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We use only one URL for the OOP pages. It is 301 redirected from the each unique OOP title's page. Based on what you said, I am understanding that this is fine. Correct?

Our Web store, http://www.audiobooksonline.com/index.html, has struggled with duplicate content issues for some time. One aspect of duplicate content is a page like this: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/out-of-publication-audio-books-book-audiobook-audiobooks.html.

When an audio book title goes out-of-publication we keep the page at our store and display a http://www.audiobooksonline.com/out-of-publication-audio-books-book-audiobook-audiobooks.html whenever a visitor attempts to visit a specific title that is OOP. There are several thousand OOP pages.

Would Google consider these OOP pages duplicate content?

I just got an email from an SEO "expert" who says Panda #25 update hit last Friday. No further explanation except an invite to a telephone presentation tonight.

I understood that Google was implementing a major Panda refresh this past weekend.

Did it happen?

Anyone notice any impacts?

What changed?

In your examples of homes for rent in orlando & jacksonville, would the formats with the highest results (2400 & 3600) ALSO include all the results in the lower number formats?

In cases where you want to mention the state, would presenting it like this be harmful?

VT | Vermont

Should State names be abbreviated and/or fully spelled out in title tags, meta descriptions and body content?

Does Google know that VT = Vermont?

Are there grade levels such as A+, A, A-?

With GA's Real Time view of visitors to our Web store I see how many are "shopping" at our site. It's a bit frustrating to watch and then NOT get very many orders.

I am wondering about the value of shopping cart recovery services and which one is the best.

I would also like to know what the best ecommerce converting sites are.

One of our two prime goals is to increase visitor --> shopping cart --> order conversions. I would appreciate any advice on how we could improve our conversions from product pages like this one: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/Alex-Cross-Run-James-Patterson.html

All our product pages are presented in the same format.

We have a duplicate content challenge that likely has contributed to us loosing SERPs especially for generic keywords such as "audiobook," "audiobooks," "audio book," and "audio books."

Our duplicate content is on two levels.

1. The first level is at our web store, www.audiobooksonline.com.

Audiobooks are sometimes published in abridged, unabridged, on compact discs, on MP3 CD by the same publisher. In this case we use the publisher description of the story for each "flavor" = duplicate content.

Can we use our sitemap to identify only one "flavor" so that a spider doesn't index the others?

2. The second level is that most online merchants of the same publisher's audio book use the same description of the story = lots of duplicate content on the Web.

In that we have 11,000+ audio book titles offered at our Web store, I expect Google sees us as having lots of duplicated (on the Web) content and devalues our site.

Some of our competitors who rank very high for our generic keywords use the same publisher's description.

Any suggestions on how we could make our individual audio book title pages unique will be greatly appreciated.

I'm not getting any information on On-page Optimization reports. I.E. All the Grade A - F reports are empty.

How do I get On-page Optimization reports?

What premium directories do you recommend?

Our web store, www.audiobooksonline.com has good PageRank (6) compared to some competitors for the keywords audiobook, audiobooks, audio book, audio books. One big difference is that most top ranking competitors have significantly more back links including from .gov and .edu sites.

Our domain URL has been on the Web since 1997 so naturally occurring back links likely has run its course.

What is the best way to get more back links?

Best tool to get back links with?

We have 1000s of links coming from www.wn.com. I have no idea why they link to us and our GA stats don't show any traffic from wn.com.

Could I disallow www.wn.com in our robots.txt file?

Does that mean the content between comment tags get spidered?

I have a change, perhaps temporary, to my web store that I will be making. I am wondering if the code that I will comment out () gets spidered?

I ran a LinkDetox report and it found 61 toxic back links and 960 suspicious back links to www.audiobooksonline.com. We have NOT received any messages from Google WMT about bad links.

According to the report I should immediately get rid of the 61 toxic links. Can our robots.txt file be used to disallow these links?

Although NOT included in the LinkDetox report, Google WMT shows 30,198 back links from wn.com. Google Analytics shows we have received no visitors from wn.com (1/1/2012 - 1/25/2013). I have no idea why wn.com would be linking to us. What benefit do they get?

Is there benefit to registering a domain name for multiple years from a SEO standpoint?

Google reports and I have confirmed that the following old page is presenting on the Web.

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/The_Great_American_Baseball_Box_Greatest_Moments_from_the_Last_80_Years_original_audio_collection_compact_discs.html

This page hasn't been in our site's directory for some time and is no longer needed by us.

What is the best way to fix this Google reported crawl error?

I have worked over the last several months to eliminate duplicate page titles at our site. Below is one situation that I need your advice on.

Google Webmaster Tools is reporting several of our pages with
duplicate title such as this one:

This is a valid page at our Web store:

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/159179126X.html

This is an invalid page that Google says is a duplicate of the one above: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/15​917​912​6X.​htm​l?g​dft​rk=​gdf​V21​38_​a_7​c17​7_a​_7c​432​_a_​7c9​781​591​791​263

Where might the code ?gdftrk=.... be coming from?

How to get rid of it?