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Are you sure it says you "don't" have the canonicals? What section is it under? IE Warnings, Notices, etc.. ??

Because often times SEOmoz will tell you in Notices that you DO have canonical tags in place. This might be causing your confusion? It's not a report of a problem at all, just to make you aware.

If you corrected what it tells you... it should go away.

Perhaps you just did the update and rogerbot hasn't crawled since? Always wait for the next week to see updates in those rankings, in case you did not know that.

Well then, if I'm understanding you correctly, you shouldn't need these specific pages indexed anyway. Instead you should be promoting/doing SEO for the pages that lead you to the listing portal. So the duplicate titles or titles shouldn't matter or be a question..

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Every mention received is positive if it comes about organically whether link juice passes or not. That said, a link would always be better...

Yes and pretty terrible, also. Unless your only target keyword for each of those pages is "home to home moving.." but I can't imagine that particular search string receives many queries.

Consider your keywords and fit them into your title in a natural way. If I saw those titles listed in Google SERPs I'd avoid them like the plague.

Not trying to be critical, only trying to help. Hope I did.. Feel free to ask more questions!

you should join the #seochat going on currently on twitter.. it's relevant to your questions. back to the chat --

yep.

seems to me that the word "openings" would be googled more often than "categories"

...so yeah I'd prefer the other but I'd have to do a little keyword research to see what I wanted to lay that out as, personally.

Something I forgot to mention --- I tried going to your site from your profile and the link was broken. Might wanna fix that. It goes to http//www.---- (colon is missing)

Good luck!

Seriously. It will honestly be incredibly beneficial and may in itself get your rankings improved.

When I joined my current company they were hesitant to change their website for the same reasons. I rebuilt the site and launched it a few months ago and we have seen drastic improvements in ranking and conversion ever since.

Go for it! My money says you'll see a marked improvement.

Paul is like the cleanup hitter. We all get on base and he drives em home.

Yes most likely. Really depends on the keyword though. For example - I work for a SaaS company. Instead of targeting the term "cloud computing," we target more specific keywords with high search volumes.

While obviously "cloud computing" is searched for more frequently, the fact is that Google isn't putting many commercial sites on page 1 there for good reason: People Googling that term aren't looking for services, they're looking to learn what the term means/is. I'd imagine that this applies to what you're discussing. Most likely Google is keeping enterprise companies off of their just based on the fact that that isn't what the users searching that keyword are looking for.. They're most likely looking for broader knowledge.

Good luck!

Well it sounds like you have competition now. Time to start a link building campaign, grow some strong original content via blogs/youtube/social media and get people to organically link to your site. IE - SEO-it-up!

Slightly unrelated - When was the last time your site had a face lift? Not to be critical, but I'd suggest perhaps looking into modernizing the layout a bit better. It looks old and dated and a bit clunky. For a brief moment I thought you were using frames... it's like that. The big banner in the middle at the bottom is full of horribly pixelated images and the layout is worn.. Again, not trying to be mean I'm just saying UX is everything.

Thanks Keith! I dig these suggestions and will look into them further. Appreciate the feedback!

Well I'd say you've definitely been penalized. Reason being would most likely be that you have duplicate content on a massive scale. Every one of your pages are duplicated between the .com and the .ca versions without a rel=canonical tag listed anywhere to be seen.

It seems like a manual penalty seeing as how your PR is gone, so I'd keep my eye on GWMT but in any case you need to solve that duplicate content problem before you do anything.

Basically what you should do is redirect one to the other 301-style. Like.. right now would be a good time to do it!

Good luck!

I'm responding to this in a semi-rushed matter as something is coming up but I just want to mention that the most likely reason for Google to index this version of your URL is because of the links pointing to it. Those which caused you to put a 301 in place, those that were 404ing prior... They are clearly demonstrating to be the authoritative URL to Google.

I'm not sure why you're worried about what the customer/user sees for URL. They are most likely looking more at the Title/Description in the SERPs well before the URL string. Most people only read the domain portion of a URL string and it's more used for the search engines purposes.. (my opinion) Also, once the user clicks your title or page they are taken to the redirect and the full URL string will be visible in the address bar of their browser.

As for why your rankings are affected... I'd be surprised if it had anything to do with this, honestly. If anything redirecting should help especially if you had links pointing to a broken page. The only exception would be if those links were poison, of course.

Okay got to run hope I was helpful. Good luck!

Hey this is pretty awesome, Kyle. Thanks for sharing it. I'm literally in the middle of ordering a ton of company branded swag for our sales and promotions team to take with them to trade shows and industry conferences this Summer.

If I may do a slight hijack of this thread (now that you've gotten the desired result from the lovely Keri), I'd like to get people's opinions on what works the best for this type of loot.

So far I've ordered:

• stress reliever balls (my guys like to juggle and toss balls at people wandering trade shows to lure them into the booths so this was a must.)

• mouse pads (there's some debate over whether anybody even uses mouse pads anymore..? our office is split darn near 50/50.. you?)

• LED flashlight keychains

...That's it for now. What do you all think is the best and most cost effective promotional item to give away.. what would you go out of your way at a tradeshow to snag, etc..?

It's that time of year so I feel like this is an interesting topic relevant to marketing, which most of us seem to be working in.

Last but not least, I am officially signed up and registered for Mozcon this year and am incredibly thankful that my employer found it worthwhile to sponsor my attendance and send me up there. (it helps that I live in the Seattle area of course..) Can't wait to get some moz swag myself and learn/meet/greet!

No 404's are fine they will just not pass link juice and Google will eventually stop following them but ideally they will phase out regardless as the internet moves along.

Kill it and redirect if there are any backlinks incoming. Definitely.

You're absolutely right, Paul. Thanks. Sometimes I forget that people's domains are more broad than the ones I work with. (I'm permitted to be lazy in this regard, but should not encourage such laziness.)

Onward!