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Exporting data on a regular basis from OSE is necessary to do this; and you need to do the analysis in excel to get the answer. Basically you want to export your links & linking root domains at least once a month or after each linkscape/OSE update. Then you would put linking root domains from last month in a column and linking root domains from current month in a column. In a third column you would do a comparison match with an excel formula to see which are missing. Here is some help documentation on the excel formula: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/use-excel-to-compare-two-lists-of-data-HA001103915.aspx Assuming last month domains are in column A and current month domains you could use this formula in column =ISNA(MATCH(B2,$A$2:$A$10001,0))

yes, I agree with this!

Hi Paul, 301'ing old urls to new urls is enough. Additionally you can add a custom 404 page for the other old urls which may be created becuase of tags, categories etc.

The following is from Google: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334 At the moment, sitelinks are completely automated. We're always working to improve our sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate webmaster input in the future. There are best practices you can follow, however, to improve the quality of your sitelinks. For example, for your site's internal links, make sure you use anchor text and alt text that's informative, compact, and avoids repetition.

Ça fait plaisir Martin! Si ma réponse t'as été util, ne néglige pas le bouton Good Answer! Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Thank you for the quick responses. Thanks, Matthew

You have to think about why keyword cannibalization takes place. You essentially tell Google that two different pages on your site are the important pages for the exact same keyword. This is done by: 1. Having similar content on both pages 2. Having identical anchor text to both pages in your internal links 3. Having identical anchor test to both pages in inbound external links. Are any of these three taking place? If so, just stop. Link to the pages differently. Alter the content on the pages and the page titles. Make them unique and different so that they target two different phrases. Google will rank them accordingly. Instead of 301ing an old, link rich page, just stop cannibalizing.

It's the way the system is configured right now in that the original poster didn't mark any good answers. We're working on improving what's considered a featured question in the next couple of months.

Hi Jeff, I see you implemented this type of URL. Can you share with us how it worked out for you? It's always interesting to hear the impact of changes like this.

You don't have to worry about this.

Hi Blaine, If the CMS allow to modify title of the page, meta description, page content, anchor text, url structure, etc. then there nothing to worry about. As long as you can set those as you wish and that the source code is clean and readable by search engines, then it there shouldn't be any problem. Search engine spiders doesn't care what CMS you use, they look at the source code of the page and gather the information they need. So, as long as the pages can be parsed by spiders and that you can modify the important stuff on it, it can be optimized. Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

I'd remove them gradually and then remove them out of the SERP via Webmaster Tools. Ensure you remove all links to those deleted page or else you'll keep getting 404's cropping up

Hi there, I don't have the time to digg deeper into that - sorry.... But I just made some search request (in google.at image search thought) and did find some results: e.g. "black diamond earrings" - http://www.google.at/search?hl=de&rlz=1T4GGLG_deAT305AT213&biw=1259&bih=817&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=black+diamond+earrings&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= --> you are there on the first page with a huge n° of results. another search was (very exact term): http://www.google.at/search?q=Mens+Holiday+Deal+Yellow+Gold+10k+diamond+jewellery&hl=de&rlz=1T4GGLG_deAT305AT213&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=EFfwTc7zE8jMswbKyO3vAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1259&bih=817 You see the first result of that search? This is the same image as you do have on your website. So you have some competitors for the same images. Apart from that there are several more factors of the whole website if you are trustworthy. And try to be less spamy with your image names - 12794_Mens_On_Sale_Gold_10K_Round_Cut_Cut_Black_Color_AAA_900ct_8093.jpeg is e.g. quiet spamy. But I think you are on the right way - hope this helps a little bit.

Ryan/Ken, Thank you both for the great insight. We are working on our first infographic for our next blog post. Cheers, Shane