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Google crawling the demo site, robots exclusion already placed
HI Bankim Google will allow you to remove your own pages. Here is some help with that.. Also what we do with our test sites is lock them down with .htaccess and .htpasswd by requiring a login you will never have to worry about any crawler indexing your test environment and thus worry about duplicate content when you go live.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | donford0 -
Another portal is using our meta description, is it going to affect rankings of my pages
You should be fine, Bankim. You've implemented a rel=canonical solution on your website, which will tell Google that you are the originator of this content. Anyone who scrapes your site as a result will be seen as Google as just that, a scraper, and won't be providing original content. Plus, the meta description is not the biggest ranking factor out there - does have a slight influence, but not a big amount. I can't say you'd have anything to worry about over a website that scrapes your meta descriptions and even leaves in your brand name. I mean, seriously? That's just lazy from the other website! I would say though that your meta descriptions do look very long, over 270 characters in some cases. The general consensus is that 155 characters (with spaces) is the maximum length you should use, as anything more than that will not show up underneath your search results. Also, 270 characters you might be seen as keyword stuffing, so I'd recommend changing those descriptions into something more Google friendly. Hope this helps!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | TomRayner0 -
Facing Disaster - google is continuously demoting my links from last two weeks, is this because of any technical issue?
How can i see this site backlink and what exactly is wrong with the backlink?? Very appreciate it if you could enlighten omar, thanks!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | FWSBIO0