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Agree with the above.  Wordpress SEO is the winner for me.

I would say you can no-index categories, archives or tags ... I would no-index 2 of the 3.  If Moz is using categories, they perhaps aren't using archives and tags.  I would choose categories to be open or archives but never tags.

Using your own search (appleton plumbing) I did a comparison using ImportXML.

It mattered at nearly every result level.

See the attached image:

appleton plumbing vs plumbing appleton using Googlescraper.

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If this is Wordpress, use Dean's Permalink Migration plugin:

http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/

This will redirect all your current posts to the new format so you don't have to change a thing.

I recently moved the permalinks for a blog with over 500 posts and it literally took 10 minutes.

You can actually do both A & B and hopefully get the best of both worlds.

Make subdomains.  http://location1.hotelname.com, http://location2.hotelname.com

A) You will pay less yearly because you're really just using hotelname.com

B) Each site will have an opportunity to raise its own ranks because subdomains are mainly treated as separate sites (think me.wordpress.com and you.wordpress.com)

So that would be my suggestion.  Subdomains give you both answers, which I think removes your dilemma.

It took me about 2-3 weeks each time.  I have a large list of Wordpress ping services and I manually pinged everything I could so it's possible it could take longer. Make sure you have a sitemap in WMT and it should speed you along as well.  If you just made the change, I'd suggest resubmitting a map so they recrawl fresh.

SEO Book has a keyword density tool ... maybe not the same but worth a quick peek?

http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/

It would be pretty easy to grab sites keywords using importXML, wouldn't it?

It depends how you want to set it up but I can't imagine that would be too difficult.  What exactly do you want it to do? Grab the meta keywords from one page?  ALL the text on a page?

As far as I know, Moz has been crawling HTTPS since last June:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/new-seomoz-pricing-plans-more-keywords-for-everyone

But it's had issues.  This post: http://www.seomoz.org/q/campaign-web-crawl-has-failed-last-4-times

_Keri Morgret_Community Specialist at SEOmoz

I believe we had a couple of blips earlier with our crawler. Your best bet for support is to go to http://www.seomoz.org/help and use the red "contact our help team" button -- the help team will get back to you on Monday and help you work out what's going on and find a fix.

I would suggest the same link to get it fixed.

Try this link: http://web.zizinya.com/blog/bid/129838/Google-for-Multiple-Business-Locations

I found it a month ago or so for a (sort of) client who was having issues with their SIX businesses out of their home... they said it worked well but I didn't get to test it out myself.

Blog. It lets me incorporate content as I create it, manage my on-page with a fairly robust plugin and therefore have the on-site I need while giving people reason to read, visit, and link to me.

Matt Cutts' blog has categories & archives. If he thinks it's ok, so do I.

http://mattcutts.com/blog/

You mean "more about this" than me?  I run 3 businesses on 3 Wordpress blogs. I've done the research.  Many of my clients are Wordpress users.  But here's what others think:

• Yoast thinks it's duplicate content: http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/#advancedseo
• David Fuller ranked for tags then didn't: http://www.seomoz.org/q/wordpress-tags-duplicate-content  Same link Dan at Evolving thinks you should noindex tags as well.
• WPMU and Matt Cutts think it's duplicate content: http://wpmu.org/categories-tags-and-how-to-avoid-duplicate-content-on-wordpress/
• How to Tech thinks it's duplicate content: http://howtotechtips.com/remove-wordpress-duplicate-content-search-results-and-tags-from-google/
• As you said, SEOMoz thinks it's duplicate content.
• Many Warriors suggest noindexing tags for dupe content reasons: http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/373744-wordpress-tags-death-me-duplicate-content-question.html
• 3 other pro SEOs say to noindex here: http://www.seomoz.org/q/solving-link-and-duplicate-content-errors-created-by-wordpress-blog-and-tags

Google search shows

_No results found for _"tags do not create duplicate content".

No results found for "tags are not duplicate content".

And 2.5 million results for tags "duplicate content"

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The short term answer is that you're ranking for them now so leave them be.

The long term answer is it's duplicate content and you need to fix it.

Even if your tag pages don't show the entire post, multiple tag pages show the same excerpt.  This is duplicate content.  By itself - not even talking about the post.

**You said: **_SEOMoz says it's duplicate content but it's a tag. It's not really content per say. _

If you want to see with your own eyes the duplicate content, please post a URL.

Login to your Google.ie adwords account.  Click help > email Google.  Select the closest reason.

You are 22 in Sydney and 21 in Perth.  No local results there because you're not located there, of course.  It's possible that your improved Melbourne (local) results are forcing your other national results down to page 3.  I'll ask around but never heard of that happening.

I can't imagine it would be better for you not to rank locally but anything is possible with Google.

Hi!

I'm attaching a screenshot from Melbourne, just now.  You're in the Local results.  That means many ranking trackers will give you the wrong results.  I see you 21st for the term in organic results but because you show up in the 7-pack you are pushed down a little more.  Google wants to see different domains on page 1 - not many of yours... so they tweaked it down a bit a few weeks ago.  This is Matt Cutts' Twitter report on it:

**"**Just fyi, we rolled out a small algo change this week that improves the diversity of search results in terms of different domains returned."

I think you're only a few minutes north of me - if you ever want to talk SEO, let me know.

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If you're happy with your results, why block anything in Robots?  The short term answer is tags are working for you.  The long term answer is you're creating duplicate content.  So it just depends - are you optimizing for today and tomorrow's sales or for long term success.  There is no "right" answer to that but that's the question.

Our tested answer is that it's both.  And therein lies the problem and the different answers you'll get.

Matt Cutts has repeatedly said "don't put your entire blog post on your homepage but if you have a teaser and link to the actual location that's a good way to do it."  (http://www.webpronews.com/google-duplicate-content-2011-12)

He says Google understands blog structure but that you should only show excerpts other than the main page.

The issue is that it conflicts with a lot of things we've seen & heard including older stuff he's said.

"typically a whitehat site doesn’t neet to worry about 1-3 versions of an article on their own site"

The problem is say on Wordpress you tag a post with 15 tags.  If you don't no-index a lot of your "ways" of seeing it, you don't have 1-3 versions. You can have 15 tags+ the permalnk + archive pages + category pages + ... and it just adds up.  You shouldn't worry about 1-2 versions on your site.  You should worry about 15-30 versions.

Out of curiosity, I ran a test on 2 generic wordpress.com blogs.  I tagged one with 15 tags, tagged the other with 2 tags.  Same subdomain length and topic.  I indexed 3 posts with long random strings.  In all 3 cases the one with 2 tags beat the one with 15 tags.

Then I no-indexed the 15 tag posts and they passed the 2 tag posts within 2 weeks.  So in my experience, fewer duplicated posts meant more juice.  However, no-indexing just the tags improved my SEO.

Small scale test but one I'd love to see repeated on a much larger scale sometime.  In my opinion, duplicate content hurts unless it's excerpts (news sites, blog front pages).

Hope that helps (and explains why people give you both answers.)

You don't want to index tags in Wordpress.  You'll have duplicate content on any post that has more than one tag on it (which is almost all of them.)   You want to get the canonical permalinks indexed and that's it.  Search for a post you have indexed under a tag and then do a keyword search to see if it appears a few times (archives, multiple tag pages, etc.)  That's bad - you want to fix that.

When did you start the campaigns?  Sometimes I've noticed that data takes awhile to come into the dashboard.

Also, are you displaying "All Reports"  "All Grades" ?  I had a filter on one of mine and it was only showing me my "A" grades which meant no suggestions for improvements.