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Hi Bruno, It looks like duplicate content is the issue, not the tabs: Google picked up the text from this particular tab five days ago, but from http://www.imoney.ph/credit-card, not from the .sg domain you mention here: http://i.imgur.com/mdmrPy2.png Google will try to filter out duplications of content so as to keep its index as tidy as possible. You have a canonical tag on the page on the .ph domain, referencing itself. You also have a canonical tag on the .sg domain's page on credit cards, referencing itself, but Google has filtered out the .sg content because it is a duplicate. Look at geo-targeting these domains using the rel=alternative tag (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en), which should help Google understand that one version of the content is meant for Singapore searchers and the other is meant for the Philippines. A Moz guide on this tag is available here: http://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool Thanks, Jane

Possibly, but as Keri says, it comes with substantial risks as well. I did a video post about this awhile back that may be worth watching: http://moz.com/blog/save-your-website-with-redirects I'd make sure your supplemental pages link appropriately to the landing page, and make any necessary on-page improvements before considering a redirect. On the other hand, if the supplemental pages don't offer unique content or mostly consist of duplicate content, it may be appropriate to redirect. Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

You can only target to fans of pages you're currently an admin for.  Assuming this isn't the case, there is no way for you to do this as easily as "Target fans of page [competitors name]". There are lots of other targeting options available on Facebook.  If you can somehow figure out who your competitors fans are (i.e. e-mail address, phone number, or Facebook ID), you could reach them with a Facebook custom audience.

As of now, using latin characters for URLs is still the popular choice for international sites, as non-latin characters in URLS is still not yet widely supported and recognised. Since we do know that keywords in URL is a ranking factor (albeit not a huge one), it would be wise to stick to latin-characters for now from a SEO perspective. Moreover, it would be much easier to type and recognise a URL with latin characters rather than the one given above. The best strategy for now is to ensure your page titles contain the keywords (in thai) that you want, since the page titles is going to affect click-through rates much more than localised urls. Here's an article that might be useful in your case: http://searchengineland.com/should-you-transliterate-your-brand-for-international-seo-130966 Hope that helps!

Hi Bruno, Google does reserve the right to edit how page titles are displayed in search results and they are doing this more and more. In theory, they do this to actually improve user experience but because this is algorithmic, they can sometimes get it wrong or it may not look exactly how you want. Unfortunately, there isn't much you can do to stop Google from changing the title tags. I think they are less likely to change them if you have one that is well-written and relevant, but in reality, you're not going to make it relevant for every single keyword search that your site displays for. Here is a relevant piece of info from these Google guidelines: "If we’ve detected that a particular result has one of the above issues with its title, we may try to generate an improved title from anchors, on-page text, or other sources. However, sometimes even pages with well-formulated, concise, descriptive titles will end up with different titles in our search results to better indicate their relevance to the query. There’s a simple reason for this: the title tag as specified by a webmaster is limited to being static, fixed regardless of the query. Once we know the user’s query, we can often find alternative text from a page that better explains why that result is relevant. Using this alternative text as a title helps the user, and it also can help your site. Users are scanning for their query terms or other signs of relevance in the results, and a title that is tailored for the query can increase the chances that they will click through." Here are some good resources showing other examples of changing titles as they wish: http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/url-titles http://searchengineland.com/google-title-wrong-157819 I hope that helps! Paddy

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you're trying to rank for "citibank home loans", you're not going to be able to make that happen in the next couple years unless you have an outstanding promotional strategy for your domain. If you look at the SERP for "citibank home loans", here are the ranking domains I see (it's a 7 pack result page for me): citimortgage.com online.citibank.com online.citibank.com online.citibank.com marketwatch.com (QDF News result from Spring 2013) linked.com/company/citibank/.... (product page) linkedin.com/title/home+lending+specialist/at-citibank/ You're not going to beat any of those results. You should start looking for non-branding or longer tail queries where you have a better shot at getting into the results. The design of your page is decent overall, and the copy length looks sufficient to rank for other search terms. I'd worry about identifying an easier term to rank for, and getting your Domain Authority much higher and pushing internal links to these landing pages. Longer term that's probably your best shot as far as branded queries for bank loans are concerned.

Thanks, guys! Your responses were really helpful. It was a bug on our Drupal, sending wrong redirect codes.

Other members have given good advice on nofollowing those links. I just wanted to answer your other question: It would be more likely that the Penguin algorithm update would affect you in regard to this specific issue. If you truly were affected by Panda it probably has something to do with the quality of your site, specifically the content, as opposed to off-site factors like followable affiliate links.

Thanks for your tips, Tom! Really useful piece of advice. We will definitely look into creating a customer reviews box and turning it into a rich snippet. By any chance do you have experience with product markups? There's an option there to add a product image. If we do it, will it appear in SERPS?

Hi Tom, I wonder if I might question you on this point you raised: "If Google notices that you're syndicating content with dofollow links to your site within them, it will think that the only reason you're doing so is to pass more PageRank to your site." Is content syndication therefore an absolute no-no these days? I'm aware of many of the best practices for syndicating content such as getting the content partner to specify the originator as canonical version or getting a link back to your original version in order that your article is not usurped in SERPs, but is it really the case that syndicated content with dofollow links to our own site would lead to some sort of penalty? Our quality content is used by many sites (quite often sites with high authority) and these sites will link back to us. Are you suggesting this could lead to some sort of penalty or even a site-wide penalty? Thanks in advance.