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Hi Rodrigo, OK - so I was able to find the page functionality in question on your actual site just to double check what was going on. Since this content isn't important to the page from an SEO standpoint, it makes sense to just remove these pages from the index. To do that your best bet is probably robots.txt. Here's a good stackexchange with John Mueller confirming that. I believe any one of the following entries can do the trick, but highly recommend you double check my work and test this before you implement it. This is also a good time for me to add a liability disclaimer if you accidentally noindex your whole site. Disallow: /AjaxPages/PopUp/CheckPrice Disallow: /AjaxPages/PopUp/CheckPrice.aspx Disallow: /CheckPrice (choose one of these, you don't need to use all of them) Pretty sure Robots.txt is case sensitive, so /checkprice may not work. There is also something called an X-Robots-Tag that could do this instead of your robots.txt file. Instructions on that at https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_meta_tag?hl=en Finally, consider testing this on your staging server before rolling it out live.

Thank you Gianluca for your time and answer! 

Yes I agree Andy - many thanks for your response - can't see any logical reason - I took a look at Tripadvisor, out of interest - and although they're not using canonical tag oddly like the site I mention above, they were using the same title tags for each page of reviews (on same hotel) - which, again, doesn't seem logical - surely better if they simply add page 1, page 2 and so on to Title Tag?

I'm confused a little If you are going to be using only one domain, you don't have to use hreflang whatsoever. If you do decide to kepp both, then you don't have to use hreflag or rewrite rules either, just do backlinks to whatever domains you need and that's it.

Richard is correct. Redirects are handled in the htaccess file in the order in which they are presented. Put your most specific redirects first, your least specific redirects last.

These are great answers by Andy and David - thanks guys! For the Domain Authority discrepancy in your campaign vs Open Site Explorer, can you write into us at help@moz.com with the specific examples that you're seeing so we can take a closer look at what may be going on? Thank you! Kevin Help Team

Do you know what the redirect type is (301 or 302)? If it is a 301, I wouldn't worry about it. If it is a 302, I'd try and get that changed. Either way, it is unlikely to make a big impact on your site.

When was your last crawl date in Google Webmaster Tools/Search Console? It may be that your site was crawled with some kind of problem with the robots.txt and hasn't been re-crawled since.

Internal links from the page to the same page? 0.o Common sense tells me that there is no any common sense behind that Again, internal links are for informational structuring mostly! Dont be that "one guy" from this video of Matt Cutts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ybpXU0ckKQ So, to sum up: Google doesn't pay much "ranking" attention to internal links, it uses them to get structure of the website + a little bit for deeper understanding what page is about, not how to rank it. It's bad UX also. So, no, there is no any SEO value. If you have some data to prove me wrong - I'll gladly change my mind

No... it may simply mess up with canonicalization in certain cases (eg: ASP based websites) and surely is not that user friendly (people tend to type in URLs lowercase, apart some crazy people)

https://moz.com/researchtools/on-page-grader https://moz.com/researchtools/keyword-difficulty Moz has a couple of tools, as Martijn said screaming frog and exporting can work too, you can do this for http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html as well

If the sellxgadget.com is your domain and all of your keywords contain sellxgadget in the keyword with “v1” or “v2” or “v3” in it then as per my understanding, the best approach would be to go with the first option. That is: sellxgadget.com/v1 Here are few of the reason why I will go with the first option: -          The overall size of the URL will be small and it’s important for the URLs to be not too long. The URL is covering all your keywords and yet small in size. -          It didn’t seem spammy to me! The keywords are in the URL but not over optimized. Hope this helps!

Yes, that is the key - what has happened to the pages on the server?  You would hope that they still exist and you can revert.  If the site is in tact you can just remove any 301 or 302 redirects and restore.  It may be that Google has removed the URLs from the index but these would be crawled again once the redirects are sorted.

Hi Johannes! Did Umar answer your question?

I've had that same dilemma a couple of times. I did not find a better solution that using Corporation including the one physical location as hasPOS or simply as location.

Thanx Martin for your reply Yes, i have Applied The same in .htaccess file but still my index.html page is not getting redirect to domain.com

I'd take a slightly different approach to solving your issue though blocking the pages will work.  My only concern with doing that is that if you do any weight to that page will evaporate from your site as opposed to being passed back internally.  You won't be finding the pages in Wordpress as they're auto-generated and I'm guessing there's only one author which is why the author archive would be the same as the general archive. Assuming you're using Yoast you can remedy the issue by simply going to the Titles & Metas area, selecting the "Archives" tab and check the box next to "Add noindex, follow to the author archives".  This will allow the PageRank to pass but the page won't be indexed as duplicate content.  There are other types of pages int eh same area you can do the same thing for. As an aside, you should change your username.  From the example you've given I'm assuming you've left the user as "admin".  Since that's the default for Wordpress it makes it easier for attacks to brute-force their way in as they already have the username.  This can be done via phpMyAdmin to just change it but if you're not comfortable in there you can simply create a different user with Admin privileges and delete the old "admin" making sure to attribute all posts and pages to the new user. I shouldn't have to say this but just in case something goes wrong BE SURE TO BACK UP YOUR DATABASE !

Think I've sussed it. There is only about three or four main parameters so went to GA, Behaviour more > site content > all pages Then did a search for part of the parameter name, sure enough you are right only a handful of visits. Many Thanks Is duplicate content of this sort actually a major issue?  Especially considering Google should already know from Webmaster tools that these are parameter pages.

I found the problem guys, I had made a change in the sitemap that messed up everything. It's all back to normal now. Thanks guys for your support!

Yeah sequence of load is also important when its time to go granular to find the true opportunities. Because the up-front evaluation time that can identify issues, can often result in faster-easier-more template-driven ways to speed up everything on a larger scale with less effort needed. That doesn't mean its okay to ignore other bottlenecks.  Just that the more clarity of understanding, the more likely real, sustainable success can be achieved.