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Hi

It looks like you don't want to have search engines index internal search results from your website.

You could achieve this a couple of ways:

• By adding the meta noindex tag to your search results pages (see "Meta Robots" on this page)
• By using Parameter Handling within Google Webmaster Tools

Hope that's helpful

Hi

It doesn't sound like rel=canonical is the solution, as each one of your pages might feature multiple pieces of content from various other parts of your website (if I've read your question correctly) - so which would be the canonical version of the page?

You could use Parameter Handling in Webmaster Tools to ensure Google knows what to do with your various parameters. Moz doesn't matter here, as long as Search Engines are aware of how to handle your pages correctly.

There's a good overview here.

I hope that's helpful

Hi Nikita

It looks like you've redirected some pages, but not all.

There are a number of pages still indexed in Google for the old .co.za domain, and those pages are still available when clicked on. You can see these here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aflashpoets.co.za&pws=0

So you'll need to redirect all pages from the old site, either to the equivalent page on the new site, or to the homepage on the new site (if no equivalent exists).

For example you should redirect http://flashpoets.co.za/news/ to http://flashpoets.com/photography-news/

Here's an overview of what to do:

• Make a list of all of the pages and folders from the old website
• Make a list of the pages and folders on the new website
• Decide which old pages/folders you wish to redirect to new pages/folders
• Create a series of 301 redirects to add to your .htaccess file (see Learn Redirection)
• Also fill out the Change Of Address section in Google Webmaster Tools

Google have a good guide that you can follow at Webmaster Help here.

I hope that's helpful

This post explains how to set this up - Get Email Alerts For New Backlinks With Open Site Explorer

Hi

I'm not entirely sure, but I think I can see what you're getting at. You're used to working with sites focussed on a particular niche, but now you have a site to work on that encompasses a variety of categories.

"Does this influence the ranking possibilities?" - it's the same: you can rank each page of a site for its target keywords with relevant content, good site architecture and link authority.

Think about large sites that rank for a huge variety of terms - e.g. Amazon.

There's a good post on Site Architecture here, and another one more specifically about "content hubs" here.

I hope that's helpful and that I've understood your meaning correctly

Hi Brien

The X-Robots tag has set many of your pages to noindex,nofollow. X-Robots is delivered as part of the HTTP response header so you won't find it in your HTML code.

In addition to that, your canonical tags are a little confused: the homepage canonical tag is set to

http://barnettcapitaladvisors.com/miami-financial-advisor-south-florida-financial-planner

when it should be barnettcapitaladvisors.com

I found these things by using Screaming Frog site crawler.

In your Robots file you're not allowing Yandex or Baidu to crawl the site - are you aware of this?

Have your developer correct the X-Robots and canonical issues.

Yeah this is the first thing you should do. WMT should give you a more exact number of links than OSE, and those numbers don't tend to fluctuate as much - unless there is an actual loss/gain of a larger number of links/LRDs.

Moz's tools can give a page any score, but it doesn't mean Google will rank it in a lower place than it deserves. If your page has an 'F', maybe all the other pages on that SERP do.

Your page may have good link authority or a good balance of anchor text links which could assist its ranking. Have you considered linking factors?

The report which gave you your score for the page should outline changes you can make in order to comply with SEO best practice.

Final thing - I'm in the UK but couldn't see you on page one for "social media marketing edinburgh" (logged-out, incognito-mode chrome session with personalised search off, location set to Edinburgh).

Thanks,

Rob

I'm not certain, but is Orderwise along the lines of what you're looking for?

Here's Google's recent mention of how to sort out Pagination issues, which states

"With rel=”next” and rel=”prev” markup, you can provide a strong hint to Google that you would like us to treat these pages as a logical sequence, thus consolidating their linking properties and usually sending searchers to the first page".

I'm assuming you'd like to have 5 star ratings for the product?

Can you go back to those people who gave you a testimonial and get them to give you a rating out of 5? If so then great, but if not perhaps you can judge each review fairly and come up with a star rating.

Once you've done this you can use Schema.org (try the Schema Creator if you're not sure how) or hReview to try and get some rich snippets showing.

Use the Rich Snippets Testing Tool or Bing Webmaster Tools to validate.

It's still worth submitting a site to DMOZ. It's a trustworthy site.

If you're really concerned about getting trustworthy links but don't have much budget then consider whether you want to edit the subcategory you wish your link to appear in.

Sure, you can compete. Do Google Places listings show in the results for these local search queries?

Perhaps 302 to the folder (/destination/) until you're ready to use the content on a page. Implementing the canonical tag here probably won't make a difference as there will only be a small number of 'live' pages.

Good luck Paul

Rob

A few questions:

Can you work the brand into the keywords somehow?

Is it necessary to show the brand at the end of the title for Google users?

Do you use the brand in the meta description?

Sounds like a lot of work!

If there's a lot of dupe content are the URLs also quite closely matched in terms of keyword use? Are you going to end up just consolidating a lot of the content on a smaller number of pages? If that's going to be the case then perhaps a 301 to the root domain, or to the best of the current pages, would be better.

Cheers

Rob

302 redirect does indicate a temporary move, but how temporary is the move? If you're going to have this content sorted quite quickly then you might leave the pages as they are for now.

Are you falling short on ranking currently because of dupe issues?

Don't forget about using internal anchor text to inform Google which pages are relevant for certain keywords.

Cheers

Rob

Yeah I'd recommend consolidating the content onto one page, and 301 redirect the old pages to the new version.

If there are clear differences between 2 or more sections of the content then it's not a problem to have those parts of content on separate pages as they're targeting different keywords.

The less "thin" content, the better.

Cheers

Rob

What keywords are you searching with? If you add the brand to the keywords does it show the full Title? Google may be truncating the title depending on your query.

Cheers

Rob

I'd give each product a unique URL and its own content, but for displaying the products some shopping carts offer a Bundle or Grouped Product option.

Also, you could just group products under a Category page to show to non-Google Shopping traffic, and use Related Items links to promote similar products on each individual Product Page