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Hi Brandon,

Great question!

• Is it duplicate content? Yes.
• Is it good for your users and sales? Yes

As long as you are doing other things to build your client's brand, it's such a small thing Google is not going to give you a huge penalty.

If I have to put it on a scale of 0-100 of negative impact on your site, I'd give it a .05

In light of the new Panda update I am testing to see if natural page titles rank better. Chances are if it sounds spammy to you, Google is going to eventually think so too.

If you do go the keyword rich route change your divider text to look less spammy:

Widget Program | Widget Software | Widget Direct

Widget Program - Widget Software - Widget Direct

If natural is something you want to try, and you're trying to target a local area

Widget Program is made by Widget Software company Widget Direct in Local Area

Of course this is just an example, the title is too long at 77 charaters.

I use this character counter tool when I craft my titles.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/charcount.shtml

In addition I would put the "No Index" meta attribute in the pages.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93710

It's interlinking, it's good for SEO. Just don't do it in excess. 10 popular post links great! 100 not so much..

Links are the answer.

The question is:

How many links are you getting from the quality content you produce?

http://www.yakangler.com/articles/news/events/tournaments

• How many of those people are bloggers?
• Do you have backlinks from them?

If the answer is no, go get the low hanging fruit!

1. Depending on the authority of your website depends how quickly it gets indexed/ranked

For example:

• • I have seen stuff on Quora get indexed by Google in about 15 minutes
  • If you have a new site, it could take a couple of weeks

2. Personally if I'm planning on launching a new product I'd post in the info on my site a couple of weeks before it's ready to launch with a coming soon banner. This is good for two (2) resons:

1. 1. You are generating buzz
   2. You are making sure Google knows your site published the content before anyone else.

3. Is duplicate content an problem?

Yes.

If you get indexed first, is it your problem?

I'd say no

Challenge accepted

Hi Ahmad,

1. I would go out on a limb and say OSE crawls just like Google, so if your links aren't counted in OSE they, are not being counted by Google.

2. "Is there some sort of "magic number"

No.

Watch this video, it is what you need to focus on to rank well!

Full Length Sample Video

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/2012-mozcon-videos-are-here

I'd go for it, but I'm a betting man from Las Vegas

Variables:

• How well established is your site?
• Is the site relevant?
• Are their inbound links from well traveled authoritative sources?
• Will their site get alot of traffic in the future?

Possible Solitions for your problem:

.htaccess authentication blocking robots.txt

http://www.irishwebmasterforum.com/server-technical-administration-tips-and-queries/10892-htaccess-authentication-blocking-robots-txt.html

301 redirect. How to make an exception for the robots.txt

http://forum.cs-cart.com/topic/23747-301-redirect-how-to-make-an-exception-for-the-robotstxt/

1. Canonical robots.txt

http://digwp.com/2011/03/htaccess-wordpress-seo-security/

General .htaccess tutorials: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.htmlhttp://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

I don't see anything specific on it. Id' ask Bing's Duane Forrester via Twitter

twitter.com/DuaneForrester

Process in the past:

"If you would like to be considered for bing news, please mail your request to bns@microsoft.com"

http://www.bing.com/community/webmaster/f/12251/p/649275/9545500.aspx

Bing's Duane Forrester on Webmaster Tools, Metrics, and Sitemap Quality Thresholds

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/bings-duane-forrester-on-webmaster-tools-metrics-and-sitemap-quality-thresholds

Keeping them separate is best practices, however seeing as it is not an option, the next best thing is to put different langues on their own sub-domain.

For example:

• de.examplesite.com
• es.examplesite.com
• fr.examplesite.com

So you'd need to migrate and 301 all of the old site's content to a new subdomain on the central site.

Doubtful

http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/

Hey Ben how long have you been tracking this client's site in SEO Moz?

It depends how you get your business from the Middle East and Asia.

If it's not from search, change it to 'en-GB' to increase your chances in the UK region.

At any rate, you might want to consider a generic TDL like .com .net or .org if you're going to be focusing on international marketing.

As .co.uk is a country specific TDL and therefor more difficult to rank internationally.

A great example of this is the International SEO consulting firm Distilled. They are UK based but when they went international they switched from distilled.co.uk to distilled.net

Type in the .co.uk you'll see it 301s to the .net

Shrugs Why not upload them to You Tube do a 301 to your You tube Videos, and Monetize the videos?

or

Just 301 them to the most relevant pages/articles on the site.

If that's not possible, the home page should be ok since it sounds like your site is well established.

If at all possible use IIS URL Rewriter so that you can canonicalize your site structure.

http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite

If you have a smaller site, and it's in the early stages I'd try using other CMSs and software to see if you can find something that you like. I love Wordpress, and I use it for everything.

• Do "keyword research" for your local area and industry
• Put those keywords into your SEO Moz Campaign
• Let SEO Moz crawl your site (Takes about a week)
• After SEO Moz has info on your site you can follow the tool tips they provide to get a better understanding of how it will help.

SEO is an ever evolving field and their are alot of things you can only pick up by getting involved in the community, testing, failing, improving, ect.

However SEO Moz is a great community and really helps cut down on the learning curb. If you have any questions feel free to ask me directly on this site, Twitter or Quora.

https://twitter.com/bnspak

www.quora.com/Ben-Spak

This has images. Even bosses can understand those.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2129359/How-Search-Engines-Use-Machine-Learning-for-Pattern-Detection

Claudio,Please understand, the people on there are not happy with you asking for help because you're doing it in an unsolicited way. In addition people do not think highly of your niche. And while it is unfair, you're best bet IMHO is to spend your time working on your website or marketing, ignore the haters.