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I can't say I have a complete understanding of what this is explaining, but here's a link to the original paper on Stanford's website if anyone else is interested. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

Egol is right - pages like this can persist in quieter niches, especially if there are not a huge number of other results to take the thin results' place. I notice that this guy's page for London has a lot more content, probably indicative of the fact that the competition for rankings and business is a lot higher in London than it is in surrounding areas.

Thanks Joel so do you think best/simplest to set up new campaign/s in MA for both domain.com/US & domain.com/UK ? And if so can i edit the settings on the exsting domain to monitor the new domain.com/uk so maintains the historical data (rankings crawl errors etc) ? since if i did set up a new campaign for domain.com/uk would lose it surely ? Also i know your suffering a DDOS attack preventing some GA data and i see that at this campaign doesnt have any Search data in reporting at the moment.  I need to provide clients reports early next week will it repopulate that data by then do you know ? Thanks Dan

Crazy Egg are good, and their free trials are good too. If you have Google Tag Manager or can code its a doddle to set up.

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It really want have that much of an impact. But one thing to consider is Google has mentioned in the near future they are going to start giving search priority to sites that use https. If you could keep it, you would be ahead of the curve.

Hi there, I agree with Nate that the question is awkwardly phrased and I'm having a little trouble understanding exactly what is going on without real examples, but I believe what you're probably dealing with here is a case of one domain being stronger than the other, and that site ranking better based upon domain strength rather than true relevancy to the query. This is not uncommon and is often seen when very strong domains (big newspapers, etc.) rank for a query with a thin, unhelpful page. Higher-value, relevant results from much weaker websites rank much lower. Google attempts to stop this from happening but it's not uncommon.

Thank you so much Tom Very Helpful and I really Appriciate it Exciting news about the algorithm refresh. I will keep a check on the MOZ Algorithm Change History for that then Thanks Adam

Hi there If you can add "noindex,follow" to those pages, then yes that would be an ideal solution.  I'd double check your pagination code just to make sure it's done properly, but I have seen pages with paginations/different canonicals be indexed before alongside the original in the past (canonical code is a suggestion, not an instruction like a robots command). One thing I'd recommend doing is do a search for your paginated URLs with the "info:" search parameter, eg: info:http://www.abc.com/jobs-in-delhi-1 If the search result is your original, main page, eg: www.abc.com/jobs-in-delhi - then I see that as a good sign that Google is following your pagination code and so while they might be in the index, they're treated as pagination versions of your main page and so you will avoid anything like duplicate content etc. But, to be absolutely sure, I think adding "noindex,follow" is a good idea. Hope this helps.

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Hi Walter - I can help a little on that. Basically, I'd urge you to think of thee percentages as good relative numbers that are most directly connected to Domain Authority and Page Authority scores. For example, say there's a keyword with a difficulty of 30%. You could roughly expect that to compete, you'd need to be in the Domain Authority and Page Authority 30(ish) range to get onto page 1 (and you'd need to be higher to be at the top). That's most certainly not all there is to it, but it's a reasonable rough way to think about it. Hours needed is a metric I don't think is a good way to think about Keyword Difficulty. Some marketers and some sites may require 5 hours of work to create and market a piece of content that could compete for the same difficulty that it would take months or even years for another site to work on. http://moz.com/academy/competition-keyword-analysis is a great resource you should check out and dives into detail on how to use the tool (including a bit about the percentages). The way I always use keyword difficulty is to help identify the relative challenge in ranking for a term. My goal is to target terms with high search volume and low difficulty first and to recognize that really hard keywords are going to take much more outstanding content (and outstanding marketing to earn links). Some low difficulty terms (e.g. anything below 25 or 30) might just take good keyword targeting and hitting publish (because I have a pretty strong blog already). High difficulty terms (anything over 60 or 65) are usually going to take serious concerted effort and a lot of links (with some nice anchor text) to rank well.

Hi there, Just to add to what Martijn has said, you should be able to specify the pages that target the US with this tag and leave the pages for international users unspecified. This means creating different pages / URLs of course, rather than using IP detection which isn't advised for changing content.

While I can't help with the second part of your question just now, I can help with the first.  There have been a couple of studies that have argued that 302 redirects are eventually treated as 301s.  Here is one example.

I would 301 redirect the old url to the new on. Here is some info on it, https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en

Hi Kristina thanks for your response - looks like i will just have to be more patient!! Thanks Ash

OCring it should make it crawlable so that should create search engine benefit. What you could try is using some of the content as a lead generation piece. So you know all those sites that will give you well written white pages if you give them an email? You could do the same, so maybe have the best content released only after an email is produced.

Hi Prestashop! Thanks for the info. We will talk to our marketing guy and find out what kind of tracking url he is using. We appreciate your help