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That should be <title>only, the additional tag may not be causing an issue, but it will only cause confusion and if you're editing the page, you might as well fix it.</p> <p>As far as the description and keywords, open up the source code for this page and you'll see:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><meta content='Answers to ....... at SEOmoz' name='description' /></p> <p>Doesn't seem much different than what you listed, aside from single vs. double quote marks.</p> <p>This probably isn't the biggest fish to fry with their site, I'd personally focus my efforts elsewhere. Read this for reassurance: <a href="http://yoast.com/w3c-validation-seo/">validation & SEO</a>.</p></title>

Hi Justin, Ideally all links would be 301'd to a corresponding page on the new site. Your "penalty" isn't going to be a penalty so much as a step backwards in past SEO efforts. Neglecting to 301 the pages with links will certainly do more harm than implementing the redirects to less-than-ideal pages. 45 isn't a tremendous amount to deal with, and they don't all have to go to a corresponding page, though that would be the best approach. If there is similar content on your new site, redirect to that, and if there' s nothing remotely similar, then just send it to the homepage and move on (unless you have plans to create future content that is similar). Use Google Webmaster Tools, Analytics, and Open Site Explorer to determine which pages need to be redirected the most.

You can/need to build links from within the domain to thePDF report you want to share also. Links within the PFD file will also help for people who share the file via email, and not within the site. This will bring people back to your domain.

Thanks, I am aware of this happening... and read this post when Barry did it.. I was just curious to see if there was a way around it.. (for Brand Search)..

I've just looked at the home pages of the two sites and they are pretty much the same apart from substituting plastics with bottles. I'm not an expert but I would have thought Google might think this is duplicate content. In my opinion I would concentrate on one of the sites say plastics and have the bottle specific stuff as a subsection. I'm not sure how the sites rank etc so that may be easier said than done. As for the site map / robot question, if you continue with two sites then I would recommend generating a new one for the copied site.

It won't solve your duplicate page issues. Without looking at the site its not easy to say exactly why your getting duplicate page issues. You can start off by ensuring you have a 301 redirect from the root domain to the subdomain or vice versa - its up to you your-domain.com >> 301 redirect to >> www.your-domain.com

Hi Gemma, I hope this response will be useful to you: it's not quite the same as forcing Google to index the mobile site, but it is highly likely to be the future of mobile SEO. Have you read about HTML5? Basically, HTML5 means that you can present the same content (i.e. the www site) to all users, no matter which devices or browsers they're using, and use style sheets to provide mobile-friendly content. Although this post is about how this could mean the end of "apps" on mobile phones (because web-browsers will be able to deal with the content), this also shows how there is increasingly no need for "mobile versions" of a website, because the one site can handle all browsers: http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/01/html5-is-great-for-mobile.php

First... I am always an advocate of big content pages... 2000+ words and six great photos make me smile - and 3000 + nine photos is better.   So, I would be inclined to have cedar and pine and a few other species present on this single bigass page with photos... then if you can make another big article about each species I would do it... or a big photo gallery for each species. Regarding the longtail..... you will get more longtail (in my opinion) with 2000 words on one page than you get from four pages with 500 words on each.  It will not happen immediately but check in a year.

I'd definitely have them remove it as you'll be getting errors for having 2 page titles. You want to stick with <title>...</title>

If you canonicalized the pages correct and added pagination clearly, I wouldn't worry about the errors in crawl. I know one of the most requested features for our crawl errors is the ability to ignore some of the errors. Make sure your voice is added in our request a feature. For canonicalization and pagination: The best thing to do is have a "view all" page and rel=canonical to that page from your series pages.  However, if you don't have a view all page, then you can put these nifty rel="next" and rel="prev" tags in to let Google know your page has pagination and where the next and previous pages are.

You want your "Branded" name to be the highest anchor text. The trip wire for individual keywords isn't known by many. We do our best to guess. But I'd say 50% is very high, and I'd shoot for around 30% to be safe. Again, it's a guess at what that limit is.

Agreed with doc data. A generic ad for a car is not going to help sell cars. But, an well written informative ad about the individual car will help! Autotrader.co.uk are a great example of how to do this kind of thing well. Generic car details are only a small part of the page. Think of ebay too, they would have hundreds, if not thousands of Dup content, but they encourage there sellers to use informative and descriptions text to help sell the products. This is a double edged sword, improve it for the users and the SEO will follow

Thanx, I hoped that someone will help me understand why they ge those cool SERP - but I guess you might be right regarding the SIZE of iTunes and the Google - Apple relationship. I'm working with Schema.org since it looks like the best implementation for semantic web currently.

Glad to help Robbie and it is great to get a report back on what happened. Thanks so much.

You can definitely set www.yoursite.com/blog to redirect (as a 301) to Blogspot. However, your domain is not getting the SEO benefits from your blog by having it on Blogspot. Yes, you can put rich anchor text links, but it's safe to say that Google's smart enough to figure out that you own both your domain and the Blogspot blog. The best use you could get out the blog would be for link-bait articles, in the hope that people would then circle back to your e-commerce site.