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Hi Tye

I think you are right, sites/pages like that shouldn't be doing so well, but there are still sites/pages out there that are going under the radar or trying to trick ranking well in SERPs.

I have seen that with a local business in my area too and for a while they were dominating every local search spreading over a 60+ mile radius. In recent months though I have seen their position eroded, maybe because Google got wise to what they were doing.

If you believe a site is spamming by mispractice, then you can file a report with Google to ask them to examine the site and what it is doing. See here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?pli=1

I hope that helps,
Peter

Hi Alejandro

I recommend you fix all of them. The reason for doing that is because you can then ensure that you pass on a good portion of any SEO authority/value the old page had on the old site to the page on the new site.

I hope the above helps and makes sense.

Peter

For Twitter you could use retweetrank. So for example: http://www.retweetrank.com/randfish/

I'm not sure you can do the same with Facebook or ther other social networks.

Peter

Hi Carlos

I think it would depend on how many inbound links you were getting from the same group of bloggers and their sites, the authority and relevance of the things they normally blog about, plus what the proportion of what they were blogging about was directed to your site.

It's difficult to predict as there are so many factors. The important thing is if the relationships you are building with bloggers are genuine and the blog links are genuinely organic and not paid for, then it should be in your favour. If these links don't fit this criteria then yes, it could have a negative SEO effect.

I hope that helps,
Peter

Hi Alejandro

Sorry, I recommend you should redirect (301) the old URLs to the new URLs. You don't need to fix the old URLs, by that I mean you don't need to change them, just put them into the 301 redirect as they were. They will then redirect to the new URLs.

I hope that makes sense now.

Peter

Hi, yes, you just need to run the query against Twitter's own search tool which you can type in on their site or by creating a URL to do the following example which is for the bbc.co.uk URL.

https://twitter.com/search?q=bbc.co.uk

Peter

Hi Carlos

I think it's fair to say that yes, there could be a negative SEO effect with a strategy of mass recurring blogging. The risk of that negative effect would I think increase the lower quality and authority the referring sites were.

Peter

Hi Daniela

The only impact would be after a sub-domain is deleted. It may be better to leave the sub-domain active for a time afterwards so you can manage the knock on for pages that have been indexed on the sub-domain after the competition/promotion has finished. Also, any links that existed on the sub-domain to your root domain

If you left the sub-domain active you could then just have a single page on there to say something like "The competition has now finished" and directing a visitor who has linked there with a link on the page to the home page of the main domain.

All other links to the sub-domain pages and any resulting from it to the domain which are then redundant, could be managed through 301 redirects back to the main domain to the best landing pages for them.

I hope that helps,
Peter

Hi, I suggest trying http://ubersuggest.org.

Seed it with the word 'cleaning' and it will lots of suggestions by initial letter. You can also drill down into the each of them by clicking the phrase alongside + icon to find longer phrases.

Some sample results:

•  cleaning blinds
•  cleaning business
•  cleaning black mold
  •  cleaning black mold in shower
  •  cleaning black mold on wood
  •  cleaning black mold with bleach
  •  cleaning black mold basement
  •  cleaning black mold walls
  •  cleaning black mold in dishwasher
  •  cleaning black mold on ceiling
  •  cleaning black mold on basement walls
  •  cleaning black mold off wood
  •  cleaning black mold furniture
•  cleaning bathtub
•  cleaning brick
•  cleaning baseboards
•  cleaning battery acid
•  cleaning belly button
•  cleaning battery terminals

I hope that helps,
Peter

I'm don't think there would be zero risk, but the risk would certainly be minimised.

It's authenticity that really matters in all of this. If people are writing topically relevant blog articles that link to pages on the same subject and it's being done authentically, then you are working and operating the right side of the line.

Peter

Hi Daniela

That's almost correct. You need to do the wrap up in two stages really.

When the competition is over just have your "competition is finished" page active on your sub-domain say for a week with a link that people can use to go to your root domain home page.

But then, when you remove that page, because inbound links to your sub-domain would still be active in search engines and on Internet links, you still need to leave your sub-domain in place on your server for a time but with a 301 redirect active stored in the sub-domain folder. That would just need a single redirection in place that automates any visits to your sub-domain to your root domain home page.

After say a month or so, you will probably then be safe to remove the sub-domain.

I hope the above makes sense.

Peter

HI, yes you should be able to do this. Have you tried entering the ID or the Google+ name if you have one of the new vanity URLs for your business page?

Peter

Yes! How about "101 ways to clean your belly button"! That would be unique content

Hi, you need to fix this by using the rel="canonical" in the Head section of pages so that where there are duplicates they all point to one of them as the original.

You can see more information here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

In Joomla and other Content Management Systems, duplicate pages can sometimes be an issue because of the way search engine friendly URLs are created. With these systems you can generally find an extension / plugin to help resolve the issue. For Joomla there doesn't seems to be much on offer in their Extensions Directory, but you can see them here: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata/url-canonicalization-

I hope that helps,
Peter

Thanks for sharing that site MJ - I love the titles that site generates.

Peter

OK, I see what you mean now. I am not sure how they are doing that. You would normally see that if the content of the page was output through an iframe but I couldn't find one in the source code. It's possible it is something OpenCart is doing

It's not a great idea from a user experience basis really, but search engines are not going to read the URL in the address bar. They will use the links that are in the pagination links at the bottom. For example, this is page 2:

http://www.manhattanfruitier.com/index.php?route=product/category/shopall_Data&osc=0&page=2

So that is what will be indexed.

Peter