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Hi Stephen! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Moz Help Team. Thanks for reaching out! Pixelbypixel is totally right, OSE isn't the end all be all of SEO. I looked into your site, and I'm guessing that the reason we're only pulling 10 internal links into the index is because your site has javascript. OSE has always had a heck of a time crawling past javascript, which would explain why you aren't seeing more links. I agree with Pixelbypixel in that it's good to compare with Majestic and Ahrefs. Each index will give you a different perspective on how your site it doing. I hope this helps, and happy Tuesday! Erin

Fraid so. Use the technique Marcus mentioned to find the one you want to keep. Don't forget to look at reviews, if any. You want to retain the one with the most reviews.

thanks guys.

It probably can be explained, but sadly not by me!

this might do it as well A flexible pattern URL mapping is a way of redirecting all URLs that match a particular pattern, to equivalent destination URLs, using a single mapping. It does this by allowing you to parse out and name portions of the requested URL to substitute into the destination URL. These types of URL mappings are useful when you are changing the structure or format of your URLs, but want to make sure you can redirect requests for pages under their old URL structure to their new URLs. An example of a flexible pattern URL is the following: /myblog/:post-year/:post-month/*rest-of-url?id=:post-id Each portion of the URL above that starts with a colon (:) creates a named component that is matched until the next delimiter character (./=&?), and any portion that starts with an asterisk (*) creates a named component that is matched until the end of the URL (up to the query string). The named components can then be used in the URL mapping's destination, with each name included inside of curly braces. For example, the named components defined in the flexible pattern URL above could be used to create the following destination: /newblog/{post-year}/{post-month}/post-{post-id}/{rest-of-url} To demonstrate how this flexible pattern URL mapping would work, let's consider the following example requested URL and where it would be redirected. The named components in the requested and destination URLs are highlighted. Requested URL: http://www.mydomain.com/myblog/2013/12/marketing/inbound-marketing-rocks?id=98765 Redirected to: http://www.mydomain.com/newblog/2013/12/post-98765/marketing/inbound-marketing-rocks With this pattern-based URL mapping we were able to retain all of the important, identifying parts of the original URL and insert them into the new URL structure. In addition, with this particular mapping, we were able to: capture the variable-length {rest-of-url} component (i.e. marketing/inbound-marketing-rocks) to be used in the destination url, by using an asterisk (*) at the beginning of that component's definition move the {post-id} component from the query string in the original URL into the middle of the URL in the destination

Hi there! Thanks for reaching out! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Help Team here at Moz. Unfortunately once you create a campaign you can't change the domain. If you moved your site to https, you'll need to create a new campaign. Sorry I don't have better news, but good luck with the move! If you have any questions, feel free to shoot us an email at help@moz.com! Cheers, Erin

When Google sees more than one canonical reference on a page, they will more than likely ignore all canonical hints that page has. Keep that in mind when you make your decision. If the canonical tags are working on most pages, but not on that one specific page with ?m=0, you might want to keep them implemented. If the issue is larger than that and you're seeing it effect your site in a negative way, remove them and see how Google responds. Here's a link to canonical information I refer to: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html

They had switched the title months back but once I shortened the pixel width it righted itself.  Thanks for the answers it is much appreciated!

thanks for your responses and clearing this up.

ErinMCaul, I tried that. But how do you manually connect?

I agree to avoid a domain such as: domain.com/kidney-dialysis-ckd-dialysis/article Your article URL will probably include a similar keyword and it does start to get too long/stuffy. I also agree that you want to setup an internal structure as described: Category > Article Name Where I differ is by including the category in the URL, I believe it is not needed. Instead, allow the URL to be the article name. Then, structure your website so that you have a strong category page for your main keyword phrase and include links to these articles (and vice-versa) as appropriate. Your internal link structure will tell Google just how important the main category page is for the main term and your supporting articles will be organized into categories through your UI & navigation structure. Setting it up this way will inform google how each piece of content is related and still allow for the article to be the main term in the URL structure. However, this is just a preference. You can include the category in the main URL structure and it may even be a big benefit to your site. I prefer the more direct URLs and enforcing the structure through UI & internal link design - I think it allows for more flexibility and attention on the article's terms.

Another thing which is weird: If I google "site:medexpress.co.uk" the page /clinics/erectile-dysfunction/viagra appears. If I google "site:medexpress.co.uk viagra" that page no longer appears! I could see why my page would have maybe dropped in the rankings but to go from a rank of around 30-70 for most of the keywords for this page to dropping off the index points to something more extraordinary. Its been like this for almost two weeks and I'm considering maybe changing the URL (as I mentioned other long-tail optimized blog pages are now starting to rank so it appears to be just this page). Is it possible this page has been moved to the supplemental index for some reason?

I tried to confirm that example and came up short. Were you able to? This is so funny to me because I've literally had this exact same argument at executive meetings. I've lived this nightmare! It doesn't matter that the two brands target different verticals. What matters is the product, as you've pointed out. You can target different verticals from the same domain. But competing domains are a no-no. I would go back to focusing on how beneficial it would be to combine these. Try the concept of subdomains with them. So have a parent brand let's call it just that, 'parent.' Then you will have your consumer vertical and your smb vertical, right? so you can go consumer.parent.com and smb.parent.com -- Have them branded differently but not violate Google guidelines while still bettering your SEO situation and improving DA/organic traffic and visibility. Does that pitch make sense at the high level I threw it? Could you run with that? I'd track down their examples also as that doesn't sound right to me. My CEO threw me examples and I shot them down on the spot when this happened to me. Don't give up! You know you're right