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Thanks Mark I'll have a look at the article. Best regards David

Good stuff--sounds like you're on the right track then, all around.

Considering you rank 4th or 5th, I wouldn't guest post for a direct competitor. Maybe if you were like 200th, and you did for someone in the top 3 it could help you, but it doesn't strike me as a winning proposition. Instead, I would try to go after a high ranking non-sports video game blog. There has to be at least some crossover between the people who play the games you blog about and all the other video game genres other people blog about. Contact those website owners and see what you can do about building appropriate link-able content. At the very least, you could get yourself, a 1st person shooter blog, and an RPG blogger together to do a three way linking system. On your page, you could have a sidebar that says "For tips on Call of Duty) with the 1st person shooters blog linked and the same for the RPG. The other two could do it for you as well. Just make sure everything links to good content.

Hello BenVer, It really all depends on your situation. I think most SEOs these days are going for either rel next/prev or a view all canonical page (see links below). However, I still see a lot of sites doing well with a rel canonical tag on paginated pages that points to the main/first page. Rather than saying this one is "best" I feel more comfortable proving you with some resources so you can look into the best solution for YOUR needs... Rel Next Prev  Official Google Video about pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev” Pagination with Rel Next / Prev on the Google Webmaster Central Blog View All Canonical Google Webmaster Blog: View All in Search Results Rel Canonical Five Common Mistakes with Rel Canonical on the Google Webmaster Central Blog Rel Confused? Answers to Your Rel Canonical Questions by Dr. Pete on Moz.com

No change in traffic to our sites, just normal weekly patterns.

Hi Federico! You've received some excellent responses. Did any of them answer your question?

Ron, You mention site speed as a factor - is our site particularly slow at loading then, is this something that might be affecting our ranking? We use a generic hosting company, so could that be a factor - is there any merit in using a dedicated server etc? Thanks, Gareth

Hi SDIM, unfortunately I'm not in a position to be posting specific URL's as these are live client sites. I have noted a few URL's that did get picked up properly showing their product review scores similar to IMDB listings. As demonstrated at: How Rich snippets/schema markup help SEO. However as I have said it's very picky about actually using the data sets provided, I would recommend using Schema markup in the site template/layout if possible versus relying on Google's highlighting tool.

Hi Courtney, Reading your question, I'm not quite sure if you are talking about are microsites and doorway pages, or landing pages that target different geographical intent.  (I'll assume the later) It's fine if your client wants to target different geographical areas with specific content. The best practice for this type of thing usually involves: Make sure the content lives on your domain (don't create a bunch of microsites) Make the content unique and valuable to the specific area you are targeting Don't publish the same content just with slightly modifies words (best plumber Houston, best plumber Atlanta, etc) all over the web If your client wants to publish the same content in different places - ask him/her what they hope to accomplish. Not only does this create duplicate content, but it really doesn't add any value for the end user. Sounds like your instinct are correct. I don't have a list of articles that act as "proof" that you can show your client, but this article on microsites still holds up pretty well http://moz.com/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites And the dangers of duplicate content: http://moz.com/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world Hope this helps! Best of luck.

Hi Bush, Not as far as I'm aware (I did a quick search for this, looking at posts from the last month or so). If you're curious (and nobody else chimes in here with more information) I would suggest you analyse ranking changes for your clients against their main competitors. If you see those changes reflected across the board for Yahoo UK rankings, then it's probably a good sign there have been some changes to the algorithm. Hope that helps! Carlo

There isn't really a good way that I know of currently to verify Google has indexed it...

Agreed, As long as each of the location pages are unique but all contain the word "trip" you'll be fine. Have you considered taking it a step further and researching what people search most for each location? Example: Atlanta Trip vs Atlanta Tours vs Atlanta Holiday vs Atlanta Vacation etc. Obviously it would need to match the intent of the page, but you could further improve the page by matching what people search for most for each location in the URL and Title. (If "trip" is a common term for all locations, then use this across them all) Greg

Thanks Michael - you're dead right in your approach there - amazed how many have got it so wrong by writing for Googlebot and not the actual site users. Found this interesting re: internal links - plenty of discussion on the issue but definitely a lack of clarity: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-internal-links-anchor-text-16864.html

Thanks for your helpful answers - appreciated

Thanks!

this is cool.  I like it better than ChartIntelligence.  It provide more data. thanks!

Thanks Martijn - have done all I can to block Google indexing now - Web developer was under the impression he had done what was needed but SEO mindset always makes me delve deeper! Glad I did!

Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsW8E4dOtRY Summary: If you're not trying to stuff hidden text in there then don't worry about it, it's a normal thing on today's web.

Hi Gagan, thanks for the clarification. Chris is correct about why Google is striking through some terms in the SERPs. But we digress ... back to Authorship! As I noted earlier in this thread, I'd work on increasing engagement with your site content, as well as boosting the authority of your Google+ profile. This may result in Authorship displaying more often, for more queries. I would also definitely work on increasing the quality of your blog posts. The content of many of your posts is very similar to product descriptions and reviews on other sites. This should help your rankings, too (not to mention drastically reduce the changes of your site being penalized for duplicate content.) Hope that helps!

Hi Robert, any updates?