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Is someone able to say whether it is Domain Authority or MozRank that is more equivalent to PageRank? Also, what does it mean if a site's MozTrust is a good bit higher than its MozRank? Does this suggest that the site is in a general sense getting more links from highly trusted URLs than it is from moderately trust URLs? Which helps more in ranking, MozTrust or MozRank? Is MozTrust particularly important when trying to rank for highly competitive keywords? I am grateful for any help that anyone can offer. Rob

looks like the split testing is affecting our yahoo rankings. anyone experiencing the same issue?

Hi Nick, Given that you have tried all of the above, I recommend cutting off the search engines at the source, in your Robots.txt. Once you manually exclude the page in your robots.txt doc, the search engines will no longer crawl and index the page. After enough time passes, the page should disappear from the SE's cache. Here is a moz tutorial for how to exclude the page: Robot's Exclusion Protocol Just a heads up..you may want to give it a week or so for the SEs to catch up on all the work you have already done to resolve the issue. Then try the above solution. Good luck!

thank you for your reply. do you think i am 15 years too late as google is acquiring ITA. http://www.google.com/press/ita/

Yep, LiquidWeb is also our hosting company. Never had a problem.

HI Adam I like the idea of the showing related content on that page, that would be useful for the user as well as increase the speed of indexing I would guess Thank you

I'm going to have to hold off on this google have done an update today which is why we've now dropped from p4 to p14. I've posted a message here http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=76830633df82fd8e&hl=en&start=1360

I recommend you do precisely nothing. Leave the link as it is and in fact you should have it present on all pages (or as the case is usually in the footer) if it is meaningful to your users. Privacy policy tells Google something more about your site and it does represent an extra hint (e.g. blogs usually don't have one). Canonicalising your privacy policy page to itself will do exactly that - tell Google that that's the correct canonical version of it and it would be useful only if you have various different URL versions of that same page. Privacy policy page has PR4 because PR5 links to it - it's how it usually turns out (one down each link distance away). Also there is no such thing as "domain PageRank", PageRank is calculated for each individual page - with home page usually being strongest. Given that your privacy policy does come up on the 2nd page could be due to URL length which plays role in sorting with site: command not necessarily the PageRank alone. If this page was the first page that comes up when you do site: command I would look at twice at your link structure. As it is it doesn't sound like you have any problems of that kind.

They will be treated as seperate sites, to us www1 and www may seem very similar but to Google it will be two separate things. Even http:// and http://www. can be two different sites. So from that point of view I say you are safe given that you're not duplicating content in ways that I may not be aware currently.