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Hi Martin, I would create password protected URL say theofficesuppliessupermarketonline.com/google_shopping.xml and let Google shopping crawl that URL, saves you having to upload it all the time! I would set it to crawl the feed daily, there's no harm in having it regularly updated. To optimise the feed, just use the common methods: competitive price keyword usage in the product name free delivery reviews (rich snippets) Store Name Brand Category MPN GTIN the other additional field such as weight, colour etc will also favour you, the more info you can send over on the product the better, you could even be sneaky and create specific product sets for Google base that include promo text in the product title? Cheers Jamie

Yes you're right... Without knowing exactly what the pages are used for it's hard to come up with a solution. Check the backlinks to those dup pages; if there is any 'no index, follow' the pages - if not nofollow them.

This question is two years old, and you may have a better response rate if you ask a separate, new question.

You can block the urls which has term "/product/search/"  in them. It can be easily done by adding  the following to the robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /product/search/ Hope this helps...

I hear you - it's a frustration, but in a system that needs to crawl 30K+ sites each week without hitting anyone's server too hard, being a bother to a SysAdmin and keeping up with a massively complex, ever-changing queue, it's the reality. That said, we do have a custom crawl tool you can fire anytime and usually get data back within just a few hours! It's here - http://www.seomoz.org/labs/cc The intent/value behind the crawl inside the campaign is much less about a specific, one-time crawl, and more about having data every week, with historical information showing progress, updates and warnings (in case something goes wrong). There's lots of good free tools as well for single-purpose crawls, e.g. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/xenu-link-sleuth-more-than-just-a-broken-links-finder Also, just to be totally clear - the system running the crawls for the web app in you campaigns is different than the Linkscape web index (which only updates every 3-4 weeks). Eventually, the two might merge, but we didn't want to bias any crawling inside Linkscape when we launched the web app last September.

Hi Adam Here are a list of keyword tools/techniques I use for our keyword research Google trends - monitor seasonal trends for certain search terms throughout the year Competition sites - check out your competitors within your sector/subject areas - It's amazing how many large sites still incorporate defined keywords that appear in the meta keywords section of the site! Hitwise - If you have enough luck/big enough budget to access this tool - this can unearth a goldmine of keywords to target as well as their clickstream report of what keywords/search terms were used before and after leaving your site Google insights - provides alternative keywords to consider based on the keywords you add Open Site Explorer - enter your competitor site and run an anchor text report - what key terms are included Competitor blog sites - analyse your competitor blog sites - usually packed full of keywords they are trying to rank for that is used to point back to their main site Analytics - Your existing analytics tool should provide you with a vast range of search terms to commence new campaigns and unearth long tail keywords, also check out your google webmaster tools Simon

Tony, whether or not you decide to index these categories you won't be losing any strength on the already indexed pages. The non-indexed pages already have juice flowing to them - you just can't see them in the SERP

Hi Freek, Here are my thoughts : 1 : Might look like a spammy keyword stuffed url to users and search engines 2 : Short and sweet, you do lose the idea of parent/child relation, but I think it's the most clean and optimized one (as long as you keep it short) 3 : Less descriptive, but looks less keyword optimized and might help to get breadcrumbs because of the parent/child relation. 4 : Not that I can think of, you might want to try both, number 2 and 3 on a certain part of your website, track your rankings and see wich ones goes up and wich ones stays the same or decrease. Then you should be able to decide wich one is the best. Also, don't forget to ask website's customer what they think would be the best URLs, their opinion also counts! Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

We send out millions of emails a year and are happy with Vertical Response as our provider. We keep researching the competition and have found that Constant Contact is exceptionally easy to use, Bronto integrates well with all other Social Media / marketing platforms, MailChimp is a joy to work with but Vertical Response just keep cutting their prices! Hope this helps!

Our experience as well, generally months on end and an endless stream of duplicated listings. I'm at least looking forward to the listing separator tool they're supposed to release spring/summer '11.

Hoping for the extra points here, so here goes how we handled the problem. The solution is a lot simpler than all the thought needed, or used by us to rationalize the answer, and it has been working beautifully. Our Google webmaster tools show constant improvement weekly without us doing any additional work. We Canonicalized the first paginated results. ".com/productcategory.aspx" not ".com/productcategory.aspx?page=1" so now all pages link their juice back to the main page ".com/productcategory.aspx". GWT doesn't even care about setting the parameter "Page=" And we didn't include the Canonical tag for the product pages, because each product has its own link juice that we want to preserve, so that each product may "Star" as its own as a google result. So all we did was to include a single canonical tag for the paginated category page and wala the hole solution works in GWT.

Be savvy enough to re-optimize for different keywords if the originals just couldnt get to page 1 Focus on the long tail and variations of the 'big' keywords Study analytics and identify opportunities Introduce a new directory rather than try to optimise one set of category pages for too many keywords Add rich snippets for considerable CTR increase in SERPS

Where would you advice getting your links? Blog comments look like spam if your keyword is in the name field and I'm sure google will crack down on this. Emailing webmasters will cost a hell of a lot if you want a lot of links. Directorys are low quality and irelevant!  Where does this leave us in terms of getting links?

Yes AdWords average CPC tool gives inaccurate estimates for keyword bids.  My guess is that it has to do with how Quality Score effects cpc.   Determining average CPC without knowing the average Quality Score is not an accurate measure.  If your quality score for the keyword is low, then you need to bid much more than the average CPC to be on the page.  Of If your Quality Score is high, then you wont need to bid as much.  I also have noticed that AdWords estimates seem to be a longer trend..for both volume and CPC.  I guess they are using a yearly average, not the last 30 days

What I'm doing is going to google (clearing all pws) and setting my location to the city or state I'm trying rank higher in to find out where I'm ranking. If I set my location to the USA I rank higher but if I set my location to a state like Texas I'm not ranking as high as when I set my location to the USA. I do have backlinks with both city and state in them. The keyword is "(product) prices." The Keyword is a very generic. I have not tried to get links form local or state websites. Have you used this strategy? Thanks

I would do both at the same time that way if you take any hit/penalty for the changes it is only once. You may also want to submit a change of address through webmaster tools for the subdomain switch.