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I'd say it's mostly transferable as plenty of content is found in both news and the main index. News is more of a service overlay that attempts to better handle user expectations for frequency and speed of response when it comes to news items. Still, old news gets into the index and treated like content from most any site so if you have a subscription based model that aligns with what they're recommending for more news orientated sites, at least you're fitting into a form of what they outline.

Hi Luke, As the guys above replied with, sounds like an a href with a phone number If you check the 'inlinks' (via the lower window tab), you'll be able to see the source of these errors (the pages they are located). Obviously you can then view the source code & find the exact link, and what might be the issue. Hope that helps! Feel free to pop through any further questions directly to our support btw (http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/support/), I only spotted this via a Google alert. (We try and reply super quick & will always look into any problems!) Cheers. Dan

Thanks Ryan - have now checked and there is a message and the site is a disaster, from mobile perspective... oh dear me! I can see why Google is pushing mobile, though.

You're very welcome, Luke!

For anyone wondering; The answer above by Ecommerce Site (odd name btw) works - 21-Nov-2016.

Thanks Chris... they have virtually no backlinks but definitely operate within niche and quality is middling - there is some useful content on the site relevant to the niche, but not shedloads of content. Almost all outbound links (and not many of those either... perhaps 200). Finding it a tough one to call...

Many thanks for your response Dennis - you make a lot of sense - speed is so important and the SS sites I've browsed weren't doing particularly well on that side of things.

When it comes to any directory, you probably want a nofollow link. It's not technically against the rules to pay for consideration to a directory, but that's usually just code for "pay for a link." Unless this has a high traffic/monetary value to you, it's probably not worth going for.

I would imagine that the best solution would be to point the sub cat canonically to the parent this making the parent category page the dominant authority page.

Thanks for input everyone - much appreciated

It has to be on the homepage and most significant pages of your website. it doesn't hurt to have them on other pages is just that they do it in order to link your website with google plus profiles.

Hi Luke, As alrockn says, I would redirect the root domain of the duplicate blog to mainsite.com/blog. With the pages that have no duplicate on the main site, either find the likeliest match or redirect to mainsite.com/blog. When I say likeliest match, I mean that if any pages on the old blog seem a good fit with something on the main site, redirect them there. You may find none that fit any of the existing pages. If so, don't worry - I'd redirect those to the main site's blog. Cheers, Jane

I would forward that old domain to the new one at the DNS level (no domain mapping) as a 301 redirect. Then you should be able to safely shut down that old blog, since you said "duplicated" content. But if the old blog URL structure is different than the new main site, and you have a significant number of links to that old Wordpress site, you might want to set up server side redirects to preserve any link juice coming from those inbound links.

If you have access to it i would for sure start re writing the content, after republishing the web pages, re submit the site map and the search engines should re-crawl soon. Good luck hope this helps.

It sure was right on target too Miriam - a superb piece - can't think of any further questions

Thanks for feedback Marie... I did notice one newswire specifically told me they didn't auto-syndicate the news release (with links at least sometimes, I presume), so I'm giving those guys a trial on my own site, just to see what happens.

Very pleased to have been of assistance heres links to older threads where i asked similar before, for further verification and credit to those that originally helped me: http://moz.com/community/q/removing-a-staging-area-dev-area-thats-been-indexed-via-gwt-since-wasnt-hidden-from-the-index http://moz.com/community/q/staging-development-areas-should-be-not-indexable-i-e-no-followed-no-index-in-meta-robots-etc

Thanks Peter - developer was only redirecting from www. version of pages - when other versions exists, so will ensure he redirects from duplicates too, Luke

Hi Luke I wouldn't say keyword density is totally irrelevant, but what I mean by that is that you would expect to see on any page the keywords related to the subject of that page. But attempting to add keywords to a page to increase density to make it more indexable is not what you should be doing. The focus of a page for semantic search needs to be the subject as a whole so content should be written for the whole in much the same way as you would write offline and include related content where relevant. I'm not sure if there really is a safe percentage as such for keyword density, but suffice to say that the higher the percentage the more likely a page will be seen as spammy. I would have thought in most cases though <3% should be fine. Peter

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