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I'd would 301 them. It's not going to hurt you. It could help you. The best value you would get for these would be if there were links to those domains, then some of that link juice would be passed on.

Since you have those pages blocked via robots.txt, the bots would never even crawl these pages in theory...which means the Noindex,follow is not helping. Also, if you do a report on the domain on opensiteexplorer and dig, you should be able to find tons of those links already showing up. So if my site is linking to a page on that site, that page may not be cached/indexed because of the robots.txt exclusion, but that as long as my site is follow, your domain is still getting the credit for the link. Does that make sense ?

What Justin said! And yes, 301's pass 95-99% of all link juice.

Wordpress isn't very secure - even with the security plugins and such you can  leverage. SEOMoz has some great content on the subject of subdomains vs sudfolders...what can impact being able to use that is if the blog is hosted on a different server than the TLD and if so, if the domain mapping can work to point the blog to the subfolder/subdomain is Google sees it as being associated. This is a challenge for some systems (including mine, even though in theory it should work). Sudfolders are the preference. http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain

i noticed the same thing, not only do you need some text content you need it above the fold. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html

Thank you! it is working now! Have a nice day!

The question I would ask is "What does your Analytics say?: First Review Like the others said, make sure if you are ranking now for them as well if they are bringing converting traffic... Keep them, if they are not ranking figure out why and maybe look for answers vs. just blowing them out... GREAT Comments Guys... We all do not really understand where Google is headed but they are cleaning up the directory very aggressively within the last few months. Updates are always going to happen, but without looking at your own data things begin to be cloudy and people make the wrong descision based on thing said in all of these SEO articles around the web. TEST TEST TEST..

Thanks for that. It's for ongoing work on various projects. I need a reliable partner going forward.

Hi Charlie, so - first of all, are you actually losing any traffic as a result of lower rankings? More often than not, while video results may appear lower down in the page to fit in with an aesthetic model - they get a higher click through rate. If you are retaining or increasing overall traffic for those keywords in-spite of lower rankings, then you are actually in a better position than you were before. The reason for wanting to get higher up in the SERPs is to get more traffic, but if you can get high click through's in 5th with a video than in 1st without - then 5th position is more beneficial. This feels counter-intuitive, but with the expansion of rich snippets and personalised search - we need to start thinking much wider than just rankings. Rankings are only as good as the traffic they provide. If you are desperate to lose the video rich snippets (which feels like it would be a step backwards), then you could try one of a few things: As you mention, use an Iframe to embed. Google probably wont index it (though it's not unheard of!) Hide the video with CSS and then have it appear in a lightbox player with a JS trigger. Put the video on a separate page and aim to get two results for the same term (one video and one non-video). NB - this is basically self cannibalisation and could backfire, so I wouldn't recommend it, but it might be worth a try. Google are doing a lot of tests at the moment and are shifting things around in the SERPs based on rich snippets and content type as much as "relevancy". The model of "higher up = better" doesn't really apply any more and so, in your position i would be inclined to hold tight and see where things go in the next few months. If you're getting product video rich snippets, you're probably in a good position and building more links to the pages may help them to appear higher up and with the rich snippets. Its really not clear how things will end up looking in the not too distant future and I would advise against taking a short term strategy to increase rankings if you're not actually losing a significant amount of traffic. Hope that's helpful, Phil

No is not gaming, is adult but I am thinking also to develop a gaming site , to turn Mine in a gaming site because in Cy no jobs about SEO. They are more gamblers there , And Online I dont think so that I will go good... Also I make more money from affiliate like to work for somebody... Maybe I wasnt so much lucky I guess...But is ok..Im still happy:)

let the people redirect to non https versions. what is the problem here? They won't loose items from their basket when redirected from https to http version. And when they are 'checking out', the protocol will remain secure via SSL as pages which need to be https wont redirect to non https.