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Thank you, Ian. We thought about manually setting the canonicals on specific pages of site B to be the URL of the same article on site A...but we don't have the bandwidth to do this for 8,000 articles...plus, we're redirecting site B to site A in @ 9 months anyways. Really just looking for the best short term solution to protect site A in the meantime from Panda updates targeting duplicate content. EGOL gives a good breakdown of what he thinks is best. Thanks for sharing that link. I guess I'm dummy for forgetting that the "follow" portion of "noindex,follow" allows link juice to be spread to the pages linked to from the "noindex" page. That makes logical sense...but will it protect our domain authority? I would think so, but don't know for sure. If anyone is more certain than I am, please do add a vote of confidence

Thanks for the insight.

One tool I occasionally find useful for larger lists is market samurai.  It's a free keyword analysis tool much loved by sectors of the market that don't frequent seomoz as much.  Can be useful though. The tool itself is actually a paid one, but you can use it in free mode and get a few features. All the keyword research stuff is included in the free version and is actually more useful than most of the paid stuff!

Excellent to hear its making a comeback. Can you kindly close out the ticket by marking an answer "Good Answer" . Thanks

Is smokereliefnow.com is opening there ? When I am opening it from India, it get redirected to smokerelief.co.uk. Both have unique content earlier or both are same sites just domain is different ?

Open the links up and have a look at the page. Is it relevant to your website? Do the other links on the page point to unrelated websites? Install the Mozbar on your browser and have a look at the Domain / Page Authority with the number of links pointing to the website. I wouldn't worry about it if they appeared naturally. A link is a link. Although it may not be as valuable as a link from an authoritative website, its still a link you never had before. I would only worry about removing them if the website is clearly a "spam" website, otherwise dont stress and keep getting links on relevant websites. Greg

I understand what you are saying and I have the same results when I search for it. His home page www.leaffilter.com is not #1 this page is when I search for it. www.leaffilter.com/contact-leaffilter/leaffilter-locations /

You can also try searching your URL in google using exact paramaters... inurl:http://www.yourdomain.com or if you dont have a www. inurl:http://yourdomain.com

Same way you would SEO any other site. Why do you feel it there may be different techniques involved? I highly recommend you read https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/ - In addition, I would consider the difference in PC v mobile website users - what are they searching for? Mobile users should be given immediate access to the most trafficked pages and phone/contact info. Check out http://searchengineland.com/5-seo-tips-to-get-mobile-apps-ranked-in-serps-104595 for tips on how to have your app page rank higher in serps. If you are referring to having your app higher in Google Play/ iTunes - use your main keyword in your title and within the product description. Test different searches to see where your app appears and adjust the app info until you are satisfied with the results. I believe ratings also play a big part (apps are not my forte).

Using the keyword difficulty tool, the search for " The Unibody iPhone" is highly competitive. The SERPs have the sites like Fortune, Gizmodo, cnet that link to your site in the top spots. Also, I noticed the link from Fortune is a nofollow. I did notice that you cannot view the website in Internet Explorer and goes to a page with links to other browser downloads. This could be contributing to poor rankings. Having your page linked by these authority news sites but not performing well in the search results isn't necessarily a bad thing. You are probably receiving a ton of referral traffic from these news and blog sites. Once these news sites are lowered after the buzz, your site should do well and continue to bring traffic.

Found this article: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/beginners-guide-to-mobile-seo-11793  maybe it will help...

You should only worry if GWT reports them as duplicates. I believe SEOMoz tool does not take canonical into consideration when they report duplicate pages.

They have been mentioned many times on SEOmoz, I never used them but I am assuming they are good.

Sorry Robert, that site was just an example. If you click here We should be listed no.2 for hot flushes Domain is avogel

Yes I would do that, it's the best solution, redirect every corresponding page to the new one, and redirect the rest of the pages to the homepage / most relevant area. I can't see any issues with doing it this way. 404's won't transfer any of the weight over to the new site so would be a waste IMO.

I've worked on a site that was ~100 million pages, and I've seen indexation percentages ranging from 8% to 95%. When dealing with sites this size, there are so, so many issues at play, and there are so few sites of this size that finding an average probably won't do you much good. Rather than focusing on whether or not you have enough pages indexed based on averages, you should focus on two key questions: "do my sitemaps only include pages that would make great search engine entry pages" and "have I done everything possible to eliminate junk pages that are wasting crawl bandwidth." Of course, making sure you don't have any duplicate content, thin content, or poor on-site optimization issues should also be a focus. I guess what I'm trying to say is, I believe any site can have 100% of it's search entry worthy pages indexed, but sites of that size rarely have ALL of their pages indexed since sites that large often have a ton of pages that don't make great search results.

site command responses seem to yield conflicting results to "site:specific url". You are likely going through a transition period on a recently indexed url, so hold tight.