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Thanks for the info. I used the plugin Simple URLs. I hope I did it right. I am very green.

I googled CMS but I still can't tell you what CMS I am using. Sorry.

Regarding using 301s, yes I am probably using several. Not hundreds or anything but probably tens. This is because I am updating permalinks on the advice of my SEOmoz reports. Then the old permalink automatically redirects to the new one.

How can I get rid of the 301 redirects so I don't lose link juice?

I changed the name of a blog article I wrote and the original name is giving a 404 error. I am not sure why it isn't being directed like the other articles I renamed to improve SEO.

Since the webpage no longer exists, I don't know how to redirect it.

I use Wordpress and Thesis.

Thanks!

What is the best thing to do with category pages? Should I deindex them or use SEO on them? I use the Thesis theme and the Wordpress SEO plugin. I am just not sure what to do with category pages.

Also will they create duplicate content?

Hi,

I have a deal blog that is several months old. My established and successful "competitors" have a high Domain Authority (43, 46, 63) but most of their blog posts are very short. Our readers want to know about the coupon, deal, discount, code etc - they don't want 250 + words for each post.

However I am concerned that lots of short posts will label my blog as low quality and that Google Panda will get me.

My competitors easily get on page 1 of google. Yes they also write articles but majority of their posts are short.

I deindexed quite a few short blog posts but my audience googles for coupons and deals like crazy. I try to give as much info as I can without being wordy and annoying but sometimes that still gets me only 100 words. I also write a lot of articles relevant to my niche (mom/baby/maternity) that are high quality and several hundred words.

Just looking for input on deal blog SEO.

Thanks!

Actually I have Thesis 1 so I edited my post. I just get confused because when I purchased it, it was called Thesis 2.0. I did think about upgrading to Thesis 2 and I already purchased that box from thesistut but I activated thesis 2 and yikes, it is really different and will be a lot of work to change.

Thanks, I will give it a try!

Ok so I looked at the source code of a live post and it looks like Thesis 1.0 and Wordpress SEO by Yoast are in conflict. They are both adding meta descriptions etc so I do see duplicate info. Any advice?

Thanks Dan. I am using the Thesis theme and I cannot find the header.php when I go to Appearance/Editor.

But yes every single report card mentions multiple meta descriptions as well as other "multiple" problems.

Ok but if I made the changes several days before the first crawl, why wouldn't they show up?

I am a novice so please excuse me.

I have been using the plugin for a few weeks. But many changes were made before I even signed up for SEOmoz and my page has been crawled twice and they are still seeing old info.

My last two posts aren't even showing up on google yet so I can't check their meta descriptions but all my other posts do not show the new meta descriptions I wrote with the plugin.

What is the source code? Edit: Ok I figured out source code and I looked at a recent post and older post and did see my meta description there.

I made a lot of changes with Wordpress SEO by Yoast before I signed up with SEOmoz.

But SEOmoz doesn't seem to see those changes. I am still being told I have multiple meta descriptions. I don't know why but SEOmoz is seeing the default meta description and not the one I wrote using the Yoast plugin.

How can I get SEOmoz to see those changes?

Edit: Google has not updated all the changes I made with Wordpress SEO.