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Check this thread out for some help. http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-determine-which-pages-are-not-indexed Best, Ruben

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Thanks Takeshi and CleverPhd.  This is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for.  Hiding the blank pages until there is content is actually pretty easy in this system so I will just go ahead and do that. Thanks again.

Hi Kristy, So glad to help. I'm a fan of Whitespark's FAQ page. Helps you to see how their service stacks up to others: http://www.whitespark.ca/citation-building-faqs Worth a read.

CFSSEO, Can you share the site so we can have a look at it to provide a better, more specific, answer for you? If not, I hope this general answer will help: You should only have one canonical page per product. Even if there are product variants (size, color, etc...) those should typically be handled with a drop-down selector or checkbox on the product page instead of creating an entire new product page for each variant. If this is a large affiliate or drop-shipping website where you are pulling in feeds from different merchants/distributors/stores the bitter pill you may have to swallow is that such sites are dying out in the SERPs because Google doesn't think they offer anything above and beyond their own search results. Someone wants to buy a Blue Widget and they go to Google and type "Cheap blue widget" and a bunch of merchants'/distributors' stores show up... why do they need to put another site in-between the searcher and their destination? The only way to work within this paradigm is to prune the site down and focus mostly on category-level searches, price comparison searches, etc... and by offering more useful features, including robust customer reviews for products and merchants, tools to help the shopper compare options, in-depth buying guides to educate shoppers on their choices... but thousands of product pages with default manufacturer content will no longer do the trick, and may actually harm the rest of your site. This may or may not apply to your situation. It is tough to give advise like this without knowing the site in question. However, I hope it has helped point you in the right direction.

You may also want to try Google Trends. This will give you a much larger view if you are looking for trends over a couple of years in order to identify patterns over months.

Great to hear Ruben, good luck! Pagemodo (comes with a free version) can also help you out with Facebook contests, giveaways and the like.

I'm probably biased, but I find it hard to beat Domain Authority in the long run. Julie Joyce at Search Engine Land recently did a writeup of the various competing domain metrics, including Domain Authority: http://searchengineland.com/down-with-toolbar-pagerank-and-up-with-what-175886 A couple of things I should note: It's common for DA to fluctuate normally with each index The recent government shutdown included 1000s of subdomains across the Web, which had a ripple effect across many Moz metrics, including MozTrust, which feeds into Domain Authority DA is a relative metric, so when you see your DA rise or fall, you'll often see similar results in your competition. This makes DA ideal for a competitive metric. Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

Google+  & Google Local are two different things (confusing I know!) So if you have a Google plus page and a Google local page that's good and normal you have more than that yes I would recommend removing them. Google+ is for social and Google local is to help people find you (locally) Hope that helps, sorry if its overly confusing.

Hi, the Moz assessment of keyword difficulty for "send SMS online" is 62% which is defined as follows: Highly Competitive Powerful sites with strong pages tend to dominate these results. Links in quantity and quality (at both the domain and page level) are required to earn top rankings. I think if you don't have a site established and a track history for this already, then your chances of ranking well enough to earn traffic from search engine clicks is small to zero. If you have a product to sell for this term then my advice is that you are better off spending any money you have to pursue this by using Google Adwords. But then at the USD 2.12 cost you listed, then it's possible you won't see a return there unless you are hoping to sell packages for sending SMS online in high volumes. I hope that helps, Peter

In the past, page titles, structured as questions have done reasonably well since they were often close to the query typed by many users. In the future, however, I'd expect to see the following 2 broad changes: Knowledge graph answers to more popular and basic questions (meaning it's not worth much time to create these types of pages). Hummingbird changes to how queries are answered. From what I've read it appears that part of Hummingbird was about better analyzing the structure and meaning of queries, rather than simply matching keywords. To me that would suggest that the page types you're talking about will be less and less valuable. Because of that, I wouldn't dedicate as much time to these types of content as I would have a couple years ago. Harder questions or Q&A type content will always have it's place, however. Getting back to your question of "Would [having pages ranked that get lots of views] help my website as whole start ranking better?", I'd say yes, but not simply because the pages are ranking. It's more likely that they'd attract some links and social shares for the site (assuming they're decent quality pages), which would provide more benefit. That said, I'd only spend time on content that's closely matched with the topic of the rest of your site - creating these random pages won't add much benefit if they're not related to the rest of the site.

Hi David, Typically, your main landing pages are going to be those that represent the city of location, as in: www.site.com/orlando www.site.com/miami etc. What I'm trying to understand is if you are saying you have more than one office within a single city (as in orlando office A, orlando office B, orlando office C) and are trying to hash out how to distinguish these same-city offices from one another. Is this the scenario, or am I not getting it? Please feel free to provide further details.

Google doesn't care the W3.org language tag (Bing does it, instead). Said that using it on every page is a good practice for W3.org, hence do that. For Google, if the site is using a Country Code Top Level Name (i.e.: .it, .fr, .de...), then the site will be automatically target the country related to the domain termination (i.e.: .de > Germany and just Germany, not Austria or any other German speaking country). If the site is under a generic domain name (i.e.: .com), then you have to specify in the Google Webmaster Tools setting of the site what country (hence regional Google) you want the site itself to target. NOTE:  if you are targeting language and not countries, don't use ccTld domain names, because, as I said before, those domain names targets only the country the domain termination is paired to. Then... use the hreflang="x" markup so to suggest to Google what URL must be shown to the user depending on the language they use (check this official Google page). Finally, do a great localization of the content and try to obtain authoritative quality signals like links from local sites and social shares from local users.

Sanaa, What that does is actually make for a new "sub" domain that is distinct from the pennies.com domain.  Depending on how closely tied a subdomain is with the root domain (via links and topics), the subdomain and pages within it all rank independently of the root domain.  There are wide variations in the degree of independence a subdomain has with the root but in answer to your question, it doesn't "hurt" SEO but it does require a different strategy to achieve desired results.  Here's some lit on the whole domain topic for you: http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain

I think that Google knows what (keywords) your articles are about - so there is less need to stuff them into a title tag. However, matching the keyword to what the searcher has in mind and will see bolded in the SERPs is still important. "providing variety within the SERP when compared to other results" Exactly.  You need to stand out.  Show that your content or product has special value, inspire the searcher to click on your page.  I believe that title tags can move rankings if you can get the visitor to click and hold them after they land.

Your question shows the problem SEO has had for a long time, which is trying to optimise a page/site for search engines, specifically, Google. You should be looking at your pages in terms of your customers - Are your pages easy to read, do they contain unique interesting information relevant to the type of query that might return your page, do you engage with your site visitor, can they find what they want on your site easily and so on. The same is true of the term 'link building', think in terms of 'link earning', if you produce content that is interesting and worthwhile engaging with then people will want to talk about and share that content. Don't get me wrong, having clear unique page titles and on-page relevant headlines, and using different routes to getting your content out there is not a bad thing. Press releases and media stories, videos, infographics, interviews, customer reviews etc etc are all good ways to get the word out there but the question to always ask yourself is "Why?" - Why should someone want to read about your site, or do business with you - Why do you have a site - if the only answer is to make money then it's unlikely you'll be a must visit must write about or link to site. Good luck!

I haven't found standard shipping info text to be much of a problem in terms of duplicate content on product pages, but if you're concerned about it I would consider an iframe. While hiding the content in a non-crawlable .js file might work, it isn't advisable. First, Google PreviewBot can parse javascript on the page and see the content in many cases, as is necessary to generate the site preview and visual cache of a page. Second, anything that keeps Google from being able to properly render the page may be considered suspect. Please view this video by Matt Cutts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9BWbruCiDc Essentially, he says "Don't block Google bot from css or javascript".