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Oh, they'lre still indexed - got it. Yeah, that's a lot tougher. Ultimately, Google has to re-crawl these URLs, and since they're bad URLs and have no internal links and only spammy inbound links, that can take a while. You can remove the URLs in Google Webmaster Tools, but that's a one-by-one process, so it's mostly for the worst culprits. Another option would be to make an XML sitemap with just these bad URLs. Encourage Google to recrawl them and process the 404s. The sitemap would also help tell you how many of the URLs were indexed and to track that number (more reliably than "site:" will). Unfortunately, you may have to make that list manually.

Hey Itamar, I believe the automated tool runs against any page that ranks in the top 50 for that keyword. So, where you have keywords in your navigation, your main page may be an A and rank in the top 10 but other related pages may sit down in the late 40s and subsequently pick up an automated review. This is easily resolved though: 1. Log into your campaign 2. Click on the 'on page' link to view your report cards 3. Click on the F report cards and review the list 4. for any terms that are being graded against pages that are not relevant then click on the keyword to see the report card 5. Click the 'stop running weekly' button on the right hand side This will remove any that you do not want to see. Additionally, if you want to track other keywords against specific pages you can click the 'report card' link at the top of the report card to set up tracking against a specific URL for any of your keywords so you can specify the page you want to track against a given keyword. Ultimately, the crawler does an okay job of setting this up but with just a small bit of tweaking you can really make the reports more valuable. Hope that helps! Marcus

Well we want to influence the amount of leads coming to our channel partners by opening the channels directly instead of having people contact us first and then telling them they have to buy through someone else. What we want is for people to contact our channel partners directly about our service without having to go through us. We have a budget for our channel partners in other ways to promote our service (tradeshow budget etc.) so I want to try and implement that model in PPC.

OK but be careful. Read this: http://pointblankseo.com/type-of-links

You should only worry if GWT reports them as duplicates. I believe SEOMoz tool does not take canonical into consideration when they report duplicate pages.

Hey Itamar! Kevin has a point, check your content as well, make sure that there is a variation in your anchor text as I've read that it creates additional competition for your page in search results, that is if you use the keyword you're promoting.  Open Site Explorer also is useful in checking those that link to your site. Good luck!

I think people panic about cloaking/dynamic content too much to be honest. It would be easy to go overboard and start alarm bells ringing, but if you have a dynamic area on a well structured and balanced page I can't see it being an issue. Caveat: I can't think of a clear comparison to something I have worked on in terms of serving it geographically.  However I've done similar based on countless other criteria and not felt it has harmed anything.

Hi, Let me back up a step. When you say remove duplicate content, do you mean delete the page? For example, pageA.html and pageB.html have the same content. In your example, are you asking do you delete pageA.html or delete pageB.html? I wouldn't delete either page as both pages likely have traffic, links, etc. Instead of deleting, you want to pick which page is the canonical version of that page. More simply, when somebody Googles the terms that page is targeting, do you want pageA.html to show up or do you pageB.html to show up? If you decide you want pageA.html to show up, then you need to redirect pageB.html to pageA.html. That way, if somebody goes to pageB.html they end up on pageA.html. If you delete pageB.html and somebody goes there, they'll end up on an error page. Now, on where question...in terms of deciding what version is canonical, I would suggest you look at authority first and foremost. If the domain authority in OSE is higher for pageA.html than it is for pageB.html, keeping pageA.html makes sense. Things like URL structure are only mildly important, especially when making decisions like this. Hope that helps. Thanks, Matthew

Yes, this will remove them, but if you want to speed up the process you can use the google URL removal tool http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164734

Yes, in that case, use the code that adds www. Then anyone who links to or attempts to visit the non-www, will be 301 redirected to the www version.

It definitely did. Thank you!