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  • To get the most out of them SEO wise, my recommendation is to develop them in to full blown websites.  15-20 pages of unique content related to the topic.  After developing these "micro" sites, they will bring in a lot of traffic not on for the exact keyword, but long tail as well. I know this sounds like a lot of work, especially if your main site is not very big, but this is how you're going to get "the most" out of them.

    | kadesmith
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  • I can't believe it but it worked! I've been trying to fix this for days....Thanks so much for you help!

    | dashinfashion
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  • | This is from seomoz crawl report.  mostly all of it is forum and user profiles. Hobie Singlefin 9'4 Takeda Fish 5'7 | Surfing Nosara http://www.surfingnosara.com/forum/hobie-singlefin-94-takeda-fish-57 Hobie Singlefin 9'4 Takeda Fish 5'7 | Surfing Nosara http://www.surfingnosara.com/forum/hobie-singlefin-94-takeda-fish-57-0 | WA Jer | Surfing Nosara http://www.surfingnosara.com/users/wa-jer wavekitegirl | Surfing Nosara http://www.surfingnosara.com/users/wavekitegirl White Abbot | Surfing Nosara http://www.surfingnosara.com/users/white-abbot | |

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  • Hello, Usually it takes few days ... sometimes weeks until Google index new title. But I don't understand first part of your question. Marek

    | mad2k
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  • I guess my question would be why do you have two completely different url paths, returning the same content?  Generally, canonical is used to catch things like, www vs non www, trailing slashes, caps vs no caps in the urls, # signs in urls, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_normalization My guess is that it's probably a bug on the part of the SEOMoz software, and that Google would probably respect your canonical tag here.  Just to be safe, you might block the second url in your Robots.txt file.

    | AgentsofValue
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  • For the WordPress site I would use Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin. Robots.txt might help, but it would be better to make use of 301 redirects and a plugin for no-indexing in my opinion.

    | GeorgeAndrews
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  • Yes Anthony, Once I have contacted ahref support because of link difference in OSE and Ahref.com. They told, they provide more fresh data.

    | SanketPatel
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  • How you are checking it ? I have just typed site:profitok.com and found "26 results", it means Google has indexed 26 pages from your website.

    | SanketPatel
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  • I just want to add a little bit to what Oleg said considering conversion-wise vs seo-wise. One question you should ask yourself when considering what to do is, "What will help my end user decided to actual pay me for my product/service?"  In your case, if you're wanting people to actually read the testimonials, shorter, and fewer is better because when someone sees a lot of text they tend to skip over it.  This is why top 10 lists are effective as blog posts.  The old adage of "you can't judge a book by its cover" should read "you shouldn't judge a book by its cover."  I can and do judge by a cover.  Magazine publishers have known this for a long time.

    | kadesmith
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  • Thank you Gianluca! As always, your advice is top notch. Cheers! F.

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  • Precisely! Sorry if my initial question was not clear (need to learn proper SEO speak). I will attempt to get in contact with the site owner. Thanks Marcus

    | chris.elevate
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  • Those are called sitelinks. Here is Google's explanation: We only show sitelinks for results when we think they'll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don't think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user's query, we won't show them. At the moment, sitelinks are automated. We're always working to improve our sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate webmaster input in the future. There are best practices you can follow, however, to improve the quality of your sitelinks. For example, for your site's internal links, make sure you use anchor text and alt text that's informative, compact, and avoids repetition. If you think that a sitelink URL is inappropriate or incorrect, you can demote it. Demoting a URL for a sitelink tells Google that you don't consider this URL a good sitelink candidate for a specific page on your site. Google doesn't guarantee that demoted URLs will never appear as a sitelink, but we do consider a demotion a strong hint that we'll try to honor when generating sitelinks. Demote a sitelink URL: On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the site you want. Under Site configuration, click Sitelinks. In the For this search result box, complete the URL for which you don't want a specific sitelink URL to appear. (How to find the right URL.) In the Demote this sitelink URL box, complete the URL of the sitelink you want to demote. Once you've demoted or undemoted a sitelink, it can take some time for search results to reflect your changes. You can demote up to 100 URLs, and demotions are effective for 90 days from your most recent visit to the Sitelinks page in Webmaster Tools.

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  • Thanks - yes, I forgot to mention that I did take those two steps, and I'm glad to know that there wasn't a whole lot more I could've done.  I

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  • Honestly, I wouldn't worry about Alexa rank at all. Its not a good metric on valuable traffic. Your site is for movies and more entertainment content which doesn't really translate to users who have an Alexa toolbar, thus making it irrelevant what Alexa rank you are. If you were a SEO blog or webmaster forum or anything in that medium then Alexa rank can decrease much more and reflect the users that are visiting your site. Alexa rank, Quantcast, Compete all have their own systems and none are 100% accurate of real worldwide traffic.

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  • You've got it right.  The example is a bit simplistic as not all links on a page are going to pass the same amount of link juice, but otherwise it sounds like you get it.

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  • Thank You for your advice. There is no need for change but the change is not avoidable,with new CMS we will have 22 languages + unicode characters in urls + different url structure. If I choose to keep some of the old urls (edit new ones maually so they are the same as old ones) and for the rest of the site I let the CMS create new ones, what do You think would I have a problem with Google? The url difference is what I am concerned about,do search engines follow some url logic when indexing a site? To explain it better: I have city listing url the old one that is ranking high has following url: domain.com/keyword/city-name -the new ones are having : domain.com/country/city-name/keyword If I decide to keep the old one for serbian language for example and let the CMS create new urls for other languages,would that be ok in terms of SEO?

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  • Of course all title tags should be unique and main keyword should target that product so if you have a section about laser cartridges it might be something like this Main Laser Page (general) Buy Laser Printer Cartridges | Toner Cartridge in Color and Black Ink Laser Product Page (more specific) Xerox 2030xp Laser Printer Cartridges | Color Ink Toner Cartridge

    | irvingw
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