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Hey there Since you are using a CMS just about everything will show up as a page…especially if you are using WordPress. I would suggest disallowing the indexing of these pages. Even if you were able to get meta description tags in there, they wouldn't do anything for your SEO since they are just one image on a page. If you are using WordPress, there is a setting in the backend that stops the indexing of media pages. That will stop this problem you are having. Hope that helps!

If you have a lot of people in your circles, the +1s they have given can have some affect on the search results you see when you are signed into Gmal. It is part of how Google personalizes your search results. There truly isn't a huge difference, but you could see a different result if you are signed in as opposed to not being signed in.

Hi! I would look at the source of the traffic first (they have to be coming from somewhere) or IF the site has injected codes. I've seen this happen before. Injected codes (invisible or not) then they spam you with links and traffic from different countries. Some country specific traffic gets more visibility hence more traffic from there. I hope it's not but it's better to be safe and check if you were hacked. I wont point at the competitor yet as that's a very minimal thing in terms of SEO. It just messes up your stats though.

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In 2011 Matt Cutts advised that Google does limit on redirect chains - he indicated the Googlebot won't follow more than around 3 or 4. No limit on the total number of single-level 301s. In your specific situation I would redirect both the original and the first replacement to the new replacement so that users and bots can reach the new page in a single redirect hop.

Hi SEO Martin, I'm trying to figure out your exact question. Are you wondering whether you should noindex the "empty" pages? Are you trying to figure out how to identify all the pages that are producing errors? Or something else?

Google does not like what you are doing! Google wants to have the same content on a page  (that rules out option a) Option B sounds better. but make sure the copy is still on the page. Just vary the content you are presenting based on the user. (this is called the liquid internet)

Hi Charles, Although, we have let our product team know that some users prefer a firm delineation for the moment we are sticking with the breakdown provided above. If you have any questions on this or have some feedback you would like sent up to the powers who rule the keyword difficulty section let me know! Anyway hope this helps and I wish you an awesome day.

Cloudflare.com is a great CDN if you need a free or low cost solution.

No but we will certainly pencil it in for a trial. Thanks

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JStrong, Just to make sure we're all on the same page: Although Google uses the phrase "Structured Data..." I don't think they mean it in the same was as you would use, for example, Schema markup in the code. The example there is simply a meta description, which you can use for whatever purpose you like. It could be worth testing the Click-Through-Rate on meta descriptions like that (a metric you can see in Google Webmaster Tools) to decide if you want to use it, though for my money I'd bet on a description with a clear value proposition, offer, call to action, emotion, etc... that will also have their keywords bolded if they appear in the description. If you do test it out please share what the effect on CTR in the SERPs was from GWT. Just because I'm curious.

410 means "Gone" and is used to indicate a resource no longer exists. If it exists use 200 (OK). If it is out-dated place a notice to that effect but still leave it as 200. Putting a noindex instruction in the robots meta element should be sufficient to remove it from the Google index, though it may take some time. Nofollow is probably not what you want to do as this will destroy any link value flowing through those pages. If it is so out-dated that it is considered valueless then it should be deleted and 410'd. A 301 redirect can be used where a new resource that substantially replaces the old resource has been created. Not sure why you would want to keep Google's index of your site 'lean' unless you have a lot of resources competing for the same keywords and are concerned about cannibalization.

It's a one off campaign so I won't be spending time ranking for that domain. Or at least not for now.

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Thank you, and this rel canonical url is just a re-divert to the home page. web designers have messed up here. thank you for clarification on my thoughts

Get new, better quality links ASAP, before or while you're disavowing It depends on your outreach methods - I had ~50% removal rate with one of our sites which is multiple times higher than the average. You can just disavow and hope it works or you can get as many links removed as possible, disavow the rest, then hope it works. I'd go with the latter.