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Hi Guys, Sorry for late reply was away yesterday. There's a little more to the problem really. I did a complete site redesign and increased the number of internal links per page. So gone from say 20 to 80, so I'm guessing after what you've just said Pete that the internal links are diluting the page rank. I know what you mean tfbpa about not paying too much to non-google numbers, Steve Webb's was saying a similar thing the other day in his awesome SEO audit post (pure gold for someone like me). The problem is I am also getting the same info in Google Webmaster Tools. In Google webmaster tools I get 27,000 impressions the day the site goes live and one week later I get 6,500 impressions, stabilising around the 3,500-4,000 mark. I've asked about this before but been advised that it will take time to settle, but 3 months later and it does very much seem to have settled, but at a substantially lower amount. That said overall my organic SEO is at the same level as this time last year but I've dropped on some keywords to 25% of last year. So I think what is happening is that I have diluted my page rank for internal pages causing a drop in SEO for those keywords, but I've improved the structure of the new site and caused an increase in page ranking for home page targetted keywords. So I was looking to see how I could maximise the transfer of page rank info (Google, SeoMoz or any other metric) by doing anything and everything before moving on to a new SEO strategy for building that rank back up or increasing it over and above what it was. Can you think of anything else I can do, apart from decreasing the internal links? Thanks for the great responses to btw, I really appreciate the support. Adam

Have you tried open site explorer? Although the results aren't directly from Google it's domain rank and page rank give an extremely good indications. Also maybe worth considering the MozBar as this gives you these stats as you are browsing. Open Site Explorer http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ MozBar http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar  Hope that helps

Thanks Guys, Turns out it was an indexing issue on the website. Magento was being slow to rebuild the index after seo friendly urls changed - this made it appear as though the canonical link on the page was pointing to the wrong place. We've re-run the tool after manually rebuilding the index and all is good.

Michel is right - Google doesn't care that they're one template - if both URLs are being crawled, then they'll see that as two "pages". Every unique, crawlable URL can become an indexed page. That's why duplicate content problems are so common. The good news is that you can put a canonical tag on just the one template/file and it will cover all of the paths/URLs that land on that file. The tag goes in your section and looks like: I'd check the internal links, though, and see if you're linking to both versions. It's best to use one, consistent URL in your internal links for any given page.

Thx for the great advice. We have a lot to do.

Yes bing and yahoo gives almost identical results. Select Arabian countires in Bing and you should be ok. Hope this helps

Hi Tom, It looks like Google is serving a default or script produced version of your Meta Description in result pages which is this: Music Degree and Performing Art Degree from Authentic University. Several Dozen Majors to choose from Bachelor, Master and PHD levels. However, the meta description for _http://www.registereddegree.com/music-degree_ is indeed "Registered Degree" as the On-Page tool reported. Below is the Meta data pulled from the raw HTML on the page you mentioned: name="description" content="Registered Degree" /> name="keywords" content="music degree" /> Looks like you're using Wordpress as a CMS (could be mistaken) but there is likely a setting on the page itself to enter a unique Meta Description, and depending on what SEO plugins / configuration you're using, there should also be a "Default Meta Description" setting. It's possible the you have two plugins that are conflicting, and causing duplicate Meta Descriptions to be be served. Hope this helps! Anthony

thanks for adding on 14 questions is a lot and if you couldnt tell i kindda got lazy with end questions

without being too bold, I believe the only way SEO can work going forward is to have the client, or as i call them, the passionate expert, participate in the process.  The key to the programs we're developing rely on the client.  We are just consultants who help people build online relationships. Basically we've been saying for over 10 years that writing quality content that engages your core audience is a sure fire method of gaining and maintaining rank, unfortunately over the years other methods that are easier have produced results for a lot of people, but now we have Penquin and our original marketing concepts have never been more valid.

Hey everyone, We're so sorry, but this is a known bug on our end. It's on our fix list, but we don't have an ETA for the fix right now.

The most common reasons for this are discussed at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-re-not-crawling-all-my-pages. If those don't solve your problem, email help@seomoz.org and we'll be able to sort it out at the help desk. Thanks!

I am doing the http:// and including the full URL. Should I add the link code? I didn't realize that was an HTML editor. ** Yes, you need to add the html code: full: text . That will work for sure.

Hi Erica, I found the email and clicked through but no option was offered to purchase a ticket. I contacted eventbrite and your office and eventbrite said they would instruct your office to reissue the email so I can sign in and make the purchase. I'm in my office all day so please call 641 676 5434 or email karl.seidel@cablevey.com and I'll respond quickly. Thanks!

Or could the page possibly be blocked by Rogerbot somehow? Is it working in your campaigns?

I use Excel formulas, the SEOtools plugin for excel and the SEOmoz API.  There's  a guide on setting it up along with example template some where. Works great for checking multiple domains. Others might have a better suggestion.

Hi Ben, You'll want to enter them without the brackets. Our system does exact matches so those special characters will throw it off. Let us know if you need any other help! Cheers, Joel.

As far as the categories is the widget that's faulty. I used a couple of other widgets and they supplied the correct URL when a cat. was clicked but as I'm cleaning up "too many links on page" I would still need a dropdown widget for this purpose but don't see one out their yet or I simply haven't located it. Too many categories to apply to the top nav bar. UPDATE: It came down to applying noindex features in All In One SEO for Wordpress for categories, tags and tax archives. This will eliminate multiple URLs for the same content.

An old answer to an old question, but one which has just helped me out tremendously. A true credit to the Q&A system!

Nice article! Thanks!