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Hello,

I have been through your reply a few times and I'm going to give some feedback here. I really wanted to shake your hand on your reply. I know you spent some time replying to it and giving it some thought. Thank you sir. Lets get to it.

You: it may be cheaper and faster to just start on a new domain.

Me: Yes, but thats not really possible. We have a million bucks a month in revenue streams.. not all from google but we're a big company. The name change would maybe be better for low quality sites that that does dropshipping - or affiliate stuff.. we have a huge brand following.

You: Remove all of the bad links that you can, and disavow the rest.

Me: Yes - I signed up for link detox http://www.linkdetox.com - and exported all the low quality pages and imported into LinkAssistent to start the outreach.

You: Perhaps building a better quality site will be all you need.

Me: Yes, that's exactly right and we actually just went live today with the new site. Though it still needs work, user metrics, engagement improvement has been impressive.

You: I would block the internal search result pages from being indexed using the robots.txt file

Me: Yes, I have done that.

You: regarding faceted navigation, it is often a great user experience, but can wreak havoc on your site's SEO strategy.

Me: I have not read any of those until today and I will just AJAX the layered navigation all together. Currently, it does add parameters to the URL but I have those noindex, followed and I went into webmaster tools and defined what they are in the crawl-url-parameters. This is how I set it up:

• Does this parameter change page content seen by the user? - Yes: Changed, Reorders, or Narrows page content.
• How does this parameter affect page content? - Narrows
• Which URLs with this parameter should Googlebot crawl? - No URLs

I approached this like this: First, I need to approve the user experience and get what I can done with SEO but later, I can fix all the SEO problems. For example, I know I could have used AJAX for the layered navigation but I was thinking - lets get it working and populated. It took 5 minutes of my time to use this tool: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-url-parameters which is 2010 - when Rand did the whiteboard friday, this tool didn't exist.

You: I've heard of temporary escapes via redirects, but the site usually ends up in the same trouble again once the link graph has been updated.

Me: I'll let you know how it goes but my goal was to get the people who did have it bookmarked, or from old good links that would bring in traffic.. at least they would find what they we're searching for while I find the time to clean up bad links. Since I was restructuring the keyword strategy to be more target ( mens, ladies ) I needed to be able to do something with them. I felt, that the search results would be the best placefor them on our site, as it is right now.

What I have been doing today:

• We have a lot of similar products. So I am going through them and adding the rel=canonical or changing the content, url, etc, etc.
• Looking for a solution to getting a view all canonical in place on paginated results.
• Fixing small bugs.
• Thinking about how I can make the search better. For example, we are a eCommerce site but we also have a great blog with good, well written content. Now, how can I offer both of them in the search results as a good user experience.

I'm going to mark your post as a good answer because, I'm realizing that my case, my be different because of the architecture change and without giving a link to the site so you can really see - no ones maybe, going to be able to "grasp" it.

Let me tell you this from what I seen. I just moved a website from /store/ to root about 3 weeks ago and google still has all of the OLD /store/ links in the search engines however all of the serp results have / in them. So it's like it didn't update its index for 3 weeks. I have never done anything like this before so I am wondering the same thing.

Well - you're loosing more back links a day than gaining: https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks-new/prefix/www.graduate-jobs.com%252Fgraduate-schemes

link velocity is important but you prob. lost those one or two back links that pushed it to where it needed to be.

Hmm - if you did 50 per week for 2 weeks then did 100 for 3 weeks and 150 for 4 weeks then you wont be looked at as spammy. Think of this: when do you think those links will get indexed anyway? It's best to keep a chart of what you did each day and come back and check to see if it's there or not. ( like blog commenting )

If you are doing blog commenting them maybe you can subscribe to responses as well. But like EGOL said: natural. As long as you're not using software to build links then you will be fine. The question is: How many links CAN you build a day?

My client is generating templates for his eBay template based on content he has on his eCommerce platform.

I'm 100% sure this will cause duplicate content issues. My question is this.. and I'm not sure where eBay policy stands with this but adding the canonical tag to the template.. will this work if it's coming from a different page i.e. eBay?

Update:

I'm not finding any information regarding this on the eBay policy's: http://ocs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?CustomerSupport&action=0&searchstring=canonical

So it does look like I can have rel="canonical" tag in custom eBay templates but I'm concern this can be considered: "cheating" since rel="canonical is actually a 301 but as this says: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html it's legitimately duplicate content.

The question is now: should I add it or not?

UPDATE seems eBay templates are embedded in a iframe but the snap shot on google actually shows the template. This makes me wonder how they are handling iframes now. looking at http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/search-engine-simulator.shtml does shows the content inside the iframe. Interesting.

Anyone else have feedback?

but when did it happen? what day? it could also not even be you but the sites you got backlinks from.

Take a look here: http://www.linkdex.com and it will be the best way to get this fixed. When you disvow these links, add comments and group things together. i.e. #possible link network - emailed webmaster joes@email.com - for removal.

#link directory - emailed webmaster@somesite.com

You dont have a lot of back links - and if you do disavow the links and need help qualifying them than reach out to me with the list you come up with.. or post them here. I'm sure we can help you qualify them.

I really like http://www.linkresearchtools.com and one of the many awesome tools, is the Link Juice Recovery Tool.

If its a informational site with a blog, and you're using wordpress pages for the front of the site. It make since to have the blog its own "folder" - it makes since to filter down in google analytics because you have something to "hold on too" but I'm sure having blog in the URL does not decrease value its just how you want to structure your site.

If you wanted to send me links via PM and add me on analytics, I can take a look and let you know what I think. Have you checked WMT and see what pages people are landing on and the CTR?

Well, if you're on a VPS/Dedicated Machine. - I would take a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/rewritemap.html

RewriteMap has 0 effect on the load time like if you were to have the same in .htaccess it will eat those redirect rules. Remember 301s cache in the browser so when you're testing have them all 302s until you're happy and then watch your rewrite log when you launch. If you need help let us know.

This does take some knowhow and learning but you should be able to get this done in a few days. ( testing, reading documentation )