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Ok, my advice would be a little different from Joey! No matter what the domain is if the link profile is heavy it’s always more powerful as compare to the new domain but as far as my research goes in multiple niches mostly new TLDs are not ranking above .com and other general TLDs and that is why from the business perspective I will go with general TLDs as compare to new TLDs. Again, I see Google give less and less value to on keyword so if the new TLD is more valuable to the business I will go with that too so its always depends upon the situation. Hope this helps!

Google itself bought the exclusive rights to the .app TLD so there's that in the custom TLD column, but like you and others say here, .tv isn't one like that.

Well, I will certainly look into that. Really though, just in the meantime, I'm very curious if someone could at least make a call as to which of these two procedures works better -  Find a way to SEO optimize 20 variations of similar pages covering a similar topic (but different enough that all 20 need to stay) -  SEO optimize each of the 20 pages for the same keyword I have searched everywhere, I cannot find a cogent answer as to whether cannibalization would happen in option 2, or if it would pretty much work (although again, your idea is way better, I'm not suggesting my procedure would work nearly as well)

Primary keyword in that URL example from the Learn SEO section refers not to the most important keyword on your site or the most important topic on your site, but to the most important keyword on that specific page that the URL is pointing to. I believe that's where the confusion lies. Hope this helps.

To make it a little less of a coin toss, if the responsive site is delivering an even better user experience than the mobile website, redirecting the subdomain could be a benefit. You'd want to have solid split testing data from uniform groups of users, but if the directions point to responsive over m.website.com it could make since to go with the responsive site as the sole experience.

Adding to the guys' responses above, the .tv name was originally a country level domain for Tavula but of course was quickly taken up by non local businesses for obvious reasons. A couple of years ago google updated a number of country level domains - inlcuding .tv -  to be considered generic top level domains (so for example you can set geo targeting options in google webmaster tools). This article (a couple of years old now) has a video from Matt Cutts saying be careful using country level domains for something they were not intended for, but as the update mentioned above shows, the general trend to use .tv names for video type sites is not something google is unaware of. You will still of course need to do the hard work, the domain itself is unlikely to help you rank any better - it is more a branding/marketing hook.

Hey! Actually Rand made a very nice Whiteboard Friday about this topic: http://moz.com/blog/subdomains-vs-subfolders-rel-canonical-vs-301-how-to-structure-links-optimally-for-seo-whiteboard-friday I personally prefer to use subfolders, had good experience with it. Gr., Keszi

thanks for the response!

Ryan's resources look good regarding copyright & fair usage. If you're citing a paragraph or two and linking to the source, you're generally in the clear. In terms of SEO, you'll want to be adding as much unique content to the page as you're citing if you plan on indexing the content. Here are examples of sites that do this curation approach well: http://swipefile.co/archives/ http://further.net/archives/ If you're just going to pull the content in directly from an RSS feed, or if you're just adding a sentence plus the quoted text and a link, then you're probably not adding enough value for the content to be worth indexing. I'd set the meta robots tag to "noindex, follow" in this case.

Hi Harry, what were the results? We'd love an update on this issue! Thanks. Christy

I take on all your points and would typically agree.  However, for some keywords only a menu link to poor content exists but there is the relationship with the overall content/theme.  What I would say is that the site was live some time before I began work so the pages were 'settled'.  I've just not seen the scenario where all those directories nose dive completely off the radar and for a period the homepage (against some stiff competition) instantly dominate so strongly, previously struggling page 2-3.  I've seen fluctuations but this was a bit whacky.

The reason that duplicate content is an issue is because Google will eventually drop one of the duplicates from its index, and if you have both page A and page B canonicalized to page B, Google will eventually drop page A in favor of page B. If you are concerned that page A is not being crawled, you can use Fetch as Google to ask Google to recrawl it. But if A is not being crawled and B is, again B will be chosen over A in the results pages.

Was going to disavow them but have reached out and asked for a nofollow on the menu because they do have some legitimate mentions in their forums that are worth preserving. We actually have no manual actions against us, but we do have some links that are very dodgy ( like the 6.4 million links from these paragons of virtue: http://ebetsports.com/). I am trying to stay on top of it before we get the call. We also have what I would consider a low DA versus our competitors, since we are a 20+ year old domain, so I am stripping the low hanging fruit while trying to get back to basic 'average' SEO.

To expand on what Ryan was saying, your query was for "bangerhead" & your meta descriptions states: So in this case, since your query was not in your meta description, Google typically will pull a snippet containing that keyword: **Bangerhead **Professional Fresh Me Up! (200ml) · **Bangerhead **Professional Fresh Me... Moroccanoil Treatment (50 ml) · RefectoCil Frans- & Ögonbrynsfärg.

I'm afraid you are in the same boat as the rest of us of guess work. I tend to assume they have disavowed the low end stuff but there is no way of knowing I'm afraid sorry.+ If in doubt reverse your roll think if you would disavow it assume they have.

Hi, thanks for the answers so far... Although i understand what you are saying - and why google would want to use the "did you mean" feature. I disagree that, in this case,  its simply google tryin to help searchers - Why? if it was just because our domains are so close - litterally just 1 letter different, then in theory if i did the same search but for the other website - it would say "did you mean: my website"? http://goo.gl/yphgxE but it doesnt... This to me, means there is some kind of problem - devaluation of my website - so much so, google thinks if you search my domain name, you have searched it by mistake? Can anyone shed some more light on this? any advice welcome

HI Alberto, Keep in mind I have not seen your page. I am talking in general specifics. The over all point is if you have a link to another site which is there for reference the user there is no reason to not make it an actual link. Any reason you can think of not to make it a link would also be a reason to remove it. If you feel you have too many links on a specific page then you probably do! Pick the most pertinent ones and axe the others. There are ways to maximize link juice and page authority by using some more advanced SEO tactics, See Rand's post about link sculpting. I will say this is some advanced level planing and not something you would just single out one page to do. Remember SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. White hat SEO deals with how you can best present your page to search engines with out frustrating your users. When you purposely make a change that negatively effects your users and possibly tricks search engines to rank you better you have crossed into grey or black hat SEO. Something that will eventually bit you in the ass. The choice is of course yours, and if you would like me to look at the page in question you can PM me a link I will be happy to do so. I do stand by everything I said in all my replies while speaking in general terms. Don

Hi Luke, As the guys above replied with, sounds like an a href with a phone number If you check the 'inlinks' (via the lower window tab), you'll be able to see the source of these errors (the pages they are located). Obviously you can then view the source code & find the exact link, and what might be the issue. Hope that helps! Feel free to pop through any further questions directly to our support btw (http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/support/), I only spotted this via a Google alert. (We try and reply super quick & will always look into any problems!) Cheers. Dan

As Ryan suggests you still want to FOLLOW rather than giving the bots a dead end as I notice your heading suggests no-follow.

Did this get resolved? I'm seeing your home-page indexed and ranking now. I'm not seeing any kind of redirect to an alternate URL at this point (either as a browser or as GoogleBot). If you 301'ed to an alternate URL and then rel=canonical'ed back to the source of the 301, that could definitely cause problems. It's sending a pretty strong mixed-signal. In that case you'd probably want to 302 or use some alternate method. Redirects for the home-page are best avoided, in most cases.