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Addition to any concerns about Google, Pinterest has been making efforts in order to end keyword stuffing. They are working to surface more content to users based on what they're interest in and working on their search efforts. Keyword stuffed pins will get an algorithmic-style penalty in that Pinterest won't recommend them in either users' Pinterest home feed or in search. To my knowledge, they have not banned anyone for keyword stuffing, but I imagine at least making spam reporting easier on the platform will be coming soon. (At least that would be my guess.)

To prevent the URL rewrites by PageSpeed, follow the documentation here https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/restricting_urls. You can add the following to your config file: ModPagespeedDisallow "http://example.com/.jpg" or ModPagespeedDisallow ".jpg"

I have made redirects for all my products on my old site at: http://webshop.teamout.dk To my new shop at: http://www.climbtown.dk What to do with the indexed pages of my old site? I would like the earned index status to refer to my new domain. Using the site:webshop.teamout.dk returns 255 indexed pages: https://www.google.dk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=site:webshop.teamout.dk&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=XVX8VJvWOYfvOY6ggbgH In Google Webmaster Tools I can't change the address, because of the domain being a subdomain. Any thoughts about getting my old domain indexed pages removed from Google?

So If i move the content of the current blog: http://www.nursesfornurses.com.au/blog To my subdomain:  http://news.nursesfornurses.com.au/Nursing-news/ Should I be expecting to see a decrease in rankings, even if I do 301 redirects from all the blog posts to the new ones..? I'm just trying to get this as black and white as possible for my directors.

Hi Figen, I fear that will be difficult to find - I did a quick google search & first result was this topic on Moz from Jan. 2013 (http://moz.com/community/q/how-do-you-check-the-outbound-links-of-a-site) . The answers basically are the same - it's possible to to a check outgoing links on one page using tools- however if you want to do it on a full domain - you'll need a tool like Screaming Frog (or alternative Xenu LinkSleuth). If Google isn't providing the info, all the other potential solutions would require crawling sites - most of the tools available on the market give information about who is linking to your site (or you competitor's site for that matter) - but not the other way. Dirk

Hi Don, Normally it's not really necessary to put a canonical on each the pages with different pageid - the most important reason to put a canonical url on a page is to let Google know that if the same content is published under different url's which url needs to be indexed. In your example - a canonical url on http://www.example.co.uk/Product.aspx?p=2692&pageid=3 would be needed if the same content would also be available under http://www.example.co.uk/Product.aspx?p=2692&pageid=3&sessionid=123456 (or any other additional parameter). Strictly speaking the canonical is not to indicate Google that the content is unique but to indicate on which preferred url you want the content to be indexed. That is also the reason why you can implement both together. If you check the example from Google  - they use the rel next/previous to indicate that the different pages belong together - the canonical is basically used to indicate that the session id needs to be ignored when indexing the page. If you are sure that there is only one version of http://www.example.co.uk/Product.aspx?p=2692&pageid=3 the canonical url is not really necessary. Note that e-commerce platforms have a tendency to add additional parameters to url's depending on the view - example when sorting on price etc - if this is the case the canonical would be needed. Hope this helps, Dirk

This is correct. You have consolidated both versions of the domain. No need to worry.

http://www.domain.com is the same as www.domain.com.  http is the protocol in which web pages are formatted and sent and would be part of any "complete" URL. So to answer your question, if there are no redirects in place you can choose either the non www or www version for your canonical tags.  However if you are looking to consolidate to a particular version I would look at updating your htaccess file to create a redirect rule from one version to the other. #Force non-www to www: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC] or #Force www to non-www: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

One of the things I would start with is getting proof that your home page performance sucks. I am assuming you have analytics for your site, so go ouut and download the Google page analytics tool: http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-analytics-by-google/fnbdnhhicmebfgdgglcdacdapkcihcoh?hl=en This will let you see a live view of how users interact with your site. As it has already been stated, if you describe your homepage as a word document you probably have some issues. Even if you get good traffic, I would bet your conversion rates are taking a hit. For the content, as long as other souces backlinking to you can support a content reduction I would go for it. (meaning if you have a good backlink profile, reducing your page content will most likely not cause any problems) Do some searches and see what shows up when you rank. Where is Google (and others) pulling content from? The page? The meta data? Once you see what they like, you can begin to weed out what they don't without as many risks.

I agree. I'm advising you to leave them in the index.

As you have a download site and the site is relatively new the first thought that springs to mind is the Pirate 2.0 algorithm - http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change. Apart from that have you had any notification/s in GWT and is the sudden fall in rankings sustained or fluctuating?

It would sure help to get more specifics on the geographical area you intend to serve and the amount of traffic you expect. Where is your app/db server(s) and what kind of hardware will you be running? What kind of data will you be serving? Generally speaking, CDNs are built to scale to high traffic loads with low latency and high availability. A VPS would need to be configured for the type of data being served and would need to be constantly and consistently monitored for performance, whereas a CDN could be considered more of a set-it-and-forget-it service, granted you've built your application to utilize it properly. My best answer for you is to go with a CDN. The only case I could see you wanting to use a VPS is if it's cheaper and you server load is known and constant.

Hi Angelos. Yup, you can do that. Here's a full guide here: http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection and you'll want to pay attention to the parts regarding page to page redirection, such as: RedirectMatch 301 /poker-face http://www.example.com/poker-faces You can typically find further redirection support from your server host and related to whichever CMS or web software you're using.  Cheers!

You're in the clear using a Google custom search box because Google is the one delivering the results so they know not to double up on those.  You're right that the pages that are getting indexed in Google on the other site are from a different process and an attempt to trick the engine with sparse, dynamically generated content. Hint?  Huh?  I'm not nearly that clever.  Cheers!

I'd give the sitemap a submission as soon as you get the URLs cleaned up. That should really help. Cheers!

thanks man,  all your advises have been very helpful

I personally have done with with floridagunclassifieds.com i immediately saw the benefits from it. My key words were all in the domain. The expired domain was around since 2001 so I got the benefit of having an already indexed domain from google. It took about 4-6 months off my SEO time table by using the expired domain and building it up. I am now #3 in florida for my keyword and quickly climbing the rankings.. Go ahead and use the new domain!