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What funny timing. Did my answer in the other thread work? Kevin

Check out their official guide and link up your G+ profile via option 1 or 2. You can then check to see if you did it successfully via GWT or the Structured Data Testing Tool - should see your profile pic show up.

as a supplement to the others i would definitely add it.

Hi Alessia, what i would try to figure out is how my website is ranking in different search engines and go on from there. So let's say you use RankChecker to check your rankings. So check google.es, google.com google.nl for dutch etc. Type in the keywords in its own language and hit search and watch the results come back. There is a pretty good change that your website is ranking for each language if the website is programmed correctly. If your site is not scoring for the foreign keywords you might just want to go ahead with the answer from Ryan and seperate the websites without the script of language (browser or IP based). hopes this helps a bit. Jarno

Hi Deb, Thank you for your reply. I have never thought, that Google would crawl the robots.txt this rarely. I actually read it somewhere, which makes complete sense, that before they start crawling, they validate the process against robots.txt. This is one page only, but basically one of the most important ones. This is now a shocking experience for me, thank you for drawing my attention to it. Anyway, I have submitted the page through 'Fetch as Google' now. Regarding your url suggestion, I do not want them to be 404-d, at least not all of them, as for examply the login pages I still want to use, and why we have individual urls, is that because we would like our visitors to return back the page they left, before we asked them to log in. So status 200 is ok, because these pages we have for customers, but the very same pages are totally useless for Google to crawl or to index. I hope this clarifies.

Thanks for your help gents'. All the content on the site was meant to be 100% unique (I got someone in my company to create with the help of external suppliers). I checked samples and they seemed fine but it appears that all isn't what it first appeared. I'll get the content replaced and get back to it. Thanks

Ok if the previous job posts are causing your concern, you can easily fix this by setting up meta data expiry: _It will automatically remove the content of the page from search engines index as soon as the job becomes unavailable. _

Sounds like sloppy development to me... the -99999 and overflow:hidden looks concerning because throwing text off the screen is a common practice by spammers. While I'm not a developer, I don't think any of my sites' logo has ever been coded as a H1. The H1's are always within the body tag. The logo should just be an image. I would recommend comparing your source code to other websites, any website. It doesn't need to be the Genesis theme to be comparable. You just need to see how other sites are structuring their HTML. Does that help? Kevin Phelps http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwphelps

Brett, Your question is "How do they affect SEO?" Simply put, they can sometimes increase the speed with which a site loads, but there are caveats. Seeing all your questions around site speed, I would suggest trying this link to Yahoo (comes from YSlow) So, if the site is too slow, beyond user experience issues (which to me are the bigger issues usually around a slow site) you can cost yourself in PPC and, IMO if UX issues are significant, SEO ranking. Hope this helps,

Yes, I will share. Please know that I do not subscribe to or agree with the content that is there (it is okay to open at work or around kids - it's not anything adult oriented). It's just got a lot of angry political language tied with ultra-conservative Christian views (if you are a FOX News fan you might really like it). I am also not recommending their design (on either site). http://kingdominsight.ning.com  is a subsidiary of http://www.kingdom.com (this is the e-commerce site). Kingdom.com, despite horrible design and black hat SEO continues to rank very well for some highly competitive terms.- They have had their Ning site for about 5 years.

What do you mean by "shut down" ? If you can navigate the site then so can Google. Changing your home page to "we're no longer here" won't help either as Google can still access the pages "behind" your home page because it already knows they exist so it'll go directly to them when crawling. You either need to delete the pages entirely, or delete the entire website, edit your DNS information so it no longer resolves your domain name... something that permanently "shuts down" and removes the site.

I might buy or register the domain if it is one that I would like to use. However, if the agent's current site has really good rankings and is accomplishing goals then I would be very hesitant about changing. The agent's name as a domain can be a powerful brand.  If he uses a different domain for his business it splits his brand. I really like keyword domains but they are not silver bullets.  For your example the loss of effectiveness causesd by redirecting all of the links from an established domain could be a greater loss than the gain offered by the EMD.  That means your rankings could DROP! Also, EMDs usually provide ranking advantage for exact match queries - and little if any advantage for every other query. Switching makes the most sense for poorly established domains.... much much less sense as the domain is more established.

Thanks Miriam, that was my concern as I mentioned above.

I would place them in folders rather than subdomains.    This is because subdomains are not treated as well in the SERPs as folders.

As far as your original question, your nofolllow and noindex settings are fine. I guess I don't understand the point of building out the pages with content that isn't unique.  I come from the camp that starting it out right is always the best practice.  People follow you because they want your point of view.  I don't think that takes much time.  On most CMS platforms you can schedule your posts and you can spend one day on post and spread them out over the week.  I would see if someone in your company likes to write and see if they want to champion it. But, like I said before.  If you want to go the route you are currently taking then your nofollow noindex of those pages is fine.

I agree with Reload that tracking rankings isn't as important as it once was due to the ever increasing personalisation of search results. We keep track of the rankings for our SEO clients but usually keep that data in-house (unless a client requests them) because oftentimes clients will become fixated on the current ranking of a particular keyword. Instead, we provide data on the visits from each keyword, the number of different keywords that generated organic traffic, conversions/sales and ideally all of those numbers will gradually increase over the long-term.

Thanks, that's more accurate to the question I was asking.  Appreciate the response.

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