Wrong Page Indexing in SERPS - Suggestions?

[SavvyPanda]

Hey Moz'ers!

I have a quick question. Our company (Savvy Panda) is working on ranking for the keyword:  "Milwaukee SEO".

On our website, we have a page for "Milwaukee SEO" in our services section that's optimized for the keyword and we've been doing link building to this. However, when you search for "Milwaukee SEO" a different page is being displayed in the SERP's.

The page that's showing up in the SERP's is a category view of our blog of articles with the tag "Milwaukee SEO".

**Is there a way to alert google that the page showing up in the SERP's is not the most relevant and request a new URL to be indexed for that spot? **

I saw a webinar awhile back that showed something like that using google webmaster sitelinks denote tool.

I would hate to denote that URL and then loose any kind of indexing for the keyword.
Ideas, suggestions?

[SEODinosaur]

I believe you are referring to googles robot.txt which is designed to have google skip a page while indexing. I dont think you want to do this. However, I checked the backlinks (anchored text to your site) and seems like you have not built any incoming links using your keyword "Milwaukee SEO" . I would recommend just building some good links to using "Milwaukee SEO"

Your code should look like this Milwaukee SEO

Post this on a few Local sites. Since you are web design company as well, you can include that script in some of your local sites footers : ) Goof luck.

[danbocain]

I see your /tag/ listing is showing up in the SERPs.  I also noticed you have duplicate content issues on your website.

S****ee this for an example:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Asavvypanda.com+Whether+you+like+it+or+not%2C+Google+Plus+is+a+new+nessisary+social+network+that+your+company+needs+to+be+a+part+of.+Google+has+recently+put+the+pressure+on+businesses+to+get+involved+by+adding+the+plus+your+world+search+results+in+the+SEPR%27s.&oq=site%3Asavvypanda.com+Whether+you+like+it+or+not%2C+Google+Plus+is+a+new+nessisary+social+network+that+your+company+needs+to+be+a+part+of.+Google+has+recently+put+the+pressure+on+businesses+to+get+involved+by+adding+the+plus+your+world+search+results+in+the+SEPR%27s.&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.3...6062l7441l0l7789l7l7l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.frgbld.

I'd consider fixing the duplicate content issue first, that is definitely a major problem and is probably affecting a lot of other landing pages. Fixing this might also fix your original problem that you posted about.

[SavvyPanda]

Hey Dan,
You caught on to the big problem we're correcting now. It's the way our tagging system works in our blog... it's causing all kinds of duplicate content errors. We're changing tagging systems to help this problem.

So I plan on doing this first, but do you have any ideas how to correct the /tag/ URL that's being indexed instead of our "MIlwaukee SEO" services page?

[danbocain]

I personally would not bother indexing the /tag/ pages since all that content exists on their own "permalink" somewhere within your site from what I could tell with a quick look.

[SavvyPanda]

i'm cool with not having them indexed, i'm just worried that if I demote or block the /tag/ from being indexed we'll lose ranking for keywords.

Right now the /tag/ URL is ranking fairly well. ?

[danbocain]

I'm not sure how many of your /tag/ pages are ranking but if you can figure that part out, you can try doing htaccess 301 redirects for specific URLs, example:

redirect 301 //tag/Milwaukee-SEO.html http://savvypanda.com/services/milwaukee-seo.html

If you need further help with .htaccess and Joomla, I'm pretty well rounded with my skills. We use Joomla for a majority of our clients (followed by Wordpress.)