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Thank you! Jim I was not aware of the moz tool amazingly enough.

I submitted one several years ago, and it seemed Google really wants to hear about your non-profit and why it should have the grant status, rather than have a modified form letter.

This is a book they're presenting on their site, of course it's not unique content. I'm sure they're aware of that. OP, to your questions: 1. Generally you won't be penalized for having too many links on a page, but Google will only crawl so many of them. The higher authority your site is, you can have tons of links on a page and get more of them crawled. 2. What makes you think you're being penalized? Significant drop in traffic?

Thank you Keri

Hi, First of all, it isn't imperative to have any keywords in a URL to appear 1st, or indeed, anywhere in the URL. There are circumstances it will help, but it isn't imperative. How well your site matches the content of the pages is going to be key for you. Google is always going to be looking for a site that is going to be seen as an authority on the subject. To answer your question, if you just buy a domain and then forward it, the domain that is just forwarded will not appear in Google at all. The only time there will be a forward, is when someone types the domain in exactly. it sounds like they have a good domain that is old and will have lots of history attached to it. I would start to look at penalties, what has happened at specific dates and see if you can come up with a correlation. There is always a reason, and there is no reason why they cannot rank again. -Andy

I've seen no evidence of a boost in .org or any other TLD vs another lately.  We have a couple thousand clients to compare and while new sites seem to be doing better than old but .org doesn't seem to be ahead of .com in any meaningful way. I would definitely not change just for a .org but if it makes more sense, brand the correct way for your business.

Can you run those searches in google and get your result to show? I've seen things where images results show in the main SERP but Webmaster Tools is counting as "organic" (not image) but it was an image with a weird/random filename. I'd try to replicate the result, see what's ranking there (image/webpage etc) and see if there's some weird occurrence of the keywords. But images would be my first guess. -Dan

Hi Jim! Thanks for the question.  One thing we should clarify before we move forward is that the Pro app doesn't actually report on duplicate URLs, but we do report when we find duplicate title tags or content. Duplicate titles just refer to when we find the same title tag on more than one page. In one example from your diagnostics, we're reporting the title tag 'Truthbook Religious News' is being used in multiple pages (http://screencast.com/t/GYCKNfAoj). Duplicate content is content we see on the source code of your pages that is identical or nearly identical and would cause the pages to compete against each other for rankings.  To fix either of these you have a several options: Set up a 301 redirect to have the pages you would consider duplicate redirect to the main page. - Change the content/title tags enough that they won't be considered duplicates Canonicalize the content you would consider duplicates. Most developers will go for the latter two options so that the pages will still be reachable by visitors. You can find out more about how to implement these in our Help Hub. To answer your other questions: 1 - At the time of the crawl, we were able to get to sub domain pages from other pages on your site.  The sub domains were also resolving separately, but they seem to be redirecting to your root domain now, so your next crawl should reflect this. 2 - Running a curl for the print versions of your pages, I see "no follow" tags related to Wikipedia links embedded (http://screencast.com/t/reYjeLLPvWG3) in the doc, but I'm not finding any "no index tags" (http://screencast.com/t/DsXMZInngSzH).  This would be why you're seeing us crawling those pages. 3 - As I mentioned above, our crawler looks for similarities in the source code of pages when reporting on duplicate content.  Since no one knows exactly how similar content would need to be for the search engines to consider it a duplicate, we err on the side of caution and recommended best practices when reporting them. Using one of the methods mentioned above and detailed in our Help Hub should resolve this for you Let me know if you have any other questions! Best, Sam Moz Helpster

Hi Jimmy, Thanks for writing in with a great question. In regard to the "noindex" meta tag, our crawler will obey that tag as soon as we find it in the code, but we will also crawl any other source code up until we hit the tag in the code so pages with the "noindex" tag will still show up in the crawl. We just don't crawl any information past that tag. One of the notices we include is "Blocked by meta robots" and for the truthbook.com campaign, we show over 2000 pages under that notice. For example, on the page http://truthbook.com/quotes/index.cfm?month=5&day=14&year=2010, there are six lines of code, including the title, that we would crawl before hitting the "noindex" directive. Google's crawler is much more sophisticated than ours, so they are better at handling the meta robots "noindex" tag. As for http://truthbook.com/contemplative_prayer/, we do respect the "*" wildcard directive in the robots.txt file and we are not that page. I checked your full CSV report and there is no record of us crawling any pages with /contemplative_prayer/ in the URL (http://screencast.com/t/hMFuQnc9v1S) so we are correctly respecting the disallow directives in the robots.txt file. Also, if you would ever like to reach out to the Help Team directly in the future, you can email us from the Help Hub here: http://www.seomoz.org/help, but we are happy to answer questions in the Q&A forum, as well. I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Chiaryn

I'll 2nd what Jim said.  Also, if you're looking at search RESULTS (not Google Suggest), then after you run your query, append &pws=0 to the URL to depersonalize the results....then see which is chosen. If you have the .org pages 301 redirected to the .com, then you're in good shape regardless.  You should use the httpfox Firefox plugin to watch the HTTP response stream when you type [yourdomain].org to make sure it's a clean 301 redirect to the .com version.