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To clarify: Assume the OP's parent company is "Acme Widgets" and has a Google + Busines page for "Acme Widgets".  He has established rel="publisher" between this business profile, and the "Acme Widgets" main company website. Now 6 months later Acme Widgets opens up a new website -- "The Widget Training Site" -- which is a separate site, but falls under the "Acme Widget" umbrella. Can the OP also add "The Widget Training Site" to the "Acme Widgets" Google + Page?  I've tried to so something similar, and I can only link one website to one google + page. Or is there a way to add multiple sites to one google + business page. Thanks for your insight!

Thank you Robert! Let me take try your suggestions and then I will report back.

If you're pages are actually out of the index (homepage too?), have you looked at your robots.txt file to be sure that's not the cause of the problem?  The multiple 301s won't harm you.   Of the items you mentioned, your 2nd point could really gum up the works as far as indexing and I'd say you're better off having removed the rel=canonicals until you figure that issue out.  If that was your issue, I could certainly take a few months for google to get you back in the index. Some solid authority building  should be among your priorities at this time.

Hi Jesse, I checked our WMT account and we seem to be fine at the moment. I raised the concern about the duplicate content sites with the SEO. However, they defended their strategy, saying that because the urls are all on different c blocks, it isn't an issue. Also, said we would negatively impact our DA. I agree that it would hurt our DA because these duplicate domains represent the bulk of our linking domains. IMO this is going to catch up to us. My understanding is the only safe value of these other sits is if the content on the other sites is unique and valuable. Not to mention there are not links from any other site to the duplicate sites, only outbound links to our main site. Can you shed some light on this tactic?

yes it was put up on may 21 2013 as a paid link and i check in Webmaster Tools' Manual Actions No manual webspam actions found.

Thanks, am using it through Password Protected & meta noindex tag Its been kept out of search engine crawl !!

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Thank you sir, now I will write all content 100% genuine without any grammar mistake. and I will post 2 or 3 in a week Thank you again for sharing nice information with me

Still not convinced. Here's an example of a Penguin 2.0 traffic drop graph from 22 May. Much sharper drop away than yours. 02-sm-seo-visibility.png

Hi Anton, This is a good question. On visiting your Red Deer example page, a few concerns come up: The text content is quite thin on this page. If it's this thin on the other pages, yes, that could be a problem. If the text on the other pages is a duplicate or near-duplicate of the Red Deer page, then that is definitely a problem. The optimization of the Red Deer page seems a bit awkward to me. 'Red Deer' just feels like it has been dropped into the text in a manner that doesn't read very naturally. The text on the Red Deer page needs some TLC. Your major call to action contains an error in word choice: Call 1-780-760-3333 for a free consolation. These 4 elements do give some cause for concern that these pages may have been published without a lot of planning or effort going into them. Poorly planned and executed pages with thin or duplicate content can definitely water down the strength of your website. My view is that you need to find a reason for these landing pages to exist; a user-centric reason. What can you tell Red Deer customers about your work for Red Deer businesses that is unique? How does this differ from your Edmonton work? I think a natural fit for website design firms taking the approach you would like to is to showcase their local clients in each chosen locale. Do awesome project writeups, case studies, infographics about the community, stat sharing, etc., to make each page unique and worth visiting. Never take a cookie cutter approach, or I think it will be readily apparent to Google and humans that you aren't making the most awesome effort you could to be the best possible answer for related queries. Hope this helps!

Good to hear.  Does lend support to the trend that GWT link data can be slow to update and in this case even go off the rails.

Checking the news today. The gentlemen apparently did received the $500. http://www.cnbc.com/id/100976139

Easy answer. Keep the original page and create two new pages properly addressing each target which will be more effective, write unique content for each, don't 301 and don't canonical to one url (canonical each to it's own page)

Sitemaps won't affect your SERP greatly, but it will help to speed up the crawling process on your website. I'm not sure why you have sitemap for only 1 category. For the sake of completeness, why not just have sitemaps for the entire site? Its not that hard to set up a sitemap.

I've seen a lot of spammy links pop up for some of my smaller sites and they have usually been scrapers. When these would show up in OSE, the links wouldn't be on the page anymore. While I wouldn't initially be too concerned, here's a few follow up questions for you: How many of these shady links are you seeing in OSE? Do they have optimized anchor text? How many links/root domains are in your backlink profile? Are you seeing these links reported in Google webmaster tools? If these links aren't making up much of your backlink profile and they aren't optimized, I wouldn't be concerned. If you have a small link profile and these links make up a good portion of your profile, or they are highly optimized, they might be something to watch for. If you're really nervous, you could just use the disavow tool now.

Hi Folks, Cheers for the feedback but there seems to be a lack of a consensus on the actual effects a 301 will have. I am well aware of the impacts of not having a nominated preferred domain and its not the question I was asking about. As mentioned above this is an inherited issue, I would never let a site go live without having the preferred domain set along with a host of other settings. In relation to the last question I was trying to assess if there is a "standard" in using the www. subdomain. As in is this in Googles guidelines or is it a strong suggestion to have www.<yourdomain>.com as the destination address instead of <youdomain>.com?</youdomain></yourdomain> Dave

I believe you would have to strike a balance between an attractive tagline with using keywords. Using keywords in the eyes of search engines is definitely important, but you don't want to be using a boring tagline that makes your product commonplace. More importantly, its not about where you place your tagline, but using the appropriate tags with your headline. Using the tag for your tagline is more appropriate and gives more SEO value than , since search engine crawlers will look out for tags first to determine what a website is about.

The hierarchy of headers would require an H2 to be a subheading within the more general topic area of the H1. I can't imagine there would be any requirement for content between the H1 and the first H2, although, from the users' standpoint, it might help them to better understand what the page is about and how the H2's content applies.

It will take a lot of effort in time and money for negative SEO to have an impact.  I would suggest contacting the site and request the link/s be removed if the site is not relevant and spammy.  At the same time to negate any negative linking you should be continually developing your link profile so any single instances like this are watered down by an excellent profile.