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Hey Vanguard Communications!

I don't see why doing this would hurt your sites rankings or be deemed as duplicate in any way.

Since SEO is an "experimental" process (which is why you've heard such conflicting answers on this), my best advice would be to give it a try and see how it plays out. Or as EGOL stated, try adding a few extra words if the page content is too short. Or even add a few extra words to make it differ from the page content. Best of luck to you!

Thank you Jeff! Your answer is very in depth and helpful.

Google recommends a page load speed of 1.4 seconds, is it recommended to have that page speed for every page on the site, or just the landing pages. Is there a tool that will check the load speed of every page on a site and report the slow pages?

The free online tools only check one page at a time.

A company that contacted us for SEO ended up going with another company, because we already had an impact windows client and we make sure to be exclusive to our clients for the terms we target.

Over the past 5 years, we ended up over performing for our client and now they have so much referral business that they decided to cancel with us... Kind of a bummer, but we take it as a compliment.

Now that we are able to target those keywords again, we are looking into the site that contacted us originally.

Before contacting them we looked at their sitemap and this is what we found. IMO they are stealing money from this client. What are your thoughts? should we contact them and let them know the direction this company is taking?

[identifying information removed by Moz staff]

Thank you

we've already checked for backlinks none of the pages have any. However some have social media shares.

We are taking out two of the top level categories and items within them. Therefore, we would have to 301 them back to the home page because we don't have the top level anymore, which I believe can raise a flag.

Hi Jeff,

From my understanding a 301 should only be done if the page we are linking to is related to the page that we are eliminating. We have about 100 items that we plan on removing, our rankings are very good and we don't want to lose what we've earned.

My concern is if we do 100, 301 redirects, it might be signal to google that something funky is going on..

I noticed that Moz doesn't use Youtube for WBF videos. Is there a reason for this?

Is it better to host your own videos rather than pulling them from another source such as Youtube?

I have a bunch of pages that I want to remove from one of our ecommerce sites www.macdecals.com

I understand that it's recommended to check the backlinks of each of these pages to determine if they have any incoming links before removing them, to see if I should even bother doing a 301 or not. (We have a good 404 page)

What about checking if the pages have any social media interaction?

After removing these pages is it recommended to update and resubmit our sitemap.xml file to Google Webmaster Tools?

I feel like once Google Webmaster tools finds the 404s and we have resubmited a sitemap, we can mark all the issues at hand as fixed.

Thought? Are we on the right track?

Thanks Mark,

What if the site has 40,000 links?

How do sites like removeem do it? Just for the initial report?

Really hoping there is a way to do this without having to spend eternity manually looking : )

We have a new client with 8 sites that we would like to 301 to a new site. However, before doing so we want to make sure that the backlinks are not unnatural or harmful in any way.

Using open site explorer (other than just looking at exact anchor text vs brand anchor text ratio) is there a way to determine low quality inbound sites linking in? or any type of links google will find manipulative?

I have a client site that is pulling a meta title that is not in his code. I am using Yoast for the titles and descriptions on this site. Not 100% sure why Google is not listing the title we have in place.

Could the code be pulling from somewhere else? Is there a fix for this?

Okay the question is regarding indexing, I should of been more specific.

If we are removing 100 product pages from an ecommerce site because they barely convert (regardless of a nice 404 page) and we cannot transfer the user to a relevant page. Is it a best to leave the pages live? or remove them (404) and block them in the robots.txt file?

Right the questions is regarding crawlability, link juice etc..

What is the best practice for removing a product page from an Ecommerce site?

If a 301 is not available and the page is already crawled by the search engine

A. block it out in the robot.txt

B. let it 404

One of our clients we are working on have two sites the main with a PR5 and a separate one with a PR4.

We are planning on doing a 301 from the PR4 to a page on the PR5

Is it best to do:

www.PR4.com  ----> www.PR5.com/releveantPR4page

or

www.PR4.com/page  ----> www.PR5.com/releveantPR4page

Most pages on the PR4 site can fit into one PR5 page logically. However the PR4 has an about us, contact us, blog/with posts, FAQ, Applications, Legal Resources which are all pretty out dated..

The PR4 site is kinda messy and we are not sure if it will be easy to 301 each page individually with the user in mind.

can we do a sitewide 301 redirect from the root PR4.com to a page PR/5.com/releveantPR4page and also do deeper 301's? PR4.com/PR4page ---> PR5.com/releveantPR4page

Just discovered this site http://northsocial.com/examples/

They charge a few dollars a day to use their Facebook apps. However, I am thinking it will be pretty simple to develop apps like these ourselves.

Also, once the app is created we can use it for all of our social media accounts.

Wanted to get some opinions on the matter.

My questions are:

1. Do apps help generate more likes?

2. Can Apps be promoted?

3. Is it challenging to create a Facebook app?

4. Are Facebook apps worth investment of time?

The EMDs are all geo targeted CityKeyword etc.. They would be placed in new directories, .com/301#1 .com/301#2 with approx 9 domains. However, once this is completed does the link profile including anchors carry through? If so a site that has only a brand name will have a bunch of other anchors added to new pages via 301 and may look unnatural once the domain is different from the majority of anchors. This is our concern...

The anchor link profiles of the pages we want to 301 mostly match the EMDs and the pages are ranking high, we do not want to lose the current rankings.

We have a client about to enroll with us for SEO. The client has about 50 EMD sites, out of which 9 are ranking. An EMD has [Exact] match anchoring naturally, the sites in question are all EMDs the link profiles show it.

The client wants to 301 the EMDs to a brand page.. We would want to 301, 9 EMD sites to the new site. Here is the thing, if the site domain has an exact match to the anchor text profile, when we 301 the page to www.brand.com/EMD will the link profile matter?

One of the EMDs is on page one spot 2 if we do this change, will Google look at the new brand page (www.brand.com/EMD) as an unnatural link profile?

yes you can. Log in as the business and add communities to participate in. If you look at my example above you can see that we post in the star wars community allot. For us it's fun getting to be creative with others who have the same interests.

Acxiom, Localeze, and Infogroup are great. You can also use: https://getlisted.org and yext.com to find more listings. just make sure your NAP (Name Adress Phone)  are consistant.

Also make sure you only list your business in relevant directories or do not post.

Lastly you can use a list of directories from SEOmoz: http://www.seomoz.org/directories