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Check my answer to similar question: http://moz.com/community/q/pages-with-rel-next-prev-still-crawling-as-duplicate Even if you add a canonical url, those pages are technically duplicated, that's why moz report will keep reporting them as duplicate, in the report the canonical url is shown in a different column, so if you don't care about them you can just filter them out.

First, it's crucial to know that 99% of directory websites out there at best will not help you and at worst will hurt you. The directory is good only if the answer to all three of these questions is yes: **1. Would I want this link if Google did not exist? **In other words, do a lot of real people visit this website? Would a link send you valuable referral traffic of people who are interested in your website's topic -- or, are you trying only to get a link to boost your search rankings. 2. Is this directory curated by a human who is an expert in the field and who does not accept each and every submission? In other words, would Google view the site's owner as an authority on the topic? For example, a list of recommended Seattle restaurants compiled by a local newspaper food critic is much better than a generic list of each and every restaurant in Seattle on some random website. 3. If this link is being paid for, does it not pass PageRank (i.e., is it a no-follow link that adheres to Google's guidelines as such)? Paying for any link to try to manipulate rankings could get you hit by Penguin. For this reason, Google is not a big fan of directories. And that's why more and more of them are adding no-follow tags -- they don't want to get hit by Google themselves. Yes, no-follow tags do not pass "link juice."

Yes. Screaming Frog will pull the meta data for any URL you feed it, so if you scrape the URLs using Scrapebox, Screaming Frog will return the meta data.

No, GA never retroactively adjusts data, a filter is considered a day forward change affecting only new incoming data.

Hey there, It really depends, do you want to remove the links from Google ? if so then a 301 redirect will passes 90-99% of power / link juice to the URL you point it to plus tells Google this URL no longer exist at that location and therefore drops it from its index. If you do not want to drop the URLS within the index then a 302 is a good way to temporarily keep them there if you are going to reinstate them.

Far as I know - no value at all for serps....but for searchers perhaps...depends on whether it might be a transactional query or a instructional one etc etc....

FYI, "Google prefers microdata for web content." This was taken directly from their site at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/3069489?hl=en "Google is in the process of adding JSON-LD support to more markup-powered features. So far, JSON-LD is supported for all Knowledge Graph features, sitelink search boxes, and Event Rich Snippets; Google recommends the use of JSON-LD for those features. For the remaining Rich Snippets types and breadcrumbs, Google recommends the use of microdata or RDFa." From https://developers.google.com/structured-data/schema-org

We are having the same issues.  We have already implemented hreflang. Is there anything else that might help solve this problem?

GWT for new index, then ask for complete read...then u/l a new .xml sitemap...

As Donna pointed out, the 'delay' tween what you expect time-line wise and what Google can 'do' is often longer than anyone would wish........

Thanks Rob, clear answer, much appreciated Jez

Please ignore, I have now resolved - it was me being stupid!

ok thanks ! nothing has changed just hoped it might do something

I think that there is a slightly bigger question here. Rather than "How can I stop Moz flagging these up as duplicate?" you might want to ask "Are these duplicate pages harming me". Thin pages, particularly those ranking on desirable terms, are something I try hard to avoid.  They send pretty poor quality signals to Google and create poor user experience signals as well.  If there is a term that I want to rank for I would ensure that pages are strong enough to deserve ranking before letting them get indexed. It can be painful to deindex a page that ranks. However if those pages are giving off bad signals that could be your best chance of long term ranking success. A compromise might be to fill them out in the mean time.  How effective this might be will really depend on your niche and your website.  Lots of stores do this by just adding a load of low value text to the page, but a better approach is to try to put something useful there until the products arrive.  Do this right and you could even be building links into those pages before the products arrive. One example of this that I have done in the past is to build out a great coming soon page that featured a competition to win the item when it launched,  As well as ensuring that there was a page worthy of ranking (particularly against the competition who were using stub pages!), it brought some other key advantages: The competition was used to build links from related sites User experience was great. People hung about, watched the video and filled in the entry form It got shared (bonus prize draw entries for sharing!) When the product hit the shelves we already had a mailing list of interested customers That's fairly involved, so won't work for everything, but the principals are sound.  If you were Google which would you want to rank? That or an empty page?

Hello benseb, You mention that you have de-prioritized past events in the sitemap. You could go the nofollow route although this is a somewhat clumsy way to go about it. I think based on what you have described, your best bet is to leave it as is (after moving forward with the hint Matt Cutts dropped) rather than eliminating a load of content which is sending Google positive signals. My guess is that these positive signals overpower any negative signals that might be resulting from aging content. If everything has been properly indexed and current events are showing up, I wouldn't make any big alterations - why mess with a good thing? If you begin seeing drastic declines in traffic or user interaction, that might be the time to take a harder stance. For now though, let it be. Best of luck! Rob

Hi Jason, It depends on what CMS you're using.  If you're using WordPress, you can definitely use SEO Yoast or any other plugins to change the meta title and many other SEO required areas.  Please let us know what CMS you're using to further help. Can you clarify your 2nd question? Thank you!

Hi Julio, I wrote a blog post a while ago on how to optimise your site using Yoast SEO, check it out here. Also another one I wrote was on LSI keyword placement within content, check it out here. If you do solid keyword research, optimise your Wordpress site as per the first post and optimise your content as per the second, you should get great results.

so you're aware the permalink link is a WordPress term for URL or link however it does have its unique abilities to WordPress it is a WordPress URL. http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks Regarding your plug-in settings and doing what it tells you. create your own titles based on information found in Moz SEO by the sea, distilled and many other authoritative places which will actually give you the ability to write your own titles regardless of what your plug-in tells you a must-read is right here http://www.seobythesea.com/2014/12/direct-answers-taken-authority-websites/ care about what tools like deep crawl and screaming frog have to say you can use screaming frog to check if they're the right size. of any title or pretty much anything on the page. Same thing with deep crawl http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/page-title-meta-description-lengths-by-pixel-width/ I do not think that plug-ins have come that far in all honesty all of them talk about keyword density almost every single one of them. Never take a plug-in's information as more important than what you might read here in the Moz guides http://moz.com/learn/seo or in http://distilled.net/u & http://www.feedthebot.com/ they are suggestions based on what the plug-in can detect about your site. do not get me wrong I think plug-ins are extremely important for the ability to put in titles and canonical's other important elements that must be installed for the site to work properly. But there are very few plug-ins I would listen to describe content is good but is expensive and they are right there is no magic keyword percentage however you can always have too many or too few but it should be written for the end-user. Titles should be created for the end user as well. Think about what would drive you to the site if you were to read it. Never use keywords in the title or URL unless they serve a purpose That benefits the end-user not what people think Google will want. With all that said obviously if you do not put keywords or key phrases that are relevant to what you're speaking about and quality content on your site you will not rank for it. when it comes to creating titles for your site I strongly recommend reading this prior http://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag for a guide to content excellence check out distilled.net/content-guide/ hope this helps, Tom

No-follows are typically reserved for spaces that are prone to spam - blogs, comment sections, etc. It is rare to have a company no-follow a link in the way you are suggesting. In the end, this method wouldn't be doing them any favors either. You can use SEOQuake or SEO Spyglass (Powersuite) to determine if a link is follow or no-follow. If you have had these links for some time, one possible alternative is that the pages you had links on have been removed as part of a website overhaul on the part of those dealer groups. If they are not showing up, there are 2 possible solutions: Either the new software hasn't crawled them (or analytics hasn't picked them up yet), or the page the links were on have been moved. Another approach could be to get in touch with the folks who you are missing links from and explaining the situation to them. Since they linked to you before, I don't see why they wouldn't again, as long as you are honest and open about it

In other words they/you don't care about traffic, so what's the point of having a website?