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Canonical pages don't have to be the same. it will merge the content to look like one page. Good luck

Hi Thomas, Can you do me a favor and check if the "noindex, follow" tag are correct on these pages: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/oahu/honolulu-condos/ http://www.honoluluhi5.com/no-address-condo-for-sale-201403347/ I do not know programming and I want to make sure my programmers have done it right. Around March 1st we put the tag on, but then March 7th I saw an increase in pages being indexed. It puzzled me Google would index MORE pages on a date AFTER we placed the "noindex, follow" on.

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.

these pages' only unique content will be the dynamic statistical data. So I may have 100 different pages that all have: Median Price Nr of Properites Sold year 2013, 2012, 2011 $ Volume of Sold Properites year 2013, 2012 etc etc Obviously $ and number amounts will be different for each neighborhood, but otherwise same writing and layout across many pages. I wonder if good enough, as just offering value to the users do not always seem to be all we should keep in mind, as I see many websites perform very well taking a simple approach writing a general blurb and nothing more.

I have been using plain text to caption my images.. .but the page that you shared looks like a better idea.  It communicates that you are writing about an image. I have not used that coding but I think it would work well. Perhaps better than what I use. Thanks!

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?

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

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

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You may find this helpful - https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/4VaWg4TMM5F

thx, perfect

Hi Gregory,  A and B are quite different. B has a lot of written content, pictures and a few MLS thumbnails and a "see all condos for sale" type link leading to "A".  A shows 10 thumbnails per page and has a large Google integrated map and an H1 and breadcrumbs. Basically, A offers exactly what users want: quick view of property details on a thumbnails and when scroll over they can see a map with location. If click a thumbnail they are taken to the specific property. Perfect for users. B is OK too, but the written content is mostly behind a "Read more" so users have option to read, list some thumbnails (but not many, to keep page as original and unique as possible). that is the structure and I can see search engines prefer these pages with more written content.  If I interlink to B I imagine I will more quickly rank well because search engines like the page to start with. So if I instead interlink to A I may risk creating a scenario where A and B are both doing OK, but none are great. That is a concern I have. I am basically looking for a solution where search engines can see that all the "greatness" of B should be transferred as power to A.

I've tried this. I moved content from page 'A' to page 'B'. I did not even delete page 'A', and google re-indexed both the updated pages correctly. In webmaster tools, I submitted page B first, and then page A immediately after. Note: There were a few scraper sites that were scraping the content in question. Performing a 'site: <domainname.com><"string of text in quotations here">' in Google showed page B for the content first, above the scrapers. I know this is not a scientific way of determining if you are the owner of content, but it seems to me that Google still gave our site, and page B, the ownership of the content in question.</domainname.com>

thx, Ashley. I can certainly track mobile vs desktop in analytics. My question centers on whether there is some research out there on time users spends on mobile site vs PC and maybe such studies give examples on different industries. My site's users spend about 7-8min from PC and about 5-6min from mobile……looking for some data to get a sense if my mobile is doing well or could be better optimized…..

As a new website I think safe bet is to include all content on 1 page. Keyword variation means content stays seperated. Better combine and make 1 powerful page.....thx for the insight

It may be that some of your destination URLs aren't tagged with the utm parameters.  I forget if you can do it in Bing, but I know in Adwords you can set destination URLs on keywords or placements as well, which will override ad destination URLs, so you may need to check on all of those and make sure they're all tagged properly.

Response from google: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-translate-auto-content-spam-17524.html And yes its not okay, manual translation all the way.

adding canonical tags does not sound right since the paginated pages are not duplicate, rather part of a series which I have addressed by adding rel=next/prev…….

thank you, Moosa. Let me give you an example: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/waikiki-real-estate-condos-for-sale/ - on that page "Waikiki Condos for Sale" I have created a landing page which seems popular with users. I do not want to add content to the page just to keep search engines happy. As you will notice, there are 30+ pages for this "Waikiki condos for sale" page. It is not directly duplicate content, as my site shows different layout and wording that other sites, but it does not change the fact that the listings are identical. I have corrected added the rel=next prev tags and maybe that is enough. However, I wonder, should I "no index, follow" page 2, 3, 4 of the series, with the reasoning I will have less duplicate content? Or, will such no indexing lead search engines to think my "Waikiki condos for sale" page has that much less content than competitors and therefore struggle to rank? On a bigger scale, not focused specifically on this "Waikiki condos for sale" page, will the "no index" part help the rest of my site perform better, as the ratio of original vs copied content will improve?