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If you want to remove an entire directory, you can exclude that directory in robots.txt, then go to Google Webmaster Tools and request a URL removal. You'll have an option to remove an entire directory there.

Wow thanks everyone for the immediate and very insightful answers. Cheers!

Hi Daniel, Thanks for the message. I have the interior page linked from the homepage (and a lot of other pages) via a footer. Are you thinking that the footer is not up to the task? Thanks...Mike

It's safe to include rel="canonical" on all canonical versions of your site and will not cause any problems. I have done this and tested many times. If you run a template based website such as WordPress it would be much easier if all pages referred to their own canonical version (even if it be itself).

Welcome to the world of competitive tactics based on real or perceived return on investment, and where ethics is a matter personal belief.  Some people believe they matter, others claim ethics are irrelevant, because obviously, they will do whatever they can, in attempts to make as much money by any means necessary as they think they can get away with.

Hi CruiseControl, If you want to see how Google views your website you can download a tool called Lynx, Lynx is a text based browser which is very very similar to how Google's crawler views your website.

First of all, you should try and visit the website using Google Webmaster Tools (with the 'visit as Google Bot' tool). If it shows a HTTP 301 redirect to the .com website, you'll know everything is working fine but your site just hasn't been indexed yet since the change. If it shows anything else (probably the holding page), there might be something wrong with the way you redirect. You can try using one of the plugins to check for HTTP statuses (FireBug and Chrome's developer tools have basic features, FireFox's Live HTTP Headers plugin can show you more). See what is says the HTTP status is, and try and fix it.

Thanks for your answers, Yes, i will use a regex because it is much simpler to make one rule for thousands of URLs than to have one specific rule for each URL.

Is someone able to say whether it is Domain Authority or MozRank that is more equivalent to PageRank? Also, what does it mean if a site's MozTrust is a good bit higher than its MozRank? Does this suggest that the site is in a general sense getting more links from highly trusted URLs than it is from moderately trust URLs? Which helps more in ranking, MozTrust or MozRank? Is MozTrust particularly important when trying to rank for highly competitive keywords? I am grateful for any help that anyone can offer. Rob

Ryan, You added some great additional insight here for Bill to consider.  Excellent work on that. And yes, I agree with you in not being happy that the "edit" link doesn't want to work lately here.

I'm not sure how to remove answered. I came across this link to my site via google: http://mopupduty.com/index.php/jose-bautista-gold-glove-candiate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JoseBautistaNewsOnDaylife+(ExcitingAds!+Jose+Bautista+News+on+Daylife)\ Is this auto generated by my wordpress blog? I assume it is just a regular link, letting me know the source is Day Life. I also ran my article text through Copyscape and came up with 10 different matches

I have a site that has a great deal of duplicate content because my clients list the same content on a few of my competitors sites. Is there any way to ask the clients to give you some additional information about each listing?  That information could be used instead of or preceding the current information. My homepage does not seem to want to pass link juice to these pages. Is it because of the high level of Dup Content or is it because of the large amount of links on the page? How do you know this?  Toolbar pagerank has not been updated across the web for about a year.  I can find some of your subpages in Google.  (dupe content has nothing to do with pagerank) Would it be better to hide the content from the results in a nofollowed iframe to reduce duplicate contents Google usually gets upset when you show content to spiders that you do not show to visitors.  This is the opposite.  I personally would not do this on one of my sites.  You never know how Google will behave in the future. increasing unique content with articles, guides etc? or can the two exist together on a page and still allow link juice to be passed to the site. Increasing unique content is almost always a good idea.  Again, linkjuice flows through links and that flow is irrelevant to content. My PR is 3 but I can't seem to get any of my internal pages(except a couple of pages that appear in my navigation menu) to budge of the PR0 mark even if they are only one click from the homepage. Many people focus a lot of attention on PR.  It is almost never an issue.  Relax and spend your energy on content. I would place this site in the Campaign Based Web-App in the SEOmoz Research Tools area and see what you learn from that.

Thanks for the feedback!  And definitely let us know if you do the cross-domain canonical.

Thanks for the insight guys. I'll give them a go.

What if your site is a large ecommerce site?  I'm working with someone who just had their site rebuilt and none of their pages fall into a hierarchy category>category options> product.  You go to the category page and then when you go to another, your url extension is completely unique.  Is this going to hurt them in the long run? Keep I'm already having them change some of the URLs because they are useless extensions that don't match the pages and are no good for SEO that way. Should they seriously consider restructuring too? Thanks!

Not a function, and I didn't mean to state that you had to use PhpED to see the problem, just pointing out how I did find it. With any page loaded, on the right hand side you will see a handful of tabs, next to that is a pinkish bar that will have a Red circle, indicating that there is an issue. phped_error.jpg

Hi Adrian, Thank you for your response. This was really helpful. Kind regards, Dennis Overbeek

To be fair, your site isn't really overly slow. www.appliance-repair-ny.com loads in an average of 3.9 seconds and is 194kb www.all-appliance-repair-ny.com loads in an average of 5.6 seconds and is 327kb www.newyorkappliancerepair.net loads in an average of 1.5 seconds and is 115kb And I think that's from Sweden. Your server is in Arizona so will be quicker from NY. You could gzip your css, but it's not going to really give you a big improvement. Yes, shared hosting will always be slower than a dedicated server but for the cost I don't think it will be worth going for a dedicated server and CDN delivery. If you really wanted to track it you could add webmaster tools and (do you not have analytics on the page?) _gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']); into your Google Analytics. This would let you see what times Google thought your page was loading in. Speed is unlikely to be a defining ranking factor for you and you should concentrate your efforts more on acquiring links, reviews, and local optimisation.