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it is a possibility it could be seen that way yes but that's generally unlikely but before you got a bit too much "into" nofollowing links etc. wanted to make you aware of it.

With the tag what you're sort of saying is"these pages are all very similar this is the first one and this is the last one" Google's pretty cleaver and most people don't give it credit if your site is about real estate etc. it will know your listings may be seen else where for example in the UK we have Rightmove & Zoopla they both list properties from else where but they also have value in other aspects of there sites which is why they work, so as long as your site is not just about the pages that are duplicates and you give worthy content on other areas generally you should be fine. Make the site really helpful for the user and the rest sort of falls into place you can also take the time to look at how they've solved the same problem.

Regards to the 3000 pages, if you can get some unique content on there fantastic but i know its not always easy. Your original question was about the risk of nofollow, there is no risk with it, now its really your choice with the noindex tag. I can imagine you can leave it on but you may risk not being all you can be, I would suggest taking a look at your competitors and other similar sites to get an idea of what they do in a similar situation.

you might find this answer helpful which is on the same subject - http://moz.com/community/q/real-estate-mls-listings-does-google-consider-duplicate-content

Looking at "other" backlink checkers (e.g. Majestic, ahrefs etc.) I can see 15-22 referring domains. OSE sometimes takes a bit longer to get around to finding links etc. You can also check WMT to find link you may have created but cannot see.

It shows 1 DA & PA because it cant see the links. You have to give it further time for it to get around to it. As long as you know you created the links Google will find them and just make a note for your records.

Hope that helps.

Is it just a case of needing to build up a new quality link profile to replace the links that were disregarded or removed when recovering from the penalty.

Spot on, many people remove links etc. when removing a link and after removing say 25% of their portfolio are surprised to find they drop in rankings if you were to do it with out the penalty you would find a similar problem. After moving sites it is also normal to have a bit of a dip though if you did it back in March would expect to start to even up now assuming you redirected correctly and all the relevant pages etc.

Remember when creating links after a penalty your a bit more vulnerable to future penalties to try to play it safe!

Best of luck.

you may find this old website helpful - http://jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_integration/

And this - http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website

Simple version you just need to have www.yourwebsite.com/blog and you would install the blog in the /blog directory.

there are loads of tutorials about for doing it if your a one man team. Having a blog is always a nice way to reach out to your customers / clients and get them to connect. A lot of people use Wordpress so that should be a good start for you along with there being lots of support for it.

There are also some great topics about content etc. you can read for your blog.

Hope this helps, Good luck.

You can use Screaming frog to find the 404 pages, from there you can either 301 them into the correct pages or a very similar page to help prevent the issue. You should also create a soft 404 page this is a page that shows a message like "opps we can't find your page" and then directs users (and bots) to a similar page or a homepage so its not such a  dead end.

I'm a bit confused as what you mean by "what to do" You can either fix them by putting content on them or 301 them to the correct page.

Hope that helps.

rel=canonical was made for just such a thing so there is not really an excuse, sure you won't have all of them indexed but at the same time it wont bring your whole site down. As long as the user can find that product (even if its in one instance) via Google then I presume that's good for you,.rel="canonical" wouldn't affect their (user) site navigation.

Just to add Google's guidelines here-

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en

Take a look in Majestic SEO

It may also be in your webmaster tools

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The reason you lost 30 places in October might be  Penguin it was released then and you might of gotten hit.

Did you try using Majestic Seo / Ahrefs / Open site Explorer to help you do your own analysis, should save you a buck.

I bet if you share your site you can get some free advice here on Moz for your site.

Jeffs got some great point. Users are lazy and they dont like to wait and they wont so a good speed is a good idea!

try the following -

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/

This above will give you some great suggestions how to improve the speed.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service/tryit

Google won't give you a penalty if you cant test something so the above will let you test the speed. Google is pretty neat like that.

Best off all the above are all free

Go have some fun!

in short no.

new TLDS can rank just as well as any other TLD and the .uk is treated essentially the same as .co.uk so as long as you're doing good SEO you shouldn't find it hinders you.

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https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals?pli=1

just to let you know though just because you put it in there doesn't mean it will be removed its still up to Google if it does, I recommend you also block it via robots.txt as well and over time it will go if all else fails.

Did you try Moz's list of recommended companies ? They are all very good and should fit your needs.

As Ray-PP & Silver Door have mentioned 301 is the best option here. You may well have to wait for Google to discover the new links but fear not, whilst you are waiting you can be pro-active getting in touch with webmasters who have the links on their pages and ask them to update the links. You can also submit some of your more important links to e.g. twitter to help them get indexed that bit quicker if you're in a really hurry but I wouldn't spam this and only use it for some of the more important areas.

As for the how to it really depends on your CMS system. As for which method, currently your in the same mess for which ever tactic you choose so find the URL structure you like and go for that.

Some more info on redirects can be found here - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en

Good luck.

Hello,

Unfortunately Google doesn't always use your Meta tags there is a helpful Moz blog post on the subject here - http://moz.com/blog/why-wont-google-use-my-meta-description

Sometimes it can be a matter of giving it some more time others it can be back to the chalk board to tweak it some more.

Try some of the suggestions in the above post.

hope it helps & good luck!

You need the full url so the tag should look like-

<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="http://www.letspump.dk/produkter/5-aminosyre/" >

Google picks the page it thinks is most relevant for the search, so you can look at why you think your homepage is more relevant than the other page, is this from meta tags, content (including keywords), robots, links etc.

It may be a matter of making the teeth whitening page more appealing to Google this can be via some content really drilling down that niche etc.

If you're having problems you can always try to direct users from the homepage to the correct page which will in tern help Google understand the right page etc.

Hope that gives you some insight that helps you a bit.

You could but I wouldn't recommend "page sculpting" Google knows of the tactic and it doesn't really benefit you. It's better to put your effort into boosting the page via other methods like improving content, link building etc. etc.

To put this into a bit more perspective no-follow were originally introduced for a few reasons but one of them was when you want to link to a site but you don't really trust it, so essentially you're almost saying you don't trust content on your own pages...

tl:dr: I would not recommend it.

Hi there,

You're right, a meta description should almost be like the blurb on a book giving the user a good idea of whats going on inside the page. The reason you might find that some meta descriptions are picking up the first words of content is because if a website does not have a meta description set, Google will pull what it thinks to be a good meta description from the content: normally he first sentence or two.  They key is to get a good mix of good content, improve CTR & mix a keywordsor two in into a small area.

If you want some tips on writing a good meta descriptions there are some great resources here on Moz like the beginners guide to or Alick300s suggestions.You can also look through Q&A etc.

Hope that helps.

Hello,

First off - does your old page have value? this could be via links to it, or via the content etc.  you may find it its adding value to your site removing it can change how your site works but that is all down to perspective and if you are improving the content aka. value the point is null. realistically is you set up correct 301 any old links etc. will resolve the issue. The problem you may have with 301 if the old page is about e.g. cars and the new page is about bikes the old link profile wont make sense, so be aware of that.

TL:DR

It's preference the short one is as long as you correctly 301 and structure it correctly on the site you'll be fine.

Hope this helps.