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or should they be seperate?

Here are a bunch below; choose which you like and Thank you in advance!

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| http://www.betheboss.ca/franchise-news-august-2012/Quesada-5-locations743.cfm |
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We have over 1,330 pages that say we are "Missing Meta Description Tag" when I spot check all of them have meta descriptions? Can you please explain to me why Moz is picking up that we do not have meta descriptions when we do. Our website  http://www.betheboss.ca

Please help. I would like a accurate measure of meta descriptions that are missing.

Just a follow up to your suggestion.

I created sitemaps for the pages I want removed using the google spreadsheet importXML functions, which saved a lot of time.

It took a couple weeks but all of the pages, and similar pages, have successfully been removed from the index. Even the similar pages I didn't get a chance to put in the sitemap yet (importXML limits the results to 100).

Your suggestion worked!

I can't 404 dynamic search pages.

There are a mix of search pages and old mobile pages.

The search pages I've been testing out having the canonical point to the default search page. I've seen a slight drop in these pages - but I guess I just have to be more patient.

For the other pages the path is no longer there like you were mentioning. I like the idea of setting up the XML sitemap, I never even thought of making a bad/indexed page sitemap. I will give that a shot! Thankfully this will be a quick job with the importXml function in google spreadsheets! Great tip, hopefully it'll work.

6 months ago my clients site was overhauled and the user generated searches had an index tag on them. I switched that to noindex but didn't get it fast enough to avoid being 100's of pages indexed in Google.

It's been months since switching to the noindex tag and the pages are still indexed. What would you recommend? Google crawls my site daily - but never the pages that I want removed from the index.

I am trying to avoid submitting hundreds of these dynamic URL's to the removal tool in webmaster tools. Suggestions?

Yeah I have no idea how I missed this haha - I think because I couldn't see it in the rich snippet testing tool.

Ah I got more information from http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo - I just had a hard time finding the proper information.

Ah yeah - that looks very cool! But it was also showing up in the web search… which I haven't seen before. The formatting is different.

Today I was going through one of my sites and I noticed a rich snippet that had a screenshot of a YouTube video for this page: http://www.betheboss.ca/GoTireFranchise.cfm.

When I click on the video it went to my site… almost like authorship. I have never noticed this before, what markup would make it show up? Schema? And what else have you seen this with? I can't find answers anywhere…

I attached a screenshot.

Sidenote: I looked again and now the rich snippet doesn't show up… bizarre.

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What happens when you are no longer working on a campaign, and your client needs the campaign history?

I don't pay for my account, my employer does. If I ever have to move on what should I do with the account? I would want to keep my seomoz profile and Q&A history. But the campaigns belong to my employer so I would have to change all of the profile settings into his name…

Is there a protocol for this kind of situation?

yeah all of the 301's are done - but I am trying to get around submitting tens of thousands of URL's to the URL removal tool.

Background: I have a newly acquired client who has had a lot of issues over the past few months.

What happened is he had a major issue with broken dynamic URL's where they would start infinite loops due to redirects and relative links. His previous SEO didn't pay attention to the sitemaps created by a backend generator, and it caused hundreds of thousands of pages to be indexed. Useless pages.

These useless pages were all bringing up a 404 page that didn't have a 404 server response (it had a 200 response) which created a ton of duplicate content and bad links (relative linking).

Now here I am, cleaning up this mess. I've fixed the 404 page so it creates a 404 server response. Google webmaster tools is now returning thousands of "not found" errors, great start. I fixed all site errors that cause infinite redirects. Cleaned up the sitemap and submitted it.

When I search site:www.(domainname).com I am still getting an insane amount of pages that no longer exist.

My question: How does Google handle all of these 404's? My client wants all the bad pages removed now but I don't have as much control over that. It's a slow process getting Google to remove these pages that are returning a 404. He is continuously dropping in rankings still.

Is there a way of speeding up the process? It's not reasonable to enter tens of thousands of pages into the URL Removal Tool.

I want to clean house and have Google just index the pages in the sitemap.

I noticed my UK site increased drastically in rankings. Both my Canadian and US sites didn't see much of a change, nothing out of the ordinary… up and down a few spots like usual.

Ah perfect! Thanks for the recommendation on the 302.

I got more out of todays webinar than any other seomoz webinar to date. Great job.

**Discussion Question: **Lets say you have 33 pages of paginated content but someone lands on page 34+, what do you do?

I just setup a variable on my site so when someone lands on a page that is over the page count they are redirected to the last page of the paginated content. My reasoning is the user is looking for the last page, so why not redirect them to it?

Now I just saw in the latest webinar on ecommerce (by Everett Sizemore) that he recommends a 404… should I switch? Why a 404?

Again, what do you guys do when you encounter this situation?