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Hey Santaur Happy to take a look but can you supply a link to your site? Cheers Marcus

Yes. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/building-a-video-seo-strategy gives some detail on the possible issues. You'll basically lessens the value you can get from both self hosting and putting the content on YouTube if you do both. For your situation, I'd advise against putting the content on YouTube at all, as it wont make sense outside of the context of the page with your product on.

Thanks, for what looks like an easy fix.

Hello Prime85, Both these answers are correct in their own way, but let me clarify and add my 2 cents. 1. 404s don't hurt your rankings directly, but they can provide a poor user experience. 2. If you keep URLs "live" - then Google can keep these URLs in their index indefinitely. This means search engines may waste time and crawling resources visiting pages you don't want in the index, while ignoring your other pages. This CAN hurt your SEO. Long story short, (like Brian says) if the page is no longer relevant, you should remove it from the index or redirect it to another URL. 3. Returning a 404 kills all link juice that may have gone to the page, and it can also send confusing signals to search engines about the structure of your site if you have a bunch of pages returning 404s at the same time you have a bunch of new, but similar, pages popping into existence. The best policy is to set up a 301 redirect from your outdated pages to the most relevant new pages. Don't redirect everything to a single page like the homepage, but instead the redirect to the page that would be most relevant and useful for the user. On the other hand, if it's a low-value page and there's really no need to redirect it, you should remove it from the index. There's a couple ways to do this: Put a meta robots "NOINDEX" tag in the head and wait for Google to crawl the page and process the noindex. It helps if the URL is listed in your sitemap so that they can more easily "find" the url. Block the URL through robots.txt, then use Google's Remove URL tool in Webmaster tools Return a 404, and use the Remove URL tool Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

Hi Daniel I think its pretty simple Check this screenshot from OSE http://j.mp/VSRr9h

Hi Redirection is not something to fix this.. Yes, you are right because of the "name" sitelinks are not coming up in search engine.. Here is the example : Search with "Matt Cutts" (Name) site links will not appear, but if you search with "matt cutts gadgets" or "matt cutts gadgets google and seo" the site links will appear. Hope my answer will helps you. Thanks

You can't check meta tag descriptions on Google. Google does not require these tags and will find other text on your page to display. You need to view the source code of the pages and check for the following tag name="description" content=".">

I checked on my Android and the titles look the same, with "- Pure Mobile" at the end. Have you tried cleaning your cache?

well in that case .. it does not look like accidental at all .. but i wonder why on earth they are doing this.. don't they know that it will backfire their website sooner or later..

Set up on the new server the identical site and test it works. You can usually preview the site via the ip or change your hostsfile on your computer so when you enter the web address it takes you to your new ip (but the rest of the world see's your old site still). Get it all up and stable, check everything. All you need to do then is change the dns to point to the new server. If you have a systems admin you can get them to change the ttl a few days before to a smaller number so that the dns transition is picked up more quickly around the world. Some important rules: Don't do it on a Friday as you might need to roll back something if it goes wrong and you may need support staff who could be unavailable on a weekend. Give yourself plenty of time. More than you think Don't forget to update any email dns settings etc Make sure everyone is aware email might be delayed while dns is transitioning check your dns transition across the globe here http://www.whatsmydns.net/ Don't switch off you old hosting for at least a few days maybe a week. Some websites may still be reading your old ip address and you never know you might need to do an urgent roll back to the old server if something nasty happens. If you need a systems admin who can do this all for you I can heartidly recommend mine.

It looks that blog is helping your company to get search visibility for some keywords. If blog is not there, you may not have any search presence for these keywords. As a first step, I would recommend you to provide main site page links on the related blog post with the appropriate anchor texts. These links should not be footer links or banner links. Think something like "related service ......". Next step would be comparing back links of blog pages with your main site page for identifying the missed opportunities. Hope this will help. All the best..

Same products, same copy, etc,? If you want Page A to no longer exist and Page B to replace it in the SERPs then use the 301 to send people to Page B and pass link equity/seo juice. If you want Page A to continue existing but you want Page B to potentially replace it in SERPs, use rel="canonical" so that Page A may still be found and visited but pass equity to Page B which will/should eventually replace Page A in the SERPs for the terms where Google feels your canonical suggestion is completely relevant.