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Atul,

in long term you can find duplicate content if you don't prevent it. (just because there might be some path problem).

For ex.

you have product A that can be reached through Cat. A or Cat. B, so you will have two paths:

example.com/catA/prodA

example.com/catB/prodA

Which will be the same product reached from two pages -> two different URls with same content -> duplicate content

Regarding Frames:

Currently you have 1 URL because of the frames.

If you would go for 1 page for each product, then you could optimize better the content for the specific keywords.

Istvan

In any case, I would recommend an onsite audit. You can do it yourself, or ask an outsider in order to get a fresh perspective of your website.

Let me know, if you need help.

Greetings, Keszi

Hi Dave,

I can't give you a top 10 list, since there are a lot of factors that are very important.

But you can check for a very good list here: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

I hope that will help,

Istvan

Hey,

there are so many things that could influence your rankings that is hard to tell if it is only from the links, or there are other factors also.

If you see a traffic drop from a specific date, then you could check for the Panguin tool from Barracuda: http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/

And if the traffic drop is on a specific update date, then you could investigate that specific update, and start from there.

Let me know, if you have further questions.

Keszi

Hi Shaz,

When you are loading http://www.mysite.com/products.php?ref=12345, you are basically loading http://www.mysite.com/products.php.

In order to resolve the duplicate content issue for each product page you could insert a canonical pointing to itself OR you could eliminate the duplicates by adding the affiliate parameters into Google Webmaster Tools -> Site Configuration -> URL parameters. This way you will tell Google what that specific parameter is.

Or you could use both (if it is a large website, it is advised to do so).

I hope that helped,

Istvan

Hi Simon,

I will quote from: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6066468?hl=en

1. Fetch as Google can’t currently fetch your URL because the server took too long to reply.

OR

2. Fetch as Google cancelled your fetch because too many consecutive requests were made to the server for different URLs.

Note the URL is not unreachable for all of Google-- it is just unreachable for the Fetch as Google simulation tool.

Keszi

Hi David,

There is a really good mozinar about Advanced Wordpress SEO: http://moz.com/webinars/advanced-wordpress-seo

I know it is from 2013, and it might not look fresh, but I remember listening it and getting a lot of good tips on how to handle your wordpress website. (Also tags, archive pages, etc.)

It is less than one hour, and it does worth watching it.

I hope it will help you identify and resolve these issues on your website.

Good luck! Keszi

Hey OT,

the canonical notice will show up as soon as you have a canonical on the page.

SEO Tools cannot analyze if the canonicals are set up correctly or not, they can just warn you if a canonical is there or not. The example link you provided is ok.

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi John,

Here is a Q/A that was answered by Ryan Kent.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/correlation-between-google-and-yahoo-indexed-pages

Maybe that helps.

Istvan

Hey Melissa,

If you are going to use a subfolder on your company page as: www.company.com/canada/ then you will benefit from some link juice from your company site.

But in long term, I would go for ccTLD. Although you will have to build the "link-reputation" from almost zero, you can better optimize it for the specific country (in our case Canada).

Also it would be better to gain a hosting package that is based in Canada, many small factors, BUT 1+1 makes 2, right?

I hope it helped,

Istvan

Yoast plugin -> Edit files. That easy!

Hi Alexander,

In your webmaster tools you will have to register your sub-folder as well, so you will have the following:

1. Your website

2. Your website/France

3. Your website/Germany

now you can adjust the sub-folder's geo-targeting to the desired country

I hope this helped,

Istvan

In my belief, working on quality, expecting to have link on sites that are really big fish in the industry, eventually will pay out.

Yes, there are still a high number of websites which rank well with those links, but time will come when they will regret that.

So don't worry about your principles just keep up the good work.

Greetings,

Istvan

I am with EGOL, unfortunately there are a lot of comment spammers, and what you can do, is just to simple delete all the time the spam comments, or don't allow any comments.

Regarding competing with these guys, I would say, that until you play fair one day it will pay out. Google, Bing and other search engines too are working hard on competing with spam and "delivering best results". Until you, I or anyone else really focuses this, I wouldn't be much worried regarding these low quality companies. There will be always some who think they can earn fast money, without putting anything on the table. But these guys will raise and fall... again-again-and-again, but those who "play fair" will remain up constantly.

These are my thoughts, I know it is kind of idealistic....

Istvan

I believe what you are missing is the pagination markup link rel="prev"/rel="next". This is why all the paginated content is indexed, although you have a canonical link set up.

Gr., Keszi

Hi Alec,

There are various tools that you can use, but when it comes to the real "deal" I usually go for Screaming Frog + Excel. Back, when I had a Moz Pro account, I remember their crawls provided quite a good data to start with.

This is how I usually do it (doesn't mean that there are no good tools for SEO).

The most important IMO is to collect data, as much data as possible. Understand it. Prioritize it. Then take action accordingly. (I think Moz Pro is a perfect tool that can help).

I hope it has helped.

Gr., Keszi

So the question really is, what kind of page template does the homepage use in order to pull in the data. We would need to modify that in order to put in the pagination.

P.S. Sorry for the late reply.

Ivan, correct that homepage is a "static page", which has a custom template in your theme directory.

That template has a loop which is going to show your latest articles on the homepage. That's part of the file you need to edit.

Gr., Keszi

After some research made, I have found the following code, which could be implemented in the theme's functions.php:

function rel_next_prev(){global $paged;if( get_previous_posts_link()){?>
}if( get_next_posts_link()){?>
}}
add_action('wp_head','rel_next_prev');?>

Try it out, and let me know when it is live. We can then check if it works well or not.

Gr. Keszi

Hi DotlineSeo,

One possible solution to this issue could be the one Fredrik has pointed out.

An other solution is to tell search engines which URL are you targeting by adding a rel="canonical" to the header of the index page.

This way the one without the / will be targeted.

I hope that helped,

Istvan