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I would suggest you read the following post that outlines the pros and cons of keyword planner plus giving you some alternatives and ways to find out volumes:

http://moz.com/blog/keyword-volume-tools

Hope that helps!

I don't think messing with your sitemap will work. Google serves what they think is better to the user, even if it is old content.

You have several options here to go for:

• Make a full sitemap automatically that will assign priority automatically like the one provided by xml-sitemaps.com (incredible software in my personal opinion and well worth the money).
• Update the content on those pages you say it's outdated. I think Google prefers serving pages that have huge value instead of "new", therefore, updating the content of those pages may decrease your bounce rate.
• While on the old pages, link to the new posts that include the new info. You can even put something like "This content is outdated, for the up-to-date version, click here" and link to the most appropriate new page, you keep the page, no 301s and pass some juice to the new page.

I think the best would be to use the 1st and 2nd options in conjunction. Or 1st and 3rd if the content of the "old" pages have something that updating them will loose their value.

In any case, I wouldn't leave pages out of the sitemap. The software I mentioned automatically assigns priority as to "how deep the page is in your site" (links it needed to follow to reach that page, older pages will surely need more clicks to reach to them).

Hope that helps.

What is usually firing the logging out is going to my profile from the Q&A after a couple hours not being active in the site (although checking the keep me logged in option).

OSE is also logging me out EVERY TIME.

Your site is indexed by Google (check screenshot).

There seems no manual penalty as to the quick backlink check I made, but did you check your Manual Actions to any possible penalty?

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Keeps logging me out too. I already raised this question (http://moz.com/community/q/problems-staying-logged-in-again) but following the suggested procedure didn't work.

Hey Alberto,

If those 44 posts are set to "private" how is Moz finding them? Somewhere in your blog you are linking to them. Find those links and take them down.

Then you should consider 2 things:

• Do those pages get any organic traffic? If yes, try to create a page that isn't a copy, with unique and useful content and set it as public.
• If there's no organic traffic, then just leave the 404 and just make sure your 404 is a nicely designed 404 that offers some value to the user. Not only for these 44 pages, but to cover any 404 issue in the future too. You could, for example, check the URL requested and search our site for related content and while saying that the page they were looking for is missing/removed, you suggest looking those other pages.

Hope that helps!

No problem! You are welcome!

FYI, the page you gave me has almost no content unless a few lines and 3 pictures, plus the header with a little animation and the footer. However, it has over 10 scripts and over 5 CSS files. Heck, the first 135 lines are just the header, while the actual content of the page is from line 258 to 274 (16 lines). I would review all those wordpress files and remove as many as possible from the site while trying to merge all the others. You are making over 30 requests for a page that has only 16 lines of actual content.

Exactly what Moz is telling you. There are 2 H1 tags in that page.

The first surrounding the logo, which is COMPLETELY USELESS and by the way keyword stuffed as that text does not show to the user as it gets replaced with the Logo Instead, that, if in the case of browsers without images (almost non-existent already) it should only have 1 or to words, exactly as the logo.

The second H1 tag in the page has: "Why Wrapped Car and Vehicles advertising?" in it. That's the one you should keep.

However, seeing your page, it seems that the following text is more important: "Wrapped Cars and Vehicles", which actually uses an H2. I would consider putting that as an H1 and focusing the keywords you need on that phrase instead.

Remember the CSS changes you are going to need too.

PS: Remove that h1 tag from the logo.

Can you please share your URL? I think you are confusing the <title>tag with an <h1> tag.</p></title>

How come they are opposites?

It says that there should be only 1 H1 tag in the page and that it should contain your targeted keywords. How is that not possible?

Are you using the hreflang correctly? it contains both the language and location. If, for example, you french version is being served with the hreflang="fr" that means that users with a French browser should see that page, but not that users in France should see that page.

If you are running an German browser, searching in France, you will probably get the German version first, as the hreflang="de" it's doing it's job. If you'd like to have the french version even for German browsers, you will probably need to add an hreflang="de-FR" and point to the french version.

Even adding all the hreflang tags you may need, Google will ultimately serve what they think is better to the user. There's no way to "force" them, hreflang is just a "guidance"

Depends on how is your widget developed. If your widget requests only for the contents of the results, then you won't see any hit in Google Analytics (for example) but you will in your access logs. If you happen to serve an iframe instead with the results, then you can embed your Analytics code into the iframe a track anything you want.

To sum up, it all depends on how is your widget developed.

RSS feeds as duplicate content? That's the first time I hear something like that.

Feeds are intended for feed readers, which basically is a file that tells the title of the page/story, a small portion of the content/summary and the location of the actual document, an URL where you can read all the article/page.

It also helps crawlers find new content in your site by scraping the feed instead of the whole site, but it does not SEO benefit, other that "perhaps" having your new pages indexed faster.

What do you mean by "inbound links on your homepage"? The links in your homepage link yo pages in your site. Inbound links are those who come from external sources.

I don't know what keywords are you using, but just the name michael harwinlaw returns an EXCELLENT result page (see screenshot).

Now, if we are talking about specific keywords, then it will need an inbound link assessment, review for any possible penalty, etc.

But to your main question: your index page being indexed, it is, and perfectly linked to G+ places, etc.

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Your site is being indexed. I don't know how many pages your site actually has, but at least 80 something are indexed by Google. Your homepage http://www.michaelharwinlaw.com/ even has a rich snippet with "Michael Harwin" picture. (see screenshot)

If you did a redesign lately (less that a month ago) you can probably expect some ranking fluctuations until Google starts picking up your site again, this could take a while.

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I'll probably go with a nicely designed iframe, with the full text and a link to the site's original post so interested readers can read more by accessing your site.

Consider all possibilities, like the iframe size auto-adjusting to the available size, or giving the users the ability to choose from different sizes (like youtube does).

Do you have the penalty in available in your Google WT? What exactly does it say?

Most penguin penalties I've seen are partial matched and affecting only some incoming links. Removing pages won't help as you don't know which ones are affected.

Doing a link cleanup by going link after link asking for removal and then requesting a reconsideration may remove the penalty (in conjunction with the disavow file), but there's been several polls online and over 80% of the people who did this and got their penalty removed didn't see their rankings back. This is obviously true, as probably those manipulative links were the ones causing your high rankings and now gone you need to get some REAL, EARNED links to gain positions.

Truth be told, no one can tell what will happen, and you can only try.

The ultimate question always become: Is it really worth it? Or do I just start fresh (new Website, unrelated to the old one)?

Well, it depends on how you "embed" it.

YouTube does it with an iframe and a special player designed to go on other sites, linking to the original video in YouTube, etc.

This can easily be achieved by creating an HTML page, that you can later offer as a code to embed the post in their pages while adding some design and styling. In that HTML, you can still add the Analytics code for tracking and as it is actually a page in your site they are loading, you are still getting the hit. Beware of the extra server load you may receive, potentially hundreds of hits from outside sources.

And try to style the iframe so you can actually add a link to the full source or limit the amount of words displayed in the iframe so you can bring the user back t your page to continue reading.

An example of this is the slideshare

Hope that helps.

If an author contributes on more than one site, then on G+ you should link to each author page on each site (within the same G+ profile). Each site should have the author page linking to his/her g+ profile. The authorship verification needs a "reciprocal" link to verify "ownership".

You just should no index the archive pages, tags, and others that may have duplicate content. Let's take a blog for example.

You let spiders index and follow all links from your homepage and the that pagination, however, then each post is filed in a category, maybe including tags.

Then you have to decide, and it's really up to you, what to let spiders index (always use follow, there's no reason to use nofollow). I, personally, will allow spiders index the homepage (including pagination), the categories (and their pagination), but I'll put a noindex in the tags and archives (specific pages that show posts within a specific date). Still, allowing all to be followed.