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A Canonical is kind of like a Bots-Only 301 redirect. So, from a purely mechanical perspective, using a canonical can pass link equity to your other page without redirecting Users off of the forum thread. Now, this would be a deceptive use of the Rel=canonical tag and the bots would stop respecting it on those pages. Since a canonical is a suggestion, not a directive, if the bots think that your canonical is improper, deceptive, incorrect, etc. then they can just stop following it. Ultimately, using a canonical tag in the manner you're thinking wouldn't work out the way you would want it to. You might be able to pass equity from the one page to the other for a time... but that would not be a proper or best practices use of the tag and it would not have long term effects. You'd be better served by looking at updating/expanding your content, internal linking, and backlink profile. And take a look at the article that Andy linked to in his response.

It used to get a fair amount of organic traffic a few years ago to generate around 30 leads a day, and back then that was from just one keyword. A lot of people are seeing a strong decline of the amount of traffic that they get from the organic SERPs over the past few years. In that time Google started adding image results and news results in informational SERPs.  In the transactional SERPs they now place up to four paid ads at the top of the SERPs and often have shopping results within, above, or beside the SERPs.  And in local results they now have maps and local listings. Google is becoming a better webmaster and is trying to make more money from their SERPs.  Shareholders want growth and the folks at Google know that the best way to do that is to make more money from current traffic.  So they go heavier on the ads, in stronger positions and push the organic rankings down the page. Google isn't the only ones working. Most of our competitors have become experts and writing more effective Adwords ads and more effective at converting visitors into customers.  That is also taking the sales from above the organic rankings.  Over that time, if a webmaster has not upped his game in earning clicks and converting visitors and becoming a much more competitive and aggressive seller then his sales have fallen dramatically. Plenty of webmasters have worked really hard the past ten years and have not made massive big gains in their sales.  That's because their competitors are spending billions, google is skimming the best traffic, and everyone on the web has become a lot smarter.  So if those hard-working webmasters have held even in their revenue and profits that is the equivalent of being an awesomeasskicker of the past.

Got it, we're using SalesForce to track calls, what we need to do is to implement the dynamic number insertion into our website, will be reading more about it. Thanks!

Thanks. I tried reinstalling it a few hours ago and that seemed to fix the issue

Hi, The very best article that I refer everyone to when looking at internal linking, is here. The theory is that you create a strong, relevant link, but make it suitable and in context with the text where it comes from. -Andy

Hi there, It's known that image search is rather random than understandable. Also, there has been some movements in the algorithm in the past 5-6 weeks. Check two of the most used sources: Mozcast.com Agoroo.com Also, have you checked if what images where the one ranked? Is it possible that those images where updated? Or that the newly ranked are more optimized? Have you noticed any changes in your server? Loading time might be a plausible cause. Best Luck. GR.

Hi there, Just wondering, what do you mean that you'll get penalized for any off-page work? If you earn quality links, I can't imagine they'd be an issue.

Hi Adriana, I just sent an email on the said email address. I also submitted a ticket a couple of hours ago and still hasn't received a response. Thanks

I think the hardest part of SEO marketing is doing outreach and getting some good external links from the authority Site. I'm trying to get for my peakperformancehr.ca want some help.

The HTTPS are inaccessible without logging in because it is paid content. The HTTP version is a preview of the actual documents and images. I would like the pages to be indexed so people will sign up to preview the actual docs and become a paying member. Thank you for the advice. Joey

Huge corporation with lots of sites and large number of people on disparate teams (marketing, technical, management) involved in maintaining/updating the sites -- easier for anyone to be able to take a quick look at the sitemap online to see what version it is.

If you're not trying to rank, then you may not need to prioritize fixing this. Duplicate content isn't a penalty; it's a risk. The risk is that more than one page on your site will seem appropriate in response to a particular search query and Google might 1) rank the wrong one, or 2) "decide" it's not clear and rank neither. If these aren't pages you'd expect or want to show up in search results anyway, then you can feel free simply to put together a page that'll provide the best experience for the user.

Howdy! I'd say the 'Links' section of the Moz Glossary would be a solid place to start.

Worked like a charm, thanks!

Thanks, Wendy! You too. And, it's not uncommon for Google to test things, so all of us often catch some weird thing like this that then autoresolves.

Hi Tony! Yes, you would want any practitioner listings on other platforms to match the practitioner listings on Google (i.e. have the same phone number across the board for each practitioner you are promoting). The idea here is that, the more frequently Google finds Practitioner A listed with Phone Number A, the more trust Google feels in the data they have about that entity. Conversely, if Google were to find Practitioner A listed with Phone Numbers A, B, C and D, Google would feel less trust in what the accurate data should be. So, for sure, you'll want to clean up phone number variants you find so that everything you can access matches what you're listing on Google for a given practitioner. Hope this helps!

Awesome, thank you!

I agree with what Angular Marketing said. Normally I would just NoIndex, Follow tag pages because they can be useful for people but troublesome for bots.