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Can you please tell us the exact date when your website lost ranking. EMD might trigger this fall. Not sure though.

Here are my two cents -

_We have ecommerce sites and the 1st crawl flags – as appears typical

• too many on-page links. We display up to 20 products (each with three links!)
  and I’m trying to push to have fewer but meeting resistance from colleagues.
  We have links duplicated all over the site believing it eases navigation._

-          _I do not think that Google or any other search engines have any such problem with too many internal links. Did you receive any such warning I Google Webmaster Tools? That would be weird though. Ebay, Amazon have loads of links site wide. Unless the page has some insane amount of internal links, I do not see any reason that it would affect the ranking.

However, it makes sense to have fewer products displayed on a page as it can directly affect page loading time. If your website is taking too long time to load just because the page has loads of content, you should go for pagination and applying rel=prev and rel=next._

My question is just how critical is the number of products displayed

and the resulting volume of links to SEO results?

Yeah. It is critical that a page has some products. It can be anything like – 20, 30 or 50. Just trynot to cross the logical limit. Think like this, if your product page contains 20000 products, would your visitors mind scrolling down the page. I do not think so. They will use the navigation or search option.

Also we currently have collections of products displayed
across several pages which of course have the same page title and this is flagged
as a duplication error.

_It seems you are talking about canonical issue. If the same product is accessible via different URLs, you need to follow this – http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html . _

What I feel is that EMD update is about stripping out the extra values some exact matched domains were enjoying. For say, this domain http://www.wingatehotelcolumbia.com is most likely to get better ranking in key phrase like this – “Wingate Hotel Columbia” , just because the domain has the keywords in it. But now this is coming to an End. Of course there are some issues like when you have a domain this like, even when you are building Link with branded terms, it will appear to Google that you are acquiring links with exact matched key words that might trigger a Penguin penalty.

So, there are two options –

1. 1. You need to continue building great quality links and create a brand presence
   2. You need to buy a new domain that does not look like a series of keywords.

_It is your take. _

_Links from Blogroll and blog posts, unless they look like they are being acquired naturally, have some risks associated with it.   Blog roll links seem to carry more risk than links coming from blog posts links. It is better if you go for blog post links and use as many variations of keywords as possible. _

_Great effort. Just make sure that the Page header and Title tag are not conveying different meaning. Title tag should be using main keywords and this tag is predominantly used for search engines, whereas page headers should be used for general visitors. So, there is no harm of going a bit creative with this page header. _

If I got it right, you want to direct the home page to /fr/ right?

http://www.example.com/ 301 to http://www.example.com/fr/

_Is the existing version of the Home page in English? In that case, I do not think it would be a great idea to redirect the home page and other associated pages to their French version.

Rather I would suggest you having a landing page for English version that will act as a landing page for English speaking countries (here I am assuming that majority of the visitors are from English speaking countries). And for the rest of the other languages, we suggest creating folder structures to target language specific audience:

http://www.example.com/es/ - Spanish
http://www.example.com/fr/ - French_

_This will also let you target audience via Webmaster Tools by setting geo targeting. _

_And I did not get the second question. Could you please explain. _

_Yes the number of links will eventually go down but it will take some while. Google needs to re-index those pages before you can see any difference in the GWT data. Nothing to worry about. Just get rid of those bad links and you will be good. _

ha ha .. Yes people at Google do make mistake.. Check here at -

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

And the interesting thing is that here in this post I informed them to make the changes and they made it .. lolz

This tool is a huge time waster. Do not waste your time with this crap tool. It will only add to your confusion.

Ok mate. You are in trouble and there is no shortcut. Sorry I am going to disagree. You must have unique content in your page and there is no two ways about it. If you are still getting visitors even after harbouring duplicate content, you should thank your lucky star.

_Now, why not start generating unique content rather than wasting your time looking at the size of the complexity. _

You want to rank for local searches right? Now the question is do you have physical presence in those places? If not, by making city specific pages just to get rank for will definitely invite penalty sooner or later. Think about the customers first and not the search engines.

_Now, if you do have branches in those cities, you can create Google Local listing, can have separate landing pages for them given the fact that those pages say something unique about the business etc. Do not add rehash content that no one is going to add. Focus on adding value to users’ experience. _

Here are few things that you need to implement –

_Disallow the category pages
Implement Authorship markup

Are you doing Link Exchange ?? –
http://www.xboxplus.net/parceiros/

And one thing that I must say is that the design of your website is not that impressive.  It makes it look like another run off the mill blog and I could not find a value proposition. _

ScreamingFrog the best

_First of all I would like to know why want to get your website bookmarked in social bookmarking sites. Unless there is a greater possibility of gaining some visitors, I do not think it is worth your time. Do not chase the algo, rather chase the visitors. _

Just one small problem. Home page canonical is set as this - http://www.waspkilluk.co.uk/index.html . There is nothing wrong in this, but from user’s perspective it should be this - http://www.waspkilluk.co.uk/ .

And there is a gap missing here –

_ The correct code should be this –_

_Just minor changes, otherwise it is perfectly fine.

Another friendly advice. Please redirect all non www version of pages to its www counter parts. For say, this URL - http://waspkilluk.co.uk/ should be directed to http://www.waspkilluk.co.uk/ . _

site:https://www.ramsdensforcash.co.uk/buy-it/find-your-nearest-branch/arbroath/

Not indexed

yup .. search engine will see it as single page -

www.mywebsite.com/example-page.php

_Now, if you numerous pages with hash tags that means, you are cramming loads of content in the same page that is www.mywebsite.com/example-page.php. This may be bad for the users but SEO's perspective this URLs bad, really bad.

To target different pages, you need to have URLs without the hash tag. _

Can please show us some real life examples so that we can come up with probable solutions

It could be, no way to tell. You need to diversify the anchor texts like this

best Strike Bowling Bar
most popular Strike Bowling Bar
watch out for the most popular Strike Bowling Bar etc.

_It would look natural.  _

_Yes, Outsourcing has attained some negative connotations but the thing is that it has its own benefits. All you need to do is to find a reliable outsourcing partner and there you go. And please for God’s sake, do not hire someone for the cheap because this is going to backfire sooner or later. Find an eligible candidate who really knows the difference between cheap, crappy link building and real online marketing.  _