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I would add the blog to your e-commerce story. This way you can continuously create new content and you will aslo be able to create content to link out to and lead back to your e-commerce site, which should over all help you gain in traffic. I usually don't recommend keeping the blog separate from the e-commerce brand unless you have a significant reason for doing so. Is fireplacedecorating.com currently ranking? If so I understand why the blog is separate.

I'll see what they tell me. Sometimes it's difficult because they wont let me into the CPANEL for whatever reason.

Thanks for some reason they told me they can't fix it, but I kind of figured there had to be a way to fix those 404's. I'll send them over a couple of ideas and see what they tell me.

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Just wondering what the thought was on this.

We have a site that lets people generate user profiles and once they delete the profile the page then 404's. I was told there is nothing we can do about those from our developers, but I was wondering if I should worry about these...I don't think they will affect any of our rankings, but you never know so I thought I would ask.

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Right,

I guess really it will be a matter of  a waiting game than anything. I didn't think there was a way to do it, but I was just wondering if anyone out there had more theories.

I know getting site categories to appear under the site are dependent on a lot of factors including site mapping. We have a site that does the categorization thing when you type in the sites url name however more people search for the name of the talent to find the site and the short url on the site is just his name, but shorter. However I was just wondering is their a way to optimize the site so that way we could get categorization to show up under the sites URL when they search for the talents full name I ask because the amount of people looking for the talents full name rather than the short name is a lot larger and I would like to see if we can take advantage of the real estate, but I honestly don't think there is a way, however I figured I would open it up to discussion to see if anyone has any ideas.

Example:

Site name is ABCD you type this into Google and you get

ABCD.com

about           blog

how to         contact

However the actual person whose site it is is ABCDEF and when you type that in you just get:

ABCD.com without any of the categories appearing below the url.

And that is what I'm asking about.

Thanks as I can't seem to find a lot of information on this. However if there is another spot on the site talking about this please let me know I may just not be searching with the right terms.

What about user profiles in terms of meta descriptions? I was considering just blocking the user profiles because otherwise all of our pages have descriptions, but also I'm not too concerned about user profiles in the SERPs. I wonder what other opinions are on this because I haven't seen a lot of talk of people talking about sites with user profiles and how they use them on their sites.

You're right I guess I'll leave it unless something happens where it does effect the page. I don't think it should hurt our page ranks anyway we get a lot of social shares on the site because of the person whose site is so hopefully when or if the algorithm does change we will already be optimized for it. I just want to make sure the site is cleaned up as much as possible.

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Yes I did read about the Matt Cutts blog mentioning that. The problem with the duplicate titles is they are the same pages with duplicate content so in that case the canonical would make sense because it's literally the same page with the same content and the same title so if the duplicate content is no longer searchable then I was thinking the duplicate titles should also get taken care of in that case or am I wrong on that one?

Most of the issues are coming from the fact that that we do take user submitted content in and put it into a searchable gallery and this has caused some pagination issues, but we already took care of most of those now I just have to get rid of the 404's that are coming from the user accounts.

The paginated pages. User submitted pages seem to have been taken care of, but I wasn't sure if I should fix it or not because your right I also saw that it doesn't effect the pages rankings as much, but I wonder if it would be a good idea to fix it anyway.

Awesome thanks. I think we have a few issues like that so I'll have to have them do a sweep and clean it up.

Yes this question again. I know it get's asked a lot and I know of a few fixes, but this one I'm having a problem with.

So we have a fan gallery on our site which is not only causing duplicate page titles, which I'm thinking we can fix with a canonical, but also too many on page links.

The issue is this is on drupal which I have very little experience with and it seems to just be located within the fan galleries section of the site. After looking at a few things I know that no-follow wont be an option since from what I read it wont really work anyway so I was wondering if anyone else has an asnwer.

I just read through a million articles trying to find a simular situation and can't seem to find anyone with the same thing. It might have something to do with the plugins the programmers used, but my inexperience with drupal is making this difficult.

Thanks guys.

We are on drupal the URL is actually this raywj.com/node/35801 and I do believe we have pathauto set up but I didn't have much to do with the building of it so I probably need to talk to the developers more about it.

Hey guys,

So I crawled my site after fixing a few issues, but for some reason I'm getting this strange node error that goes www.url.com/node/35801 which I haven't seen before. It appears to originate from user submitted content and when I go to the page it's a YouTube video with no video playing just a black blank screen.

Has anyone had this issue before. I think it can probably just be taken off the site, but if it's a programming error of some sort I'd just like to know what it is to avoid it in the future.

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Good point, but I don't have access to our server logs. I'll need the developers to check.

So we have this site set up in analytics as www.domain.com and then analytics is showing the referral traffic as coming from domain.com and I just wanted to make sure I'm right in the theory that Google is counting the 301 as a different site and showing what is otherwise direct traffic as traffic coming from domain.com.

If that's wrong let me know. Otherwise I'll just go through with that theory since no one on any forums that I could find had an answer to it.

Yeah they are legit for now. I already told them to do the no-follow so I think it should be okay.

The problem is that it's YouTube video optimization so most trade sites tend to lead us to the wrong qualifications since it's not really a job that's been done a lot before. Basically we are looking for someone with a lot of YouTube experience and probably some SEO.

Well just decided to do a nofollow. Let's see how it goes. If anyone has more opinions on this please share.