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Agreed. There's always a trade-off - on the one hand, this does protect you from duplicate content and help the main site rank. On the other hand, the canonical tags will keep the property pages on the niche regional sites from ranking. Unfortunately, you can't really have it both ways, and I think your currently implementation is the better choice. I think it's especially true for real estate, where some of your listing content will come from the MLS data and will be duplicated across other people's sites as well. The more you can focus your ranking power on one listing, the better off you'll be long-term.

My friend, I've forwarded your answer to the person who redesigned the site. I hope she'll solve the problem. I wish I could do it myself, but I just do not know what to do.  How do I remove that horrible "noindex meta tag" from the homepage? Thank you and all the best. Sal

Hi Robert, There is a "Getting Started" video intro to the software which will give you a place to start on this page where you will also find information about the weekly Welcome Webinar with Moz staff. I would recommend that you also sign up for the next Welcome Webinar  so you can ask any questions you may have about the different tools in the SEOmoz toolkit and how you can use them. There is a Welcome Webinar every Friday morning and you will find a button on that page to Reserve your Spot at the next one. When using the Pro App, if you need a little clarification of how a particular tool works (for example if you are in the On-page Tool area) you will find a tiny blue "Help" link at the top right of the page that will take you to the help page for that tool. If there is anything that hasn't been explained by the video or help pages, you can email direct to the Help team - help at seomoz.org. They are actually pretty awesome and always happy to help you out. There are also a lot of great SEOmoz resources that will help you get your head around it all... The Beginner's Guide to SEO is one of the best. It is included in the list of resources in this thread from a while ago. Hope that helps, Sha

You want to avoid this. It makes the link less valuable because it looks like a site you own. Both sites are on the same IP Address: 37.188.122.69 The important part is that they're both on the same C-Block - that's the technical way of saying that the third set of numbers is the same (122). You want to avoid that. Regarding nofollow - I only use that for sites that I don't 'trust.' If there's a competitive site that I don't want to pass link value to, I try not to link to it at all.

When I have a page that is getting a lot of attention I write pages on related topics and link to them from the popular page.   Do your best to target different keywords but if that is not natural you might be rewarded with #1 and #2 listing for that keyword.

Are your H1 Tags unique on every page ? You could definitely do some sort of a logic to build unique page titles and maybe descriptions as well, but trying to forward think, I would also advise you to work on custom page titles for your most important pages/keywords. As far as the tool to extract the data, you might also consider using Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool & Crawler Software - www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

Yes, one of my exact match domains outranks a much stronger domain even with thin content and zero marketing efforts.  It don't think it should and I don't think it always will outrank stronger domains.

They certainly add to the user experience. Personally I don't like ones that auto start, just like I hate animated gifs.. very annoying. That said if properly implemented the code to the image and alt / title text will be in the source of the page and thus crawled by the Search Engines. I don't see how they could harm SEO unless you driving people away from your site with external links or something...

Well I will call myself as one of the neutral person who nether got hurt not got any positive advantage out of it! The reason why there was no real movement is because my industry is very competitive and the terms I am targeting are the most competitive terms in my niche… Moreover, our website is standing mostly on 2 to 3 page and almost all competitors are investing right on SEO so the spam links and similar ratio is quite down at my side… and everyone is busy building quality links to the website. In these cases usually the one with most quality score wins! As far as Penguin is concern… well may be its new in the bubble further versions of it will might bring a penguin with a Matt’s face on it

See how google index your page, if you are linking same pages with diff anchor from one page - then beware of Google's penguin update. Google is hammering for overly optimized pages. To your question - I think google will see first link discovered on page.

After removing the plugin, you should configure a 301 redirect sitewide to strip out the .html and redirect to the version without the file extension. This way, both internal and external links won't lead to error pages, and you won't lose any link juice. You'll also want to make sure your canonical tags are configured to link to the non .html version of each page, if they're hand coded.

The categories are quite broad search terms. With a low domain and page authority you'll struggle to rank for those competitive keywords. The bumbf and links at the bottom of your category pages may be an issue.

Would it be possible for you to contact the people you bought the links from and have them removed? Also what is the time frame from when you were on the first page to when you dropped? I think at this point if this has only happened recently then it's too early to talk about building a new website with a new domain. I would add more positives like good content, social activity and quality links while fighting to remove the bad links.

I'd generally agree - it's usually not going to be worth the time/effort/money, AND the links could actually be helping you. One caveat, though - IF a scraper is outranking you (and it does happen), that's a much different story. The low-quality copies will just get filtered out, but I'd definitely monitor your ranking for new stories and make sure someone else isn't using your content to beat you on your own search terms. That's a much different situation.

To answer your specific question, a lot of times Google displays algo created title tags if it believes that the one supplied by the webmaster is not good enough or does not contain the query term being searched for. If Google is changing the title tag even when the search term is present in the title you have mentioned on the page then you might consider changing it and making it more meaningful. Having said that, there is no guarantee that Google will pick and display your changed title even if it matches the search term and is grammatically correct and good to read.

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