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everything looks perfect.

The only time you need to be worried is when the URL is different to the Tag value IF you didn't intend for them to be different.

You have nothing to worry about.

I'm not sure geo-targeting (with webmasters tools or the rel="alternate" hreflang="x" tags) will work through 301s or canonicals.

You can set www.site.com/uk/page/ to geo-target the UK, but just because you redirect that page to www.site.com/page/ doesn't mean that www.site.com/page/ will now target the UK.

Maybe I'm just being thick  and don't get what you are trying to do

I just ran an SEOmoz analysis on your site and it says that there are no issues with the rel=canonical tag implementation.

If you have the green "tick" next to it, it means that you got that right.

Link juice does pass through more than one 301 redirect, what happens is that every time it jumps through a redirect it loses a little bit of juice.

I'm sure you have a reason for it, but why can't you redirect subdomain.site.com/uk/page/ -> www.site.com/page/

Cheers

The rel=canonical tag is there to stop possible duplicate content issues.

I ran a quick report on your site and it has been implemented correctly, so you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

P.S. Some of your pages are missing META descriptions

you currently have

https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ & https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ with that problem

These are the internal links you need to change to fix it

<colgroup><col width="393"> <col width="109"> <col width="83"></colgroup>
| URL | Anchor Text | Alt text |
| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ | Apply Now |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ | Close |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ | here |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ | Policies |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ | Articles |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ |
| rss logo |
| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/cash-advance-loans/ |
| addthis logo |

<colgroup><col width="393"> <col width="109"> <col width="83"></colgroup>
| URL | Anchor Text | Alt text |
| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/faqs-about-loans | Contact us here! |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ | Close |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ | here |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ | Policies |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ | Articles |
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| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ |
| rss logo |
| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/contact-payday-channel/ |
| addthis logo |
| https://www.paydaychannel.co.uk/faqs-about-loans/ | Contact us here! |
|

you probably have internal links pointing to htts://blabla.bla/crop & to htts://blabla.bla/crop/

You can use screaming frog to find where those links are and fix them, but Google's algorithm is smart enough to figure this one out. I'd be very surprised if you experience any duplicate content issues because of this.

This is the only case study I have seen about alt tags http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/how-many-words-in-alt-text-for-google-yahoo-bing/

16 words of 7 + 8 characters each

if anything it could get you in trouble for over-optimisation, the only reason why I would ever bold keywords is if I honestly thought it could somehow improve the readability of the content or benefit the readers

Hi Kristi,

My advice to you would be to remove all links you deem unnatural and the one you can't remove put on a Google doc and send it with your reconsideration.

Make sure you tell Google how much you tried to have them removed and provide as many details as possible;

• Did you create the links yourself or was it someone you hired?

• The reasons why they couldn't be removed?

• The changes you will make to your link building strategy

Put as much information as you can.

Cheers & Good Luck

Carlos

Happy to help. The first thing you need to do is find out if the SEO done to your site could also be the reason why your site dropped. Even with the EMD update, to drop from #8 to #96 there must be something else going on.

Ask yourself these questions:

Is the content on your site over-optimised?

Does your link profile look unnatural (exact keyword anchor text, low quality links, article directories, blog comments, link wheels, etc.) ?

Could you have any on-page issues (duplicate content, over-optimised meta, etc.)?

If you show us your sites we will be able to give you better advice.

Before the recent update from Google having the keywords in the domain helped a lot.

I'm sure that they still help somehow, but to get back to where you were you will need to build up the authority of your site (good links, social signals, quality content, etc - nothing new).

As Simon said, also check your WMT account and see if you have any messages from Google regarding unnatural links.

are the domains "exact match domains"?

if so, you may want to have a look at this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-emd-algo-update-early-data

If it is a Panda or Penguin penalty you will have to conduct a link review and remove links to your site that could be triggered the penalty. More on how to do that here: http://www.branded3.com/b3labs/cleaning-your-links-a-step-by-step-guide/

Thanks, I can edit or make a copy of the sheet. Is this the one? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Apam75iNJI9idERXRktaTFZRME1Kdjl2c3NZYmtBSFE#gid=2

Hi all,

Was wondering if maybe using the SEOmoz API there was a way to check in excel the page authority of 500 URLs or more?

Or is there a different way to do this?

Thanks,

Carlos

1- Create Google & Bing Webmaster accounts

2- Submit Sitemaps

3- Share in Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Reddit, Stumbleupon, etc

I'd also tell you to get some quality links but that usually takes longer than 24 hours

Hi Allen,

So you have your .com.au that is set to target Australia and you want a .com which will have the same content and will target some other country?

All you need to do is implement the rel="alternate" hreflang="x" tags - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077

If you implement those tags your sites will not experience duplicate content issues.

Implementing the Rel=canonical will result in only one of our sites ranking, with the rel="alternate" hreflang="x" tags both your sites have a chance to rank in the respective countries.

Thanks,

Carlos

It depends of your CMS, and duplicate Titles and Descriptions won't help you much.

You need to talk to your developer and see if they can implement an automatic system for Meta Information i.e. [keyword/s] | [call to action] | [brand]

Sorry that I couldn't be of much help!

The search engine will break it up, whether you rank for the more competitive variations of "buy natural progesterone cream uk" will depend of the page/domain authority your site has and how relevant your content is to those keywords.

Hi All,

Got a question about site structure, I currently have a website where everything is hosted on the root of the domain. See example below:

site.com/men

site.com/men-shorts

site.com/men-shorts-[product name]

I want to change the structure to site.com/men/shorts/[product-name]

I have asked a couple of SEOs and some agree with me that the structure needs to be changed and some say that as long as I dictate the structure with internal links and breadcrumbs the URL structure doesn't matter...

What do you guys think?

Many thanks,

Carlos