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I highly recommend putting a 301 redirect in place for any links like the one you mentioned above. Google wants the ensure that users have a great experience when in your website, and if there's even a slight chance that their visit could be interrupted by a broken link, you could be dinger. To stay safe, I recommend redirects.

Hello Experts, Can anyone reply me please? Thanks!

Hi there, If you want to provide these different sorting/filtering options, faceted navigation is going to be your best option. As I mentioned above, with this approach you need to utilize nofollow, noindex, robots.txt and canonical tags to communicate to search engines where duplicate content will occur. In the example you provided (masonry or list), you would want a single URL for both views otherwise you are presenting new opportunities for duplicate content. Happy to discuss further if you have any additional questions!

It now has taken away even the subpages so I have pretty much dropped out of any rankings related to that page without doing hardly anything at all to it.  The terms I go after related to that page are pretty easy terms so I should at least show up on the first page.

Brilliant, thank you.

Russ/Patrick: No go with Schema. I'll re-post a new question with more detail. Thanks.

Hi there Right now, you're telling crawlers to not crawl your entire site, so the sitemap XML would be included in that. Are you wanting your site to be crawled completely? Simply change the robots.txt to this... User-agent: * Allow: / Here is another great resource from SEOBook to check out! Hope this helps! Good luck! Patrick

Make sure they are linked up with hreflang tags which would help search engines determine which pages are their language equivalents. If you do a lot more promotion of the Dutch content, it will rank better than French pages (assuming equal competition). However, because there is a "these pages are the same but in 2 different languages" hreflang markup on the site, it should help you rank for the French pages as well.

Thanks Patrick... this is helpful!

Both Andy and Patrick have provided great responses, and took the recommendations right out of my mouth! I agree, LinkedIn is a better platform for you to reach your relevant audience so posting your content there is ideal. Don't worry about posting content that already exists on your website, you shouldn't get dinged for it.

Yes, absolutely. If the subdomain (e.g. xyz.domain.com) was migrated, using appropriate permanent redirects, to a subdirectory (e.g. domain.com/xyz) then this would support the overall site in terms of visibility and reputation on Google

Hi Andy, thanks for the reply.  Yes, each p=* is identical to the base category URL, the only differences are a small handful of products on each p=* which are not really offering anything to those pages in the way of uniqueness at all in the way they are presented.  So from that point of view the canonical makes sense.  However, I don't want to take Google's focus away from cleanly crawling all the products within p=* So rel=next & prev for me opens up duplication issues as there are no "parts" of content, it's going to be effectively the same category textual content. However if I implement &view-all and set the canonical to that version i'm then worried Google may be problematic and not play ball.

Hi there, These look like they might be broken mailto links. If you shoot us an email at help@moz.com, we'll take a look in your campaign and see whether we can pin down the root cause for you.

Hi there Andy, Yes, ViviCa1 is right - a number of factors go into the calculation of Spam Score based on what we've seen of a site. You can take a look at the factors we've found for a particular site by clicking on the bar chart image in the metrics section at the top of the page in Open Site Explorer. You can learn more about the factors we're looking at and what they mean in this article & video by Rand: Article: Spam Score: Moz's New Metric to Measure Penalization Risk Video: Understanding and Applying Moz's Spam Score Metric - Whiteboard Friday I hope this helps to explain what you're seeing!