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It might work, but eventually Google will catch on. If the site gets penalized for it, trying to get the ranking back up is a pain.

"Canibalization is when the same page, competes for several keywords." This statement is incorrect. One of the many articles that you can check about it: https://moz.com/ugc/how-to-keep-keyword-cannibalism-from-robbing-your-sites-performance

Thanks Anthony, thats a great solution..

Hi, Ubersuggest is maybe something you can try. http://ubersuggest.org/ It's a bit limmited, but sometims still some good suggestions.

Yeah thats whats going on. Its using something called SiteCore. Looks like theres an issue on their end, but tough to troubleshoot from my perspective. Thanks.

My personal guideline is to make it sound as natural as possible. William and Alan are correct, what you're doing isn't against any rules, and footer links don't hold up as much value - especially because their on the bottom of the page. Maybe you could do a list that says something like: See More Reviews: Category XCategory Y Category Z To me, that doesn't sound spammy or clogged up at all. Also, just keep in mind that the more links you have on a page, the less page rank they carry onto other pages of your site.

if I understand you correctly, this sounds like an issue I am facing and this is what I am experiencing and maybe that can be of help. My site is real estate related.  Page 1 title tag: "City Homes for Sale" (page I want to rank for)  Page 2 title tag: "City Home Picture Gallery" (lots of original pictures and videos I want G to index in order to increase the amount of unique content from my site G is indexing, but I don't care much for - more a page for users to see beautiful pictures) Unfortunately, when users search for "city homes for sale" on search engines, often this Page 2 type will show (I have a lot of Page 2 types for various neighborhoods). I guess because Page 2 has more unique content it ranks well, also because it uses words "City" and "home" in title tag. I have now taken the word "Home" out of title tag and I look forward to see if it helps. Not just in terms of dropping ranking for Page 2 (which would be great), but more importantly will search engines be able to get the point that Page 1 is the relevant page. I am interlinking from Page 2 to Page 1 in a logical way with appropriate keywords. It should be crystal clear, but our supposed super smart / advanced search engines do not seem to get it. Conclusion: As a smaller / less authoritative website, I would definitely be very careful with keyword selection in title tag, as my site has proven that it can work against you. Large powerful websites can get away with more of this I believe and search engines seem to understand them much better. Therefore, I find with SEO advice it is so important to consider if the perspective is in comparison to similar authority websites.

Thanks Jesse. Yup, each page is unique, so probably will be no-indexing and putting some no-follows on those links. Might be worth blocking the /view directory as well, though probably will just start with the noindex. Thanks for the help.

If you already fixed the error, then just wait for Google to figure things out on their end. Having those errors in GWT isn't going to hurt you.

http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/seomoz-case-study/ CRE did some good work with SEOmoz but you need to be a high volume sales site for them to talk to you. http://seogadget.co.uk/ UK based CRO

Also take a look at incoming links in Google Webmaster Tools, you can export that as well. usually when someone tries to attack your site they use adult links, so these are pretty easy to identify due to the site names.

Thanks mj, I did decide to remove the H1s from the logo image, as I agree with your thoughts that it just dilutes the "H1 juice" anyways, even if its not a penalty of any kind. Thanks! Jim