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Good to know! But, I have very bad experience to redirect such a strong page to home page. I have removed too many product pages for market umbrellas from my website and redirect it to home page. Because, I don't have specific landing page or inner level page for it. So, I'm able to see change over ranking for specific keywords. My home page is ranking well in Market Umbrellas keyword because too many external page link my product page with that keyword. It also create negative ranking impression for my actual targeted keyword which I'm using for my home page.

Hi Ben,

I got your point. If my page is available on external page which have good value (Good page rank or heavy amount of traffic) so, I need to redirect it on specific internal page to save my page rank flow. Right?

I'm using Google webmaster tools and able to see Not found Crawl errors. I have set up custom 404 page for all broken links. You can see my custom 404 page as follow.

http://www.vistastores.com/404

But, I have question about it.

Will it require to set 301 redirect for broken links which found in Google webmaster tools?

I have set canonical to all narrow by search URLs. I think, it's not working well. You can get more idea by following URLs.

http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps?material_search=1328

http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps?finish_search=146

These kind of page have canonical tag which is pointing to following one.

http://www.vistastores.com/table-lamps

Because, it's actual page which I want to out rank.

But, all narrow by search URLs have very different products compare to base URLs. So, How can we say it duplicate one?

Which is best solution for it. Canonical or NOINDEX it by Robots?

Good to know! Thanks for your reply.

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I have question regarding inbound links from different subject websites. We are selling home decor products on our website and getting links from different subject websites.

I want to give more idea about it.

I love cooking and write articles on recipes... My article will live on following website with my signature and signature will contain links to my website.

http://allrecipes.com/

So, will it help to my website or not?

Today, I was searching for product page SEO on Google for better optimization of product pages and category level pages.

I want to introduce about my website structure.

Root category: http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor

Sub category: http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas

End level category: http://www.vistastores.com/patio-umbrellas

Product page: http://www.vistastores.com/patio-umbrellas-california-umbrella-slpt758-f13-red.html

I'm doing link building for sub category & end level category page. But, I'm not able to do inbound marketing for product level URLs due to resource problem.

But, I have checked that... There are many competitors who are rank well with long trail keyword... I'm selling same product but not ranking well...

What is reason behind it? I don't know...

Just look at Olefin Red Patio Umbrella search result. I want to rank in top 3 with this kind of long trail keywords...

I have made study of following video and article.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/ecommerce-seo-making-product-pages-into-great-content-whiteboard-friday

http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/in-search-of-the-perfect-seo-product-page/

I have done all things which were described by them... But, I'm still waiting for good ranking...

Good to know! But, I have concern about effectiveness and get maximum benefits.

Web directories can take time for approval that's why I don't want to jump in to.

I have good experience with social directories but, keyword is high competitive on which I'm working. That's why I want to drill down more before jump on this section.

Local directories can help me to generate traffic from Geo-location. But, I have concern to earn back links from that channel.

I have completed my task with top article directories. You can look at one of my article author profile.

Now, what is rest of thing for me? What is next for me in link building?

I am working on patio umbrellas keyword to achieve top 3 ranking in Google. I have achieved top 30 ranking with help of on page optimization and want to achieve top 3 ranking with help of link building.

Today, I was checking SEO web directories on SEOmoz. Now, I can't make any changes on live website exclude content. So, I have only one option to deal with link building.

There are 3 sections over there including Web Directories, Social Directories & Local Directories. So, which is best one to improve my ranking on Google? If anyone have additional inputs for link building so eager to know that.

I want to achieve top 3 ranking with my keyword by next 2 months.

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Good to know, That's interesting to know about filtering of weaker domains. I have very big question in my mind. I have given too much efforts to create these contents for distribution in external websites. Now, I have internal platform to share my content or knowledge associated to products for my buyers.

Because, this will give me good benefits rather than external websites. I am not focusing about external links. I am selling patio umbrellas and have 20+ How to, DIY or related content which may helpful to my buyers.

So, I have big question about my organic performance which is associated to products level. Google will find out duplication due to my blog section. That's for sure. But, will it create negative impact to my organic ranking which is associated to product level pages or categories?

I want to add already distributed content to my internal blog. I have very useful articles on different topics which I have submitted to different article directories.

Yesterday, I have started my internal blog and want to add all content which I have submitted to different external websites.

So, Can I do it or not? I have confusion about duplication between my site and external websites.

Good to know that, Visits may be short term. I have set Canonical for all dynamic pages. I have done big R & D before make it happen. That study includes big eCommerce websites. But, I am surviving with my visits since January 8, 2012.

Today, I was searching for article which may help me in issues regarding canonicalization and found very interesting article on SEOmoz.

I am facing issues regarding de-indexing of pages and down of organic search engine visits.

I have done proper R & D and apply it very carefully. But, still my indexed pages and visits are going down.

I have applied canonical tag to following pages.

Narrow by search:

http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas?manufacturer=California+Umbrella

Sorting:

http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas?dir=desc&order=position

Pagination:

http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas?p=2

How can I improve my performance?

Good to know! I don't want to raise one more question with it. But, want to know that, Can I do it with my eCommerce website.

http://www.vistastores.com/

I want to know that, why SEOmoz have defined DoFollow & NoFollow attributes on same internal text links? Please, find out attachment to know more.

Left bar have On-Page / Site Optimization link with dofollow attribute but, right section have nofollow.

So, why should they have apply on DoFollow or NoFollow attribute on same text links?

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Are you talking about internal link structure or external links? I have done lot of work to define proper categorization and internal link structure.

I am going to follow similar steps for my website. Duplicate content is one issue for my website and will resolve very soon. Can you evaluate any additional reason behind drop of ranking?

Honestly, I did not get accurate one by your reply. But, I can understand that grammar mistake is one factor. But, can you give me any alternative suggestion which may help me to sustain or recover my organic traffic.

I am going to remove all auto generated content from website.

I am working on eCommerce website Vista Stores. My website's traffic is going down due to certain reason. I have done R & D and have assumption with auto generated content which I have added on few product pages.

You can find out attachment to know more about current situation of traffic.

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I want to fix duplicate content issues over my eCommerce website.

I have read very valuable blog post on SEOmoz regarding duplicate content in post panda world and applied all strategy to my website.

I want to give one example to know more about it.

http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas

Non WWW version:

http://vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas redirect to home page.

For HTTPS pages:

https://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas

I have created Robots.txt file for all HTTPS pages as follow.

https://www.vistastores.com/robots.txt

And, set Rel=canonical to HTTP page as follow.

http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas

Narrow by search:

My website have narrow by search and contain pages with same Meta info as follow.

http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas?cat=7

http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas?manufacturer=Bond+MFG

http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas?finish_search=Aluminum

I have restricted all dynamic pages by Robots.txt which are generated by narrow by search.

http://www.vistastores.com/robots.txt

And, I have set Rel=Canonical to base URL on each dynamic pages.

Order by pages:

http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas?dir=asc&order=name

I have restrict all pages with robots.txt and set Rel=Canonical to base URL.

For pagination pages:

http://www.vistastores.com/outdoor-umbrellas?dir=asc&order=name&p=2

I have restrict all pages with robots.txt and set Rel=Next & Rel=Prev to all paginated pages.

I have also set Rel=Canonical to base URL.

I have done & apply all SEO suggestions to my website but, Google is crawling and indexing 21K+ pages. My website have only 9K product pages.

Google search result:

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&gl=US&q=site:www.vistastores.com&biw=1366&bih=520

Since last 7 days, my website have affected with 75% down of impression & CTR.

I want to recover it and perform better as previous one.

I have explained my question in long manner because, want to recover my traffic as soon as possible.