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  is seen as My opinion would be that if you are wanting to rank for "funkybrand shoes" I would not want any characters other than a space between the two keywords, and therefore I would not include it. There really is no reason to include it either unless it is a legal issue.

check the following and make sure they are without trailing slashes sitemap.xml link internal linking urls canonical tag urls

Looks like you've used the right format and that Google will be able to read the text behind the "read more". You can actually test this by using services that return your website as how the Googlebot sees it.  Seo-browser is one of them, and the simple search is free. Here is the result for that webpage. You can see the text behind the "read more" script on that page, which would indicate that Google isn't having a problem seeing it.

Ah. That's probably just an error. The same page should load at http://brandname.com/folder/article1/article2. I would remove the extra /, update all the links to the pages and set the proper canonicals.

Did you test on the rich snippet tester? I would but no link to example provided. http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

So basically the same that I thought off... thanks for your response Irving.

Google will continue to crawl your old URLs as long as links to them exist, so you will want to keep those 301s in place for as long as those links exist. Does that make sense? It's not that Google will crawl a URL, see that it is being 301'd and never crawl that URL, Google will continuously crawl that URL as long as it is being linked to, and you need to have the 301 in place to tell Google that the page has moved.

Hi Tim, Most likely this isn't built-in to what we've got as we are on a very archaic, custom-coded site. Still, here's a URL just in case you might have any insights: http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/product/cad-gxl2200 Let me know what you think (other than the site was coded when dinosaurs still roamed the earth) Dana

Just checked google analytics, and the mobile site is getting traffic from google, yahoo and ask engines.  So inbound traffic is coming through.  And it is converting to sales, which is the important bit. I will update the DTD, and monitor it over the next few days/weeks and see what happens. Thanks for all your help Mike.

GWT numbers sometimes ignore parameter handling, oddly, and can be hard to read. I'm only seeing about 40 indexed pages with "ref" in the URL, which hardly seems disastrous. One note - once the pages get indexed, for whatever reason, de-indexing can take weeks, even if you do everything correctly. Don't change tactics every couple of days, or you're only going to make this worse, long-term. I think canonicals are fine for this, and they should be effective. It just may take Google some time to re-crawl and dis-lodge the pages. You actually may want to create an XML sitemap (for Google only) that just contains the "ref=" pages Google has indexed. This can nudge them to re-crawl and honor the canonical. Otherwise, the pages could sit there forever. You could 301-redirect - it would be perfectly valid in this case, since those URLs have no value to visitors. I wouldn't worry about the Bing sitemaps - just don't include the "ref=" URLs in the Bing maps, and you'll be fine.

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Maybe you can use cookies to set the language, instead of hard coding it in the URL? Subfolders are the optimal structure from an SEO perspective. With any other structure you will not benefit from the domain authority of having a single site, and will have to duplicate much of your SEO efforts.

Mozbot usually crawls once every 7 days and takes a day or two to complete the crawl. Give it at least 7 days. On the bottom right under "Crawl diagnostics" for your campaign, it should say when the next crawl is scheduled. Greg

Unless there is going to be enough unique content on each copy, there should be only one company page even if it's reached from both paths.  In this scenario, you can list the company in both, but when clicking through to the company page itself, it should be located at http://domain.gr/city/company This prevents duplicate content but allows multiple paths of discovery, while building overall strength for each city.

Google has said that the disavow tool should be the last step, after you've tried all other methods to get the link removed, rather than the first step. I'd do as Irving suggested for links that you do want to remove.

Would definitely question the rationale for doing this and recommend that your time is spent improving your one main site as opposed to rewriting it onto a second domain.

Your site does not offer any obvious reasons as to why the blog is not being indexed. I suspect you may have made changes in the past 30 days to resolve an issue. Is that correct? If not, Google should index your blog page within 30 days. I am concerned the page offers no original content, but the blog article you wrote in December is not indexed either. Have you made any recent (past 30 days) changes to the site? You have a large robots.txt file. I would recommend replacing it with a blank one. I am not a fan of blocking bots with robots.txt. The bad bots don't respect robots.txt and the good ones typically do not cause a problem. You can set your server to throttle bots so they cannot consume too much bandwidth. Even if you caught 50 bots there are potentially thousands of other bots out there. While you do not have to submit a sitemap.xml file, since you already have the file indexed why not provide a current sitemap.xml file? You can also use Google Webmaster Tools to add the page directly. From the site's dashboard, Health > Fetch as GoogleBot then enter the URL (blog/). Next, click Fetch then choose to submit the page and linked pages to the index. The process can be as quick as an hour or take days. Keep in mind Google does not guarantee to index any page but I expect this to be the fastest way to address your concern.

All images which are attached via gallery. Even without adding the alt text still it doesn't save the settings.. I want to save the SEO settings for individual image. I can see the settings in media library. But I tried their as well but did not work. Also individual image page I tried to save it but no.

thank you for this. so you are saying that i should have in2town before each title, is this in the url or on the page. so for example if we look at the following page http://www.in2town.co.uk/gastric-hypno-band/gastric-band-surgery-patient-from-cleethorpes-awarded-damages-after-surgery-went-wrong the title in the url is gastric-band-surgery-patient-from-cleethorpes-awarded-damages-after-surgery-went-wrong on site page title is NHS Gastric Band Bypass Patient Awarded £35,000 Over Complications. are you saying i should have in2town before the title, so it would look like,  In2town In2town NHS Gastric Band Bypass Patient Awarded £35,000 Over Complications. or in the url. never seen this before would love to see an example. Last year before we had problems with our hosting company where a huge mistake was made, long story but we lost thousands of pages, we were pr4 but now we are pr3 what keywords would you aim for on the home page. This is all great advice, thank you for this, this advice is allowing me to make things better, and we are in the process of making the site bigger and better and trying to make it one of the best magazines out there.