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This reply was very useful, because it tells me that even if it does not help me with a particular keyword, it helps us with the domain authority. They are legitimate business... So, it should be fine...

I use the redirection plugin for wordpress to manage this. I personally use it to take care of another site I have redirected to my current site, but don't have access to the .htaccess file, and use it to take care of pages from the old site that don't exist on this site. It has a handy 404 log you can use too, and create redirects right from the 404 list. This might work for your old URLs that were renamed.

Yes, this is correct, the anchor text for the links question "home care blog" and "in home locator" link to my agency locator page and home care blog which are targeting those terms.

hi Keri The problem went away after 3 days without us doing anything much. But the client was pretty antsy during those 3 days. I had posted on the Google forums, and one guy had suggested that there were problems with the dns  - the intodns.com tool highlighted some.  Possibly missing dns servers - there was unusual stuff in the intodns report. We don't manage the nameservers for the siite with the problem, so there wasn't anything we could do. The site was recrawled, possibly as a result of resubmitting the nameserver, and it was ok. thanks chris

And if their documentation doesn't provide an answer, you can also try a search to see what others have said. Let us know if you need a hand with the canonical tag or can't find info from the bookmark provider.

I just looked up for a few examples, see attached images. DISCLAMER : I didn't do SEO for any of those websites and those results were returned from google.CA from Quebec, a province where french is commonly spoken in Canada. May be the fact that fr.wikipedia.org has lower quality content and lower domain authority makes it easier to outrank.  Still, websites that outrank it are far from being well optimized. iXSUT.jpg saJda.jpg E94dr.jpg

Hey Zack, It seems your website is now returning a 200 so you apparently managed to fix the problem. Was the problem coming from the server configuration as I suggested? Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Thank you Mike, I did the same research and agree with you. There are other keywords with way higher search volumes. However, it is very easy and fast to land for "Buy Hosting" and the coversion rates for this combination are super high, since people really want to buy NOW (otherwise, they would search compare hosting or something else). As soon as I got to #1-#3 and cash starts flowing, I will take that money and tackle higher-volume terms. It's a step-by-step strategy. My guess was to start with 10 links per day. I understand that you say, it is important to have a constant growth, and that this matters for not to be percieved as spammy. I will check out MajesticSEO to see the amount of links other add. Thank you a lot, I appreciate your opinion. Kind regards

Please someone help me and tell me if Im wrong - some time ago some (maybe even now), some websites like technorati or other kind of... were (are?) using tags to categorize posts, so if you wanted to appear under some categories with your freshly added posts, you should have them tagged -> but I tell you, I checked that long time ago, I might be wrong that's why it would be great if someone would add something to this... and if it's the way I mention... was it (is it?) technorati or other sites? However, I like to tag posts as it may be useful for you. You never know if in the future you will want to add section, page or something else on your blog... and tags might help you to easier accomplish it... I still do not need it, so I can't give you any working example... but in my opinion it's good to tag posts. I do that "just in case", as maybe in the future I will need them, or any of plugins will want to use them... and if I have 200-500 posts I will not be happy to go back and add tags to each of them - and im sure there are some good plugins that need post tagging. If users find it useful? Depends... each user is different... however good tags are always helpful and gives something extra... however, sometimes may add "mess"... (I know my answer is a bit messy, but I hope it gives you some answers.. ideas).

It doesn't matter at all.. in my opinion and would be shocked to find im wrong... easy test... add ALT element to any picture.. .before and after SRC... if it works properly in both situation, the same should be with rel canonical... if you are still wondering about proper use.. always you can validate your document on W3C.org... it would point it out I guess.

Hi Monique, The solution is simple, ask him to put something like that in your default.aspx file, he should understand : If Request.Url.ToString() = "/default.aspx" Then     Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"     Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.quicklearn.com/") End If These 4 lines (not 2 finaly, I forgot how asp was... asp) should do the trick. Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

You mention adding and rewriting content, but are you adding it to existing pages or to new pages. Adding new pages may actually make Panda problems worse, even if they have original content. At some point, you're going to need to reduce your indexed pages (maybe dramatically) and canonicalize the new content to the old, thin content. Just adding content is probably a bad idea. If the crawlers aren't getting into your deeper content, you may have to focus on some deep link-building, either external/inbound or internally by featuring certain pages (and possibly rotating until they get re-cached). You've got to give Google a push to re-crawl and simply adding content to a page they think is low-value probably won't be enough. Injecting solid links at various levels of the site architecture could help. The tough part of this is that the update cycle for Panda-related problems is out of sync with the main index. What might traditionally take days or a couple of weeks to fix could take many weeks with Panda. They seem to be apply a separate data adjustment or possibly a machine-learning algorithm, and it's not part of the main algorithm. So, it's possibly you're on the right track, but simply getting pages re-cached isn't going to automatically reverse a Panda problem.

Many reasons. You don't want the admin pages of your site indexed, for example. You may not want all of the search queries that people perform on your site search to be indexed. You don't want or need your cart checkout being indexed for an ecommerce site. You don't want a print version and a web version of the same document indexed, so you exclude the print version from being indexed. Your site is in development, and you don't want it being indexed before it is ready. For robots.txt in particular, some search engines now respect wildcards and you can exclude some session IDs via robots.txt. OSCommerce is real bad about creating session IDs and getting those indexed, then you have tons of different URLs indexed for the same page. http://www.cogentos.com/bloggers-guide-to-using-robotstxt-and-robots-meta-tags-to-optimise-indexing/ is a post that explains some of the reasons to use robots and no-index on a Wordpress site.

Hmm, not sure as i'm kind of new to seo, but my instinct would be to pick the one w the top keyword ranking(s) and redirect all traffic from the other two (if that's possible). You'd lose your PR w a new domain and keeping it as is, you are surely getting hit by Dup Content. Also, as far as mgmt's argument, if all 3 sites rank high for one keyword, why not just consolidate all traffic into one place? Also, they should be looking at more than 1 keyword i would think.. Lastly, you might want to look at a site like going.com or timeout.com to see how they manage pages in different cities yet keep it all under one domain. Hope this was helpful. -Zack

Yes you should block these pages. This is a quote from Matt Cutts concerning this issue Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines Disallow: /search

Hey, I see that your website is still out of Google's index but it does show up in Bing. I saw your website was using WordPress, so may be it was hacked and you might not know. Did you look if you had any messages in your Google Webmaster Tools account?  Have your verified your website and submited a sitemap in it? In case you don't know what is Google Webmaster Tools, you can find it there : http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools This place is used for Google to communicate with you if they have a problem with your website.  So if they found out it was hacked, you should have a message about that there. Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

How about Rich Snippets?

I consider a site is  passing the "I'm brand" level when google will display site links. That' susualy based on incoming links - authority overall. So in my personal opinion to get there you need a few powerful, " patient zero " links (very very high authority sites that will link to you - in that category I also include facebook.com, linkedin, twitter and digg - that's a good place to start). You also need several additional niche related strong links in order to "qualify". That is my personal view on the brand signal thingy. Hope it helps.