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Thanks for the response Anthony!  It's greatly appreciated. > splitting the link equity between these duplicate pages This is our main fear given that every listing page link uses this parameter. We thought about using the "No" option because we agree that the content doesn't really change, but google says this next to the option: "If many URLs differ only in this parameter, Googlebot will crawl one representative URL.".  It may have the same result?  Not sure. Maybe the following would force the issue? Does this parameter change page content seen by the user? >> Yes How does this parameter affect page content? >> Other Which URLs with this parameter should Googlebot crawl? >> Every URL Also, we could try to delete their auto assignment of the parameter and hope for a different result.  Anyway, thanks again for the feedback.

Hi there Will, Did you end up becoming a NearbyNow customer? Just curious. I am a customer and I think they do have a winning business idea. That said, I have found their systems to be a bit problematic and their help files to be weak. In addition, they just recently made a key feature only available for a daftly named "SEO Pro Master" plan; I am predicting a future SEO Pro Master Guru plan ;-). This was a feature I relied on in the SEO Pro plan to allow my clients to update their questions to make them more relevant to their businesses and change verbiage to say "patient" versus "client" or "customer". These may be irrelevant issues to your application - but I thought you and anyone else seeing this thread would like to know. Cheers, Ross

You should be good Steve, That's a minor issue. b/r Will

When I worked in the newspaper industry and they started to use video, we were always told to keep it to under a minute and a half - I think if you go beyond that then people lose interest. Even so, if you go to the full time it has to be interesting throughout. The shorter the better really and don't do it for the sake of it - it has to add something for the viewer.

Luke, This technically wouldn't cause any ill-effects on you SEO efforts since your URLs aren't changing. However, according to our good friend, Mr. Cutts, auto translation via Google Translate isn't recommended and can be seen as spamming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UDg2AGRGjLQ

Thank you, Peter. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your question! The answer depends on: The demand: With the search behavior of your users: Do they search for your product using the type of wood in their queries? For example: "Product + Wood Type"? If your users use those terms and queries to search for your products then it would compensate to enable them specifically to be indexable instead of using just a filter that could be non-indexable in many ways (to avoid the crawling of pages that are not meant to be ranked anyway and control your crawl budget). The supply: The availability of products and content that you have to match those queries: Do you have enough unique products to feature for each type of wood (or whatever criteria or subcategory) that you have identified that your users search for? Would it be considered a "low quality content" page with little value and offer by the users? With no unique description? Would they end-up penalized by Panda if you decide to index them? If you identify that there's a demand for those specific type of products that would compensate that you specifically enable these pages to be indexable and rank for them and at the same time you have enough supply, with products and descriptive content to feature in them and satisfy your users, then yes, the best would be to create a static structure for these sub-types or sub-categories, instead of just non-indexable filters. If it's not the case, then the best would be to allow your products to be browsed using them, but without indexing these pages specifically. Would this answer your question? If you can give me more specific examples of the category levels or more specific scenario (without giving specific brand or company names if you don't want or can't) I would be able to give you a more specific answer. Thanks!

Hi Lisa, is Moz planning to add in the ability to view the keyword rankings over time in a graphical format? This would be a great thing to show on a Custom Report.

I saw this for a client as well, who I know for sure isn't running WordPress at all. Personally, I think it's a Google mistake.

Agree with Trevor and would add that they have NAP info on the page and "lawyer" in their domain name.

Hey Jon! If you feel totally confident that Google will agree that these are 2 different forward-facing businesses at the same address, than the differentiating items will be the name, the phone number and the website landing page the Google My Business listing links to. Being sure that all 3 things are unique should help Google keep them separate, ideally. Hope this helps!

Hi, It seems like that you would have to go with the first option of No. Sometimes certain parameters indeed don't have any affect on the pages, like tracking parameters or other ones that might send some referral information. Martijn.

Thanks for your input, Dan. I won't be using slashes but I was curious as to how they would work with Google. The category page I had in mind at the time, I had just merged the multiple subcategory pages into the one main category due to cannibalisation evident in rankings (and I was experimenting with how to optimise browser title for previous subcategory-related keywords). The single page is already outperforming the separate pages, but thanks for your suggestion

For me Yoast is the best, I'm using the premium version for my blogs Rankie - Wordpress Rank Tracker Plugin (good for keyword tracking) Rich Snippets WordPress Plugin (good for structured content)

Sure - thanks

Hey David! Currently one known issue that would prevent reports form generation would be a result of the size of the report. This will not generate if any modules that contain many rows of data is added. This will include large keyword lists, crawl URL issues, and links data. We recommend downloading CSVs to obtain that data as the URLs will be complete as reports are basically a screenshot so URLs can be cut off. Summaries of the data are best to use in reports. We are moving to a new PDF generation service that will support large reports which will hopefully be ready within the next few months. Let me know if this helps!