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If the canonical link is not set, its possible you will get additional pages indexed for the same content especially if you are using a CMS. The best course of action would be to do a site search for your domain, and see how may pages are indexed. If you know you have 200 pages on your site, and you have 2000 indexed, you most likely have some duplicates showing up. We wrote an article about avoiding duplicates through htaccess earlier this month. Might be worth a read if you have not set any of those rules for your site. CMS's (Wordpress, Joomla) can be tricky to get duplicate pages under control. *edit Looking at your indexed pages, you are showing 122,000 links indexed for your site. If that isn't the case, you should look into assigning canonical links for all your posts, and if they are already indexed, processing redirects. You can also use Google's URL parameter tool to help, althought this tool should be used with caution if you don't know how to use it.

Agreed. This won't result in a penalty. To add; as most privacy policies are linked from the footer, so you might want to add a rel="nofollow" to the link.

Hi there, I reviewed your account and can confirm you actually haven't been charged anything. Both our records and our payment processor's records only show a voided $1 authorization that is processed when you first set up an account to validate the card. As the authorization is pending and then voided, it generally drops off of a live billing statement after 2-3 business days. If this is in regards to a different account than what you're writing in about, we'd need the email for it to research. I recommend sending in a ticket if you'd like more detailed information or for us to look into this further for you as we prefer not to discuss account details in the community for privacy and security purposes. Hope this helps clear things up and again, please reach out if you have any other questions. Thanks!

Thank you!

Hi, Keyword rankings tracks all of your rankings historically, rank tracker will only track 50. You can refresh the rankings whenever and you can send reports to a different email then the account's email. You can learn more about rank tracker here: http://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/rank-tracker Cheers, Steffany

Ok thanks alot. I know its important to maintain good rich, rather than thin content on posts (listings). I was intending on using categories and tag them with regions - so the content is more like an actual post rather than like a telephone book. Cheers

Would general running blogs, be considered a related niche for "running shirts" to google Well I'm not going to second guess how Google sees it, but from a logical POV, I would say it's fine.

Travis, I think this really proves what Se ma lt was up to from the beginning. Do all the web crawl spam to gain authority and faux traffic so they could show a high DA, etc. Good find. Thanks,

Hi, For now that's the only thing that I saw was off from a usual implementation of the tracking code. As you're using rocketscript as the type of the tags the events might not get fired correctly.

Thanks David. Yes, we did this for Travis who responded above. Would you be interested in taking a look as well? If you private message me your username I can have my IT Director set up access for you.

Their content is mediocre at best. Lot's of grammar and spelling errors from a supposedly us/uk staff.

Thanks to you all. I'll post a request there. Micha

Hi there! It looks like both these tags are present on the same URL, your desktop version. The rel="canonical" tag should be implemented on the mobile version of the page instead, and only the rel="alternate" tag should be kept on the desktop versions. This is how you signal the bidirectional, or two-way, relationship to Google. Hope that helps!

Yup, you've got it!

First off, chicago.yoursite.com is going to be seen differently from atlanta.yoursite.com, unless they are substantially similar (i.e. they are carbon copies). Remember that this means that each subdomain will have its own SEO. yoursite.com/chicago is going to be viewed as the same site as yoursite.com/atlanta because they share the same TLD. Unless you're going to build a ton of content around each, I would suggest one site with a subdirectory. It's less work for you. Then make each localized page unique. Take pictures, discuss the features of each location, etc. Add the address and maybe a map widget.

I'm getting something a little different out of this. I plugged rugcare.com into SEM Rush. It shows a considerable spike in traffic in June, then a very big drop in July. Joehadeed.com and bergmanns.com are showing relative spikes and drops as well. So there's a possibility that a bigger competitor is eating everyone's share. Though when I plug rugcare.com into Majestic SEO, it shows 55K redirect links pointing to rugcare.com. Majestic picked this up in late June, which may account for the sudden spike in rankings and traffic, followed by a steep decline in July. It also appears that the site received a number of links from housecleaningadvice.com with the anchor text 'upholstery cleaning tips - rug care'. They appeared to be nofollow, and I can't find the links anymore, but I wouldn't take a link from that site at all. It looks like it's part of a typical blog spam network. I don't want to scare you, but have you received any warnings in GWT? I also can't find these three pages on the current site via nav or crawl: https://web.archive.org/web/20131230215654/http://www.rugcare.com/carpet-cleaning https://web.archive.org/web/20131014021917/http://www.rugcare.com/oriental-rug-cleaning https://web.archive.org/web/20131014021812/http://www.rugcare.com/carpet-and-rug-repairs Was there any particular reason for their omission? Do you know how much traffic those pages used to receive? It looks like the oriental rug cleaning page would have accounted for a chunk of traffic on it's own. Now it just 404s.

Your answers are inaccurate. A higher bid does NOT always win. It's the QS X the bid. If a keyword with a high QS X low bid is greater than a keyword with a low QS x high bid, then the lower bidding keyword can still trigger the ad. There is NO pattern to MBM keywords being more expensive than phrase keywords. The opposite can often be true for high intent keywords where it has been discovered to result in more conversions or lower CPA.