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does this mean that dir.yahoo links are not counted in DA calculation?

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I was just checking www.cellartours.com on opensiteexplorer and I noticed that it was missing a link from yahoo directory http://dir.yahoo.com/business_and_economy/shopping_and_services/travel_and_transportation/tour_operators/culinary/  sixth from the top. That's kinda big one to be missing, no?

I currently have a .com domain which I am think of duplicating the content on to another tld, CO.UK (and regionalize some aspects like contact numbers etc). From my research, it seems that in gwt you must then indicate which country you wish to target, in the co.uk case the UK. My question is how should I handle rel canonical in the duplicated site. should it rel canonical back to the .com or the co.uk? Any other pointers would also be appreciated.

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he is cloaking - with 307 redirect for normal web browsing and displaying optimized content for search engine bots. seems totally setup for post xmas market.

This is a good read. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world I think you should be careful with robot.txt because blocking access to the bot will not cause them to remove the content from their index. They will simply include a message saying not quite sure what's on this page.. I would use noindex to clear out the index first before attempting robot.txt exclusion.

over 95% of the links to your website include the anchor text is  "<a class="clickable title link-pivot expanded" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">web design manchester"... Thats a penguin penalty probably</a>

What's nothing to do with google. It's an open site explorer issue. A simple check of the page source on bbb will determine if google will count it as a link.

What the domain.?

You can disavow links in GWT.

What keywords?

Seems to be updating now

Sounds like a messy one. Looks like your old server was not decommissioned properly. Private message me if ya want me to investigate.

There was a Panda Algorithm update at the start of November around the 5th. panda will penalize sites that duplicate content, are of low quality and supply a bad user experience. Load times would be attributed to user experience. I think your website probably ticks a few of these boxes. Your best bet is to research Googe Panda, and see if you can uncheck the boxes.

I am beginning to think that these factors as outline my @Journeyman actualyl can get you some penalty points. And end up reducing your overall ranking.

I think it is as Matt Cutts and Rand have being saying for ages. Write content for people not machines.

1. Cloud flare is a distributed service with edge servers in many countries around the world. These servers will send your website content from the edge. Users in the uk will most likely be served from a uk server. 2. Google is well clued up on cloud flare and will as you said know that it is dealing with a cdn. Hence in webmaster tools you will not be able to adjust the google crawl rate. 3. In google webmaster tools you can set your desire location, tld that you are targeting. In your case .co.uk. This will tell google I am interested in .co.uk based queries. 4. You should not rule out other possibilities. As sherlock says "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? "

You could set the header to noindex rather than rel=canonical

sounds like you have been penalized by the panda and penguin algo updates. Checkout SEOMOZ White Board Friday videos on the these subjects.

something is definitely not right.I think your DNS is not configured correctly, get your admin to check that it is resolving to the correct IP address. This probably changed where you moved to the dedicated server.

certainly seems that Google is heading in that direction. How far it has gone is open to debate. Check out last Fridays' Whiteboard on the very subject.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/prediction-anchor-text-is-dying-and-will-be-replaced-by-cocitation-whiteboard-friday

I would still include keywords in title and meta - otherwise your CTR will decrease.