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Hi Rob,

I will check and get back to you in a few hours.

Hopefully we'll find something for you

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi Rob,

What CMS are you using? Maybe we could link a few very good plugins which will help you out with this situation.

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi Wellnesswooz,

There is a faster approach, it is called canonical.

Just insert a into the header of the index.html and you have resolved this issue.

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi Samuel,

I will tell you the same thing as for a lot of clients when we have similar discussions.

First thing: don't try to "play the game" of a competitor. Instead try to come up with something new and better.

Second: Reciprocal links are less important nowadays. I look at websites as they would be real-life persons. And links they are votes they point out to each other on the anchor text niche :-). (Wow, Reading this sentanse even confused me But I still hope you get the idea)

So when two websites start to point to each other on a very similar anchor you get confused. (Think about Schwarzenegger and Stallone sitting at the same table telling people that the other one is the better action movie "star" of the '90s... )

So finally the idea is: try to deliver something new for your audience, try out new things in link building for your website and focus more on diversity, and you will win!

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi GYMSN,

If you have a rel=canonical already then you should not worry. canonical tag was released to solve the problem of creating duplicate content through different path to the same page.

If you already have the "/" in the canonical, then I wouldn't advice to make any change. You are ready to optimize further other parts of the website.

Good luck

Istvan

Hi GYMSN,

Personally I would check the following before applying the canonical:

1. Check the incoming links to www.yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com/

2. Compare the two lists, is there a major difference between them? Which one is getting better links?

If you have answered the question, you know which one to point out.

I hope that helped,

Istvan

Well, I believe they have used Fetch as GoogleBot (which is submitting to index).

Also they have it in their sitemap too in: http://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/siteMap-pages.cfm (which is, I believe, submitted to index too).

I hope I am not wrong about this.

Istvan

www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/Portfolios/Income/ is not http://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/login/?requestedPage=%2Fportfolios%2Fincome%2F

The first one has content, the second doesn't. While you are not logged in you are redirected to the second one. (Depends on cookies I think). If they have "smart" enough they have submitted their www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/Portfolios/Income/ to Google index, so Google can see it

Marcel, the webpage is the same, you only need to log in. As you can see the Cache for the specific page does show the "content-page". (And the cache was taken on 17th February 2012).

Hi there,

Well they just made one stupid mistake

The page which they are ranking for is cached by Google. This is what Google is seeing: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WP7UDTrc9loJ:www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/Portfolios/Income/+income+portfolio&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au

Although that is a restricted Member area, they forgot to put noindex on it so this is where they've got.

It will raise Bounce Rate for sure (As I enter pages like this I tend to close them soon too and believe me, I am not the only one).

I hope that made a little-bit cleared,

Istvan

Hi Omri,

Here you can check the schedule of the LinkScape API update.

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape Schedule

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi there,

I have a question for you:  what content do you have on the products pages?

I am asking this, because I have seen some websites which produced very cool "how to" articles and focused less on the product pages. I would focus more on creating better content on the product pages, then focusing how to draw back the existing rankings.

I hope that will help in some way!

Good luck,

Istvan

Hi Viggo,

Canonical tag was created to resolve duplicate content caused by multiple paths to the same content. In "eyes" of Search Engines, www. and non-www. versions of the site are two different paths to the same content, which causes to be duplicate.

it is good to resolve this issue by redirecting to one of this versions.

I hope that helped,

Istvan

Hi Sophie,

How are you trying to optimize these pages?

If you are trying to optimize for 40 keywords or keywords phrases one page then you get to "FrankenPages", which are total irrelevant for Search Engines. Could we maybe get a view of which page you are talking about?

My advice would be the following: (even before taking a look at example pages) target 1-2 closely related terms / page. It will be more easier for you to build for that and may help to reduce the headaches later on.

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi Donnie,

I believe that this is depending in what niche you are. Because your friend might be right in his niche, but there are businesses who drive converting organic traffic.

To be more precise, just check a few website's conversion rate from organic and paid entries. What you will see is that depending on the niche (geo-location, targeted genders, targeted age groups, etc.) websites will have very different statistics.

It is kind of rough to state that PPC visits are converting better in general.

This is my opinion.

I hope I have opened another "door"

Istvan

P.S. Hopefully I didn't misunderstand the question

This why I am here for

Good luck!

(Check for those duplicates too, it can cause you some trouble if not eliminated)

Hmm... I will tell you a less good news... There you are creating duplicate content, because it is not a redirect and you don't have a canonical neither.

Regarding the original question... I would address the helpteam regarding this one, because they can tell you in details if Roger-bot will crawl your data (as you have requested) or not. you can contact them at help@seomoz.org

It can happen to anyone.

So first of all, with question like this you can always go to the help team, they will be more than happy to help you out and can help you step-by-step to resolve issues.

Secondary, I am happy you came to the community, because we are here to help:

I would advice you to target the /garden/ sub-folder or the http://www.koopgoedkoop.nl/tuin/barbecues/

This way you will provide Roger a sub-folder and not a single page

So instead of adding the url: http://www.koopgoedkoop.nl/tuin/barbecues.html try using http://www.koopgoedkoop.nl/tuin/barbecues/

It should do the job.

Gr.,

Istvan

Hey Do,

You are trying to target one page and not one sub-folder, this is causing the error which Roger "detected".

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi Caroline,

There might be an automated software, but there are companies which are paying people to do that manually. And because of low qualification of those link builders, they usually are working as some "spam-bots".

In the email header check if the sender is the same as the reply-to address, that should tell if you are facing a software spam-bot or a human "spam-bot".

I hope it is the second one

Gr.,

Istvan