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Hi Jason,

In robots.txt you have added trailing slash that is the reason.

http://www.menshealthanswers.co.uk/robots.txt

Remove trailing slash from robots.txt.

It should be -

User-agent: *

Disallow:

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Hi Rajveer,

Similar question asked earlier many times . I'm sharing two past thread.

https://moz.com/community/q/tool-to-search-for-duplicate-content

https://moz.com/community/q/seomoz-duplicate-content-checker

Hope this helps.

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Hi ,

Yes you can block such URL by using below code in robots.txt file.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*ReviewNew.asp

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Hi,

Page rank last updated on December 2013 & John Muller says "we’re probably not going to be updating it going forward".

So I would like to suggest you to check MozRank ( moz version of PR) instead of PR & PA ,DA.

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Hi,

You are on right track. If  same keywords are used in different match types then they are not considered as duplicate keywords. Just remember the keyword with the highest AdRank enters the general auction for placement.

Generally the advertisers tend to follow different strategies and stick with the one, which gives them higher Conversions, high Return on Investment (ROI) etc...

1. Launch different match type keywords within a single ad group and go with the ones, which gives you better results.

2. Launch different match type keywords in different ad groups OR different campaigns and then add embedded negative match type keywords to streamline the traffic. Now, once you accrue data, you can pause the match types which are not proving worth for you and optimize the rest of the keywords.

Bid higher on_ exact_, lower on phrase and the lowest on broad.

Using this strategy, when all match types could be matched to a query,  the most restrictive  type wins, your   ad-rank will be higher, and as a result, your  chances to win a higher position  (in the  auction) are higher.

Hope this helps

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Hi Maria,

First of all Google search is not case sensitive. You can try yourself by searching acronym in all caps and in lower case, you will find Google showing same SERPS. You can use either in caps or lower case both will work and be weighted equally.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Private Blog Networks, PBNs, are generally groups of blogs or sites often controlled by one publisher, with the goal of building up links within the network as a way to help particular content rank better in Google.

Here is a tutorial on this @ http://www.cloudincome.com/building-private-blog-network/

I wouldn't suggest you to use that because in past Google has reportedly taken action on sites participating in private blog networks.

Hope this helps

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Hi,

I'm replying you point by point.

1>You must take backlink point to https domain because currently you are using SSL.

2>Yes as you mentioned that you have used 301 redirect so link equity pass to https domain with very negligible loss in link juice but you should take link on https domain because you are using SSL now.

3>Yes of course that is why people use 301 redirect so link equity can pass from old URL to new URL.

Hope this helps.

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Hi Pulkit,

I don't know where have you read this that classifieds backlink getting more importance but as far as I know it is completely not true. Google doesn't give importance to such links. I agree with you that some websites which is involved in getting low quality backlinks and spammy backlinks could appear on top but only for short duratiopn when Google will caught them their ranking will goes down or whole site get penalized. If you think the other site is doing black hat/spam techniques . you can report here

@ Report spam, paid links, or malware

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Have you heard about Google Ad Grants? You should check once whether your website eligible for Ad grants or not.

$10,000 per month.

"Google Ad Grants is the nonprofit edition of AdWords, Google's online advertising tool. Google Ad Grants empowers nonprofit organisations, through $10,000 per month in in-kind AdWords advertising, to promote their missions and initiatives on Google search result pages."

To know more @ http://www.google.co.in/grants/

Or if not eligible you can start PPC campaign with low budget and if you need any help on running campaign please ask your question here. You will get all the answers.

Hope this helps.

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Hi Jamie,

Neither it was nor it is an important ranking factor. No I haven't seen any noticeable difference .

List of Important SEO ranking Factors @ http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors

I'm also sharing Matt Cutts video on this @ http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2297152/does-google-penalize-for-invalid-html-matt-cutts-says-no

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Hi,

It can help to get traffic on your website only. Don’t pass on link juice which means don’t help you to boost PA/DA (Page authority/Domain Authority and website rankings.

Hope it helps!!

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Hi Will Swales,

That is called Google answer Box. I'm sharing a detailed article published on this yesterday on SEW.

http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/opinion/2414342/google-answer-boxes-the-what-why-and-how

Hope that helps.

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Hi Jamie,

Yes I have a suggestion for you. You can start Google Ad words search campaign for branded keywords only. You will be at number 1 in no time and I hope CPC would be very low because you are using your brand name as keywords.

You can also try this for Bing if your sites getting significant number of searches from Bing.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Back in the days the trailing slash suggested "this is a directory" in contrary to "this is a file". Browsers would react slightly faster – or at least that's what I was told – when they were indirectly told "look for a file called index…". Today that trailing slash is next to obsolete.

Today it is considered good practice to either always or never have that trailing slash – otherwise it could be considered duplicate content.

But as far as I know neither theory has any impact on SEO.

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Please attach image.

Hi,

Optimal format for any page title tag is **Primary Keyword - Secondary Keyword | Brand Name. **

You can use it same for homepage also. If a brand is well-known enough to make a difference in click-through rates in search results, the brand name should be first. If the brand is less known or relevant than the keyword, the keyword should be first.

If you keep your titles under 55 characters, you can expect at least 95% of your titles to display properly

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Yes & No . I'm quoting Google on this read it carefully you will get the whole idea about 404.

Q: Do the 404 errors reported in Webmaster Tools affect my site’s ranking?
A: 404s are a perfectly normal part of the web; the Internet is always changing, new content is born, old content dies, and when it dies it (ideally) returns a 404 HTTP response code. Search engines are aware of this; we have 404 errors on our own sites, as you can see above, and we find them all over the web. In fact, we actually prefer that, when you get rid of a page on your site, you make sure that it returns a proper 404 or 410 response code (rather than a “soft 404”). Keep in mind that in order for our crawler to see the HTTP response code of a URL, it has to be able to crawl that URL—if the URL is blocked by your robots.txt file we won’t be able to crawl it and see its response code. The fact that some URLs on your site no longer exist / return 404s does not affect how your site’s other URLs (the ones that return 200 (Successful)) perform in our search results.
Q: So 404s don’t hurt my website at all?
A: If some URLs on your site 404, this fact alone does not hurt you or count against you in Google’s search results. However, there may be other reasons that you’d want to address certain types of 404s. For example, if some of the pages that 404 are pages you actually care about, you should look into why we’re seeing 404s when we crawl them! If you see a misspelling of a legitimate URL (www.example.com/awsome instead of www.example.com/awesome), it’s likely that someone intended to link to you and simply made a typo. Instead of returning a 404, you could 301 redirect the misspelled URL to the correct URL and capture the intended traffic from that link. You can also make sure that, when users do land on a 404 page on your site, you help them find what they were looking for rather than just saying “404 Not found."

Hope that helps.

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Hi Gavo,

Citation is really important for local SEO but your case is different because your client doesn't want to disclose physical address so you have to focus on other things e.g 1>Quality backlinks 2>Perfect on page optimisation

also read this article on citation @ https://moz.com/learn/local/citations

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Hi Kevin,

As you mentioned that link is nofollow so if link is nofollow there is no need to disavow them because "When a link is disavowed, the next time that Google crawls that link they essentially add an invisible nofollow tag to the link."

To know more on this please read Marie Haynes article @ http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2330944/7-things-you-may-not-know-about-googles-disavow-tool

Hope this helps.

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