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I like your response because you took the time to explain in a simple way that another newbie can start to understand SEO better....I'm on chapter 4 of the Introduction to SEO and it got so 'technical' I had to take a break to see if other newbies might be having a time getting started. Do you think it might be a good idea to 'experiment' optimizing a landing page first before moving on to a site with a more complex site structure?

Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices

A link with "KWA KWB" pointing to a page trying to rank for KWA is not going to be as strong as if it was just a link with 'KWA' as "KWA KWB" is effectively saying the page is about 'KWA+KWB' (if you appreciate the difference). If KWA was 'monitors' and KWB was 'keyboards' then a link with "KWA KWB" would be a signal that the page was about "monitor keyboards", not either monitors or keyboards. So if the page was trying to rank for both KWA and KWB you would almost certainly have to build links with just 'KWA' or 'KWB' anchor text in order to attain high rankings on either. While you need a more robust selection of anchor text in your general link profile, it would be advisable to use the power of this link with an exact match anchor link for just one of your keywords.

These two pages are similar but definitely not duplicates. I wouldn't worry about that being the issue. The first two answers in this thread have it right, you need to build links internally and externally to these new pages to help them out. You are indexed just fine, just need some link love. Kate

Keri, Thank you for the reply. I looked at all three links and they all are insighful.

Mark, did these responses answer your question?

That's a really tough one. For paginated search results, I would normally go with @128K's suggestion - let Google follow the search results, but don't index them. Unfortunately, these are both search results AND your content, which is a bit unusual. I would still consider the META robots tag. Here's my argument - while all of these results are unique, landing on question #21 isn't very useful to search visitors, and they might bounce. It probably makes more sense to land them all on page #1. While you'll lose some indexable content, I suspect the higher conversion and loss of duplicates would offset that. Rand had a good post about pagination, but again, it assumes a more typical search-results scenario (like a list of product snippets and titles): http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagination-best-practices-for-seo-user-experience Likewise, the pages aren't duplicates, so I'd avoid the canonical tag, in the usual sense. There are viable AJAX approaches, but some will make the full content invisible to spiders. There are SEOs who advocate using the canonical tag, but canonicalizing to a version of the page that displays ALL of the results on one page. That way, visitors still go through the list, but Google would see the full page of answers. You could also default Google to a different count of results/page (like 100) but then default visitors to 10, etc. It borders on cloaking, but it's off-white at worst, in my opinion.

Not cheap but you could maybe get a lot out of - http://www.syntryx.com/ It'll give you IP, other sites that person owns, what vertical they're in, strength of sites and dozens of other things.

Never for seo but it is good to use on blog comments or where you dont want to rick linking to a spam site. but for SEO, no-follows still lose link juice. even for a login page i would still no use it, as linking to a login page that links back to your home page can be usefull in link sculpting

You are not the only one that is frsustated with this, please post url i can only guess without it.

Hi there, I was just reading this old thread to get some info, but I'd love it if you could share you actual results from the launch. What did you do and how much did traffic change? How long before you were back to normal? I usually find that with a new website and all new URLs, I end up seeing maybe a month or sodip in traffic that can be up to 10%. But that seems to be less and less as time goes on. The search engines are usually on top of it though, they recrawl and recatalog quite quickly. Would love to hear from you. Thanks! Leslie

Here's what Google officially has to say about how they determine organic sitelinks, updated in October of 2010. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334

Mike, what type of structure did you end up using for your blog? Do you have any interesting insights to share, either with us here or in a YOUmoz post? Would love to hear them!

Agree. Didn't saw any changes in our german website...

Good to hear that all your rankings have recovered. How have things gone the past couple of weeks, do you have anything you can share here? Or maybe even for a YOUmoz post?

Thanks, good advice.  I wonder what their policy is on revealing links.  If I pursue I'll post here.

Thanks, much appreciated!