you could switch from All in One to Joost de Valk's WP SEO plugin, which gives you tons of configuration over whether things like this get indexed, templates for meta descriptions, etc.

I didn't mean to sound harsh or critical... so please don't take it that way. I've been in the situation of destroying my own stuff thanks to bad advice and bad links before... so I know how hard it can be. In your case, I don't think the 301 is necessary. Like Dana said, it could just be fluctuations and over the coming weeks, months, etc. that article could wind up getting more link love and ranking better again. Great, original content will garner new links to your site & articles. Work on creating new content and keeping things fresh so you're a resource to your customers, fans, industry, etc. and the good vibes will flow (hopefully). Anything vaguely unnatural with link building nowadays has the potential to turn around and bite you. So when you have a great article that is doing well and drawing in the readers and the rankings start to slip... give it some time, see if its just natural fluctuations, do some testing, etc. so you can do even better with the next one.