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could be from their link/content farm updates; that came before the farmer update.

Wow good answer!

The problem has to do with every page loading a big .htaccess file, therefore slowing down the speed of the server. I probably wouldn't exceed 25, but sometimes you have no choice. Sometimes the PR is more important than the loss in speed.

I'm sure someone can answer this with a more official response, but that's my understanding of it.

Just try to stay away from any fishy looking redirects, as big daddy G will penalize you big time for stuff like that.

nice answer!

It effects it more than just very slightly, and depending on what kind of site you're running it should either be the blog post title, the sitename, or product name.

It won't be penalized officially; the only penalty is that you could get more juice if they weren't duplicates.

Wow, I've never seen that. Thanks for the awesomeness!

I agree with not repeating company name, unless it's a different company than in the base url. Try only making those deep links if you absolutely have to! Good luck!

Google really doesn't pay attention to footer links much anymore. Because of that exact reason: they know they're commonly used for spam and keyword stuffing. Write for humans; not for robots. Good luck!

Google won't use the keyword anchor text in those links so much, but will follow them. They're also very user friendly, and are pretty much expected now a days.

It's definitely worth it! Try changing it to surround page/post title, and keeping it as name/logo only on the homepage.

It's definitely worth it! Try changing it to surround page/post title, and keeping it as name/logo only on the homepage.

You could change the title/description for each page reflecting the content, but that would take forever and probably doesn't fluctuate much page to page (on that specific test.) Optionally you could try using meta robots, but you may not rank when people search specific code snippets (or other test questions.)

name="robots" content="FOLLOW,NOINDEX" />

You might try out using ajax for the pages as in googles eyes it would only be considered one page. Hope it's helped.

Haha funny, thanks for the link!

Great question. I don't think the algorithms go so far as to take this into account for ranking, but that's not to say it couldn't have any effect. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but verisign has the seal-in-search for enabled browsers that shows users secure sites from search. If the seal's link contains some specialized URL that is specific to your site than I wouldn't tamper with it; otherwise I think it's safe.

I don't think they need to circulate their content anymore as it's highly distributed already. I'm also not completely sure about this, but I think google ignores the pound # tag. As it's so commonly used as an anchor and for ajax/javascript. Try searching # in google

I'd attempt to contact Google. I know it's really hard, but there are ways. Good luck man I feel for ya.

Google won't use the keyword anchor text in those links so much, but will follow them. They're also very user friendly, and are pretty much expected now a days.

I agree. It's also always so hard to rank against those older domains. Stay consistent, diligent, and try to break some bigger stories. Keep on writing the articles, and get as creative as humanly possible to get those stories that bigger sites want to link to. Reach out to as many site owners as possible to form a small group that you can fall back on when distributing your content. And like Martin said, definitely leverage community on your site, and maybe even UGC/contributors to help write the articles. Good luck!

I need to redirect a ton of duplicate content, so I want to try

redirect 301 /store/index.php /store

redirect 301 /store/product-old /store/product-new

redirect 301 /store/product-old1 /store/product-new1

redirect 301 /store/product-old2 /store/product-new2

redirect 301 /store/product-old3 /store/product-new3

redirect 301 /store/product-old4/file.html /store/product-old4/new4/file.html

and then a whole bunch of old dead links to homepage.

So we've had /index.php redirected to / on other parts of the site for awhile, and for the most part /store is a friendly URL, but then we have tons of dup content and work arounds that preceded my job here. I'm wondering if those redirects above would be considered a redirection chain? Since the all the redirects below the /index.php -> /store count on that one redirect.

Thanks for any insight you may be able to give!

Rand Fishkin did a study on it. It doesn't have a lot to do with on-page factors, but more with keywords in the domain as well as a having lots of diverse in bound links. Read about it more here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements