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I think you should point links to http://www.rentcollegepads.com/marquette and "pre-sell" visitors to the map page.

Maybe you can add "hot deals" to the page to give even more direction for visitors.

Looks like this page is a duplicate and is hijacking the rankings (I searched for "Atlanta's Premier Landscape Design & Custom Pool Company"). Set a canonical link on the homepage and see if that helps your rankings.

Here is how to do it properly: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/02/infinite-scroll-search-friendly.html

Demo: http://scrollsample.appspot.com/items

Cool cool. No breadcrumb code but it still shows up. My guess is that it assumes the » implies a breadcrumb. Try changing that to something else... | or > ... and see if it goes away.

Yes, especially if the pages are identical. I would leave the new url (/internet-daily-special/itemA.html) and set a canonical to the page that is permanent (/subcategory/itemA.html). That way users and magento will be able to navigate to the daily specials section easily and crawlers would know that the permanent home for itemA is inside the subcategory.

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Oleg

Yeah, stick with either:

/%category%/%postname%/

or

/%postname%/

Personally, I like %postname% but if you don't plan on adding new posts, you might be better off taking some time and choosing the perfect category slugs to give you bonus keywords in the URL.

In TheaterMania's case, each tab is a link to another page, not hidden divs.

You will lose some link authority that comes with 301 redirects but if the new domain is worth the branding and potential gain of future backlinks, you should go for it.

As BeardoCo said, you need to replicate/recreate the posts from the first two sites onto the third and have individual, page specific redirects set up. This would conserve as much relevancy and link authority as possible.

Also take note that your traffic will most likely tank for 2 weeks while G deals with the site transition. Don't panic, rankings will return within 3 weeks.

Make sure you tell google you changed domains and set up 301 redirects as soon as you do that. Otherwise, you can get hit with a penalty for creating too many pages too quickly + content is duplicate from the other two sites.

Good luck!

First big problem - You have a bunch of pages that look like this - http://fastlocksmithdc.com/automotive/car-keys-made/ford/

Not only are they duplicate pages of the other car URLs, but the pages are also blank. This really thins out any links built to your site by having a lot of worthless pages.

Secondly, lock smithing is a local search and should be attempted to rank for using Google Plus for Business pages. You don't have your address anywhere on the site (I recommend adding it to the footer).

Your best use of $200 would be to optimize your homepage/site to rank for keywords locally, setup/optimize a Google Plus page and then build $200 worth of local citations.

Both is the way to go. Silos are essentially structuring your pages so that per topic, there is 1 master article and multiple supporting articles that link back to the master article. The topic only links to pages relevant to the topic and not other sections of the site.

You can use breadcrumbs in conjunction with a silo as the structure is suitable for them.

Go to http://analytics.moz.com/pro > the rightmost column = "Insights", click on the one that corresponds > here you get a list of all of Moz's insights.. look for a section called "Keyword opportunities"

Can't vouch for any but here is a short list I found via G

http://www.ukfast.co.uk/linux-server.html

http://www.webfusion.co.uk/dedicated-servers/

http://www.eukhost.com/dedicated-server-hosting.php

301 redirect all of those (plus any /index.html url versions) to just 1 url. Which one? Base it off MOZ page authority.

Check this out - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

Basically, if the same page loads on several URLs, the canonical tag tells search engines which URL is the "real" location of the page.

Yep. 301 = permanent redirect = this page used to be here but not moved to this new location so lets pretend its always been this way (and transfer any authority to it).

what's happening is that there is a 302 redirect to : http://www.toolsandmachinery.com/index.php?cPath=5883_8097_8110&osCsid=8a13a53a966400e3bef97cef001aa4e5

Then it's 301 redirected to: http://www.toolsandmachinery.com/jet-parts-5883/jet-dust-collection-8097/jet-jc-3-parts-8110/?osCsid=8a13a53a966400e3bef97cef001aa4e5

I'm thinking this is due to some plugin but i'm not too familiar with osCommerce so can't be positive. I would try to install a SEO plugin and see if that helps.

use  the_title();  for the H1 tag instead

Not sure what that other code does... if(!wp_title("",false)) { echo bloginfo( 'title');} ?>

if no title set, show blog title? what pages would this affect?

On your competitor's site, to reach that page I...

http://www.badkamerconcurrent.nl/ > Click "Sphinx" link on bottom > Click '345' in left navigation

How do I get to that page on your site?

In addition, that page has the following tag: rel="canonical" href="" /> [you should either remove it or use the correct url]

I think that should have been your strategy from the get go - combines the authority and nullifies any duplicate content.

Set up canonical tags on each page of the SEM site that point to the most relevant page on the SEO site.

So there are a lot more links on your sphinx page than your competitors so a lot less link authority flows to it (you have way more filters).

As Claudio mentioned, you should get more direct links to that page from your site... "featured products" on your homepage, link from a post in your blog, mention it on category pages (i.e. alle douche).

In addition, you should add rel="prev/next" on pages that have pagination.