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Hi Jarno

I would lose my product page from SERPS and the blog is not the canonical page for 95% of the product page's content.

Thanks Sinisa, I have sent the link by private message. An example of duplicate content contains "harmonic techniques".

Hi

The blog post links to the product page and the product page links to the blog.

I haven't included it as an additional description, I have taken one or two paragraphs from the blog and worked them into the original product copy.

I have a great blog post about one of my products, which means there's some copy in the blog that I would like in the product page. It would constitute perhaps 5% of the copy on the product page if I copied it.

Is there any reason to think that adding to or improving copy might harm seo?

When you are looking at your keywords, you can't miss it, it's to the right of the big, green "Add Keywords" button.

You can still use whatever you like in ads, it doesn't stop the other variant working. Although perhaps for links it has an seo effect?

Google has indexed a page I wish to remove. I would like to meta noindex but the CMS isn't allowing me too right now. A suggestion o disallow in robots.txt would simply stop them crawling I expect or is it also an instruction to noindex? Thanks

From the CMS point of view, it is mainly published by one person.

I might ask a professional in the particular field to write an article about something related to my products and then post it as my brand, with an introduction about the author.

The articles are posted by two people, so the the blog and author pages are quite similar.

If a third author wrote about "this-subject", I would have a page called:

example.com/this-subject

and urls /blog & /blog/author3 would each display the title and first paragraph from the /this-subject url

/blog would now have 11 article titles and first paragraphs

www.example.com/blog

is the full list of blog posts by various writers. The list contains the title of each article and the first paragraph from the article.

In addition to /blog being indexed, each author's contribution list is being indexed separately. It's not a profile, really, just a list of articles in the same title & paragraph format of the /blog page.

So if /blog a list of 10 articles written by two writers, I have three pages:

/blog/author1 is a list of 4 articles

/blog/author2 is a list of 6 different articles

/blog is a list of 10 articles (the 4+6 from the two writers)

Is this going to be considered duplicate content?

Thanks Matt, that put me on the right track. I have posted a full solution is you need it anytime.

SOLUTION:

Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On

#redirect this type of url www.old.com/index.php?everything-after-the-question-mark to a new url

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^everything-after-the-question-mark$ RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.new.com/new-page? [L,R=301]

#change the above for every specific url with a query string that you want to send to a specific url

#for capturing the rest of the site's query string urls and sending them to a single page - the home page in this example:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)$ RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.new.com? [L,R=301]

#www.old.com doesn't have a query string so needs its own 301:

Redirect 301 / http://www.new.com

I have found a paid-for video delivery to be best for my needs.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/winning-the-video-thumbnail-in-google-universal-search

Hi Jenson

I can't help with your specific question of hosting the video yourself, but I wanted to reply to say that I use a pay-as-you-go video delivery service that will serve different video file sizes depending on device. That's not the primary reason I use them... not being much of a coder, it's easy to just copy their code and paste it as you would youtube embed code. The analytics they offer is helpful as it shows me how many video views I get per page load and how much of the video is watched... how many get to the end, where it's replayed, etc. I use Bits on the Run but there are lots of others.

For some reason it doesn't work. I've changed the fifth line below for posting here, but the four lines above it is the code that I used in the htaccess. Because it's a 1and1 server which use php4 as default, it has an extra line to use php 5, which the site has always had. The domain-to-domain 301 works ok with this extra line.

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On

Redirect 301 /index.php?route=product/product&product_id=51 http://www.newdomain.com/new-page

Thanks Matt

The domain-to-domain redirect works but the page-to-page doesn't, even when the page-to-page is the only instruction below "RewriteEngine on".