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Thanks for confirming. I will also try to find a way to incorporate categories on the homepage without breaking the current layout.

Hi there, The URLs are viewed as different due to the campaign tracking variables being appended to the end and hence it appears as though you have duplicate content. You can resolve this by using the canonical tag. hope this helps!

Rhys, In looking just at the home page, and looking at the Site Grader results, I would say wrong is not really the best choice. You are doing it less than best for that term. Remember first that it cannot be looked at in a vacuum. I have sites that have pages that grade out less than perfect: eg. a title tag that is purposefully too long, etc. You are better served to ask yourself who your customer is and what are they looking for and then construct the page to deliver that and modify your on page around that. Another thing I would suggest is that you check keyword queries (kw analysis) around your products. Having board game essentially on every page over and over will not help you. But, If you segment it, there may be gold in there and it may prevent the site from looking too spammy. An example I found when querying for about 5 gamer type keywords was this:                        local UK broad  local UK exact Board games  301,000 18,100 Family games   74,000    1,900 Family board games      2,900      500 To me, I believe you should have a page on with family games as the key word (You actually have that as a category but then the title tag is Family Board Games). You should have a meta description that speaks to: Looking for fun games for the family...the board gamers has ....  In making sure you tell them it is a board game site, you let them know in case they were looking for something different. Talk about family games on that page and make sure you do things like a correct H1, etc. Then, make sure you submit your site to Bing and Yahoo as you are showing only one page in Bing and none in Yahoo. So, stop focusing on one key word. For the home page, I do not think you have gone totally overboard (Do take out the key words tag), and if you make the categories be that and find out what people query you will help yourself. One last thing, on one of the pages you say you are now the largest after starting out in Feb. You did not show up on page one, so you may want to modify that statement. Good Luck.

Hi, I just did this and had similar issues It looks like the .htaccess is correct at the old domain. but you need to put in re-directors at the new domain that will take in these extra items due to these directories do not exist at the new domain. There could be an easier way, without putting a redirect after a redirect (which possibly losses a little extra juice) but I am not aware of a way without redirecting all 404 queries. after you have put back the 301 that was working at the OLD domain In the .htaccess at the NEW domain you would put Redirect /category/models/next/2 http://www.example.com/ This will tell any queries for http://www.example.com/category/models/next/2 to redirect to http://www.example.com or whatever you put in.... hope this helps!

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When you're looking at 200+ ranking factor, there's a lot we can't account for even across all of our metrics. A few possibilities: (1) The #2 site's links are being devalued, for some reason, due to quality issues. (2) There are geo-targeting signals out of whack or focused outside of the US market. If the site is ranking #1 on Google.co.uk and has a clear UK connection, that could lower it's value on Google.com slightly. It's not the kiss of death, but it can make a difference. (3) The #1 (currently on Google.com) site has recent activity that we're not aware of yet (link-building, especially). (4) As Joshua said, #1 could be targeting inbound anchor text better. (5) As Brandon said, #1 may have an advantage on user signals. I don't think that Google currently "sandboxes" new sites in they way they may have once. What I think we're seeing is a grace period where new sites get a chance to rank while Google evaluates their link profile. If, after a couple of months, those links look spammy, the site may drop. In most cases I've seen, though, that's not a #1 vs. #2 sort of thing.

You can as far as Google  is concerned, but your uk site may not get crawled, as you will be redireting googlebot as well. you must not detect google bot and make a exception just for them or then you will be cloaking, google bot must go with the rest of the US ips. A better idea my to try this http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-markup-for-multilingual-content.html

I have a blog that gets about six to ten posts per day.  Each of those posts has a link to another website.  All of these links are do-follow.  I do that because the sites that I am linking to are all very high quality and have better content for that subject that I have on my site. I believe that when you are "linking up" to sites better than yours for a topic that the outgoing links are valuable. However, I also believe that if you are "linking down" to trash sites and pages of unrelated content then the links can harm your site. I would never give control of outgoing links on my site to strangers and even when my employees post content I always review the target of every outgoing link myself.

Let me be more specific... My question is...  in a SERP where I have a category page with no schema mark up & Amazon has a product WITH schema mark-up... Are there strategies to use schema mark-up on a category page to gain some in-SERP extras - i.e. stars, price, stock info or anything else. with an emphasis on anything else.

There is something still missing. I must have not noticed before responding to your answer in my last message.  Although you gave me a good understanding of the issue.  I am now still questioning on how the brand name which we are also trying to get ranked for will fall in play.  Keep in mind "Alex Miley" was also a keyword.  Based On what your showing me in  the example to Avoid would leave the keyword "Alex Miley" at the same amount of strength between the 2 pages.  I'm am still left at the stage of how can I make sure that the broader keyword Alex Miley will get all the juice going to only 1 of the pages.

When you say 'submit all of your product pages' - Do you mean submit them to Google's organic search engine, or Google Shopping? For the organic search engine, depending on how many pages you really have, I would say you should submit xml sitemaps, and you may need to submit a sitemap index too (check the current max. limit on a single sitemap submission, I am not sure what it is these days!). Personally though, with a good navigation system and a few backlinks, you shouldn't need to worry 'too much' about submitting xml sitemaps. As you say the product pages are updated daily though, I can see why you feel the need to do this. Or, did you mean submitting them to... Google Shopping If you have lots of products, I would strongly recommend submitting them to Google Shopping - it's free, after all! This should help you to get some 'quick wins' whilst you work at getting your products and category pages ranking well in the organic results. **Canonicalisation ** As you are running an ecom. store, with lots of products - be very careful with canonical and duplication issues, especially since Google Panda! Ensure that query strings in your URLs don't result in multiple URLs for the same products, likewise make sure if you have products in multiple categories, that you are not creating duplicate content/URLs that way either! - I guess you have this covered already?

Let me try the Alan advice for this issue and I will update the board. Thanks Devin your detailed answer, it will help me to handle other low quality pages.

Also in regards to your hyphen question. For the same reasons you should try and get the actual non-hyphenated name. For example my company owns rubberstore.com but there is also a rubber-store.com which was out before us and sell radically different products. Our first traffic started arriving quickly for people searching for their product types. Now if you type rubber-store in Google you'll find our website first and not theirs. Hope this helps

They would have different urls correct? site.com/diabetes-symptoms.php&lang=EN site.com/diabetes-symptoms.php&lang=FR site.com/diabetes-symptoms.php&lang=CH etc.. In this case they would be treated as different pages and credit given to each as such. Now if you didn't have unique url's rather some sort of switch via javascript or database entries that are served based on the language they choose.. then it would cause issues.