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Yes, thank you, Marcus. It's really helpful to learn more about the process and thinking behind the process for developing content that includes long tail search terms that will be relevant to readers and helpful for ranking. Cheers!

I would recommend doing whatever it takes to find the contact information. Also take a look at these two articles they will help you: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/broken-link-building-guide-from-noob-to-novice http://www.seomoz.org/blog/outreach-letters-for-link-building-real-examples-14902

Hi James, It sounds like when you consolidated widgets, you gave Google more of a focused page for persons to search for vs a larger number of pages on the same product.  This is interesting as it is the inverse of the long tail effect.  You would think that more pages around a given product would be better.  I guess this would be a search case where too many pages was a bad thing.  Makes me think of how we setup pagination to make sure Google does not focus on p 2,3,4,5 etc but work the noindexes to have focus on page 1 of the pagination. Thanks for the post!

The only other thing to consider is how you want to parse all this out in Analytics.  If you were to go to the folder structure, it may be easier to parse things out as you can look at a folder by folder basis.  GA automatically creates reports based on a folder (aka slash) hierarchy.   You would not have that with the dashes. Also, you can setup regexp to parse on the slashes to setup some really cool filters and advanced segments.   You may get the same thing with your dashes as long as you are consistent with how you use the dashes.  So the first slot is always gender, the second slot is always style and the the last is product name. I am with EGOL that it may be a moo point, but wanted to put in another variable for your to consider in what works best for you. Cheers

Pleasure, glad it helped!

You're right about the 301s, and noindex would be a massive task that I'm not sure is worthwhile. Also I'm not sure if I want to list hundreds of pages in robots.txt. By "back to back" do you mean "compare link metrics"? A lot of these pages show as "No Data Available for this URL" some of them are quite deep down within the site, so I don't know if that's why or if Mozscape can tell that they're duplicate content. The articles that are not part of the magazines usually seem to have a PA of 30+ judging by my spot-checks, but even some of those duplicated from magazine articles (and outside of the magazines) have no data available despite being easier to crawl than the magazine content.

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog.mysite.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/$1 [L] This code will help you to move your sub domain into main domain. This is good option to move your visitors, if your site have a good visitors then definitely your blog gets huge amount of visitors and you have to update blogs regularly and post effective contents. If you will share your blog on social media platform then it will more help you.

Yes, this makes total sense why the .ie website is still ranking. Regarding the drop for a lot of my keywords, some of them were positioned top 3, and now nowhere to be seen, no even in the index. The pages have still kept there PR but as far as SERPs go, nowhere. I was ranking for some keywords (top 10) without any link building at all, only a few right enough, however these keywords are nowhere to be seen in the SERPs, why would Google penalize these keywords if it was Penguin 1.1? Some keywords are still ranking, but overall very poor.

Thanks CleverPhD. Exactly what I was thinking, just wanted to have someone else confirm. Appreciate it!

Hi, you have to 301 redirect http://www.mycarhelpline.com/index.php this page on your home page you have only redirect non www version to www. this code may helpful to you RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^[mycarhelpline.com/](http://www.mycarhelpline.com/)index.php$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index.php http://www.mycarhelpline.com/ [L,R=301]

Hi Samuel, You've got most of the things right. A .com domain works fine along with US hosting. Just make sure you get links to your city pages from local US sites. Contribute to the local communities and get them talking about you online and Google will pick up the signal. As for checking rankings, you can use Bright Local to set up your campaign. Its fairly accurate. https://tools.brightlocal.com/seo-tools/local-search-rank-checker/tool To check rankings manually, on the bottom right of your Google.co.uk screen you will see Google.com. Click that and the .com version opens. You can set your custom location in the left side panel.

Gagan, Yeah, duplicate content can diminish link benefits.  Check out this video from Wil Reynolds about #RCS: http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/seomoz-meetup-rapid-fire-link-building-strategies As for the Yahoo Directory, in my experience I haven't seen any boost in rankings for websites that had this link.  Vice versa... I haven't seen a drop off in rankings when the link was taken down. Focus on QUALITY, not quantity and you'll win in the SERPS. Brodie nMADOLcArUs

Hi Ray, Have you attended one of our Weekly Webinars on Fridays? It's an introduction to SEOmoz Pro, with a person from the help team leading the webinar and answering your questions. There are details at http://www.seomoz.org/dp/welcome-webinars For future reference you can crawl up to 3,000 pages on demand with our Crawl Test tool at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test, which can help you out between regularly scheduled crawls. Here's a thread from people asking if SEOmoz Pro is worth the money. It may give you some insight as to what other people find useful. http://www.seomoz.org/q/do-you-think-seomoz-work-the-monthly-fee-if-you-re-not-a-professional-seo I hope this helps, and let me know if I can offer any other advice.

no what you need to do is out of the conocal URL reference whatever is going to be shown to the user as the preferable content so if the pages http://www.omnipress.com/boss-woman" /> and next pages ">http://www.omnipress.com/boss-man" />  you will of course need 301 redirect as usual and anyone that tells you rel="canonical is not important does not understand much about SEO and that's not a sly on anyone. rel="canonical Tells Google where the original pages are it no matter what helps you immensely who searc it on SEOmoz see what Rand has to say   or we could just look at this link that claims it's the most important advancement in SEO since site maps so please do use a canonical-url-tag http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps here is exactly how to implement them and I wish you all the best. http://www.metatags.org/rel_canonical Sincerely, Thomas

Hi Guido, Taking  on a new domain to build ranking is not something I'd personally do. When you 301 redirect not all the goodness will pass across so you may lose some ranking in the first instance. Using a 301 redirect on a new domain is usually used when trying to capture the goodness from the backlinks that go to the old domain (only something like 80% will pass - no sure of exact percentage sorry). If you aren't ranking for your keyword targets you need to look at how you have optimized your website. Have you targeted too many keywords on one page? Diluting that keywords communication to search engines can affect ranking ability Have you covered (and include optimized)  title tags, meta descriptions, <h>header tags, alt tags, unique content, internal anchor text links etc</h> Build links to your site from quality websites; ensure these sites are relevant to yours/theirs audience. Don't link to spammy networks or link farms. Add an XML sitemap Review Google Webmaster Tools to ensure that there are no indexing or other issues Good luck