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One good thing to do is ask to the visitors to make a review of your website in alexa about your website.

Thanks for your suggestions. I've already got canonical tags on every page, but they're not all being adhered to and lots of URLs with query strings are still getting organic traffic. Passing referrer info behind scenes isn't an option with Coremetrics I don't think. Is it? Interested to know more about number 1 though. How would you do that in WMT other than blocking with robots.txt? Thanks

I think that it's partly because my content is not 'blog-like' it's more like a travel guide and an events guide and some products so it might not look right to people but the drop was dramatic. By the way, I was just looking at your site. Would you be open to a guest article? I run an Israel travel site and could write about the 'real Israel'! Of course, I can link in exchange etc/whatever you like...

Sanket is right. Yyou also need to make sure that you are 100% consistent when you are referring to your home page. NEVER refer to it as index.aspx ALWAYS as /

Hey Ruth! Thanks so much for the response and answers to my questions. You helped solidify what I was already thinking. I was wondering why the rel=next and rel=prev tags weren't being used. I thought for sure SEOmoz would be on the forefront of new on-page SEO techniques. Totally get the whole "do as we say, not as we do" mantra though. One question though: You said you noindex category pages' pagination because of duplicate content; that the items also exist in the main blog's pagination as well. But, don't the items on the main category landing pages exist in the main blog as well? So wouldn't that be duplicate content as well? BTW - Congrats on the new role as the Lead SEO, must be exciting! Thanks, Ken

I'm specifically looking at http://www.india-defence.com/ (and saw that it's also found by OSE). I thought the same thing you do but we just got a response from Google after we submitted a Reconsideration Request a few weeks ago. I assumed Google updated our backlink profile before sending their response to us today. Ah well, I think it's best to just skip these ones and keep on looking for these assumed unnatural links before sending another Reconsideration Request. Rinse - lather - repeat.

the canonical tag must go to a valid url that is unique per video. you need to update the canonical and url at the same time.

Ok, so now I'm seeing a real problem because the tool you provided is confirming that it is a 404, but the page IS redirecting. Can this be because of the aggressive caching I have setup with my webhost? Rich

I'm looking into doing this as well. The best way is to have the content translated by a professional, I would suggest using Odesk, this way you're getting an accurate translation. The only issue I can think of with doing this is that if you're targeting certain keywords they might not be what people are searching for in the language that you translate to. Also, the cost of doing it this way can add up. The Alternative would be to use a translation program/plug in to do this for you. I suggest getting it translated by a professional as this way you know that your articles aren't going to insult anyone.

Thanks to you both.  Great info...

Hi Andy, thanks for this, there where several positive forum posts written more recently including high posts that had more replies, content and visitors than this ranked thread - on the same website. One of our biggest concerns is we have had many issues with this thread so we know customers see it, but our customer base is tech savvy and with trust in ecommerce ever increasing people are hunting the brand in SERPS - not only this they feature in a lot of magazines so branded searches are still our highest conversion. PPC is definately an option for us, branded will cost us less, we are thinking of utilizing social which hasnt been touched since before i started, so some potential there - thanks for your great idea on social share and links to reviews, if we keep this relevant i hope this will have some impact. We are trying to reach the owner of the thread in question too as this customer was not only refunded but was given a full apology and their problem was fixed Fingers crossed! Chris

Webranx- NO.  It wont affect your SEO as long as your site is crawled properly by the search engines. Make sure that your sitemap is updated and correct. Use the opensite explorer tool in SEOMOZ to crawl your site and make sure you dont have duplicate content, overly dynamic URL's, completed meta tag descriptions, etc. Good luck. Mark

Woo hoo! You guys are on the ball. The two articles referenced here by Fidelityim and Gyi are exactly what I would have pointed to. I would also highly recommend that you follow Linda Buquet on this issue of medical practices with multiple practitioners. Check this out: http://marketing-blog.catalystemarketing.com/google-places-duplicate-listing-dentists-doctors.html Nobody knows the ins and outs of Local SEO in the dental industry better than Linda, in my opinion. Hope this helps!

Thanks to Daniel and EGOL for the recommendation. I have submitted a request for a quote. Can anyone else make a recommenation so I have at least a couple of alternatives? I know management is going to want to know that I looked at several people before making a recommendation

Thanks a lot, Tom. Time will tell... Just one last thing: what damage are you (and Google) thinking of when advising against removing URLs on a large scale through GWMT? Personally, I think Google says so only because they want to keep as much information possible in their index.

David, I noted no one had responded to this and wanted to provide my best shot. First, there are those more experienced at membership type sites, but originally the 303 was used to prevent a form resubmission after an HTTP Post request. Your question made me think of the recent SW Airlines problem with multiple charges to same card for one purchase - I wonder if they needed a 303?  For your 'problem,' I would think that the answer would be A, but that you could use B considering that there is no data to be resubmitted. I cannot see where either would be deleterious to anything. I hope this provides a bit of help,

I wouldn't use OSE for this, given that they may not crawl all your urls I suggest using a specifc cralwer that you can set to crawl the whole site. Give Xenu, Screaming frog or IIS toolkit a go to get a good idea of your urls. After you go live, make sure you have mapped all your old urls across to new ones In my experience, a site never actually looks like a tree, people just like to describe it that way because its simple S