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We can help you get all those urls to point to the https on the server. But what reports are you referring to?

If you are 301 redirecting these sites eventually the older URLs will no longer be indexed, leaving only the one site with it's unique content. You don't have to worry about duplicate content in this instance.

Duplicate content doesn't tend to burn a website out unless there is aggressive scraping going on as well as other balck hat signals. It sounds like the bigger question you're asking is how can the site be made to have unique content when it, along with many others, are pulling the same MLS content. This was asked about a year ago here: http://moz.com/community/q/real-estate-mls-listings-does-google-consider-duplicate-content, and the general consensus remains the same: try to find a way to make your content unique.

Hi Michelle, As Robert has said below, it's hard to say for sure if those links are hurting you without having a closer look at your website. However it does sound like an unusual amount of links to have if you're not aware of any kind of a partnership between your website and Booksie.com. I did notice that on pages such as this: http://www.booksie.com/young_adult/novel/suzannee/beating-the-player/chapter/1 There are comments which link back to profile pages. Without looking at your site, I'd venture a guess that these are the types of pages that the links are coming from? If so, it may be that someone is automatically creating the profiles and linking to you from them. If this is the case, then these probably are links that Google are not going to like. If you can determine that they are definitely low quality links, then you should try to remove them and if you can't, you should disavow them using Google Webmaster Tools. This blog post may help you learn more about this topic: http://moz.com/blog/guide-to-googles-disavow-tool I hope that helps! Paddy

Hey Ryan, Thanks for your response! Yes, that makes sense. I will give it a go! Thanks for your help! J

Hey Avin, Don't worry about it anymore. I flipped my personal site running WordPress over to SSL last month and I'll tell you everything I did to make it work. Thomas mentioned, "you should be forcing HTTPS", and he's right but what the Yoast plugin lacks in forcing an HTTPS redirect, you can achieve with a WordPress Plugin. If you want to see it working for my site, just go to http://www.kingrosales.com and watch it work Here's what I did: 1. Install the WordPress HTTPS plugin. I found another plugin before this one called, HTTPS Redirection, but it didn't do the job. 2. One of the thinks that you will also need to do is change all the hardcoded links to images within your content that may be calling the http version. If you don't, any images or embedded content from your site will cause the browser show that your site is trying to be https but some components are not, so you're gonna get a caution sign over the padlock. You can do one of two things to fix all these hard coded links to content within your site: Go through each page and post and change the img src to the https version. Open phpmyadmin and go run an SQL query to find and replace http with https. In the Yoast SEO plugin, check the Edit Files area so you can check the htaccess file. In mine, it looks like eventhough I disabled the HTTPS Redirection plugin, it has some lines in there placed above all the other rules: BEGIN HTTPS Redirection Plugin <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]</ifmodule> END HTTPS Redirection Plugin 3. Lastly, install the Redirection plugin by John Godley so you can manage any other 301 redirects manually. Its an awesome tool and I wish I had installed this a long time ago. It has a log of all 404 and then you can just click the "Add Redirection" and when you scroll to the bottom (because nothing appears to happen when you click it), it will give you a form where you just have to put the URL of the new slug. I hope it helps!

Hi Evelien, Does organic traffic appear to be attributable to any particular country or countries? This may sound strange, but I wonder if a competitor pulled out of the market. It appears just about every competitor you have in google.be got a pretty nice organic increase around that time, which has continued. Kruidvat seems to have the lion's share now. Last I knew, Luxembourg was something of a tax shelter. With the recent changes in VAT, I wonder if a significant competitor or competitors found it difficult to continue operations. But that's just a 'shot in the dark' on my part.

Great response Ryan, thanks! Plugins updated, disavow and closing backdoor is next!

My first thought is that rewriting your product descriptions will not be as effective as getting user generated content, like product reviews, on your site. Even if you rewrite the content, it will still be the same context and it won't offer anything uniquely valuable to the searchers. You need uniquely valuable content, not just uniquely written content. My second though is that flattening the URLs is not the best way to do that. Your category and subcategory names should be structured to help you get as much information into your URL as possible. You don't want to stuff them with keywords, but you want them to be progressively descriptive. For example, Category = Women's Pants / Subcategory = Boot Cut Denim / Product Name = Riders by Lee Women's Dark Wash Boot Cut Jeans URL - www.mystore.com/womens-pants/bootcut-denim/riders-by-lee-womens-dark-wash-boot-cut-jeans.cfm as opposed to www.,mystore.com/riders-by-lee-womens-dark-wash-boot-cut-jeans.cfm The first example would be the best possible URL format. Taking out the categories would only reduce your ability to target keywords effectively.

You'll want to use pagination markup (rel=”next”/rel=”prev”) to handle this. See this article for specific guidelines.

With the link I see what you mean. Hard to put a variable on a listing like that. There is possibly another option that would be to use canonical with rel next / previous this defines the relationship to the search engines. Have a look at Google's Webmaster blog here. Good luck, Don

Thanks ... many paths to the same result

I see. If you have some idea of what section of your site might be in there that you don't want, you can use site:company.com inurl:whatever  to narrow it down. You should know the file or call for search and shop pages and can put that name after the inurl modifier.

Hi Mayank, Use the fetch tool listed above to see what URL's are being blocked. If any, it maybe it is just taking Google some time to get things indexed for you.

Thank you for your suggestions! Essentially, yes we want to tell Google this page is there, but to not 'trick it' and then that page disappears just as Google finds it resulting in a 404. We're going to get a sitemap generated each day as so much content changes on the site anyway, but No Indexing and 301'ing is something we'll then give a go. I'll keep you posted on progress! Thanks!

Thanks Ryan - have now checked and there is a message and the site is a disaster, from mobile perspective... oh dear me! I can see why Google is pushing mobile, though.

I'm also wondering at the confident boasts in the various responses... I actually came to this page because I have the same question "How Google Adwords Can Impact SEO Ranking ?" My interest came up as I was looking at the "landing page experience" part of the Quality Score. The section on Google's support page (https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2404197) seems to imply that Google crawls and checks/indexes the landingpage to score it. I'm wondering if these pages are added to your indexed pages as reported in Webmaster Tools? Is Google taking this page into account for organic results? If the page was already indexed for SEO, does this 'second' scan impact the your SEO performance of the page. Or if the page is for SEA only; how do you prevent it from being indexed for organic results?

This is the best guide to adding to Wikidata that I could find - http://undead-seo.blogspot.com/2014/03/create-wikidata-topic.html.  I actually came here to Moz hoping I'd find something beyond that, but this seems to be the only thread on the Moz Q&A that even mentions the word "wikidata".

Hi Mike, I did see that there was an update last week, but as far as I can see we weren't impacted until Sunday/yesterday. In terms of pages indexed there has been a slight drop, but only 700 out of 19,900. So in line with the variance we get on a week to week basis. The drop in ranking seems to have only effected non branded keywords. Would a penalty effect both?