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If the comments are appearing in the same page, you can set this page as canonical –

_http://thankyouregistry.com/blog/remarriages-and-gift-registries/

Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html_

Can you please tell us what your targeted visitors are supposed to do? Do you want them fill out a form? Or do you get them redirected to a different domain? If you are planning to redirect them to other domains, PPC may not be that effective because it will cost you immensely. Let us what is your plan.

_It is perfectly normal to use - &trade and I do not think that it will make any impact on the visibility whatsoever. _

_I have not implemented this tag in any news site but I have implemented this in a couple of websites and the impact was impressive.

However, I have found that if the profile is great, I mean if the profile is active in social circles, have a strong Google Plus profile etc. I have found a strong correlation between the number of people have added that profile in their circles and the visibility of the post integrated with that Google Plus profile. Moreover, if you can make some guest posts on some leading sites with that profile and get a link back to Google Plus author page, chances are that the profile will add to the overall visibility of the website in the SERP. I have seen significant increase in ranking in not-so-popular key phrases after the authorship is implemented and of course you cannot rule out the fact that authorship increases CTR in the SERP. _

_I can feel your pain here. Since we cannot count on the ranking only because of its unpredictable nature, you can compare and contrast things like the number of total visitors, total organic visitors, referral visitors etc. I think these metrics are good enough to figure out how things are faring. _

_Hi, _

_Can you please show us the URLs.. They are not opening .. You can use bit.ly if you wish to mask the URL. Though I believe that this problem can be solved by blocking certain parameters via robots.txt file or by adding canonical tags in some pages. _

_I do not think so. But if your website is getting some visitors from this directory, then you may renew the listing and of course I do believe that Google do not take into account this paid listing kinda thing. So, it is your choice. _

I think it is a plug-in in the play. Check the list of plug-ins and get the unwanted ones removed and please share your website so that we can give you some suggestions.

_You do not need to remove it. You need to check whether or not it has been implemented correctly. Check this - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394_

If you need further help, please let me know.

_There are thousands of ecommerce websites doing exactly the same thing, so how on earth your website is going to rank high leave aside getting natural links? Moreover, I am really concerned about the quality of the write-ups? Do they read good? Are they offering any interesting perspective?  Do readers find them usual? I hope not. When you are restricting the word count to 500 words – a sweet SEO spot for majority of SEO companies, it leaves little room to the writers to go crazy with it, leaving aside doing proper market research.

rather  than focusing on adding low quality content, why not come up with a 2000 words well researched content that people would love to share with their friends. _

_Though email marketing is a legitimate way to reach out to potential customers, spamming inboxes of people in the sheer hope of getting them converted as customer is the height of stupidity. If you would ask my humble opinion, I would not care a fig of them. They are just another bunch of spammers and what I feel is that spammers are not doers.   _

Ok got the issue. You need to try this rel prev and next for the pagination series –

_Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

However, it also makes sense to include the page number in the [pagination series mate data._

_Page 1 - http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-2

Title: Benidorm News | Page 2
Meta Description: Our Lifestyle Magazine and Celebrity Gossip magazine is your no1 online Lifestyle Magazine for Fashion and Beauty, Holiday Reviews, Ladies Underwear and Holiday News .. Page 2

And for these two pages -
http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news
http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-1

Set this URL as canonical - http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news

Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html_

_Sorry for the confusion .. Here is what I think. Article directories are those sites which were heavily affected by algo updates. Panda almost torched them so that being said, it will be just wasting your time and effort as you are going to get links from sites that are already under Google’s scanner. And do not even think about posting the same content twice or thrice in different directories.. it will not do any good to your website _

I want to know if it is ok to submit the same articles to more article directories?

_I am not a big fan of article submission or directory submission or any of the common low hanging SEO fruits. What I believe is that when you get a link easily, the purpose of earning that link is lost forever. Rather than wasting your time doing these cheap things. You need to do real marketing. And it is up to you how you are going to define what real marketing is. _

ohh sorry did I mention the URL -

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.co.uk/en/uk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

take your time, read this first ..

Please please do not kill that website. Whatever, you are doing is killing the website. As the website is in automobile industry, there are loads of things to do. Do you have a social media marketing plan ready? What about the local seo strategy? How is the online structure of the website? Do you have a content driven marketing plan? Are you reaching out to your targeted audience by blogger outreach? Are you utilizing the power of email marketing? What you are doing in the engagement front? What plan do you have to improve the usability of the website?

It is perfectly OKAYED as long as you are not doing it with some malicious intention in mind to manipulate the ranking of the SERP. However, if you are concerned that Google might take it otherwise, you can apply no follow attribute against the links. Believe me no animals will be harmed [just kidding]. However, what I believe is that when you are doing it with the sole intention of sharing something interesting with your visitors, there is nothing wrong with it. Just do not go extreme and start offering 10 or 15 links to any websites that come your way.

_Honestly speaking you are going to take huge risk here. I hope the www.webshopdomain.com is faring well in the SERP and since you are going to move the entire domain in the directory structure, it will still lose some link juice and PR value. And yes of course, some of the rankings of your website is going to suffer. And may take some time to recover the ranking. So, it is up to you. _

Yes, you are courting controversy here. There is no need to feature the same content in other external website. If you can manage to convince the website owners to place a rel syndicate tag on every article that gets published there [pointing to the original article], you would not have to fear anything.

_Ha ha ,.. nice to know that you have lost the rankings .. but still there is way to recover by doing 301 redirect .. yeah I can remember the day when I did a horrible mistake. I changed all the files from html to php. And when I rank report, I realized that I have done a wonderful thing. Not a single page was in first 10 pages of Google. What was a remarkable achievement.   _