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Hey again! Please do - I would actually love to hear about the progress if you feel like keeping me in the loop! My email is in my profile! Good luck, sir!

That's what I'm hoping for since I still see them there.  Thanks for your input.

Hi Patrick, Thanks for the info. To answer your question, the member profile pages are noindexed because there are 80,000 and most have little to no non-duplicate info. Some members fill in something. Most do not. Of the ones that do, they often pull the text from LinkedIn. Rather than have 80,000 duplicate or nearly duplicate pages in the index, we noindexed them. Best... Darcy

I used Moz Page grade and it picked up your meta description. Also used an SEO Spider... all looks good from here... only thing I noticed is that the end of the description tag was "/> and not " /> with the space between the description... that really shouldn't matter though. I did a w3c compliance scan and there are a few items there that you may want to look at. http://validator.w3.org/ NfZpXmc

Hi Laura, thank you so much for your response. Apologies for the delay in my response, I wasn't notified and forgot to check back in. I will give it a shot and work through it with our dev team. Very much appreciated. Saving me a great deal of stress.

Thank you!

Hi Dylan, As Patrick said, you can use the category mark up in Offer from Schema. Aggregate rating is another one that may be useful as this can be used for a collection of reviews and ratings rather than for individual products. While we're on this topic, I thought I'd link to this excellent guide on microformats which may come in handy as you're working through this for your client: http://builtvisible.com/micro-data-schema-org-guide-generating-rich-snippets/ Cheers. Paddy

If both pages are exactly the same, you should still 301 redirect the page.  There's no point in having two identical pages laying around and it isn't good for the search engines. The canonical tag is typically used if you need to keep those pages on the site or very similar content is posted in multiple places, then you can direct the search engines to the page you want them to count.

Hi Cole, Unfortunately, yes - the set of pages being surfaced by Patrick would pretty much fit Google's definition of doorway pages, in my opinion. The content has been duplicated across multiple pages, simply switching out the city names. I recommend a couple of things here: Read the thread I started about the doorway pages update when it rolled out: http://moz.com/community/q/how-google-s-doorway-pages-update-affects-local-seo If you are currently developing these thin/duplicate content pages for yourself and your clients, this is definitely a great moment for you to rethink your strategy. It's my personal belief that content should only be published if it is unique and helpful. If you don't have unique content to publish on these types of city landing pages, then you don't have a reason to publish them. Each local business that wants to cover cities in which they lack physical locations faces this same interesting challenge - identifying the legitimate connections between the business and the focus communities. These real-world connections need to be showcased on the landing pages. If they don't yet exist, the business needs to discover if the relationships can be developed and then showcased. If there are no opportunities for relationships, then these types of page don't really belong on the website in question. Fortunately, a website design company has the opportunity to build direct relationships with its clients in the various cities it is serving. For example, if Alexandria is a city in which you have clients, your Alexandria page can be the place you write up these projects, including project descriptions, customer testimonials , video content, etc. When you've achieved showcasing, perhaps, five great clients on the Alexandria page, see what else you can do to make it unique. For example, does you company host or participate in industry events in this city? Sponsor a little league team there? Have a unique take on rising industries in the city? Anything you can think of that will demonstrate the strong relationship you've built on the business scene in a town will prove to new potential customers that you are very involved in serving businesses in their city. There are no shortcuts here. Developing the writing for these pages calls for your greatest creativity and a decision to allot time and funding to creating city-related pages that are the gold standard in your industry and geographies. This mindset has always been appropriate, but now, with Google's doorway update, it has become a must. Recommend you also read: http://moz.com/blog/local-landing-pages-guide http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/2013/04/30/16-ways-to-create-unique-local-content-for-cities-where-you-want-to-rank/

Short answer: create a custom 404 page, not just for these pages, but one that can show for everypage on your site. A few resources: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93641?hl=en Example: http://moz.com/sadfklfadsadfjs https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=custom+404&pws=0&gl=us&gws_rd=ssl#pws=0&gl=us&q=how+to+create+a+custom+404

Many thanks Patrick. I will take a look at those posts you suggest Peter

Thanks Miriam. I kind of figured that and I do citations primarily so customers can find my clients. I just wanted to make sure that I was delivering as much as possible to our clients. Again, thanks!

Thank you so much for your quick respond!

Perfect, thanks!

i would say its good to get a few links, maybe make it every 3 to 6 months as links can get deindexed or become no-follow over time or even become inactive. one thing to note that if you do see yourself getting hundreds of links from the same site, this could cause you site wide link issues, depending on where the link is placed

Like I said, it's very difficult, if not impossible, to diagnose this kind of problem without the URL. Learn more about 301 redirects at http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection .

Hi there Simply put - get content on your mobile site or make your site responsive. There's no hope in ranking if there is nothing there. Resources: Mobile Optimization (Moz) Succeeding With Mobile Content (SEJ) Mobile SEO (Moz) How to Create a Mobilte-First Content Marketing Strategy (CMI) 5 Ways to Publish Content on Mobile and Grow Your Brand (CMI) Hope this helps! Good luck!

For russia and china you're right it does make sens. But I'm still very concerned about working on so many domains rather than just one