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I think you are right in the first place.
If the article is a good one that they would like want it on their site, then I think you should keep it on yours. The amount of traffic you will get from a article buried somewhere on such a site would be very limited if any IMO.
If you are selling blue widgets then you really only want people that are looking for blue widgets, no use directing people who are not interested. As for ranking No, it will not help.
What does help is and sort of related, is clicks from search engines, Bing and now Google track users that use the search engine in the way that. If a user goes to Bing or Google and searches for blue widgets and clicks on result #1, then returns and clicks on #2, and does not return, then that is a signal that #2 is a better result for the search term. if this happens enough then #2 will replace #1.
As tom said it can, how much is too much?
But I would also be worried about turning off users and making your site look spammy.
I say no, I believe mat cutts has said the same. its the tld that is important .be.
Having said that site speed is important for ranking in search engines as well as conversions and user satisfaction.
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I don't use any CMS, but I would assume that you are getting more features, more bug fixes, more hack fixes and all this code is probably slowing things down. With CMS you sacrifice a lot for the ability to build a site without writing code.
Nothing beats a hand made site for speed and clean seo friendly code.
If you read my post you will see I said noindex,nofollow not follow, if you would like to remove them then that will do the same job. A>B>C take out B and problem solved either way
Lynn is correct, if you give a look we can see if we spot anything.
When you say they don't get the titles right, Google often changes the titles depending on the search term. But a site:domain.com search should bring up correct titles.
Another point, how much of that code is learnt from or copied from other sources? Would he even have the right to call it his own?
Imagine getting a house build and then signing a rental agreement??
I build complied sites in MVC using visual studio, when I click publish, it compiles my code and produces a website on the server. If you wanted to make any changes at a later date you would need the Visual Studio project, I always give clients a copy of this project so they can do so.
I remember tests being done in the past and title tag in a link does not pass relevance to the linked page, but it could possible add relevance to the linking page
to make that clear, image page A has this link
Then page B may rank for dogs even if the page has no mention of dogs because the link text has passed relevance, but I will not do the same for cats.
But if page B was about cats, then it may be possible that search engines see this link coming from a relevant page because of the title attribute. Probably not, but posible
no I don't think so, by the way they can see the images is the same, but this will not be a problem.
Not sure about the RDF, but the schema.org on the product does not look correct
<linkitemprop="availability"href="http://www.mycarhelpline.com/index.php?option=com_offers&view=list&Itemid=9"/>
should be
itemprop="availability" href=http://schema.org/InStock" />
I have been a computer programmer / web developer for over 20 years and no it is not.
I would tell them to take a hike, if you have already passed over any cash then I would ask for it back , if they did not tell you this before taking the money.
Yes you are correct, at least you would think so. but I would add the follow just in case.
I assume you are using the meta noindex and not robots as robots,txt will stop both index and follow I believe.
There is nothing wrong with having ore then one page ranking for the same keyword, in fact inking from one to the other can add relevance to the linked to page. the only problem is that because search engines like to share the results around,, you may only get one page returned in results, you may need to optimize in a way that the right page is returned.
Yes, noindex means that any links pointing to those pages are wasting link juice. You should use noindex,follow to make sure that the link juice is returned though out links.
I know that many with CMS sites have 5this problem, but the numbers you are reporting do seem very large.
This could be because of your internal linking or external for that matter.
if links are passing green car relevance and PR to one page more than the other this could be the result.
I don't think that is correct, I have watched the video also, and I think matt has been deliberately vague.
If you have a link that points to pageA that is 301 redirected to pageB, then you lose PR with the link to pageA then lose again when it is 301 redirected to pageB. You have made 2 requests both lose PR
True the lose is the same, but it is twice.
If you link directly to pageB, them you only leak PR once.
yes something like
<link rel="canonical" href="http://mydomain.com"/>