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If you're using Wordpress, you can use Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin to set your tag and/or category pages to "noindex, follow". This will tell search engines not to index those pages (which will take care of the duplicate content), but will also allow your links to continue to be crawled.

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The sub page (both versions). This other version you've just linked is also an issue. There are a number of posts out there about optimizing Joomla! Try this recent one on the YOUmoz blog: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-your-joomla-website-in-11-super-easy-steps.

If it's not a 301 (or 302), it might be viewed as duplicate content if the first page is already indexed.

If the redirect is a 301, Google will only treat the second page as the actual page with the content. So no. If it isn't a 301, then you do have a potential issue. Does that answer your question?

It doesn't sound like you will have duplicate content problems because the redirect appears to be happening.

However, it would be best to 301 redirect to the www version of the sub page rather than always to your home page. This sounds like an issue with the .htaccess file and how it is written to redirect.

Here's a pretty good guide for getting 301 redirects and .htaccess working correctly for Joomla!:

http://www.hyde-design.co.uk/joomla-training/sef-joomla/urls-htaccess-redirects

The main piece being that you will want to use something similar to the following in your .htaccess for Joomla!:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,NC]

Your .htaccess appears to be doing the last two steps a little bit differently and this is sending those redirects to your home page instead of the www version of the sub page.

For some questions like this one, it is beneficial to do a quick search to see if your question may have already been answered.

For example, here is a previous post that is very similar: http://www.seomoz.org/q/should-i-remove-meta-keywords-tags.

You can use the "Search for a Question" box above and to the left, but I prefer to do a Google search for the keyword phrase I am looking for + "seomoz". Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=meta+keywords+seomoz

Hope this helps for future questions!

Hi Rick, the short answer is yes.

The long answer begins with the Google Analytics developers website. You can do some cool custom tracking on your website using Analytics code snippets. I'd start here.

From there you will likely read further and want to know about Event Tracking.

Once you've set up Tracking for your site, you can use the Event Tracking Code Snippet to add the event to your URLs.

For example:

[AnchorText](#)

Replace LinkName, ActionClick with whatever you would like to show up in your Analytics and replace AnchorText with what you are currently using now.

Hope this helps!

I think you should look at using a 301 redirect to fix this issue.

You can learn more about 301 redirecting here.

Thanks! I have 3 shirts already -> 1 SEOmoz, 1 MozCon 2012, and 1 MozCation 2012

Thanks! The Q&A forums have really broadened and sharpened my SEO expertise as well.

Today I've reached a personal goal of mine in the SEOmoz community. I've breached the SEOmoz Top 100 in Community Ranking.

By participating in comments on the YOUmoz and SEO blogs and by answering questions here in the Q&A forum I've been able to accumulate 599 mozPoints. That's a long way from the 28 points I had when I sat down to write this post.

Hopefully my participation in the Q&A forums has been helpful and continues to be helpful as I push for my next goal of becoming an Authority.

Thanks for the great community everyone!

Many sites use JavaScript effects to provide a better user experience like you are describing.

Here's a link to what Google has to say about "hidden" text:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66353

Generally, if you turn JavaScript off and your page renders all of the text on the page, that text is considered accessible (note: this is important not just for search engines, but also for users who may need to use screen readers to access your site).

An accessible web page is one that search engines will like. You can continue to use JavaScript to create the user experience you are describing as long as all of the content is accessible when JavaScript is turned off. Do this and you shouldn't have any problems.

Personally, I wouldn't think you need to position the text off the screen in this case, you can simply use CSS to display:none until your JavaScript event goes off.

Hope this helps!

Yep, no problem. Glad to help :).

In the footer of this page, http://www.soobumimphotography.com/portfolio/sports/, to the left right below your "share" links is a little icon that looks like a folder. To the right of that folder is a link to http://www.soobumimphotography.com/pcategory/sports/ with anchor text of "Sports".

So to answer your question, these URLs are being produced by the code that produces your portfolio entries. This is in the code provided by your theme.

My suggestion is to either remove this link altogether from your theme or to change it to your main category and not this "pcategory" type of page.

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You use the exact match keyword phrase "auto insurance Fremont CA" 13 times on your home page and then in your page title. Your content is not really meant for humans.

This doesn't even make sense: "If you are driving the car during commuting hours auto insurance Fremont CA carrier base on the law of large numbers have found you are more susceptible to having a claim."

Keri is right, focus on your customer and not search engines and you will see better results.

I wish you luck, but you need to work on your content before adding more pages to your site.

To answer your question though, I wouldn't continue to use the same keyword term on each page. Each page of a site should have its own focus. Why have two pages for the same keyword phrase? You can provide better results for users by producing one best page.

Try this post for more info:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html

Sounds like you don't need to manage the threat of duplicate content; you are producing the duplicate content yourself. You are instead wanting to minimize the effect duplicate content has from one site to the next. The only way I know of to get eliminate the risk of duplicate content penalties is to noindex, 301 redirect, or provide canonical URLs.

Since you want both sites to continue being indexed, you can either keep doing what you're doing (and hope you don't get hit) or use canonical URLs and pick which site is best for each page.

Hope this helps.

Dangerous.

I would read more about Penguin before going further. Also here's another post that may provide insight:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-directory-submission-danger

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No problem hope you found what you were looking for.

There is always a risk your site might be hacked, but that risk is present for both open source and in-house software.

For Wordpress in particular, it is best to make sure your installation is up-to-date with the latest release each time they provide an update. In fact, Google itself will provide a message in your Google Webmaster Tools if it notices your site is behind on releases.

Are your designers/host in-house? If the risk is too great for them, perhaps they can serve your blog content from a different server.

If your designers/host are not in-house, they may be telling you this because of their own limitations whatever they may be.

My suggestion would be to ask for more information. Why is the risk high for your website? Can the blog content be hosted on a separate server to alleviate the concern?