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I hate scrolling through the Q&A section and seeing a 0-response question surrounded by so many answered and responded-to ones. Whenever it's one of my questions with no responses I always get the feeling I'm being ignored. Know, CJ, that I'm not ignoring you, I just read your question and honestly have not a clue.

It sounds like it could be a campaign bug. It happens, I've had them happen to me a few times. I've had duplicate URLs tagged as duplicate content one crawl, changed nothing, then next crawl it was fine. Sometimes the crawler hiccups. If I were you I'd pull a manual crawl (research tools), or use Xenu to run one, and see if it's there too. If it is, you can see the referring URL, or at least more information. I could be of more assistance then.

If it doesn't appear in those, well, campaign crawler hiccup/

Hello and welcome to the industry!

Since you're new, you're going to want to start here:

http://www.seomoz.org/article/social-media-marketing-tactics

Do a lot of reading. I mean a lot. Read and read and read. Then make sure you read this:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tracking-the-roi-of-social-media

That'll make sure you don't fall into the SMO for SMO's sake trap.

You've joined the right community if you're looking for help, and we'll all be glad to help you get started. Your initial query, however, is really really vague. If you can get more specific we can provide better, more directed help.

Someone else'll smack me if I'm wrong, however:

www.eitan.es

That's your only external linking root domain. And, your only true external link, too. Since September Google has considered subdomains internal links.

In Webmaster Tools, use the Change of Address function.

Assuming all other things equal (keyword relevancy, anchor text, etc) I'd go for site 3. The DA is good, but I'm really liking the PA/DA combo on that one. Second choice would be site 1.

How new?

OSE doesn't track every website, and the index isn't updated real-time, so you could be either too new or just not included in the index.

I mean, right there in the OSE page for your domain, it tells you this:

No Data Available for this URL

Although our index is large, there are a number of reasons why we may not have data for the page you've requested. These can include:

• Recency of Page Creation:
  Linkscape crawls the web constantly, but we update the index only once every 30-40 days. Thus, pages and links created since the last index update won't be available until we've seen them. A typical timeline for getting a page/site included in Linkscape is 45-60 days, sometimes less for very important or well-linked-to pages.
• Deep Down in the Web:
  Our crawl focuses on a breadth-first approach, and thus we nearly always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these.
• Blocked Pages:
  If our crawlers or data sources are blocked from reaching your URLs, they may not be included in our index (though links that points to those pages will still be available)
• No Links:
  The URLs seen by Linkscape must be linked-to by other documents on the web or our index will not include them.

Why would you point rel canonical to a page you don't want to rank?

Shamelessly stealing this from Sha Menz in this thread:

You can do what you want to do as long as the keywords are loaded in your campaign. Its just a little hidden

If you go into the On-page tool you see the Summary view. If you look right above the big heading On-page Optimization, there are two blue text links. Choose Report Card.

Now you will see a selector which allows you to choose any keyword from your campaign list and enter the URL of any page in the site.

Click** Grade my On-page Optimization** and voila! Roger will fetch your Report Card!

Swing on over to your dashboard. Find your campaign, navigate to crawl diagnostics. Under the first errors/warnings/notices box you'll see something like:

Last Crawl Completed: Feb. 9th, 2012 Next Crawl Starts: Feb. 17th, 2012

Your dates, of course, will be different.

Agreeing with Brent on password-protection. And everything else he said.

Also, if these are CMS-driven sites, I can almost guarantee you you've got paths pointing back to the dev-version. Probably absolute links to images and such. I've had that happen before. Remove the database and files from your dev directories and see what breaks on the live-site

Further to Alan, if I manually change user-agent to something unknown, the site 403's. Are you or your host using any sort of user-agent detection funkiness?

While there is no authoritative answer from Google or Mr. Cutts, general consensus amongst my SEO peers that were just IM'd by me seems to be multiple titles on a page is bad. I agree with the consensus.

Years ago, multiple <title>s was a common blackhat technique.This is back when you could successfully stuff meta keywords and it'd actually work. As for now if it would just be neutral or actively negative...I don't know, but my gut leans to it'd be actively negative to some degree.</p></title>

Passing through multiple 301s is not the best solution, but it works. I've never seen it generate problems of any substance, even on some huge sites.

Worst I've ever seen was 4 passthroughs, old versions of multiple pages (date-sensitive) being 301's to new versions for 4 years. I didn't set it up that way, just inherited it. Didn't see any serious loss of juice.

Of course optimal would be to have everything 301ing to the right place. And depending how you're 301ing (.htaccess, IIS) might be as easy as doing a find/replace to get it all in line.

If I were you, I'd schedule a call and ask questions. Like what the benefits of having your content syndicated across the network is outside of name recognition, how they handle duplicate content problems, how they ensure your content is used properly, etc, etc. Put the onus on them to alleviate your fears. Chances are it won't be that beneficial for you.

With regards to your fear of not providing a URL, this is probably a form mass-email to pre-identified targets that was just badly executed. Call nSphere directly, and ask to speak to him. See how that goes.

I'd check with your delivery network. Might be something on their end. Or it might be that my user-agent switcher isn't working properly (it has happened before).

A further hmm:

Xenu 403's, but Screaming Frog doesn't.

In the interests of not starting a subdomain vs subfolder flamewar, I'm going to say: it depends.

Same branding as the rest of your site? Want to treat is as part of the whole? Go with a subfolder.

Different brand? Different style? Different purpose? subdomain.

I've never understood the point of having a meta title tag if you're going to use a regular <title>. Seems a little skeevy to me.</p> <p>To your question, it would not have any <em>positive</em> effect on ranking, since that juice was already supplied via the traditional title.</p></title>

I'd say use it where it makes sense. Location finder? use it. Contact page? Use it. Footer of every page? Nah.