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We are currently having meetings about the bigger issues, but I need examples like this (individual pages) to explain the reasoning why we need to make changes.  This is a very big site and it will take some time to get the needed changes done.   Also they asked me directly about these pages.  I just enjoy getting other peoples feed back, so thank you.

I just started here a month ago and was not here when they put the website together so I am trying to figure out if we should just go with what google wants or try and help them pick the other one.  Also they have done this with several big key words so I am trying to figure out what the best thing to do is.   There are several pages with the All like the example.

Thoughts?

We are having an issue with getting Google to rank the page we want.  To have this page http://www.jakewilson.com/c/52/-/346/Cruiser-Motorcycle-Tires rank for the key word Cruiser Motorcycle Tires; however, this page http://www.jakewilson.com/t/52/-/343/752/Cruiser-Motorcycle-Tires is ranking instead and it has less links and page authority according to site explorer and it is farther down in the hierarchy.   I am wondering if google just likes pages that have actual products on them instead of a page leading to the page with all the products.

Thoughts?

Yes i used the tools and i got the same results you did.  My question is if I use some anchor text and point them to the second page from the first page and other relevant pages on the site will it help with the rankings?

Real example:

I want to have it rank for motorcycle tires, however, gogole is ranking http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/cl/50/Tires-and-Wheels the highest and also it puts

http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/d/12/Motorcycle-Tires

and http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/t/49/-/181/750/Motorcycle-Tires-All

before http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/c/49/-/181/Motorcycle-Tires and this is the one they wan to rank.  I started working here about 1 month ago and I am looking at ways I can get the target page to rank.  Right now it is now where and the non target page is ranking on page three.  Why does google pick that page over the target one?

We are submitting a press release today for a contest we are doing and it is actually news worth compared to a lot of things on PR web.  Our question is PRweb.com still worth using?   If we use them should we put an anchor text in it?  We have one link to our home page and one to the contest page and we were going to have one link to a different page.  But will linking to the third page with an anchor text be to much?

I recently started working here and I have noticed that google is ranking some pages over other for the main key word.

Example:

We are ranking on page one for ATV tires for this url http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/t/43/81/165/723/ATV-Tires-All

I thought google would pick

http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/c/43/81/165/ATV-Tires since it is higher up in the folders.

I Have a couple reasons why the are picking the other one.  Mostly from link signals from one other site and footer link..  Any other thoughts.

If we want google to rank the second url instead what would you suggest?

Would you mind sharing some of your list? Do they drive good traffic?

Hey Ryan it is good to see you.  I am Derek from SLC/SEM.

No it is ajax right now for the filter and different pages.  We are going to give the pages different urls and we might give the filter different urls too.    Would you recommend giving the filters their own URLs too?

Overall it looks like doing the "view all" is the best option.  I am thinking of the best way to do that.  For example right now this url (http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/t/43/81/165/723/ATV-Tires-All) ranks pages one number 4 on google for the target key work ATV tires.  So we want to keep that page as the view all.

But they want to have it so when people click on the link in the nav. it takes them to the page with only 52 products and not all of them.

What would you suggest?

If we do the view all option we do not want to have to do a rel=canonical and the current url to the new "view all" and possibly lose rankings.

thoughts?

Right now our site is using ajax and we need to change it so all 200+ products will get crawled not just the first 52 on page first page.  We are looking at doing the rel=next/ rel=previous or doing it so we have a link going to the View all product page.  Or maybe doing the rel=next/ previous and using the canonical to point to the view all etc.  I have read http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1663744 and http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/view-all-in-search-results.html about  it.

Now we are trying to figure out what is the best option.  Thought. Here is our site. http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/t/49/-/181/750/Motorcycle-Tires-All  Also if we do not do the rel=next just make the view all items as a link that google can crawl is there a way to still have our current url be the one for view all items but only show 52 item unless the click view all items and not have it look like cloaking?

Hope this made sense.

We have fixed the issues.  We just want to let google know we have fixed them.

I know it is important to fix server errors.  We are trying to figure out how important because after our last build we have over 19,646 of them and since google only gives us a 1000 at a time the fastest way to tell them we have fixed them all is to use the api etc which will take time.   WE are trying to decide is it more important to fix all these errors right now or focus on other issues and fix these errors when we have time, they are mostly ajax errors.  Could this hurt our rankings?  Any thoughts would be great!

Yes that makes perfect sense.  I was thinking that; however, I liked your insight that they would pick the wrong site.  Just cause they are picking the right site now does not mean they will continue too.  Thanks for pointing that out.