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Thanks Seoman, That was why I was wondering if I should noindex the blog index page.  It is purely a listing of blog entries and not original content.  It seems to throw up duplicate content issues and Google seems to give it the most page power on the site even though it is not my most important page. I would want Google to still follow all of the links because those are the blog posts and the original content.  I don't know if the noindex is the best choice but I think it at least it would tell Google "Hey guys the blog page is not my most important page.  In fact it is just a compilation of posts" I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet, because I don't know if it will hurt me more than it is helping.  I just don't know.  If anyone has any other thoughts on the noindex of the blog index page which is not my home page feel free to drop me a line.

I just got a reminder from MOZ in my mailbox to see responses to my question. There are none, what a shame. I'm moving to Ahrefs.

Dmytro is correct - the risk you run isn't a penalty per se, it's that the piece of content will rank on a partner site rather than on your own site. If what you really want is for both pieces of content to rank for the same phrase, or to ensure that your site continues to rank even without partners using rel=canonical, I would recommend making sure that the content on your site is substantially different from the other sites'. I empathize with your desire for a hard-and-fast rule on exactly how different, but whether or not two identical or very similar pages will both rank is really going to depend on the query and the other pages competing to rank for that term. Again, I would recommend making them substantially different - that is, more different than they are the same. Google is now sophisticated enough at detecting spun content that simply switching out some words for synonyms or adding or subtracting a sentence here or there likely won't be enough to keep it from being flagged as duplicate content for a more competitive query.

Just seconding Ira's excellent response here. Without in-person contact, the business is ineligible for a GMB listing. Very good topic!

I agree with what Chris said tags are primarily there for users. They should not be indexed they are there to allow people to navigate your site more easily if you index them you will get  duplicate content issues.

Clever PhD hit the nail on the head his answer Is excellent.

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Customer Support team here. Nope, Keyword Explorer doesn't include data from Google Scholar. Moz combines data from multiple sources (including Google Keyword Planner and purchased, anonymized clickstream data for ~1mm searchers in the US) to build our volume models. We then distribute these into bucket ranges that represent relative confidence we have in the various ranges for a given keyword. You can read more about our process and research in this blog post. Hope that helps!

Hi Jason, Yes, you should remove them. Assuming you have non-www to www redirects in place, those links are still resolving and therefore counting against your site.

Yes agree with Alick300, As far as I know, Google doesn't take any notice of case in search terms.  Maybe the odd situation i.e. readability as far as the end user is concerned on content quality.  Google does take notice of bad grammar and punctuation. Just a note of caution, be careful with acronyms.  You may find that the acronym is also used by different industry something entirely different.  Make sure it is very clear what you are talking about in your page content, ideally explain the acronym. All the best.

Regarding the links which point to pages, but include the hash. If Google is only seeing this page http://www.key.co.uk/en/key/workbenches Will it be seeing these as pages which have duplicate content?

Thanks for the tip! Definitely need to sit down and have a real brainstorm.

Hi:  Thanks for your response. I am not sure that has anything to do with it because both people are searching for the company name.  One person, the person sitting in the office where the headquarters is located sees the knowledge panel, while the other person, sitting in another city does not. This happens all the time - where one person sees it and the other person does not - for the same phrase.

URLs that don't exist should display an error page and return a 404 (not found) response. When you have made-up URLs going to an actual page that returns a 200 (OK) response, the problem actually is that Google will start seeing this as soft 404 errors, which is not good. From Google Search Console: "Returning a code other than 404 or 410 for a non-existent page (or redirecting users to another page, such as the homepage, instead of returning a 404) can be problematic. Firstly, it tells search engines that there’s a real page at that URL. As a result, that URL may be crawled and its content indexed. Because of the time Googlebot spends on non-existent pages, your unique URLs may not be discovered as quickly or visited as frequently and your site’s crawl coverage may be impacted..."

Ciao Massimiliano! Thanks for the response here. We have been appending UTM's to our destination URL's, and those seem to account for the vast majority of sessions. However, most of the revenue is attributed to that untrackable source/medium combo.

Happy to be of help,

Thank you for all your answers. EGOL, your link is great and recent. I am removing redirections and inactive product pages are starting to be indexed. Marked your answer as the "Good Answer" Moosa, your idea is great - will propose to my team. Thomas, thank you for the links. Yes, the inactive products post is mine too. The other mainly for activating many pages at once though - also replied to you in there. Cheers,

Thanks Egol, I guess our best bet on showing unavailable products would be to focus on related products. Cheers,

Thanks you Thomas, we activated them - and will try to improve our "Related Products" and "Availability Notification" section for inactive products. Cheers,

Thank you Chris, that is helpful. Cheers,