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Humm, ok I think the other tool is possibly working off cookies. The link profile is growing I am concentrating on good content first.

I am pretty new to the tools, so it could be my lack of understanding.  However its set to my root domain.  I know that it went to P1 on or around the 15th Jan the campaign shows last update 18th. So could the results be a week old?

Hi

Little confused with the ranking report on a campaign.  www.google.co.uk I am position 1 for "web development company".  On the ranking report I am not in the top50.  Last update was on the 18th Jan.

How current is the ranking report as my other ranking software (Rank Tracker) is a little more upto date?

Thanks Dr Peter this is all making good sense to me,.

That was the correct one, thanks for looking over it...

That was the correct one, thanks for looking over it...

Sorry I was rushing... it looks like the below.

<link href="http://www.example.co.uk/Blog/duplicate-content-seo-basics/" rel="canonical">

Sorry I was rushing... it looks like the below.

<link href="http://www.example.co.uk/Blog/duplicate-content-seo-basics/" rel="canonical">

Hi

I have just released a post on my blog and I wanted to check my primary keyword for the post to make sure the page scores well. However when I did the page report it showed the Canonical Rel tag was incorrect.

example of link

the blog is http://www.example.com/Blog/post-comment/

The Canonical tag is below

What am I doing wrong, as it looks correct to me?

Hi

I added a Canonical tag into the header of the of my index page, which seem to do the trick for me.

href="yourdomain.co.uk" rel="canonical">

I also placed a redirect on http://yourdomain.co.uk to http://www.yourdomain.co.uk by changing my htaccess

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC]

RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

^^^ be careful with this as it could bring your site down. This works on my server so please double check before implementing.

I have several pages which are showing duplicate content on my site for web design. As its a very competitive market I had create some local pages so I rank high if someone is searching locally i.e web design birmingham, web design tamworth etc..

http://www.cocoonfxmedia.co.uk/web-design.html

http://www.cocoonfxmedia.co.uk/web-design-tamworth.html

http://www.cocoonfxmedia.co.uk/web-design-lichfield.html

I am trying to work out what is the best way reduce the duplicate content. What would be the best way to remove the duplicate content?

1. 301 redirect (will I lose the existing page)  to my main web design page with the geographic areas mentioned.

2. Re write the wording on each page and make it unique?

Any assistance is much appreciated.

Hi Emmanuel

It sounds you where hit by Google Panda and the possible other updates. I got hit as well but with some careful analysis and a bit of work I got myself back to pretty much where I was before the updates.

If you check out the whiteboard fridays around this time it will assist you as they've assisted me.

I have had a quick look at your website and the first quick observation is that it seems on your landing page you have no text.  I am pretty sure if you removed the images and placed the text then you should see an improvement.

Regards

Jame

Matt what an excellent response... I am going to look at the links you've provided as well.

Yes it definitely answered my question I am going to get Google +1 onto my page ASAP as that is an easy step.

I need to look at the copy to make sure users stay on the page, I am pretty sure the page is all white hat but may be in my early days I used board line methods which could be impacting it.

I have some good results for my clients and I can get them to do me a nice little testimonial on the good work I have done on possible Google places, Qype and some others which rank well.

Thanks again... (I am actually very excited today after reading this response)

Hi

This is my first question on SEOMoz and I am confused how a competitor can out rank me for a local search term SEO Tamworth. I have a higher Page Authority, Domain Authority, Number of links etc..

Would this be down to the quality of the links to my site or could it be down to the structure. I score an A for SEO on the on page analysis.

Regards

James