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I would try to summarize that blog post in your own words and then provide a link to it, rather then a full version duplicate. It does not help in any way. If you can find a creative way to talk about that blog post, add some more depth and insight from a subject matter expect, it adds more value to that, instead of just being duplicated across the web.

Stumbled upon some additional information and decided to update you... According to the internationalization FAQ... Q: <a name="q5"></a>Can I use automated translations? A: Yes, but they must be blocked from indexing with the “noindex” robots meta tag. We consider automated translations to be auto-generated content, so allowing them to be indexed would be a violation of our Webmaster Guidelines. So if you decide to autotranslate the text, you should use a noindex tag instead of the hreflang tag.

Thanks guys for the quick responses.

Hiya, well i saw it go from 12th to 20th - this is a very competitive keyword. The landing page is my homepage. I didn't see any other target keywords go though. I saw this happen about 8pm Friday last week (gmt).

Thanks that sounds good. Will investigate more but glad there is a way to do it.

Thank you Doug- This site sells work by 100s of artisans under a url  like smalltownartisans.com.  The "/brandname" is one of our better know artisans with  a wide range of products. So it is not repeated in the url Do you think the "smalltownartisans.com". brand should be included in the page titles along with the artisan-brandname? And could you expand on the simple ways to ttest what works best? Thanks again for all you your comments Handcrafter

The On-Page optimization tool only checks the optimization of (as the name of the tool says) a specific page. It doesn't check other pages on your site as well. So let's says you put in www.joelolson.ca in the URL-field, then it only checks that (home)page for a specific keyword. If you want to check the optimization of another page you have to fill in that specific page's URL.

Thanks Joseph. Very helpful.

Thank you for your words and interest in our website. We tend to focus on latest in engineering, technology (gadgets too) for our blog. Our aim is to simplify the latest in engineering & technology for people who're interested in being up to date with technical stuff. Do you have any suggestions on setting up 301s as Rand suggested (I've stated my requirements towards the bottom of this thread.

http://www.taxiservicepattaya.com/ Now resolves correctly (it appears) HTTP/1.1 200 OK => Date => Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:48:30 GMT Server => Apache Last-Modified => Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:25:14 GMT ETag => "2df65ea6-2f72-4cb2aebef67b8" Accept-Ranges => bytes Content-Length => 12146 Connection => close Content-Type => text/html

Nakul Thank you for your help - I am very grateful for your guidance.  Our developer is working on removing this code.  Best wishes, Chad

not sure about the monetization part but i would host them on your own site. if the content is good enough then that will get shared and linked too, thus sending people straight to the site to view it, where you could, if you wished place ads. You will also benefit from not sending people off-site to youtube or vimeo and increasing the chance of them not completing one of your calls to action, whatever they may well be.

If your intention is to keep the page for "follow" I would not submit a removal request for the page since that will wipe it off the map. Google needs to crawl your page to know you don't want it indexed. As I said, Google already re-crawled them and they are not re-indexed. Last cache dates show all is correctly lef out of  new indexation. I guess my concern was how long this pages will stay in index. That was done to make sure Panda will be able to recalculate the value of the site.

Thanks for the response. Could I set some of them to 'nofollow' would that help? As I assume the robot would skip crawling those nofollow link?

Check to be sure you haven't missed any.

Nikele, that's a fairly broad statement. I don't think you mean to say that if I use Bing on Firefox that they monitor what I do, provided I don't have a Google toolbar enabled. They do keep track of many things, but you generally need to be using their search engine, or the Chrome browser, or have their toolbar installed. They don't always reveal what factors they use in rankings, but have said that they don't use Google Analytics data in ranking.