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No problem. Though tonight I'm devoting most of my attention to getting sloshed. Our friends of the alternate en variety are getting knackered. I would do that at a bar, but they would do it at a pub.

Thank you for the answer. I have another website with 28000 unique pages that all linked to home page. My home page optimised for one keyword but I can't get it in top even though my competitors are way smaller and they are in top with almost no seo.. On the other hand I have looooots of traffic on internal pages, but internal pages only.

Are they sites that you built, or are you looking for a solution for Dealer.com and other automotive website vendors?

Hey Josh! With the latest increase of crawl limits for all campaign, unfortunately the lowest is set for 10,000. If you have less than 10,000 pages then we will only crawl the total amount of pages you have. Takeshi has great tips on excluding certain pages from being crawled in robots.txt Our user-agent is rogerbot so an example would be User-agent: rogerbot Disallow: /categories/ Hope this helps!

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If those pages are getting traffic or have good links/referrals, then sure, redirect to the appropriate page. What 'good' means really depends upon the vertical, but you know what pages get traffic and which are chaff. Check your various link sources and site analytics. Whatever doesn't make your cut, 410. Whatever makes the cut, 301 to a page with content relevant to the old page. Don't do a blanket (all old pages redirect to evananas.com) redirect. It's also a very good idea to consider responsive design, now that GWT is getting angry about improper mobile redirects.

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If you are going to have the exact same content on all domains, stick with the .com and 301 redirect the rest of the domains to the main domain. If you are willing to invest in different content for each domain, then you should have no problem. Just be sure to put the hreflang tags in the header of all the sites, so Google knows that they are related:

Thank you, now it works fine

Thanks Lesley, I'm not sure that this is what I was looking for though. It looks more like a way to markup what brand particular products are, rather than an organisational brand?

You're welcome. But there is a lot that was left out. It's just the nature of the beast. Link building/acquisition/earning is a broad and deep topic. There are millions of ways to go about it. Some tactics will get you in trouble. Some tactics may result in public ridicule. So be careful and read up. If a link looks shady, it probably is. The best links drive real traffic. Search operators are your friends.

Hi We submit our xml site maps daily automatically anyway.  Leave a copy on the site to be crawled, but by submitting the site map it ensures that the Google Index is upto date without waiting for it to be crawled. There are plenty of bolt on sitemap generators which will automatically send the sitemaps, without manual intervention. Bruce

I totally agree with EGOL on this. I would like to add my 2cents since I think I am one of the only SEO people that is a developer too. This is what I would do (in pseudo code) put a <rel="canonical"  href="$url=strtok($_SERVER[" request_uri"],'?');"=""> </rel="canonical"> This is in php, I don't know what platform you are on, but what it will do in php is return the current url as the canonical and delete the ? and everything after. So basically it will return the url minus the query string. I use this technique a lot with my clients for doing canonical urls on CMS's that use query strings and it works great.

Ok as far as I understand your question, you are saying your website is ranking but for some keywords not the preferred page on the website is ranking. I will answer as per the best of my understanding… Ok this usually happens when you didn’t setup your website navigation and structure correctly. I would prefer to give another look to your internal linking strategy. Another thing you can do is to get some quality links with anchor text around your keyword to your targeted pages. Get an internal link from the ranked page to the page you want to rank in search engines against your key term. I am not saying this will work 100% but most of the times it works for me…

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