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Start by visiting your Google Webmaster Tools account and read (and deal with) any messages from Google!

If you start from zero, make sure to deal with all "three legs" (1.Text, 2.Technical stuff and 3.Links)  of SEO and find a good IRTA guide or hire professionals.

/Regards Alsvik

If you just allow the link to go 404, google will notice that you have a fault on your site - and no juice will be passed from the linking part. If Google is the one ranking your page, sending you customers and perhaps (as in our case) gives you 30% of your customers online -Then you dont want them to see any faults on your site!

If you 301, juice will be passed and you have the chance to present interesting stuff for the users (potential customers) that have clicked the link ...

Good links are hard to get, so you should nurture them. Make sure they reach a related page/product - add a 301-text message serverside, telling the potential customer that this merchandise is out of stock, not produced anymore or whatever reason. Depending on your company-type, make it personal: "Hi. Sorry we're aout of stock on this product. Sorry. Regards Tina, Salesmanager (add image)"

Google gave you GWT for a reason. Make sure you weekly take care of faults listed in there, and take them serious. Dont bite the hand that feeds you ;o)

I dont know the structure of your site, but we did some serverside-301-automatics, redirecting old product-pages to nearest avaiable product:

/travel/spain/mallorca/alcudia/non-existing-hotel -->

/travel/spain/mallorca/alcudia

On single info-pages we found relevant pages. All redirects came with a 301-message displayed on page, telling customers why we send them somewhere else.

Have you changed the preffered domain suffix in GWT? If you exclude one of the two (domain.com or www.domain.com) google will not register duplicate pages/content on ie /etc And add a redirect from domain.com to www.domain.com That should fix the issue

You could use a program that crawls your site for same purpose. Lots of free apps out there.

HI Shaun

Most online shops have a "read more..."-link on their productspages that reveals the boring parts.

We use this on a few otherwise very text-lenghty pages. Google have not taken notice on the change, and text is still indexed nicely.

/Alsvik

We are working on a system to 301 to closest relevant product/category with a text box being displayed showing the reason to the redirect and some usefull general links.

Hi Anthony.

It surprised me as well that it takes 3-4 days to crawl my site. I have +10.000 pages so i guess its ok.

Seomoz is crawling at a very low speed

Actually Seomoz crawls your site every week if you set up a campaign. Mine does! Every friday or saturday i get a crawl-report.

About the timeframe, try using GWT for meta desc and title errors!? GWT is updated monthly on terms of pages with identical title/meta descriptions. And if you make changes you shouldnt expect to see them have impact on SERP within the first month or two ...

How can the same URL show up in Seomoz Crawl Diagnostics "Most common errors and warnings" in both the "Duplicate Content"-list and the "Blocked by robots.txt"-list?

Shouldnt the latter exclude it from the first list?

It uses personalization.  Clear cache and cookies and try again - or add &pws=0 to the URL.

I use Google Chrome in "incognito mode" in XP environment along with CC Cleaner - it gives me accurate SERP everytime.

Hi It is not possible using the seomoz.org webpage. But perhaps, as a paying customer, you could write help@seomoz.org and ask them to duplicate the report to a different campaign ... Or at least leave a request for this. It could come in handy for others!

About the CSS: i have no idea, but i noticed it in other posts ... What browser are you using?

If you're afraid of keyword stuffing, you could:

• remove the title-tag from TEXT-link

• include both IMG and TEXT in one link with one title=tag

• include both IMG and TEXT in one link without title=tag, only ALT-tag

If the image also serves as a link you could potentially include both ALT and TITEL tag. But with a TEXT-link beneath, perhaps you would be keywordstuffing.

SEO wise (both IMG and TEXT) it would be best to use one ALT and one TITLE per image/link combo.

I would definitely use the alt text. But i would try to avoid keyword stuffing by only using the type/kind of wood in the picture:

alt="Californian Oak"

alt="Canadian Walnut"

alt="Japanese Cherry"

But is this for a gallery a shop or...? There's a major difference in what would be interesting for the customer to know about the images.

And perhaps you will find this discussion interesting!

I've used Xenu's Link Sleuth on sites with +5.000 pages. Worked just fine for me. But two setups are never equally alike.

But if you re not satisfied with Xenu try looking for some of the pro sitemap apps - a lot of them come with a "broken links checker" tool ...

Hi

I would use Xenu's Link Sleuth (freeware)

Hi About the case sensitivity, it's just an error on my side in this thread. When i read on the "normal" rel=canonical usage, it seems to be ment for ie a product-page where one product is shown on two different pages , where the rel=canonical points to the first/most important page. So the usage I think of, is not covered in googles own explanation ...

Hi We have a lot of pages about areas like ie. "Mallorca" (domain.com/Spain/Mallorca), with tabbed pages like "excursion" (domain.com/spain/Mallorca/excursions) and "car rental" (domain.com/Spain/Mallorca/car-rental) etc. The text on ie the "car rental"-page is very similar on Mallorca and Rhodos, and seomoz marks these as duplicate content. This happens on "car rental", "map", "weather" etc. which not have a lot of text but images and google maps inserted. Could i use rel=nex/prev/canonical to gather the information from the tabbed pages? That could show google that the Rhodos-map page is related to Rhodos and not Mallorca. Is that all wrong or/and is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Alsvik

If you search for "Search Engine Optimization", you get SEO highlighted in SERP.

But it doesnt seem to work the other way around ...

And yes! It is easier to rank high on a keyword that is in your domain-name.

I cant imagine anywhere better to find information in my language on Paris than on www.paris.dk.

As long as the onclick elements doesn’t change where the user goes and just track clicks, there shouldn’t be any problems. As long as the href= is in place you’ll be fine with the javascript in the link.

It seems good enough!

Url contains the two keywords.

Headline with the two keywords.

Catering counted 12 times

Corporate counted 4 times

Correct and good use og rel=next/prev/canonical/alternate

And meta description is no good for SEO, but good for attracting users at SERP.

I've found no evidence that a site will get punished for using frames - but google will only read the framed link, not the content of it. So the page need its own on-page content, otherwise pages will be marked as "duplicate content".

I would definitely use both title and a paragraph in the iframe-tag to describe the content, to avoid the duplicate content issue.