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Thank you! Very helpful

Hi Kevin & TorontoV, Thanks for your responses, and your warning signs concerning a migration to https. We recently launched a new website and we are going to 'migrate' this one first before taking any action on our main webshop. Since we had'nt received any backlinks until now on the new domain, there is no thread for this one. @Kevin: I'll definitely follow your advice not migrating until Google gives a countdown message for our main domain. Thanks again! Marcel

Duplicate content does not have to involve pages that are grouped together. You can even have cross-domain duplicate content. There is not a direct penalty for duplicate content. The issue is that when Google sees pages (wherever they may be) that appear to be the same, it will choose which one to index, omitting the others. So as Andy says, when pages are being evaluated for duplicate content, it is best to be aware of very similar pages so you can take steps to distinguish them, if you want them each to rank.

Hi Fraser! Is the new website based off of a third level domain or within a certain folder of the domain?  If the domain has remained unchanged from new to old the old campaign should be working with both the data from the old site as well as the new.  Cross check to make sure that is the case then you can likely delete the new campaign without any ill effects. If that's not an option you can always aggregate the data via CSV and present it in your own format. I'm unaware of a way to combine campaigns. Cheers!

You're very welcome -Andy

Hi Aron, There are 3 solutions for Parallax websites to make them SEO friendly. Read Here http://moz.com/blog/parallax-scrolling-websites-and-seo-a-collection-of-solutions-and-examples

Check out this awesome post by AJ Kohn To answer your question... "What I’ve observed over the last few years is that pages that haven’t been crawled recently are given less authority in the index. To be more blunt, if a page hasn’t been crawled recently, it won’t rank well." "The pages that aren’t crawled as often are pages with little to no PageRank. CrawlRank is the difference in this very large pool of pages. You win if you get your low PageRank pages crawled more frequently than the competition."

Alick It wouldn't surprise me if Google already discounts the major coupon sites in their algorithm for this very reason.  It doesn't want to reward link building like this (if some were inclined to do it this way), while equally it wouldn't want to penalise legitimate sites that use them. I think you'd be fine.

Hey Falguni, Your client is following a very bad approach here, you should guide him with the proper reasoning. I'd suggest you to go through this thread thoroughly to get the idea what I'm referring to, http://moz.com/community/q/will-multiple-domains-from-the-same-company-rank-for-the-same-keyword-search Hope this helps! Thanks,

Hi Erik, How are you trying to do the redirect? Can you share the code? I'm not an .htaccess guru, but some of the guys here are. -Andy

Hey Edward, Yes, even I could submit the same. For now, I'd suggest you to try submitting your site (.com) in US category again and see how editors responds. Sometimes, editor or the staff respond you back and you can explain them your situation.

Hi Jason. While it is a best practice to use the keyword in the URL, I think you did overdo it and are running into something that would be considered keyword cannibalization within your own site. While an old blog post, the core principles remain the same here: https://moz.com/blog/how-to-solve-keyword-cannibalization.  To get around using 'physical therapy' excessively, you can break down the different types of PT into: treatments, exercises, stretches, and so on.  This semantic use of similarly related keywords is a positive signal versus the negative of keyword stuffing.  Cheers!

Thanks Ryan for this info! I am relieved that I haven't spent hours for nothing

I think so in terms of whether or not it helps people engage with your site or spend more time on your site. If a difficult to navigate site is what first greets a user trying to find something specific based on the search result, the bounce back to the search results is going to drive down ranking. It will also lower the likelihood of sharing. From a technical perspective, if a site's navigation prevents a crawler from adequately indexing a site, that could cause indexation issues which would in turn make fewer pages available for ranking. So yes, it is an element in ranking and site performance overall.  Cheers!

Absolutely, I'd say even most sites that receive a penalty probably don't receive an email or warning on time to make sure they can prevent on what's going to happen. These days it's getting better with Google sending different alerts for link issues or their site being down but in the past they barely send any emails.

Thanks so much Ryan and Tim - Job sorted! You rock!!!

You might be better off starting over with a new domain. Getting the penalty lifted can be a long road and if you have little invested in keeping the domain,(links etc) I'd move on. Maybe the ".org" version of your name, assuming the penalized one was a ".com" Best,

In that case I would say a phased approach would be fine. It is an issue that should be addressed, but I wouldn't classify it as "critical".

I wrote this over 2 years ago http://www.flyingpointdigital.com/2013/04/16/google-thinks-your-title-tags-and-meta-descriptions-are-not-good-enough/