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Hi Keri

No other notices or messages, but looking at some of the search queries there are some weird entries such as

calcium carbonate
acheter

etc...

Any ideas on how to resolve this and clean this up?

The address of the site is http://bit.ly/aqva2C

How would I set up recrawling the site again?

On one of my wordpress sites, I have just checked it out in Google Webmaster tools and under duplicate titles it is showing spam titles which I did not add?

Lamisil Buy - Buy Online

on two pages of the site

However these two pages are no longer online?  So I have 2 quick questions please

1.) How did they add a title to these 2 pages

2.) Why is it still showing in WMT when these pages are no longer live?

Also under duplicate titles it is showing pages that dont exist?

i.e.

?yonidza=orde

and some of which such as weddings.html are pages from the old site structure that no longer exist - how can I reduce these errors down?

Hi

I am looking for some advice / lists of recommended local search directories / citations that I can add my hotel/restaurant to - as part of our strategy to improve local search rankings and increase our visibility on the web.

For example I have added the business to the likes of

Yelp
Qype
Urbanspoon
Tipped
Ufindus
Hotfrog
Freeindex
Brownbook
Trip Advisor

But are there any specific hotel, wedding, conference and restaurant specific sites that I should add the business to also.

Many Thanks

I have read lots of threads and guides about building quality links - but if you have little or no budget - for example to create widgets, viral games etc- how do you build quality links - what in plain english is a natual link building strategy?

By seeding Press Releases around the web?  If so how do you seed them?

Ask related travel sites for a link?

Conversing in related forums?

Write top 10' tips on reducing travel insurance and hope it gets picked up on digg etc?

Or am I off the mark?  If so what would be the steps that would be needed to be taken?

Basically because there were too sites in tandem and when the business areas merged there is only a need for one site.

I am struggling with the best way to achieve this as described in my post at the bottom of this thread

Can this be done?

on each page indexed?

Are there not any Wordpress plugins that would do this without delving into the htaccess file?

In your example you mention the code below, how would I change what I have below to redirect from my mydomain.co.uk site to point at the correct site mydomain.com site

And on the redirect 301 lines, how would I redirect - what would the code need to be?

www.mydomain.co.uk/sample to www.mydomain.com/newsamplepage.php

Hi

I have two websites one legacy site done in wordpress the other in php.  However I would like to merge the two together and remove the wordpress site.

However it has a good link profile and the pages rank well.

What is the best approach to do a 301 redirect from the old site with all its pages pointing to the homepage of the new site?

If so what's the best way to do this in wordpress?

Many thanks

How would using the canonical tag work though - because I am using URL rewriting?

For example

mydomain.com/games-playstation-vita-psp/B0054QAS

is acutally something like details.php?=B0054QAS - so how would a canonical tag work in a dynamic template like above.

Because if I placed the tag below in the details.php page then I would need this to change dynamically based on the product - how can this be done?

http://www.mydomain.com/games-playstation-vita-psp/B0054QAS/>

Or would a 301 redirect be better to achieve the above?

Many Thanks

Hi

I am having problems with my URL rewriting to create seo friendly / user friendly URL's.  I hope you follow me as I try to explain what is happening...

Since the creation of my rewrite rule I am getting lots of errors in my SEOMOZ report and Google WMT reports due to duplicate content, titles, description etc

For example for a product detail, it takes the page and instead of a URL parameter it creates a user friendly url of

mydomain.com/games-playstation-vita-psp/B0054QAS

However in the google index there is also the following friendly URL which is the same page - which I would like to remove

domain.com/games-playstation-vita/B0054QAS

The key to the rewrite on the above URLs is the /B0054QAS appended at the end - this tells the script which product to load, the details preceeding this could be in effect rubbish

i.e. domain.com/a-load-of-rubbish/B0054QAS and it would still bring back the same page as above.

What is the best way of resolving the duplicate URLs that are currently in the google index which is causing problems

The same issue is causing a quite serious a 5XX error on one of the generated URLs

http://www.mydomain.com/retailersname/1   -

, if I click on the link the link does work - it takes you to the retailers site, but again it is the number appended at the end that is the key - the retailersname is just there for user friendly search reasons

How can I block this or remove it from the results?

Hope you are still with me and can shed some light on these issues please.

Many Thanks

Will do

Or could it be to do with this?

<cite>The other probable cause is the site is still quite new approx 2-3 weeks old - it started off ranking well then dropped way down for a day or two then shot back into the top 10 where it had stayed for the past week to 10 days.  There has been a strong social buzz around the site so this may have influenced the ranking as well on a temporary basis?</cite>

When searching for the site is still is in the index but it has dropped like a stone when only last night it was doing really well.

They have got to be linked, but there is no reason why it should drop  when some of the top 10 results are sites like below which are no different to mine?

http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/pl/624-2722915/Games-Playstation-3/FIFA-12-Compare-Prices

http://www.gamecrawler.co.uk/blog/great-fifa-12-deals-this-week/

<cite>http://www.cheapgames.org.uk/cheap-fifa-12-pre-order-prices/</cite>

<cite>The other probable cause is the site is still quite new approx 2-3 weeks old - it started off ranking well then dropped way down for a day or two then shot back into the top 10 where it had stayed for the past week to 10 days.  There has been a strong social buzz around the site so this may have influenced the ranking as well on a temporary basis?</cite>

Hi

No not used adwords before as our onsite SEO was going well - with long tail terms ranking well to product detail pages.

On Sunday we tried to set up an adwords ad as it wasgoing to be used for the forthcoming launch of a new product. - - PS Vita

I think it is being classified as a bridge page although other price comparison sites such as kelkoo and pricerunner gocompare, travelsupermarket etc all seem to get through and have ads on Google?

More interesting though is since the ad was disapproved my organic search results have disappeared? (which have all been white hat)

Coincidence perhaps or something more sinister from Google??  One for you Randfish perhaps?

Hi Keri

Thanks for the reply, the link I was planning to use for the adwords campaign was

http://www.cheapfindergames.com/playstation-vita-3g-best-price

What else needs to be done so it meets the criteria, as the Kelkoo link above is exactly the same - it provides price comparison on products and affiliate tracking links

I looked at the google link - thanks for that and it seems to be classing my link as a bridge page - but its no different to the likes of Kelkoo or Pricerunner

Hi

I am trying to run a google adwords campaign for our price comparison site, and have developed a landing page with content and a table of the best prices on where to buy the product.  The ad is

PS3
Compare the lowest prices
Buy Today

However I keep getting the message disapproved

"Landing page and site policy guidelines"

Any ideas on how to get it to be approved as google are running ads for price comparison sites such as this one for the phrase 'dvd price comparison'

http://www.kelkoo.co.uk/slp/ss-dvd-compare-price.html

And I'm not sure what I am doing wrong?

I have restricted around 1,500 links which are links to retailers website and links that affiliate links accorsing to webmaster tools

Is this the right approach as I thought it would affect the link juice? or should I take the no follow out of the restricted by robots.txt file

How can you check if your site is in the google index and how many pages of the site have been indexed?