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Everett, thank you so much for your advice and assistance. Please email bfarmiloe@sportiqe.com with your t-shirt size, mailing address and any particular shirt you like at Sportiqe.com and I'll make sure that we send something your way as a thank you. Enjoy the weekend.

You need to determine first, what is causing duplicate is it Tags - which are causing duplicates Is it like index.php file where site is getting crawled with www.moxicopy.com/blog/index.php is it that a blog is accessed by 2 or more urls like with or without category :- www.moxicopy.com/blog/category/topic and www.maxicopy.com/blog/topic You need to identify the cause, will suggest Noindex to Tags Apply canonical from index.php pages and category pages Point is :- A page should be accessed by 1 url only and all other duplicate should be canonical to original url. This will lead Search Engines to not only index your site better, but even the page authority will also be highest with the main page.

Hi Garry, You are certainly right - SEO is far from being dead and it has only started getting more interesting. Despite all the buzz about social media marketing and content marketing, search engines still bring in the bulk of the traffic for most sites and is responsible for many of the conversions. If I may add on to the list, the recent introduction of Google Authorship has certainly changed the SEO landscape. It shows that Google is focused on recognising authors for their content. By linking up your articles with your Google+ profile, you would be able to have a snippet of your profile picture and a link to your profile underneath search results that correspond to your articles. Studies have shown that these rich snippets improves the click-through rate, which is why content marketers need to work on setting up their Google Authorship now.

Hi there, As with what Kevin mentioned, I'm not sure why would want to include dummy links in your posts. The only plausible reason I can think of is that your website is teaching HTML or you are creating dummy design pages. If you would like to ensure your posts are SEO optimised, you may want to include a rel="nofollow" tag in these dummy links, while linking them to actual websites that of irrelevance (e.g. linking to Google or an internal link). Adding this tag will tell search engines not to follow this link, which thereby won't affect your pagerank. This should help you get started if you have not used the tag before: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

We made the changes around 3 weeks ago but we thought that the page would be the most powerful and ranks well for banner terms so vinyl banners would work on there (vinyl banners can be quoted for on the home page calculator). What would you suggest changing to make this work. Also thank you for your help I really appreciate it.

Indeed, there's no single strategy. You can read a lot of posts here: http://moz.com/blog/category/link-building There's also this: http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies And this: http://www.distilled.net/linkbait-guide/

It would seem that http://www.miway.co.za/midrivestyle is actually doing a 302 (Temporary) redirect... which means its not passing any link equity. This could be the reason it is still showing in the index instead of your intended page. You would need to implement a 301 (Permanent) redirect to completely remove the old page in favor of the new one. Edit: I double-checked it with a few more user-agents in SEOBook's HTTP Status Codes Checker and actually seem to be getting 301s sometimes and 302s other times. Not sure why it would be doing that but I would still double check that you have your redirects implemented correctly as that could be the culprit.

You could use hreflang in this instance. It is suitable for content on separate domains as this FAQ link attests. I would steer clear of using the canonical when using hreflang. Check out this previous thread on Moz where use of hreflang and canonical was discussed by me and others.

That then gets back to the original issue.  If all you have access to is the original resolution of the mobile device, that is how the page would render vs that of the daisy chained display.

You can also rel=canonical to the old URLs to the new URLs.  by adding that directive in the page headers of the affected pages.  Eventually you can either delete those old URLs, or, for the ones that have external links going to them, add 301s to the new pages. Canonicalization and the Canonical Tag - Learn SEO - Moz

You are looking at two different types of queries, but yes, you should focus on having the city name plus the product.  While Google does localize results based on IP and personalized preferences, it is not not completely independent of keyword optimization. Another way to think about this is that, lets say that Google only took into consideration the IP of the user versus what the keyword the user typed into the query.  How would Google know where you are local to?  It is partially due to the keywords you have on the page related to your location. You should be able to optimize for both your location and product by using a combination of the keyword (and variants of it) and the city See what the most common term using KW research and then vary off of that.  So if Houston Plumbers is the main keyword you can use that and variants of it.  (Plumbers in Houston, Plumbers near Houston, Dependable Houston Based Plumbers etc). I have seen pages that I have optimized using this methodology on large scale Yellow Page type sites for a number of products/services and had the page rank on Page 1 for both types of searches such as "Dallas Plumber" (locality plus product service) and "Plumber" (product/service only).  Obviously, your mileage may vary depending on the competition, but, the basic message is that you are going the right direction when targeting locality + product/service vs just service alone.  The error in your case would be to leave out the location information. Good luck.

Typically they will be removed in a few updates on their crawls. The timing may vary with each different crawler. This is a good read on which crawler could be more reliable. Again there is no perfect tool that can crawl all the web...except maybe Google. http://www.seobook.com/comparing-backlink-data-providers

Thanks for clarifying guys; some useful info there I think I might test with a couple of pages/categories and see what difference it makes. If it's noticeable I will undertake the task of updating all my templates to work without that first slug. Cheers

Hi there, you've received some great responses. What is the current status of this issue?

The truth is that we're not entirely sure "AuthorRank" even exists, at least not yet, and not in the way most people mean it. Google+ certainly seems to have an impact on personalized rankings, especially time-sensitive (QDF) queries, and authorship mark-up is a nice thing to have, but whether rankings are boosted by the strength of an author's profile is an open question with circumstantial evidence at best, IMO. Right now, company profiles and author profiles have different advantages. A strong company profile might get a Google+ "brand box" in the SERPs, whereas a strong author profile (or, at least, a properly set up one) could get authorship thumbnails in individual searches. In most cases, though, that's still going to take other signals, like links, and isn't just a result of having a lot of followers. So, I think it depends on your goal. If you want your business to potentially register "brand" signals ("entity" signals may be a better way to say it), then building your G+ business profile is one piece of that puzzle. If you want to be seen as an influential individual and help your posts rank, then pushing your individual authorship signals and G+ account may be more advantageous. It really depends on what you want to accomplish long-term.

Appreciate your response Karl and Martijn. The tabs at the bottom have been there prior to me coming on board with Appointment-Plus back in August 2012. I attempted to adjust the content in those tabs back in January 2013. The result in adjusting those tabs was a drop in rankings. 1. Are you sure your main keywords you've used before are still on the new page? Yes the main keywords are on the new page-scheduling software, online scheduling software, appointment scheduling software, etc. **2. Was it just the homepage rankings that fell or is it a site-wide issue? ** We took a hit site wide due to Panda/Penguin. However, after the release of the new homepage 3 weeks ago and a google recrawl of our site, I have seen further loss in rankings. Thank you for your responses, Connor Bringas SEO Specialist Appointment-Plus

No problem. I think cleaning up the error's and redirecting traffic to where it should be going, is the first step in improving the user experience. If you manage to squeeze some 'juice' out of those outdated links, that's great!

Previous answers are definitely the good ones. Focus on relevance more. However you can still add a small popup message (or better module position) explaining the new redirection

I asked the Q&A associates their opinion, and several people also responded that a 503 would be the way to go.

Thanks for the tip. However, isn't it a bad idea to have a bunch of sketchy sites linking to you that are scraping content? Aren't those the types of links we should be actively avoiding?