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Hi Brett, Woo rank has been around a longtime and has many users, however there are many other options including MOZ that offer so much more. However for a FULL SET OF SEO TOOLS and project management system take a look at MarketBandit.com. It has everything that all the BIG names have, has a client management system that far surpasses anything I have seen, is more affordable than all others, is cloud based responsive, and is US based so you don't have IP's hitting your site from foreign countries unrelated to your niche. I have had this in Beta for the last 5 years and it launches this next week!

One of the example links provided isn't even in the index apparently. I've had that happen to me before.  I usually explain in my reconsideration request that this example is no longer in the index.  But, I also try my best to see if I can find similar indexed links that I have not dealt with.  Usually there are others there. For your search, don't use the link: operator.  Google's link operator does not work well.  The rest of your search should work well, but if your keyword phrase is a popular one then you'll have to be more creative.  Have they used the same username in profiles?  That would be something to search for.

As you know, many reasons could lead to the drop. I would focus on: 1.) Link Profile: Examine your link profile and try to eliminate any spammy inbound links (email the webmaster/disavow) 2.) Does the landing page closely match on the previous site? If the 301's do work, but content is dramatically different, it will likely cause a drop in organics for that kw. Good luck!

The exact threshold that Google uses to determine duplicate content is a tricky one. The more important question is, are you noticing a problem? Are both pages being indexed (2013 & 2014)? When you search for the 2014 model in Google, is it showing up in the search results or is it being filtered out as duplicate content? If your content isn't being indexed or isn't ranking, then you have a problem. Panda also can be an issue, but only if a large portion of your site is duplicated. Is this model upgrade process something you apply to 1 or 2 products, or are you talking hundreds? What proportion of your site is nearly duplicate content compared to original content. If the percentage is too large, you could be at risk of Panda. If this is only for a couple of pages, you can always just take a little time to re-write the description from last year to improve its uniqueness, and also bolster the page with unique content like user reviews and new photos & videos of your product. Once a product model is discontinued, you can also 301 redirect it to the newer models.

interesting. thx Vadim. I will have my web developers take a look at that article

You missed Casey's most important point, zoomzoom. You say the primary phrase you're targeting on the home page is "3d IC technology". But the only place that phrase exists is once in the meta-title of the page. There's no way a page is going to rank for an even moderately competitive term by only have it in the meta-title. If that phrase is the focus of the page, it should naturally occur multiple times in the copy of the page, in captions, alt tags, etc. Right now, Google has no solid reason to think the page is actually about that phrase. Now, whether the home page is the most valuable one to rank for that phrase is another discussion, but if that's the page you want to rank, you've at least got to use those words on the page! Hope that helps? Paul

You do not have anything to worry about it these links are all no-followed. They are even helpful for the sake of diversifying your no-follow vs do-follow ratios. No follow links have been proven to pass certain metrics to linked sites and this to can be helpful, so I would not change them if it was me.

Thanks for the suggestion Everett. I have the Wordpress plugin Pretty Link already installed so your solution would be really easy to set up and I plan on doing so. Thanks!

As I said before, a 301 redirect will pass pagerank. Even if it goes to a blocked folder, that's still domain-level benefit coming into your site from "paid" links. The best solution, in my opinion, is for sites to run their affiliate program through another domain first, and 302 (temporary) redirect the user to the main site. Affiliate links to www.YourAffiliateDomain.com/?afflink-id=123, which has a domain-wide robots.txt disallow.  The ?afflink-id=123 part tells the system where to redirect the user to on the primary domain. The user goes from that URL through a 302 redirect to the appropriate URL on your primary domain. No pagerank is passed and you can kill off the domain if you ever need to and those redirects will stop coming into the site. If you are unable to do all of this you can submit a disavow file for all non-compliant affiliate domains after asking them to nofollow their links. I think the limit is supposed to be 2,000 domains, but I've heard of people doing as much as 4,000 with no problem. Just give it a try and see what happens.

Hi Sebastian, I was wondering if you have any new things to add to your question or ask over the base of the answers received. If it is not so, I kindly ask you to eventually flag your answer as "answered". Ciao

Hi Mark, I'm just following the thread as I have a similar problem. Would you mind sharing your results from the tests? Thanks, Bogdan

As Federico said they are already rather a few have already gone but remember they won't give any boost to SEO which I've spoken to some people who seem to think they do. Good luck getting you're chosen .guru

Thank you

thx, Wesley. I have "noindex" on and actually it was more like 3 weeks ago since it was changed. I will observe a couple of more weeks and observe. Page 2 does not have more relevant content. So that one is a bit odd. Will observe as well

Yes, a citation is mention of your business on the web. It's usually accompanied by all of your NAP data. The more citations you have (with consistant information) the more Google can trust you with a good ranking. (Because it is an indication that the company which is listed is indeed doing what they say they do and they are located at the place where they say they do.)

I agree with Andy. When thinking of the right strategy for page/content development that all target the same general terms, Google is moving toward thematic indexing, versus keyword by keyword.  As long as the collection of target terms on the page is pretty close (just like your example list), the page should rank well for all target terms (and probably some other ones you have not intentionally targeted). For your meta data, you could introduce a Title that incorporates all keywords such as "The Best New York Restaurants" and a description such as "The best restaurants in New York as voted by local residents.  See if your favorite New York restaurant is on the list.  Read reviews, submit your vote and more!" Then use each of your various terms 1-2 times at the most throughout the content.  Use your most valuable term in the first 50 words on the page.  Make sure the content is written for humans and not spiders.  the bots are getting very good at detecting this, so just as Andy said, the user experience should be your focus, not rank. Also, don't forget to add images and alt text that incorporates some of your keyword targets as well. Best of luck!

Shawn, you say that you are not entirely convinced that these sites offer any additional value. So, if you don't see that they're offering value then do you really think that the general public will see them as valuable? These pages may be ranking for different reasons, and not because of the "lack" of pogo sticking. In fact, they just might have an issue like that but might have enough links and trust on the domain itself to rank well. Pogo sticking is only one search engine ranking factor of many. From what I understand, Google doesn't take into account the DMCA take down requests when it comes to rankings. They determine the rankings and then at the "search query time" is when they DMCA info is used. So, the page still ranks-- it just doesn't show up when someone searches for it.

Thank you for the help.

You're very welcome Catherine -Andy

I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to respond and say I would choose a local blended result vs organic listing. It would seem that it is easier to hold on to local listings, as organic listings are more prone to change and movement in the SERPS. I feel I can generally count on local listings to rank vs organic listings.