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Hello HuptechWebseo, No, there is no harm in having an autoreferrential canonical tag. In my experience, that tag is set as a reminder and/or to be used when tracking or other parameters are used with that page. I dont remember having read any experiment and/or done experiment where having an autorreferential canonical tag carries benefits. Hope it helps. Best luck. GR.

Google bot can read any URL that is viewable by itself. Try this: copy the URL of the complete transaction page and paste it in fresh broweser where your website is not cached/cookied there. If you can see the page - So google can! For your "discount for a link" concern - I need to know more details.

Andy, I think this is spot on. I will focus on the value I can add. Thank you.

Hello, Thanks for the answer. if I merge all the similar pages to much fewer pages what will happen with the internal links?

Thanks for your time answering my question. I've reported a few of the websites being hacked. Hopefully Google takes a look at this. There are actually pages of SERPs where the sites are hacked currently! Its crazy. Hopefully Google cracks down.

Both help in SEO. Internal links for ensuring that bots crawl and connect your pages together. Backlinks for improving your site's authority. The latter has more weight in terms of outranking competitors.

Thanks Nick. This was my thinking too (website first), but was pushed to publish everywhere at once: LinkedIn, YouTube, website, Facebook. Backlinks from multiple c-blocks and off-page SEO are my concentrated efforts.

Hi Nikki Thanks for the response. I too am under the impression that with penguin being live that big G had figured out how to diminish value from spam links and it was no longer an issue. On the flip side The only real thing that's changed over the past 6 months for us is a massive increase in these spam links. I will try to just bullet out a response so I don't write a novel Yes I have checked if it's hacked and it is not. I have no manual actions listed I did just look for weird traffic sources, and out of the 48 that I do have, the only weird ones are from urls with the spammy links. Also to note, our ranking has not dropped in any other search engines, only google. In fact we have improved in Bing and Yahoo. Another note. I have disavowed a few porn backlinks we have gotten from sites like gay.interracialsexcinema among others. In the past 7 days I have gotten 33 new links from sites like zenlaser.c0oo - thefreestates.commm prowp.neeet  and lilucia02.coooommmm slash cantilever-coffee-table dot html. Many of the domains that are linking to us are literally created (whois lookup)  15 - 30 days before we get a link. All domains are registered private (except one that i caught just before going private and it was in china) and 90% of them are hiding behind cloudflare. An annoying thing is that over 90% of these links are on pages that the url path is the actual same url path or title tag that we are using on our page as well as the h1's and h2's with a "." anchor or the actual path anchor linking back to either our page or an image on our site. I updated the disavow a few weeks ago but have not added all domains to it as I wanted to knock it down little by little. I have been hesitant to do a one shot one kill approach as I want to be cautious in the event that I make a mistake and cause an even larger issue. Any further thoughts? Thanks again!

Great recommendation by Donna! I would also recommend the following Professional Online Business Directories (Company.Com, Angieslist, BBB, Yelp, Manta, Alignable, Crunchbase, etc.) Start Writing Relevant Content on Your Niche/Industry/Products etc. then promote and share content/posts. Look out for any opportunities to be  in a resources list or niche directory using the below Search Strings in Google “industry” inurl:directory “industry” inurl:links “industry” intitle:directory “city” inurl:directory “city” inurl:businesses “city” intitle:directory Also, check out https://moz.com/blog/tribute-to-eric-ward which goes over "Link Strategies That Stand The Test of Time"

If the look and feel is different on each site and each has it's own content it would not really matter. Just be careful interlinking those site with each other. If you can assign each website with their own IP that would be the best!

I do have duplucate content (products) on my new platform and I wonder if putting all the links of those products on Canonical could benefit the original specialized websites. Google has not said exactly how they treat these. I believe that rel=canonical has become a substitute for the old method of building links by article syndication.  I believe that many people are doing it at industrial scale and that google will eventually start to discount the beneifits, ignore the benefits or penalize some uses of rel=canonical. For that reason I am staying away from rel=canonical just like I stay away from dropping links in forums, buying links, linkwheels, syndicating articles, etc.  That's me being cautions and taking care of my websites. Each person must decide what they are willing to do.  You can wait until Google publishes it in their webmaster guidelines or you can stop doing something that Google might simply refer to as "manipulation" without getting specific about it.  Google is specific about very few things.

Thanks SEOMAN. My issue is that this purposeful duplicate content tactic is helping www.adspecialtyproductscatalog.com rank higher for a keyword like "ad specialty products" than http://www.advertisingproducts.net/, the former, using the same 4,000 words on every single page of it's site. So if the goal is to rank #1 for the highest searched keyword in my category, should one employ this content tactic as part of their SEO efforts?

Okay, thanks Egol! Best... Mike

I imagine that eventually he will be caught, right? He might get whacked - especially if the sites have verbatim text on every page.  He might get away with it for a long long time if each site has totally unique text and he isn't interlinking these sites very heavily or interlinking them with nofollow.  Lots of people are able to link between their own properties if they are using the biz name as the anchor text instead of a money keyword.  (I know that this answer wasn't satisfying, but that's my opinion on how diverse are the ways that Google handles these things. I mean, this has to be Black Hat SEO. Ignorant bliss has a large overlap with black hat in appearance, although the intent is very different.  It's blackhat if these sites are identical except for the name of the community and the seller of the service knows that this is far below best practice.... and even worse if they are being juiced from a private blog network or paid links from ignorant webmasters or from those who know paid links are not good but sell anyway. Have any of you encountered an SEO/Marketer like this? This stuff is everywhere. Sometimes they grab your content and use it in New Jersey. If so, what do you do about it? Beat their asses with quality.

HI,just checking if anyone figured out the issue with this?

Hi Kamishah, On regard your question, is domain redirection a good method for SEO? No, it is not. Said that, if the mistake was already done: you should study the DA and the spam score of the xyz site before thinking on setting a 301 domain redirect. Considering that the xyz site has a low spam score and a good DA, at least equal to the solutionfall.com you might go ahead. Perhaps you consider, from now on, to get true organic backlinks by having unique high quality content instead of "comment backlink". Good luck! Mª Verónica

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Hi Judd, If you are only hiding these elements on the mobile view, this shouldn't cause an issue from a rankings perspective. You will want to make sure that they can access your CSS file (sometimes CSS files are blocked from crawlers). It is possible that having it hidden will mean they discount that content slightly for the mobile version, but as long as they know it's a mobile version of the desktop site they will primarily take the desktop signals into consideration when it comes to rankings (with a small boost for mobile-friendliness in the mobile SERPs). Once the mobile-first index rolls out this will change but they have stated that with mobile-first indexing, hiding content for space reasons won't negatively impact how they weight that content, so that shouldn't affect your approach practically speaking.