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Hey Sha, Had to give you a thumbs up as I did not consider the issue with disavow links not influencing OSE. Great Point. Thanks,

James, there are many factors that determine a home page's rankings in Google and the alt tags of images that link to it from within the site is but a very small one.  What you describe is commonplace on the web and because of that, the technique doesn't really count for much as far as SEO so I wouldn't worry about it. As long as the contents of the logo's alt tag is thematically relevant to the products/service produced by the brand, it would be considered acceptable.

Thanks for your replies, they were very helpful. After watching and reading I have decided that I need to implement rel="next" and rel="prev" in such a way that we handle multiple filters (facets) and sorting options so "to essentially pretend that only one version of the order/sort variable exists in every situation, and knock out the rest", that way Google will pickup rel=next sets for each facet on its own. The video made it clear that big view-all pages aren't great if there is a chance they will take time to load.

Vikas, has your traffic to those pages changed since you noticed the page rank change?

Ok, the titles you are using on different pages are technically scary and almost identical... Google wants the titles to be more unique on different pages.... these titles are coming probably because its hard coded and added after the content. My advice would be to contact your webmaster and ask them to remove the hard coded title and the issue of duplicate title will automatically be resolved... Try to limit your title within 65 t o59 characters. If you are experiencing a duplicate content issue this must be because most of your part of the page is empty and identical to others... For example: http://www.newmanshs.wa.edu.au/articles/events/mining-alliance-program-map-pit-to-port-excursion and http://www.newmanshs.wa.edu.au/articles/events/country-week Have almost 2 to 4 lines of content and rest of the page is similar to each other.... I would advise you to add more content in it so that it becomes more unique!

Hi Noah! Without looking at your actual data, I have to generalize here. Here are some things to consider: Google is pulling the wrong address info from elsewhere on the web. This is a highly common scenario. NAP (name, address, phone number) inconsistencies can cause precisely the problem you are describing. You need to do a citation audit to see if you can find the client's name associated with the wrong location anywhere on the web and clean up any problems you find. The client has a duplicate Google Places/+ Local listing that is associating them with this address. For more on this, read http://localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com/google-duplicates-merges/8307-easiest-way-find-out-if-multiple-listings.html My advice is to follow through on these first two steps. Then, if you cannot find any of the above issues, your next step would be to Use the 'report a problem' link on your Google+ Local listing to report the issue. Give it a couple of weeks to see if you get anywhere. Then, if no change has appeared, use the troubleshooter at https://support.google.com/places/troubleshooter/1386120?hl=en Select the radio button regarding wrong address and then the radio button that says you've already tried using 'report a problem' and this should lead you to the option to have a phone call with Google's phone support. They are getting very good at quick resolution of many issues. *BTW, if you have the new Google Places for Business Dashboard instead of the old one, you will need to use a new troubleshooter. I've only read about this, but can link you to a post about it if you need it. Please, let me know. I hope this list of steps, though sort of complicated, will walk you through a process towards resolution.

The noindex meta tag keeps the page out of the index but since images have their own url, it doesn't keep them out of the index, so you should use the noimageindex directive on the pages where the images in question reside.

I would add a link from the home page to the rest of your content (the .com site) but make it clear that people will be taken to a new site. Redirects not required.

I had the h1below the fold which might lead to bounces -- obv. you have to wait and see.  For me, the copy reads a little bit weird using the phrase so much -- maybe that's me.  I think in terms of SEO it looks fine -- maybe some UX things I am not totally crazy about -- but I the users are the ones that decide not me. Best of luck

Yes, if the client doesn't mind not having the content on the old domain, then 301 redirects are the best solution.  Without seeing the navigation menu and the two sites, it's hard to evaluate whether you need to change the links.  If it would seem odd to user to click the current link and land on the new domain, then what you suggest sounds good.  If both sites are clearly identified as being the same company and look pretty similar, you may not need to change the link(s).  The 301 redirects will take care of the search engines, the change to the link(s) is a question of user experience.

luckily I have never had that problem, also it seems that you will be alerted in you webmaster account if someone requests a takedown. Still an interesting "black hat" technique to remove competitors out of the serps that might not have webmaster accounts

Everett, You're right on the money. I don't think you could have summarized my problem any better. I will take Dana's and your advice and let them sit "indexed" for a while and serve a 404. According to GWT's Index Status, the product pages were indexed about a month ago, so I guess it won't hurt to wait a few more weeks until those pages dropped out of Google's index naturally, especially since the site development won't be done for another 6~7 weeks. Thanks a bunch for all of your insights

Thanks for your responses. We are talking over 3000 pages of duplicate content which we have no removed and replaced with actual relevant unique and engaging content. We completed all the content changes on the 6/06/2013. Im thinking to leave it for a while and see whether our rank improves within the next month or so. We may consider moving the site to another domain since its features lots of high quality content. Thoughts?

Ramesh, As EGOL said here, if you could "manufacture rankings" by tossing up a thousand domains then everybody everywhere would be doing it.  It's just not a  tactic that's worth undertaking today.  Put your efforts into main domain and focus on RCS and that will take you much further.

Thanks Kevin

Good point on the a/b testing, perhaps i move forward with that first to help build some data to support my case. I agree to the end user pop-ups are terrible but i am still intrigued if any data supports it is terrible for SEO?

My gut feeling is that that's not really worth worrying about right now - 10 pages of paginated blog post summaries can easily be crawled and indexed and isn't going to dilute your index. Where we usually see problems on blogs is if you have a log of categories/sub-categories, including tags. Some sites with 100 articles end up with 300 pages of search results, because they have 50 tags, etc. That can end up looking thin fast. Ten pages of results is nothing, IMO.

Hi Studio, Here's the thing: Links to your site that are published on other websites can help your authority and your site's ranking potential when those links are published on sites that are themselves recognized as authorities and these days, it's fairly rare to find an authoritative site that publishes duplicated articles. This tactic was considered effective in the past, (and in some cases, may work today) but Google can now identify and eliminate this as a tool to help boost your rankings.  Here's an interesting past Q&A on the topic.  And here's another one.  In answer to your question, yes, it's not good for you and neither is it good for them. Moving forward, give the section on growing popularity and links on Moz's Guide to SEO a read to start giving you ideas about building your site's authority.

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