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You are never going to learn unless you fail, fix your issues and it will make you a better SEO

Where you hit by 1.0?

SEO and Page Rank are like Investing

Slow and Steady yields the highest rewards.

I thought they were supposed to be cute and cuddly?

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I lost one, but gained one. It was awesome to see that traffic spike back up after almost a year

Well according to here the definition of Journeyman

An experienced and competent but undistinguished worker.

Wourneyman maybe?

If pages are similar Google reserves the write to index what they want. Yes of they are too similar that is whats going to happen.

Exactly what Tim said, its more about User Experience than anything else. I know top competitors with 70+ and rank well.

Having that ... at the end leaves me wondering most of the time

"Think about this okay. does Coca-Cola remind you of soda because of the branding or because of the way it sounds?"

-- touché

P.S. I corrected your spelling

Ok I edited it, sorry about that I'm tired

Let me give you a real world example of the relevancy of links

In my niche it is semi competitive with tons of revenue from Adsense. Users in my niche tend to use tools for help and use them over and over again which in turn increase the page views exponentially.

The top website in my niche which dominates almost every keyword has a total of 123 linking root domains and 7,683 links back to their site. In looking at the top keyword for my niche the second place website has 41 linking root domains and 238 total links back to their site.

That is a huge difference...

It only proves that relevancy is more powerful than anything else. If anything study the top 10 in your niche and pick the ones with the lowest linking root domains and total links. Then study their back link profile with a fine tooth and comb. Try and obtain those links and I'm sure you will see results.

It's called Google Analytics

Exactly

If you can provide some unique content and information for each one of these cities/countries then go for it, write away. I cant think of what you can write about, but that's why you do what you do

If not then I would just leave it at that.

As an out sider with an iPhone looking in the only thing I would care about your site would be

• Can you unlock my phone
• how much?
• and how long?

And you provide that already.

We are all guilty of the old SEO practices and mindset, (I know I am) its a hard habit to break sometimes

There is no point in creating those 3 pages with slight keyword variations when you already have all the keywords you need on your main URL.  Just make sure your content has the keywords you need and leave it at that.

3 pages with the same content but different keyword URL's looks spammy

Build your site for your users and Google will bless you for it

Your content is almost exact in all 3 pages, let me ask you this

Why do you need to have 3 pages with such a slight variation in the url when all three pages give you the ability to choose the carrier in the list which already shows "Optus Australia"?

What pages do you link to these pages from?

http://www.unlockiphonecarrier.com/unlock-iphone-optus-australia/

and

http://www.unlockiphonecarrier.com/unlock-iphone-5-optus-australia/

Just trying to understand your structure, if you are just using light variations of URLS for keyword purposes I would not recommend doing that.

Just looking quickly at your back link profile on Open Site Explore and from a outsiders point of view the first thing that stood out to me was all your .edu domains linking to you.

• Most were irrelevant to your business or at least not related (Penguin could have just devalued those links more, than actually penalized you)
• You only have 74 root domains pointing to you, unless you have a list of your competitors its hard to judge.
• Some of the .edu domains are just a bunch of spam comments
• Came up with several 404's on some of the domains so those links are gone

Maybe you just need some more quality back links, its a very tedious process

Is the description associated with each song or right below it?

You could have your code just display a snippet of the description. usually the first paragraph, but then a "Read More" button and with Javascript you can have it display more when they click it. That way Google gets the content on a crawl and your users are not initiated with tons of text.

You could always do pagination as well for huge lists of songs to help keep the number down.

One thing I have learned is having someone else look at my site, check everything over and over.

Look for...

• Spammy title image tags sometimes forgotten
• Repetitive keywords separated by commas somewhere on the site

Also if you were hit with Penguin 1.0 then really study your home page, Matt Cutts pointed out that 1.0 had primarily had to do with the home page. Whatever that meant....

Seems with that much damage you might want to retire the domain