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Thanks Clever PHD

So is there a way of setting a general rule to apply noindex to all of these duplicates or do you mean to the main actual sign in/login pages which will hence apply to all new, sessions specific, duplicate versions of the main sign-in/log-in pages etc when generated ?

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Dan

HI Kurt

Do you mean both or one or the other ?

Isn't setting up canonical tags on all the possible dynamically generated login, sign up and registration type pages impossible e can you set up some sort of rule that applies to those unpredictable (since we dont know what they are until they are generated by a user session etc) pages ?

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Dan

Hi

Dupe content reports for a new client are sjhowing very high numbers (8000+) main of them seem to be for sign in, register, & login type pages, is this a scenario where best course of action to resolve is likely to be via the parameter handling tool in GWT ?

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Dan

Nice 1 Phil much appreciated

as in numbers of pages in the crawl will be reduced after dupe fixed with canonical, or numbers in the crawl will stay the same but just not reported as errors.  The site i'm examining is over crawl limit (10000+ pages) with loads of dupe content errors so if fix via canonical will that reduce number of pages in the moz crawl (not errors) like a 301 would ?

But will moz count it as a page ?

thanks for the info

I dont mean the transcription being a duplicate of the video, i know it deifnately isnt

What im asking is a transcription on the YT channel considered duplicate content with the transcription on the Webpage (or elsewhere for that matter ?

Hi

If you are embedding video from your YouTube channel on your webpages and publishing transcription copy underneath it & your YouTube channel also has transcriptions , is this duplicate content ?

If so which instance of the transcription should you remove (i presume YT since your website page is what you want to rank) ?

Also a side question re video seo & YT, ive heard peeps say that embedding a video from YT to your site is a great backlink, but surely its actually a link from your website to YT, not the other way round ?

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Dan

ps - any other video seo tips or links to recent quality articles much appreciated

Many Thanks Mat !

I see your just over the water from me, i'm on the IOW, beautiful day to be by the sea

The indexed pages are linking through to pages with content so not looking like they have been 404'd

Thanks for your comment

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Dan

Hi,

If you set up a brand new GWT account for a subdomain, where the dev area is located (separate from the main GWT account for the main live site) and remove all pages via the remove tool (by leaving the page field blank) will this definately not risk hurting/removing the main site (since the new subdomain specific gwt account doesn't apply to the main site in any way) ??

I have a new client who's dev area has been indexed, dev team has now prevented crawling of this subdomain but the 'the stable door was shut after the horse had already bolted' and the subdomains pages are on G's index so we need to remove the entire subdomain development area asap.  So we are going to do this via the remove tool in a subdomain specific new gwt account, but I just want to triple check this wont accidentally get main site removed too ??

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Dan

Thanks Travis

Although bit confused since surely if a user can still visit the page so can a crawler, i take it though from what your saying that the canonical tag tells moz (& google) crawler to not count it as a page at all ?

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Dan

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Dan

Hi

Probably because there is not much competition for the keywords they are ranking for

A good seomoz grade report does not determine that you will get a good ranking, just that a page with an A grade is more likely to achieve better rankings than a page with an F grade (since an A grade means page is more relevant for the target keyword than a page with an F grade).  This is also considering all other factors to be equal (which they never are of course).  So for example a page graded F but has lots of high quality links from good quality content pages on high authority websites, may well rank higher than a page on a different site that has an A grade that doesnt have any good quality links, from high quality websites

Hope that helps ?

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Dan

Hi

Is the number of duplicate pages reported in a dupe page content error report reduced on subsequent crawls, if you have resolved the dupe content problem via adding the canonical tag to duplicate versions (referring the original page).

Like it would if you were solving the problem via a 301 redirect (i think/presume) ?

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Dan

Hi

Can the Hosting location of image files have a negative effect if on the developers own media server as opposed to on the actual websites server ?

In the case i'm looking at the image files are hosted on a totally separate server (a media subdomain of the developers site server) from the subject sites dedicated server.

Will engines still attribute the properties of files hosted in this manner to the main website (such as file name or should they really be on the subject sites server own media folder ?

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Dan

Cool !, thanks for clarifying Dr Pete !

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Dan

Hey Dr Pete, thanks for commenting

Sorry to be confusing, i appreciate i'm probably being a tad pedantic here but i just would have thought that the subheader for the 'crawl errors' section in the reports summary would, similar to the 'crawl warnings' subheader, also mention 'could be penalised' (due to things like dupe content being potential causes of a penalty) ?

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Dan

i would have thought getting penalized by engines more serious

good info cheers