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if you add the meta noindex, follow tag , it will keep the page out of the SERP but allows pagerank to flow through them to other pages. See this interview of Matt Cutts for more info : http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml

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Thanks again for the awesome help. I really appreciate your time and effort!!

We have a similar scenario. Many of the competitors have got more internal equity passing links and some of our clients have 0 or 1. We know that our clients have more links than these. We crawled the sites using the https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test and still showing same results. Any idea?

I think personally older people do not know too much about them. As far as just plain organic search it should be fine. But at the same time I would poll people you know and ask them if they know about .me domains, or even people you would think that could be visitors to your site.

No,  I rarely think about DA/PA.  I just make content and toss it up.  See what happens.

If you find that the other mentions of the phone numbers are on directory sites like DMOZ (which can take along time to get edits) you can add this code to the head section of the homepage:

Hi Ruben, If the one is showing and it's perfectly relevant and has equally good information, then I wouldn't worry about it. But maybe you think you'll get higher rank for that location if that page ranks, and that may be true. So how do you do that? First step I'd try is clean up the copy. In my opinion, it's overly optimized with that EXACT phrase occuring 9 times in a small amount of copy. It's unnatural. You wouldn't speak that way, so why write that way, and why would you want your readers to even see that page then? I think Google shares that sentiment. So write for consumer first, Google second. So what do you write?  I've had success rewriting and reusing the main landing page copy, whether that be the home page, or in your case, the generic personal injury attorney landing page for pages like this. You have to consider that anyone landing on this page, assuming you get it to rank, don't have the benefit of landing on the home page and may never see your personal injury page, so you need enough good information here to get them to call. But you don't want duplicate content, so you have to make it different enough. That can be difficult, I know. How many times can you write basically the same thing? The other option is to provide completely different content and then force them to go elsewhere in search of information about your services. I know that's contrary to logic. It's better to convert them on the spot, but if you can't because your site will have too much duplicate content, or you worry about people landing on this page and it sounding too much like another page they just came from, then make this page very different. But do understand this may be their landing page from the search engine, so be sure to have enough information at the top that tells them they are in the right place and you have what they need. Then fill the rest of the page with geo-specific information that gives you an opportunity to weave your local keywords in. You have an office there. Put your address (with schema code), phone number and map.  Perhaps you also include city-specific information that your Tampa target market might find valuable and relevant, perhaps even ways your attorneys are involved in that community or cases they've fought and won in the community. Finally something I've had success with is thinning out content that seems to be cannibalizing other pages. In your case, you could remove the word Tampa from the page that is currently ranking and link to "Locations" instead. From there link to your city pages. Be careful though. That could have a negative effect. At least you have some rank for that page. You don't want to lose it all, but it could be something to try. But do get that Tampa page in order first. That may be all you need. My 2 cents for what it's forth. Do let us know how it goes!

Site A Root /services/ /about/ /contact/ /blog/ /post1/ /post2/ /post3/ Site B Root /services/ /about/ /contact/ /blog/ /post1/ /post2/ /post3/ Do you think Google potentially would treat these two sites differently in anyway?

I have not had any issues with my clients. We send the product through with hashes like http://neat42.com/tshirts/1-faded-short-sleeve-tshirts.html#/color-blue and canonical all of the pages without the hash. If you can control the quantty through a url string you will not have any issues.

Hi Carla, My name is Rattan and I work at FIRST NZ. That's strange, never came across such incident. Are the URLs same in both accounts (http:// and https://, www and non-www versions)? If you have access to both the accounts, you can remove one of the account and keep the preferable setting account active? To grant access to multiple users, add them as users. Regards

Hi Michael! Because of Google's bias toward physical location, simply mentioning the names of neighboring cities in which you have no physical location is unlikely to earn you a place in the local pack of results for 'used cars' in these cities, and will not typically be enough to gain you a spot in the organic SERPs, either. The exception to this would be if you are in such a niche with such low competition that it's easy to rank for anything - which isn't typically going to be the case with a used car dealer in a big city. Meanwhile, the mention of these other cities in the titles of pages that you are trying hard to get to rank in the local pack for that main, physical city may actually somewhat dilute your ability to achieve that goal. Rather than saying, "Hey Google, THIS is our city of physical location!", you are splitting up the title to say, "Well, we're relevant to a whole bunch of places," when, in fact, you're really only strongly relevant to the main one. Chances are that you'll need to consider whether the development of landing pages for these other cities is a good marketing decision and a user-friendly strategy. This typically involves brainstorming to see if a business has a legitimate presence in other cities, beyond the fact that it's near to them and that customers travel from there to the business. With SABs (service area businesses), this decision is quite easy, because the plumber may be based in Metropolis, but is traveling to Gotham City, Star City and Red City to fix sinks. With something like a car dealership, the link is less obvious. Does the dealership do something in these cities that would warrant the development of content specific to these locales, that would then provide a sensible set of pages to be optimizing for each individual city? For example, does the dealership offer unique specials based on the customer's city of origin (Red Star customers get 5% off their purchase of a used car this summer). Or, perhaps, does the owner send a mechanic to vocational schools in another city to give presentations. Does the company participate in seminars or events in these other cities? Maybe vintage car shows or charity events? If you can find a legit connection between the business and neighboring cities, then you have something interesting to write about and a user-centric reason to be building and optimizing pages for these cities. If no such connection exists, you may need to consider PPC ads, instead, targeting these cities. You might like to read about this whole concept of city landing pages further at: http://moz.com/blog/local-landing-pages-guide

Hi, Use schema org 2.0 tags for pages and blog post entries. Google uses these to distinguishes between the two. Use page tags for the category and blog page templates and blog post tags for the posts. A blog home page is essentially a categories page that displays all posts for all categories and shows an excerpt and deep link. Use rel previous / next for pagination for these pages. Then implement a 3-link system for authorship which is optimal for blog seo. Each author has a author page on the domain and all post for an author point to his / her author page. Use the rel=author tag for blog post with the author name in the byline linking to the author bio page. Link the author bio page to his Google+ personal profile with rel=me and make sure they link back from there profile to the domain of the blog under the tab About and then Contributor to. Place a Google+ badge for pages on your blog page and presto your are a nasty mean blog. Hope this helps. PS. see the diagram for 3-link schema. It's Dutch but still understandable I think/hope. Daniel google-authorship-3-link.png

You are correct, generally, Google will index when it makes sense for them to do so per their algorithms.  It is not in my experience driven by the time on the XML sitemap.  It could be loosely correlated, but not huge. You should setup up 301 redirects on the auctions that have ended.  Don't 404 them, that is bad.  Redirect them to a page for new related auctions (probably will require some code to be whipped up). You could try to utilize webmaster tools Fetch as Google to get the pages indexed, however, this is manual, not guaranteed that Google will index it and you only have so many requests available. Spend some more time on getting organic links via articles and other content in the niche.  This will help on a number of levels not only in ranking but also attracting traffic from people interested in the product/market.

I didn't think about other sites, but that's a fabulous point. Best to play it safe. Thanks for your input! Ruben

destinationbigbear.com/blog would be ideal. You should stop posting to http://destinationbigbear.wordpress.com/ asap and put all future content onto your main site. Does http://destinationbigbear.wordpress.com/ get any traffic? If not, i'd copy over all of the posts and 301 from old urls to new ones.