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thx, Sajeet. Can I use jpegmini on images already uploaded to my website? I have tried jpegmini on files before I upload to my website and it is a nice program. Image optimization: I am giving file name, using alt tag and in process of including brief description below each image in an HTML tag format. So optimization I think is covered. It is more about how I can compress these files further, AFTER they are uploaded to my website, or somehow may things run even after. Again, as mentioned in another comment, I am using CloudFlare.

thx, Dennis. I have my developers look in to suggestions from that Google page already. Part of suggestions is to improve images and that is why I wanted to hear how to deal with images. I am not very technologically very savvy and I thought maybe there were some software which would reduce picture file size after I have uploaded to my website…..

thx, Nishadha. I am using CloudFlare and it is hard to tell if there is any impact away from the US. In the US, I do not see any change in load time.

I am familiar with tools to reduce jpeg images file size etc before uploading to website. After jpeg images are uploaded to a website, what can be done to enhance load speed of these images? Any software to compress images on a website already?

I have many pages that will soon have a lot of statistical data (real estate related). Each page represents a neighborhood, and the stats will be unique for each neighborhood. However, the stats follow a pattern on all pages: Nr o Sales year-to-date, Median Sales Price etc etc. It is great value to users, but I wonder if such pattern of similar types of calculations (though unique results for each neighborhood) across many pages will potentially be seen as lacking uniqueness as it all pages follow a similar pattern and sentence structure (Nr of Sales year-to-date, Median Sales Price etc). Adding to this, these statistics will be the only stuff that is truly unique content on these pages.

last 1: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_figcaption.asp - would that be OK HTMP cap style to use?

OK. So whether I use wordpress or HTML style captions does not matter. My web developers had set up wordpress stye and I was advised HTML captions may be better. I will leave as is then. thx again. These have been very clear and quality answers

this is great answer and you back it up with experiences you have seen.

Question: should this be HTML captions or can it be written text in wordpress below image? What kind of text works best for SEO?

Example I have a page with a slideshow of 35 pictures. They are all unique pictures and relevant to the page, have unique alt text, though no captions or description surrounding the images. Page also has a lot of unique written content.

Question: is this large nr of pictures potentially overwhelming for search engines and they may think it is spammy and it would be a safer bet to only keep the top 10 pictures on such page?

I did review this great whiteboard Friday - http://moz.com/blog/image-seo-basics-whiteboard-friday - and I noticed this at very end: "The other part, and I see this happen a lot especially with bigger clients, is when you put lots and lots of images on one page, like an image gallery, those pages tend to be very hard to get indexed. The reason for that is there's not a lot unique textual content. A lot of times it's just overwhelming to users. It doesn't provide a lot of benefit in a search result."

My page has been indexed, but will ranking potentially be hurt and to play it safe I better reduce nr of pictures? I do understand the "do what is best for the user" scenario and that is what I am doing with a lot of amazing original pictures not found on any other website. However, with search engines we obviously have to consider how they operate as well.

Thank you

besides my comment below the other issue I am facing is that I have several neighborhoods I would like to rank for within a region. Does this mean best idea is to get rid of these neighborhood pages (via noindex or other solution) and just focus on the region, until I am able to add unique content to the neighborhood pages?

rel=canonical may be difficult because each page has several pages, like:
example.com/region-name, example.com/region-name-2, example.com/region-name-3 etc
example.com/region-name/neighborhood-name, example.com/region-name/neighborhood-name-2 etc

I do NOT have a "view all" page. Page 3 on the neighborhood page may include 30% of data found on page 3 of region page etc.

So what to be done?

I have a real estate site with MLS data (real estate listings shared across the Internet by Realtors, which means data exist across the Internet already). Important pages are the "MLS result pages" - the pages showing thumbnail pictures of all properties for sale in a given region or neighborhood. 1 MLS result page may be for a region and another for a neighborhood within the region:
example.com/region-name and example.com/region-name/neighborhood-name
So all data on the neighborhood page will be 100% data from the region URL.

Question: would it make sense to "NoIndex" such neighborhood page, since it would reduce nr of non-unique pages on my site and also reduce amount of data which could be seen as duplicate data? Will my region page have a good chance of ranking better if I "NoIndex" the neighborhood page? OR, is Google so advanced they know Realtors share MLS data and worst case simple give such pages very low value, but will NOT impact ranking of other pages on a website?

I am aware I can work on making these MLS result pages more unique etc, but that isn't what my above question is about. thank you.

interesting. thx Vadim. I will have my web developers take a look at that article

Wistia (video hosting) has an embed feature, which can be set up to include a backlink. In other words, a user could embed a video on their site, but would automatically create a back link to the original page where it is posted.

Is there a product to do similar with pictures, where I could give users options to easily take the pictures from my website, but it would include a back link to my site when they do use such picture?

thx, Wesley. I have "noindex" on and actually it was more like 3 weeks ago since it was changed. I will observe a couple of more weeks and observe.
Page 2 does not have more relevant content. So that one is a bit odd. Will observe as well

I have "no index, follow" on some pages, which I set 2 weeks ago. Today I see one of these pages showing in Google Search Results.

I am using rel=next prev on pages, yet Page 2 of a string of pages showed up in results before Page 1.

What could be the issue?

great video. Best part the mention about State Dept spending $600K+ and going no where with the 2M likes they accumulated…..

Maybe your competitor is using dynamic ad titles and not targeting your brand. Try entering "ABC plumbing" in Google and if title starts with "ABC plumbing" then you know they use dynamic ads.

Why dont you create ads for your brands and you will quickly be nr 1 on PPC section and also quickly see price drops and pay very little per click (at least most likely).

Let us assume they were targeting your brand: it is unlikely their conversion will be any good since users are looking for your brand.

I dont know about such tool, but let me say this:  I would not worry too much about purchased likes, as # of likes or followers aren't a piece of Google's algo in determining rank. Rather, I would do a very thorough job cleaning up crappy and unnatural links and those you cannot get rid of disavow and show the genuine efforts you have made in cleaning up the mess. This should position yourself well for a fresh start.

Gianluca,
Rand's whiteboard Friday a couple of weeks ago may help you: http://moz.com/blog/handling-duplicate-content-across-large-numbers-of-urls

Though the Whiteboard Friday is about duplicate content issues, 1 piece you can probably us from it is this: embed an iframe on page of the content to leave the content out of the index and the content will not be perceived to be part of the URL when using iframe. Add “noindex” in the HTML doc in the iframe to be 100% sure that search engines do not index it.