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2569 links is far too many, and is likely a very big problem both for your users and SEO. You have more links then the New York Times. Ask yourself this question....if you had to reduce your total number of links to less then 100, what would you do? You can likely use category pages for your products and only link to the category pages from the navigation.

thanks for that tina, it was odesk

My site is hosted by Yahoo and I don't have htaccess, what do I do in this case?

It let your image be found for Google or other Search Engines. If not remove that line, none images will be show on serps. I don't know why Joomla gives robots.txt as this, but you need to change it.

Hi Tina, You think all xml feeds produce duplicate content to the sites they are going into? The site the feed is coming from in this case is not neccessarily the most important one for this excercise.  The hundred plus other sites that will use the feeds on their pages are all customers so working out the pro's and con's for them displaying a large amount of data via the xml feed in their pages. I could use the canonical tag, this would have to be set up on original site that has feed. The 100+ sites using the feed want to know if there pages can be indexed with the xml feed on to be found in the search engines, or is this duplicate without the canonical link? For the purpose of this, the sites cannot create unique content.

Thanks. We are using IIS6 - will take a look at the rewrite module you suggested. The site is verified with GWT but thanks for reminder to notify ref change of address.

If the links are varied and built legitimately, they will look natural and so you will be OK. I'm not sure you can put a number on what is OK or not though

Ok do a thing. First figure it out what type of links they are - directories, social book mark, article submission sites, RP sites .. _Once you are done, you need to sort them via PR and look at the anchor texts. If they are exact matched keywords, you need to get rid of them, do not do anything with natural anchor texts like click here, website name etc. _ _Look at the quality of the sites from where the links are coming.. check their moz rank, check the quality of the content of the website... if they score bad in all these fronts, just get them removed and you will just be fine .. _

Hi Ian, Google uses many singles to display title in SERP like backlinks pointing that pages, data from directory sites, social media signals etc. They try to increase the CTR of your website so that they display different titles.

It was last crawled on the 4th of October & im pretty sure that it was live for a few hours on the 7th I think but how did Google even find the page because you can only get to it by clicking or typing the URL in directly, there aren't any links on the site that actually point to that page URL: http://www.ppilegalservices.co.uk/ppi-lenders/

It is actually kind of nice to realize you need to do stuff on your own I want to block this page: _http://www.spies.dk/country/resort/rejsemalstips_ I wont to allow these pages: _http://www.spies.dk/country/resort/rejsemalstips?TravelTipId=xxxxxx_ _http://www.spies.dk/country/resort/rejsemalstips-liste_ FIX: Allow: /rejsemalstips? Allow: /rejsemalstips-liste Disallow: /*rejsemalstips

Thanks Maurizio, I'm wondering the same thing that John asked -- what would make me decide to do it one way or another. I was just having a conversation with a coworker, and we were thinking maybe for our purpose we'd go www.forum.yourdomain.com -- for this reason: The forum will be about 1 type of racecar, whereas the company is a racetrack that sponsors many types of racing, as well as being a sales point for this one racecar. In this case, I believe the company owner is trying to engage people for that specific vehicle. The unanswered piece of this for me is whether there is an SEO implication one way or another. From what I understand, forums usually use nofollow on links, which means the forums.yourdomain.com doesn't really help the core company site -- other than potentially sending people there via topical interest and mentions by members (so it's a marketing play). To your point, if the forum is www.yourdomain.com/forum, then the content actually belongs to your site -- so ....... hmmmm. I'm still torn. Hopefully I'll get more input. Thanks for feedback. It's helpful to hear what others are doing. Cheers! Kristy

Ce n'est rien Jean. I have a suggestion for you for a site to look at. I suggest it because they too have a lot of products to put online. Also, many of their products differ only by dimension. It might be helpful for you to study how they organize these thousands of products. This Website has one awards for marketing so it's a really good example of e-commerce marketing products that could be very boring, but they make them interesting: http://www.newpig.com/pig/US Dana

Thank you very much Ade! Thats very helpful. I will check out that website and see if this helps our website. We do see there was alot of complaints about duplicate content.

It was your second answer that did it. Here's a link to the documentation on it as well if anyone else runs across this thread. https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=140369&topic=2370564&ctx=topic Once you say you want to change it it will give you the option to view details on your current verification file.

Cheers Oleg, I have just seen the duplicate content issue overlooked so often, so I thought it was important to put this point across and give a useful link to a more in depth look at the solution.

Ok Thank you for your help