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Hi,

I've seen several portfolios with several words repeating over and over again - but everything made sense and teghy are ranking well site wide and also with the portfolio pages for those keywords.

This is not keyword stuffing if it make sense even if you have a very high ratio of repetition for one or two words.

More then that the real estate of the page says it all - so it's clearly not a technique to try to stuff that keyword and tray to rank.

Personally I believe it won't harm you at all also because of your domain authority and everything else: google places entry, the brand in google's eye and so on - this is cleary not a spam domain :).

Hope it helps.

I've seen stats form a similar website - I've never thought that so many people are looking for phone numbers - it's incredible.

Now getting to the point, in my personal opinion you should do nothing.  Especially don't remove those pages as that's suicide.

Even if the SeoMoz tool is showing duplicate content issues on the site - duplicate content within your site is NEVER a penalty situation. You will never get in trouble for having the same content or similar content on more pages within your site.

The only down side is that duplicate pages will compete to each other in search results but in your case they won't as you are looking for a single keyword for each page (with or without comments on it - the exact phone number that is).

The main goal is to get to a page after looking for that particular phone number so in your case multiple pages from your site with similar content won't compete - you are safe from all points of view.

You should never remove the pages with no comments from the site as it will drop your organic # by a lot - I've seen stats from a similar website and, like in your case, only a few pages had comments/names and 90% were blank pages with the number in h1 on the top only and those pages received a lot of organic direct hits.

The bounce rate however was high - so you might want to give some extra options within that page beside the number and the form as this can even increase your adsense ctr if done with extra care. If you already have a lot of traffic I would suggest A/B testing for the empty pages.

The differences between the two domain names is very small - from a user perspective.

More then that you lose the "business" keyword from the Url (even if google staff said they will cut down from the power of keywords within url I think it's still ok to keep it - within the url that is).

My personal opinion on your issue is to stay the way you are now. You lose around 1-10% of the current domain name page rank power with the 301 redirect - is not much but since the domain change is not that big I don't think it's worth the trouble.

Hope it helps !

A few questions:

• did the traffic dropped suddenly or it was progressively going down ?

• if it was sudden, in what day it happen ?

• 404 do affect ranking but mainly if those 404 pages are linked from pages within the site and since it's bad for UX it also affects rankings. Are there any pages that return 404 linked from the current site (are there any live pages with links to those 404 pages ?) I know you said it's a new site and the 404 are from the old site but are there any old pages that are still online ?

Q1 and Q2: You should review the bellow video from google main man regarding SEO that will not respont exactly to your question but it will bring light on what the diferences are...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_A1iRY6XTM

You can get in touch with Sebastian from http://french-seo.woptimo.com.  I know Sebastian personally and he is really good. He has a strong background with his years in search quality at google and that should count for something.

Hope it helps.

I think Joel Hit is right.

Still the pages are very similar but again, is not something you should be afraid of.

As far as improving bounce rate you should think about A/B testing.

A few things you can try:

• add a [next] / [show another result] /  [ not the number you are looking for ? ] button  that should at least drop the BR.

• add a side bar with additional navigation options that links internally

just a few ideas - hope it helps.

• play with the informational layout including your ads (adsesne)

There are so many very good free resources out there that personally I don't see the reason to get a seo book from amazon.

Start with the Seo Moz http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo +  a lot of direct and very good as far as structure resources within seo moz org.

You should also try the web webinars at http://www.seomoz.org/dp/pro-webinars.

I'm doing seo from some time now and still I've learn a lot of good things, tips from the webinars.

There are also a lot of sites out there like seobook and many others with very good info on the subject.

Since procedures are changing a lot, a paper book can be obsolete within a few days .

Hope it helps even if I didn't post any book titles or links.

Hi,

No one got a penalty for over optimizing the url.

It's about the content, ads, outgoing traffic (adsense , referrals, etc) - this is what you need to keep under a "natural" look and feel.

You can go over board with the URLS if everything else is at least "just fine".

I would try to rank next in top 3 for those hundred of keywords by deploying some fine tuning.

Next I would go for long tail on a very wide range especially if it's related to shoes.

My 2 cents.

Really curios about the pie split on SEO MOZ community about this.

So, are you an In-house SEO or an Agency / Freelancer SEO ?

(personally as prediction I would say in-House SEOs are predominant here - just curios to see the ratio - although not sure how many SEO MOZ members are reviewing the Q and A area but again it will be nice to see the ratio of the in house vs agency that are spending time on Q and A's).

Yes, that is correct.

if you do want to see what page is ranking for what keyword then you can use the SeoMoz Rank Tracker, ranking tool at :  http://www.seomoz.org/rank-tracker

Make sure you select the exact url when placing your home page or the additional inner page for each search.

That depends on your time and resources to build and market them - better to go with a solid single one then 10 weak ones.

Best scenario is 10+ solid ones

To be honest I would't spend to much time on this. I don't see it as a huge priority. It's nice to solve it but if it requaiers hiring someone or getting the extra mile ... is just not worth it.

The process is easy for someone with some technical background.

Google is kind of smart in understanding that your non www version is not really duplicate content with your www version so I would let it slide if it's to hard to get it done.

If you do want to change it, CMS made easy dosen't support the htaccess management via the web interface so it needs to be done the "hard way" and that means you need to have FTP data to your domain ( domains), an FTP client so you can login, download the htaccess file, edit it and upload it again. If all that is over the tech abilities that's fine - it dosen't mean you should get another job. It's all technical.

Some easy ways to get this done: find someone you trust with some tech skills to do that - it take sless the 10 min or get a freelancer via elance or whatever to do that (but make sure they have some really good feedbacks from past clients are you are about to send them full access to your site)

Dose it make sense ?

a) if we move our hosting offshore, will this impact our SEO?

** It dosen't matter anymore as long as quality is the same or better.

b) if it does impact our seo, how will it impact (ie lose rankings for organic pages due to IP address being offshore)?

** In the past it was a very slight influence on Geo serps. Google.com vs google.co.au differences based on GEO ip locations (you can find several tests done in the seo sector online on the subject - however there is no longer the case).

I know several companies - big and small that host with Amazon Irland and they focus on very far regions.

I also know some US based, with US focus that hosts on Amazon Irland Cloud (due to some apps also hosted there for EU markets and there are no issues from an SEO point of view.

I work in an agency. Never been to the other side (in house that is...)

No, there is no submit form for site explorer.

However, if your site is not in the site explorer database, make sure the site is not "cut off "in a far away galaxy, far from site explorer reach.

Have some inbound links build and it will get higher as far as " domain authority " and it will get picked up fast.

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I had a new domain registered in january that of course was blank in site explorer, we've build 4 links (one from a twitter account , one from a niche directory with low authority (about 20), one from an article we've post, a press release with a no follow link actually and one from another site we own in the same niche.

It got picked up by google in less then 24 h and by site explorer in less then 30 days.

Hope it helps even if it's not the answer you are expecting - maybe.

In a lot of cases I optimize the same page for several related keywords - like in your case.

The only thing I follow is to place a tier one keyword and tier two, three related keywords and know/ be sure which one is which so the plan is crisp and clear.

I usually optimize more for the main keyword and I use most of the on-page optimization for this particular keyword. I optimize tier two and three on the same page without cutting any modules from the main one (using some h2,h3 maybe and to be sure the page has a good % of the main keyword first and then the second and third tier ones.)

The anchor text for links that will point to this page will vary and I think that is a good thing - a natural thing and it will help overall including your link diversity.

It's better to have more anchor text with the links for your page and not only "student health insurance" as anchor text.

Overall is a natural thing to rank for more then one keyword especially for long tail variations.

However, that's just my opinion. I do that a lot in my optimization sessions and the results so far based on this strategy are good.

Hope it helps.

If you just 301 redirected www.zenucchi.it/ITA/poltrona-frau-brescia.html it will take some time for the rankings to settle.

You should focus on getting quality links to the new page.

You can link to the old page as link equity (juice) is pass via 301 but some is lost so it dosen't make sense if you can use the new page as target page for your links.

However, all past links that pointed to www.zenucchi.it/ITA/poltrona-frau-brescia.html will pass most of the value to the new page - again give google some time to settle and figure everything out.

Hope it helps.

Can you post the url of the page ?

That will make the assessment way easier - as at the end of the day it's all about if the page makes obvious sense or not. Keyword stuffing nowadays is not about keyword density and how many times you are using the keyword is more on if it make sense for that keyword to be in all those places.