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Hello Trenton,

There are several Million sites in web space as of now and think of hundred multi trillion pages

If a site doing wrong and you doing correct - patience rewards. Sooner or later - you will see rewards coming in your favor only

Warren Buffet said a famous quote (though all his quotes are famous) - "No mater how great are your efforts in business - some things just take time. You cant produce a baby in 1 month time by making 9 women pregnant"

So - my advise is to ignore that poor strategy adopted by competition or even that site - sooner or later it will get on to a dead end. If you still want it to happen fast

you may submit an anti-spam report to Google about that web page :- https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en&spamurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.in%2Fwebhp%3Fsourceid%3Dchrome-instant%26espv%3D210%26ie%3DUTF-8

Pl look at the bottom of the page:- "**Looking for SEO consulting? **Moz doesn’t provide consulting, but here's a list of recommended companies who do!"

Link for recommended companies - http://moz.com/community/recommended

rest you can use pro tools to identify site internal errors and also audit the link quality which is posing the issue

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Hi Gregory,
Its not a backslash (), rather a forward slash (/) you are referring to

The forward slash indicates that the url is ended. This tells the search engine: the request stops here.

Search Engines as correctly said by Chris does not differentiate between url with forward slash or without it - both are same. However, its advisable to have url ended with with forward slash to speed up the loading. To validate this - refer this excellent article - http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningtutorials/f/why-urls-end-in-slash.htm

Hi,

May refer - http://moz.com/help/pro/campaign-setup  - moz q&a on campaign set up

Does the Web App track the subdomains of my campaign’s domain?
Unfortunately we do not currently track subdomains as a part of the domain you enter. Instead, you must create another campaign slot for any subdomains you wish to track.

I can refer a quote - probably can be helpful to you

Q: People are all about links but then there's a concern about linking to bad neighborhoods. How do you identify bad neighborhoods? Should you nofollow them or stay away totally?

Matt Cutt Response: Use your gut. Trading links is natural and it's natural to have reciprocal links. At some level, natural reciprocal links happen, but if you do it way too often, it looks artificial. My advice is to go with your gut and if you're worried, you can use nofollow.

Source - http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/015764.html

Your rel canonical is put up wrongly

Its been set up as - http://www.corpsyn.com/”http://www.corpsyn.com”

which is incorrect

Visit this url:-  view-source:http://www.corpsyn.com/

Click on stylesheet url - it will land you correctly. Click on canonical url - it will land you on wrong page

Canonical page is for search engines and implies the 'best url to index in basis the page content'

So - if there is this url you are on to and also has canonical tag attached to it - Its no harm. Generally, its been used to avoid duplicate pages by marking canonical url in header on the duplicate pages. In event of doing so, even if original page has same canonical url - its no harm.

You can mention the name of website simply as:-  http://www.domainname.com

One can not use any 'anchor text url' or 'keyword friendly url' in Moz Profile. Its the plain domain name which is allowed to enter in custom Profile Url.

So in Profile, you can write

Title - Refer 'Title Name of your Website'

URL - http://www.domainname.com

Description - A short description about the blog or site. (Does not shows in Front End Profile page though)

Dont make them noindex, rather use canonical tag.

Using noindex - will make the page out of search engines index.But using canonical - It not only gives a strong indication to search Engines that the canonical page is the best page and rest are duplicates, But, it also passes on existing page Authority from duplicate pages to the canonical page

Trust it help !!

Hi - If you have too many thin pages developed on site - the best way as suggested by Chris too - is 'noindex, follow'

There is no negative Impact, rather helps Search Engines to understand site hierarchy better - by been allowed to crawl and index on rather pages with full of content. The follow tag will pass on all link authority to internal links. Only the page will be deindexed from search engines

Its in a way good - as no user will land on to pages, with very little or no content - thus avoiding single page bounces too

Hello,

We are soon going to upgrade the cms to latest version along with new functionlaities - the process may take anywhere from 4 week to 6 weeks.

may suggest - we need to work on live server, what we have planned

• take exact replica of site and move to a test domain, but on live server

• Block Google, Bing, Yahoo - User-agent: Google Disallow: /   , User-agent: Bing Disallow: /  User-agent: Yahoo Disallow: / in robots.txt

• Will upgrade CMS and add functionality - will test the entire structure, check url using screaming frog or xenu and move on to configure the site on original domain

The process upgradation and new tools may take 1 - 1.5 month....

Concern is that despite blocking Google, Bing & Yahoo through User agent disallow - can still the url can be crawled by the search engines - if yes - it may hurt the original site as will read on as entire duplicate or is there any alternate way around.. Many thanks

It all depends on proportion of anchor text links. Best way is to use multiple keywords and anchors as click here / visit / product name

Having too much change - if tilted towards particular keyword - may make Google see it as spam - through an over-optimization effort.

Best to view it is through this video

http://moz.com/blog/6-changes-every-seo-should-make-before-the-over-optimization-penalty-hits-whiteboard-friday

The updates in Google webmaster takes time, i personally asked a query long back about same thing

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!mydiscussions/webmasters/5SjBkGcWNus

HTML improvement error started reducing almost after 5 weeks from making changes and finished off completely after 8th week

I can add some information for the First Part **-**you should visit - http://moz.com/help/pro

Choose Email us, It says - Couldn't find an answer here? Have a question about your subscription or a bug? Submit a ticket and we'll email you back during our business hours.

• Title & Description tag - as a good snippet practice to tell search engines and user - what the page all about.

• Meta Robots not required, unless you specifically like to noindex or nofollow the page. By default, all pages without meta robots are considered index, follow

• Meta Charset - though generally this automatically gets generated by templates

Hi,

I can share from my personal experience, we had noindex to images earlier - though it was much lower as against yours as just 1500 images. after removing noindex from it - there was no issue at all

The images started showing in google images after 2 weeks and almost after 6 weeks - we could start seeing most of them. You are doing correct by using Alt attribute, only thing is naming the image correctly (for ex, if someone searches for honda city then image should contain name as honda-city.jpg or like this along with Alt text)

Hi Angelos,

Well is it for optimizing security, seo or site dynamics

For SEO :>- - RSSEO & SH404sef

For Creating Powerful Site with Forms :- - Easyblog, RSForm Pro & Easydiscuss

For Security :- - Akeeba admin, Admin Pro tools

All these are personally used and tested by me before recommending. I am done with latest site - http://www.updater.in/ - which have developed to share my personal experience about recommended Joomla security hacks, extensions and hosting - created and written basis personal experience as its my 4th site in joomla dedicated for sharing knowledge gained about this cms

Hi

Am using Joomla for over 2 yrs, there are some issues in Joomla but every issue has a solution attached to it and must say Joomla cms has mind blowing database features

For the stated issue - I see, there are 2 problems to it as mentioned :- Duplicate content and native url. It has one simple and small solution to it

• Use SH404sef to rewrite URL. The site does seems to use native url structure only. Enable SEF URL in Global configuration too. Also, it will enable to provide canonical url too. So, end result will be a clean url with canonical enabling to remove duplicate urls pointing too

See, if you going to change domain name and aptly make correct 301 redirect to corresponding pages (following the same url pattern) of new site with same **content, title and description - **then you are home.

Adding to what Mr. Robert said - you can also check on url hierarchy through Xenu Link Sleuth or Screaming frog seo spider of your old domain and new site (post migration). Compare the link structure. If everything goes on well - you may experience 301 redirect working upto 99% and can almost see your similar rankings with new domain