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Here is an interesting addition to this folks. I am reviewing some backlinks on a new clients site and found loads of old blogroll links from foreign language sites. It would seem that these links were paid links as it went but as I dug in I found that in fact, this was a domain that had expired and that these links pointed to the old site. Now, this domain was unregistered for a while, so it was not a case of dropping the domain and re registering under another name. In fact the site used to be for a Portuguese music band and now is something wildly different. So, some thoughts on this. 1. tons of these links showed up in webmaster tools so were clearly being acknowledged and still assigned to the domain despite it's being dead for a good while 2. These links all ended up being for the brand of the new business as it matched the old band name but from wildly off topic sites in another language It is my thought here, that in cases like this, where the domain was dead for a given period of time and the site is clearly not a rehash of the original site but a bricks and mortar business, in a totally different area, in another country that you should be able to use a domain like this even if it had a slightly dodgy past. But, how would you go about this? Well, my thoughts would be a reconsideration request stating that you are the new owner and giving all the details. I have nothing to back this up, but my thoughts would be that you should not be penalised here for the past history of a domain. Heck, if I moved into a house where someone was murdered, that does not make me a murderer. I tried to find some evidence of this and found various mentions, much like the domain reset thing but not much hard evidence but Matt Cutts does detail this here on the back of his domain conference that if you buy a bad domain, then just submit a reconsideration request. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/trip-report-domain-roundtable-conference/ With the manual review of the domain, it should be fairly easy to see if this is an attempt to shed some old weight or is just an honest acquisition by the 99% of the world that simply would not give the domains history a second thought. Obviously, there are some caveats here and if the domain was doing something really nasty (porn etc) then it may not be worth it but we do have to balance up good domain with dodgy background vs really crappy domain sometimes so there are a lot of moving parts. Anyhow, would be interesting to see if anyone has any experience here or thoughts on this. Also, here is a post detailing how Matt Cutts states domains are reset but... there is little in the way of detail: http://www.johnon.com/543/mattcutts-domainroundtable.html Cheers Marcus

It's not just about stopping a warning from the SEOmoz system - it is an SEO best practice to ensure every page has a unique page Title, and in a series of pages within a paginated set, assigning the page number to each Title helps inform people who see that page Title in search results or elsewhere, that it is a page within a series, and which page it is.

Hello, Best and common practice would be to keep the better ranking pages and remove the ones are not. Also put 301 redirects to the ones you removed towards the kept ones. hope that helps.

hello, you can manage as many sites under 1 account as you want. there won't be any problem.

Here's a good place to start: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/concepts/opengraph/.

Aaron, Thanks for your response.  I have installed what I believe is the latest version (1.8.21).  I have tried to turn off Google Instant, although this isn’t as easy as I thought.  They removed the ability to turn it off and replaced it with a box where you can check “never show instant results”.  Even when you do this, you still see instant results. I have the delay between queries set to 12 seconds, so I don’t think that is the issue.  My next steps will be to check the firewall and then delete my current extensions in Firefox to see if any conflict. Eric

I am willing to bet that changing 300,000 anchor text links will result in a penguin attack.

I think you are asking if changing your site from www.domain.com to my.domain.com will have a negative affect on your SEO. If I understand this correctly, yes it will have a negative affect on your seo, how big the effect is depends on a lot of factors.  Links to the subdomain of www.domain.com do not carry over to your mobile domain of m.domain.com. The answer to whether this is a good choice depends on how much of your traffic is mobile and how much is via the desktop.  If 100% of your traffic is mobile, it most definitely is a good choice.

Hi, Have your pages been crawled and indexed since you changed them?  We will need more information to learn more about the problem.

you should have enough of those names being generated naturally IE www.site.com, site.com, site so I wouldn't worry about wasting hard link building efforts just to add your domain name which you already should rank #1 for the trick is to use long tail variations - if your main keyword is "movie posters" then vintage movie posters selling old movie posters buy classic movie posters online and point them to matching optimized pages, not all to the same page.

My business is travel tours. So my tours often have duplidate a part of contents. ex: i have 1 tour with content: day 1: blabla day 2: bla bla.... the 2nd tour is include tour 1 and 1 day more so i often have duplicated content. But i have no way to avoid it :((

Yeah, I'm unclear as well - could you provide a sample URL, even if it's not the real URL (just something similar)? If the canonical tag is appearing on both the original and duplicate and points to the original, that's fine. Google will essentially just ignore it on the original. If the original points to the duplicate, though, or they both point to each other, etc., that could be very dangerous.

Hi, I don't think it is possible to crawl any password protectec pages.  Password protected pages are usually blocked and bots are unable access those pages. And yes it is true that only sites that are publicly and live can be crawled.

cheers for all the help

I personally don't think so, since both URLs will contain your keywords.

Cool, ill dig them out and fire over. Thanks. Marcus