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Can you show the beginning of the article after 30 days is up? Similar to what New Scientist do: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229720.600-memory-implants-chips-to-fix-broken-brains.html

Thanks for your response. I can't upload a picture due to client confidentiality. Plenty of websites that do well don't have much written content on their homepage (and categories) - firebox.com is one example, and that has less text content than the example I'm referring to. Google has recrawled the page and is still showing the same meta description so I may suggest adding some content to try and encourage Google to use that if it doesn't want to use the meta description.

Thank you both! The pen icon is so faint I completely missed it - have been clicking the + sign for days now hoping it was just a bug! Turns out it's not, but Moz, make that pen stand out more it's almost invisible on my screen!

I looked at SEO-browser, and saw the same result. We have done a lot of ecom sites over the years, and it's always wise to fill in any space you have in the cart system with product info that sets the pages apart from one another. We put together a page a while back, that includes a similar page checker. This lets you see on a percentage scale how "similar" pages are to one another, and explains the definition of what "duplicate content" really is, and how it can hurt your site.

I have 7-8 ad-sense blog websites under one hosting, Now I am planing to create selling website. My blogs were not having good content and they are decreasing in ranking (my be panda). So I need to remove those websites from the hosting? should they effect my new selling website negatively?

Sorry, ignore this - seems asking the question works! It has now finally deleted everything, I wonder if there is a bug though because surely it shouldn't be that bloody difficult to delete something?

How does one know that one is being penalized for linking blog pages on one site to the ecommerce pages on the mother site? Thanks, DIane Diane Kramer, Doggie-diva.com

Thanks to David, Patrick, and EGOL for their great answers. You all help make Q&A such a great place!

thank you for taking the time to help David

Hey T20! Our engineers are aware of the decimals being returned in the report but can you give me an example of the regional problems you are referring to also more detail about the FB results?

We may not have found all of the links quite yet and I'm guessing our next big update (scheduled for June 18th) will find those links. If not, reach out to help@Moz.com and we will dig into this.

A friend of mine, working for a child daycare center, experienced the same issue lately. Seems like some flaw in the Google system. Hope this has been resolved along with the major Google Local Business Center update.

Hi There, Thanks for writing us! After checking into this issue myself and a colleague were not able to discover where you found the 44% number for IT support company Portsmouth. A screen shot is usually the best way for us to track down these issues. With a bit of clarification we should be able to help you out. If you would like to discuss specific examples of this outside of the forum I would encourage for you to reach out at help@moz.com. In the meantime if you have any other questions or concerns please feel free to ask. Have a great day!

Hello Nick, It sounds like you're talking about category pages that link to product pages. I do recommend putting unique content on category pages, as they target different phases of a buying cycle (and keywords). For example... "Blue Widgets" is a top-level category search. "Blue Widgets for Men" is a category search. "Men's V9 Blue Widget" (not the singular use of widget) is most likely a product search. All three pages types should have their own unique content using keywords specific to that stage of the buying cycle, and displaying content that is useful to that stage of the buying cycle. For example... "Blue Widgets" ---> Explain how to choose a blue widget. Which sub-category should they check out? Help them decide where to go next. Help them narrow their search. "Men's Blue Widgets" ---> Explain the difference between brands and perhaps leading models. What are their needs and budget? Which are the high-end, top-of-the-line men's blue widgets, and which are affordable and reliable options, or entry-level widgets? Educate them. "Men's V9 Blue Widget" ---> Explain the product. What are the features that either set it apart or make it a good value for the money? The linking strategy can work this way as well. Naturally you're going to be passing pagerank from category pages into sub-categories and into products. This happens naturally on most sites because that is the natural flow of a purchasing path and a logical taxonomy. However you should also be passing pagerank back up if you want to help category pages rank. Enhanced produce descriptions give you an opportunity to do this. Good luck!

Hi Dan, There are 2 ways to handle pagination in Google's eyes: 1. Use a "view-all" page, whereby all paginated pages (?pg=x) have a canonical to the page that has all the results on it: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/view-all-in-search-results.html 2. Use rel=next and rel=previous between the paginated pages. There is no one single page that has all the results on it: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html Each has its own merits and the choice usually depends on page performance (for the first option) vs. time to implement (for the 2nd option). If you have lots of categories and products and offer list sorting in the URL and faceted navigation you run the risk of submitting a ton of URLs to Google, so the clean up you're doing sounds like a good approach. Finally, in WMT I presume you have the pg parameter configured as "paginates" for the "effect". Hope that helps George

technically a no follow tells Google you don't want to be associated with a link or pass on and link juice through that link, I don't think it works the same for an image and it may still result in it being indexed, if you want to be safe I would suggest that you block it in robots (the Google image bot)

Brilliant, Tom! Going to go ahead and do the 301. Thanks so much.

Hi Sagar If the link profile is bad - which isn't a Panda issue - I would not redirect the domain.  Not sure if there is confusion here in your penalty definitions, so I'll cover all bases. In terms of a Panda penalty, ie a thin content/duplicate/spammy on-page website, I've yet to see that penalty pass on to a new domain when redirected.  However, a bad link profile penalty (often a Penguin penalty) I have definitely seen passed on through a 301 redirect.  The penalty doesn't take hold immediately on a new domain, but it does eventually and is something of a ticking time bomb. For that reason, I wouldn't want to 301 redirect the domain until I removed a good majority of the bad links in the link profile of the old domain. I hope that helps.