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In the menu bar and footer the main page is called Home.  Would it confuse people to rename it to Business Name Home or Business Name?

How do you handle this?

Our websites do not have the home page as the first page in the search engines.  It's something benign like the privacy policy page or the directions page!

I've thought of adding no index to the privacy page, but then the directions or contact page would show up instead of the home page.

One odd thing I've noticed, is that on our link to the home page on our menu and footer, the link is /default.aspx?mb=rte.  But that shouldn't make a difference and default.aspx should rank first, right?

What can we do to fix this?

Well, they are dealership sites and the content is vehicle inventory.  So not real unique great content there.   Building links fast would be anything faster than doing it by hand!

What about turning them into regional sites?  A has inventory located in this state, B inventory only in that state, etc.  So they are not exact clones.

Once on site optimization is done, the only thing you can do to improve your rankings is to get good quality backlinks.  Which takes time and effort.

However, we build websites for several thousand clients and don't do any link building, but clients are wanting 'something to be done' so they rank #1.  I tell them to optimize social media profiles, advertise their website address, press release, etc.

Am I right in that there is no fast, easy way to get good quality, on theme, links to their websites?

My clients keep getting spam email or messages in the contact form, about how they could be ranking better, they're not hitting keywords they should be, etc.  Typical scare tactics trying to solicit new clients.

How do you deal with this?

How much do variables in URLs hurt indexing of that page?  I'm worried that with this huge string of variables that the pages won't get indexed.

Here's what I think we should have: http://adomainname.com/New/Local/State/City/Make/Model/

Here's the current URL:http://adomainname.com/New/Local/MN/Bayport/Jeep/Liberty?curPage=1&pageResultSize=50&orderDir=DESC&orderBy=ModifiedDate&conditionId=1&makeId=7&modelId=141&stateProvinceName=Minnesota&mc=1

I have a very large site and I'm not sure what all to include on the sitemap page.

We have categories such as items1, items2 and in the items1 category are 100 vendors with their individual vendor pages.  Should I link all 100 vendor pages on the sitemap or just the main items1 category?

The main site has inventory, the clone sites also have the same inventory listings.  I believe the hope was that with more clone sites, the inventory will get more traffic and more sales OMG!  Of course, that hasn't happened, but time and money went into these domains and so they want to get something out of them now.

The sites provide value to the people listing their stuff for sale, and to the user who finds items to buy.  The sites do not actually have any backlinks but all link to the main site.

I think the best to hope for would be for these clone sites to just count as more backlinks to the main site because they are not ranking anywhere on their own.

The main site has inventory, the clone sites also have the same inventory listings.  I believe the hope was that with more clone sites, the inventory will get more traffic and more sales OMG!  Of course, that hasn't happened, but time and money went into these domains and so they want to get something out of them now.

I think the best to hope for would be for these clone sites to just count as more backlinks to the main site because they are not ranking anywhere on their own.

I just came in house to our company for SEO.  We have one main site and 182 that are exact duplicates and almost exact clones of the main site.

It's no surprise that half of these clones are deindexed already.  The meta tags are just the domain name URL.  I want to add unique text on the home page to each site, fix the meta tags and switch them up so they aren't clones.

Other than a huge rewrite of the code for each site, I'm not sure what else to do to prevent the rest from getting deindexed.

Is there any way to prevent the rest from getting deindexed?

Currently we are using previous 1 2 3 next for our link to other inventory pages, with some variation of this javascript code javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$phMain$dlPagesTop$ctl01$lnkPageTop','') .

Can search engines even index the other pages with this javascript?

Is there a better way to do this?