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Thanks Keri.  Appreciate the offer, but I'm all set.  We just 301d the page after the test was done and have decided that we'll only multivariate the home page for now.  We've now had 3 major press links point to the testing version of our home page, so we've decided our best bet is just to set up all tests as multivariate so we don't create two different URLs. Thanks again.

Hi there, Digging up an old question I was asked to respond to. In short - if you're writing unique descriptions on the indexed pages, then those are fine. The non-indexed pages don't matter in regards to duplicate content, though I'm unclear why you would need page 2 or 3 for a single hotel.

Any links gained to the sites in strategy 2 will be shared and only benefit those sites Any links gained in strategy 1 will benefit the whole domain. A brand new site can take a while to gain decent rankings although it may have the advantage of a keyword matched domain name. Hope this helps.

Again, it depends on how bots see your page. If a bot is based in, say, San Francisco, are you going to feed it SF localized results? Again, a thorough site map and site index (XML) should ensure that all content is spidered

I'm not sure I see the motivation for people to +1 something. For Facebook, social connection is a big motivator: people want their friends to see what they 'like'. How many people actually view other Google profiles like we do Facebook? Why would anyone use the +1 in Google? I think understanding the motivation might be a key to understanding how to leverage it better.

One does not always have the option to use a canonical. If you have the option; always go with the 301-redirect in such a scenario. If your concern is about the SERP's only you can try this bit of code in a htaccess file (if you use apache): RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robotsssl.txt Then add this code to your robotsssl.txt User-agent: * Disallow: / Have a good day! Jan

Then I suppose what the query was that brought them to that landing page. If someone searches for "replace my windows" or "I need new windows" and ends up on a page offering a free consultation (and assuming the company looks credible, etc) then I can imagine a pretty high conversion rate. 15% seems believable. Maybe even higher if it's just email address in exchange for product info for products related to the initial query. But again, no one is going to share this kind of data because if it's really good it will attract new competitors and no one wants to invite competition...

I saw discussion about this on Twitter last night. Justin from Distilled wrote a post that Google is now blocking "scam" in suggested search and instant search. Look through the comments, as some people are still seeing scam, and there are still other terms to look for, such as complaints, pyramid, etc. http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/seo/google-blocking-scam-keyword-in-autocomplete/

In sifting through these two sites, I have also discovered one other thing. I checked their ISP neighborhoods and looked at shared domains to see how they were indexing. So far, almost all sites in the same neighborhood are not indexing. Could a bad ISP neighborhood by default bring your domain down?

My rule of thumb is anything visible and on page should be optimised for the users experience.  If it's going to help them consolidate the knowledge that they've just got from your site then it is beneficial. It will not help you in climbing the SERPS, as link juice and other metrics does not pass backwards in a link.

My concern with this video is that he says to make sure it is not pages and pages of content. Granted, not all of these guides are going to be super long and this will probably be one of the longest, but the first complete guide is just over 1000 words.

Ok so I am trying to figure out the best way to add 50,000 links to the robots.txt file and future proof it so we dont have to keep adding manually to the file whenever a new product is added. I am not all that familar with x-cart. Here is how the urls i want to block are formated... website.com/store/product.php?mode=add_vote&productid=XXXXXX&vote=100" Would adding "Disallow: /product.php" work? Or should I "Disallow: /product.php?mode=add_vote&productid" <---will that work? Would this have any consequences I am not thinking of?