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Thank you John. The solution you offered works if a site is geared for one particular language. The site I am working with has language dedicated forums covering more then a dozen languages. The end solution will need to adjust for all of them. I will speak to the forum software about your idea and hopefully we can build something off your suggestion. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience.

Thought in general you could use canonical tag cross domain too http://moz.com/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday

I agree with the building out of pages that will have both the shorter url, and more reliance to said page. Tied into the html and xml site maps.  Placement is all about reliance and reputation, so of course if each page has its own SCOPE, it SHOULD obtain great placement and people will have found more of what they were looking for when they get there.....

Yes That exact phrase is mentioned 8 times on the home page. It is mentioned 3 times on every page in the site, once in the header and twice in the footer. You also have very similar phrases in the footer on every page "Filme gratis", "filme online", "Filme online". Most of the pages also have a sidebar with the same phrases as well. There is a lot of cannibalization on the site, along with keyword stuffing and a 404 error for the Tutoriale tab in your navigation bar.

The surf safe information I shared isn't really relevant in this particular case as Mulith shared he operates an adult site. I added it in case others viewed this topic at a later time.

Also available is SEOmoz' http://www.seomoz.org/popular-searches

Many thanks Thomas. I guess we'll have to just watch this space. Best wishes, Adam

If you know now that you will optimize 30 pages then make your plan now. Determine which pages will focus which key words or phrases. This will help you avoid cannibalization within your own site. You can also start now with building anchor links between each page as you optimize them. As you build links or otherwise improve your first few pages, you may encounter an opportunity for another page. You can then either take notes so you can easily backtrack later, or you can stretch and include the extra page while it is convenient. An example is you may have a site which sells insurance. You might contact an auto dealer and obtain a link on their site referring car buyers to your site. At the same time perhaps you might think about the health or life insurance needs of the car dealer's employees and find an opportunity there as well. One last thought. Once you feel your first 5 pages are optimized, I would not recommend waiting for them to rank well. Go ahead and jump into the next 5. It takes time for SEO to work. There is no benefit to waiting. Get started now.

I would agree with Alan on this one - user experience and relevance are paramount. I get approached by guest bloggers regularly that are outside my niche and have to turn them down, and would also be expect to be turned down if I did the same. In a simplistic form, imagine going to a local bicycle shop that only sells bicycles, to find they had started to sell deep sea diving helmets - a cyclist would be confused, and a deep sea diver would be highly unlikely to even consider coming into the shop anyway. Regular customers would likely think the reason for the new products would simply be down to some kind of deal, rather than expanding on a related/natural niche.

Thanks Ryan

We ran a test linking a new domain (lets say it was asdfdfhfgj.com) and found out that the second anchor text to the same url bears a lot less weight than the first one. We linked asdfdfhfgj.com from a respected domain/page. Two links, different anchor texts. Both anchor texts where random strings that previously returned no results on Google. For the first months the page only ranked for the first random string, not the second. This is obviously just one data point but it does suggest something about the way Google treats links to identical urls from a single page. However, this effect is far from a penalty and I doubt Google would ever penalize for having two links to an identical url on one page.

Hi Drew. Did you ever find some good link building freelancers who do link building right?

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