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It just means that you have those things on separate pages. Google indexed them so like Laura said, you need to put a noindex tag so Google can stop indexin those page After that, wait for it to disappear. It's not that critical if you feel like you need to remove it from the index asap.

Hi, thank you. I probably should have specified my question was focused on Organic, not Local.  I think he's doing fine on local, given that his office is in Pasadena. I agree with you 100%.  He needs more reviews for his listing.  Most of his reviews have gone to Avvo, as real criminal defense clients don't want to leave non-anonymous reviews. Thanks again for the excellent feedback.  I appreciate it.

Hi Justin, Ahhh the bias of the Google keyword tool. I once read an experiment where a guy built a site, based on a hunch, around a keyword that had zero search volume. After ranking 1st for that keyword for a month, he checked his analytics only to find that his site had received a 1000+ visitors that had all arrived via his main keyword. (This was when analytics used to show your main keyword) For cases like this, I'd just go with my gut instinct Justin, as that's sometimes the best keyword tool. Even your instinctive keyword tool search volume varies a lot, depending if you've had your morning coffee or not. For any keywords with search volume under 1000, I don't pay too much attention to the keyword tool. I have a few home renovation sites targeted to specific areas. All keyword research on these keywords is usually zero searches per month. These are keywords such as 'Home Renovations (Suburb)'. After I rank first for those medium density suburbs with the keyword 'Home Renovations (Suburb)', I usually get about three calls a month for that service. Remember these are home renovation jobs at $20K+ a job, so they turn out to be pretty lucrative jobs leads I can give to my clients. And all from '0' searches per month! Perhaps you'd have better luck asking the physic for next months search volume ... lol.

Right. Did you see Rand's latest post on URL structure? Solid overview there: http://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls. Cheers!

Thanks for your thoughts Linda - much appreciated

Okay so if you have one root domain you can only have one robots.txt file. The reason I asked for an example is in the case there was something you could put in the robots.txt to differentiate the two. For example if you have thisdomain.com and thatdomain.com However if "thatdomain.com" uses a folder called shop ("thatdomain.com/shop") than you could prefix all your robots.txt file entries with /shop provided that "thisdomain.com" doesn't use the folder shop, Then all the /shop entries would only be applicable to "thatdomain.com". Does this make sense? Don

Hi Steve Having unique content for each product page is a must! I guess sofa beds are individually unique to a degree in terms of brand, size, functionality, design etc. If you could elaborate about what it is exactly you are trying to do, I'll try to help? Gary

Hello Everyone, I'm new here and just getting back into SEO (a little bit) after not doing anything 'myself' for a couple of years.  My question is along the same subject.  Currently my individual URLs show as: https://www.example.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=107 (dynamic responsive site). I can switch it to a static site, so the individual product pages read as:https://www.example.com/catalog/category name/product name-107.html It's still a long URL, but it would be keyword rich.  Some of my current dynamic pages are indexed,and due to an upgrade I had to do several months back, I already have some redirects (301) from my php extensions to the one listed above.  This is my long explanation to my following questions: Does having a dynamic or static site matter when ranking in search engines I already have some redirects coming my older site to this dynamic site, so I would have to make more directs from the dynamic site to my static site - is this okay to do? I'm really at a loss, a couple of years ago, I ranked 1-3 (on Page 1) on Google for all my keywords, (all White Hat work), and now I'm into great abyss of no mans land of the internet (ranked on Page 3+) Thank you for any and all help from everyone! ~Sandra

Hi Robert Without seeing the site, just going by the question, this is honestly not something I'd worry about. "Duplicate content" is really only an issue if you are stealing/scraping content from other people and copying it onto your site in aggregate. Having the same text appear on one page and then another, if it's your own unique text is OK. Of course in context those pages need to be uniquely valuable for users. The homepage needs to fulfill a purpose, and the inner pages need to fulfill different purposes.

Thanks so much Dirk and Anthony!

Hi, the most common 500 Server Error with Wordpress happens when the php memory limit is to low. I would suggest to increase it to a minimum of 64 oder 128MB. Some Infos here: http://ideaboxthemes.com/increase-php-memory-limit-wordpress/ Hope it helps. Chris

Hi Linda, In the absence of any penalty or rankings dip, there's likely nothing to worry about as this is pretty common. If nothing else, even though Google reports those links in GWT it's very possible they discount them in every other way that counts. On the other hand, if you are worried about it there should be no harm in proactively disavowing the domain. Lot's of agency folk that I know make this a regular practice to disavow any suspect links and 99.9% of the time, if done correctly, no harm will come to your site simply by filing a disavow file (unless you disavow links that are actually good, but that's another story)

I agree with Richard, A little research shows that this website does not seem to have a whole lot of linking domains/back links. Being that is is such a small website I don't think Google is worried about penalizing them until they get a bit larger. In which case if they continue the same keyword anchor text practices they may run into trouble. On a good note: Seeing as they do not have a lot of high quality back links you should easily be able to beat this company rankings fairly quickly without having to resort to the over optimized anchor text practices. This should be a fairly quick project depending on your budget and desire to move up fast.That's great news for you ! Remember, sometimes when a website is ranking high for certain keywords, it's not always because the website and seo are done so well. Sometimes it's just they have no competition doing very well at trying to beat them. Which I think may be the case here. Hope that helps, Joe

Hi James, Yes I just meant to make sure there are no 302 redirects or no backlinks from the homepage of site A pointing back to site B. Also, be aware that Google also knows that you own both domains unless you registered them as private, and you also have both sites in your Webmaster Tools account. Technically, this shouldn't matter, as each site should be treated as its own entity, regardless of who owns it. The fact that those old 301 links are showing in webmaster tools doesn't mean much, perhaps their link indexing cache hasn't refreshed. If you've removed the 301, then those links are no longer pointing to your site no matter what any tool says. There is a good service called Link Detox Boost. You load up all of those old backlinks into the tool, and the tool forces Google to crawl those links again. The theory is that once they crawl the pages those links are on and realise that the backlinks don't point back to your site anymore, it helps to remove the Penguin flag (penalty) from your site much faster. It's ironic how this is achieved though. In order to prompt Google to crawl the pages those old links are on, they spam the pages your links are on with fresh new links. When Google visits the old link pages via the newly created soft spam links, it recrawls the page and adjusts the link index for your domain. Fighting Spam using Spam. This is why those links may still be showing in your Webmaster Tools for site B. Perhaps if you ran a link Detox Boost campaign, all of these links would be removed from your Webmaster Tools account. And perhaps the Penguin anchor dragging your site down would become a bit lighter. (By the way I have no affiliation with Link Detox Boost - although I have used some of their tools, and I rate them as excellent)

If you mean links to your site from some URL not on your site then you could do the following: Do a site:somesite.com/page to see if it is indexed, plus try and find in results Check the URL to you is clean - no redirects, no js, no frame etc Check their URL in OSE to see if there is any authority. Otherwise if Google is not blocked from the other URL and there is no no-follow links on the page then Google is not instructed to no-follow.  Therefore a small amount of link equity will pass - unless made negligible by The page authority is very poor there are multiple links on the page

Above everything, Google looks for your user experience. If you have a ton of 302 redirects you will have duplicate content errors, If you start changing 301 redirects you will eventually create a spider web that is hard to navigate. If you set up your 301 redirects and have to change a few, you should be ok. If you set up 5000 redirects and end up changing 4500 of them or creating duplicate 301 redirects you will eventually have really slow page speeds and bad user experience which Google will recognize and not like. 302 redirects are not common or best practice. I would avoid them all together.

Thank you all for your replies! I've passed these on to our developer, I'll be back with an update shortly. Thanks!

Thanks all for taking time and answer my question, have a nice day!

Everyone here has some great advice and tips. I tend to disagree with a few of the ideas here. First, I don't think that having links from people that you have built relationships with is a terrible thing. If it is done properly it could probably generate some great referral traffic for you. That is very important. There is no link juice passed if there is no traffic. You absolutely have to make sure that you watch the anchor text, but you also what to do a quick check of their link profile. As the Penguin updates are becoming more evolved, you can be penalized for just being in a bad link neighborhood. I would just run their domain through Open Site Explorer and see if there is anything that makes you nervous. If these are sites that are related to yours, and they have the potential to generate good, engaged traffic, I think you don't have too much to worry about.

How are your rankings in Google? Usually a site well optimized and ranking well in Google also does well in Bing. Do you have a Bing Webmaster Tools account? Sometimes Bing rejects sitemaps, you would get a message in your Webmaster Tools account.