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Thanks Geoff, will do what you recommended.

I noticed in Google webmaster tools this:

Blocked URLs - 193

Downloaded - 13 hours ago

Status - 200 (success)

Hi Geoff,

The developer had said it got added this morning when we rolled out a discount feature on our website, I think it was the CMS adding it automatically, however now a lot of the keywords that were ranking top 3 are no longer indexed, is it just bad luck? will Google come back?

Thanks for your quick reply Ben.

It does not seem to be all my pages that have fallen off, just some, the developer said that it only got added this morning by mistake.

I actually typed in the full URL into Google and it does not appear anymore, I was ranked no.2 for that particular keyword, receiving about 150 click per day, not happy!

I have just noticed this in my code

name="robots" content="noindex">

And have noticed some of my keywords have dropped, could this be the reason?

Regarding your last point I am sure I recently watched a WBF were Rand had mentioned this was a good way of getting backlinks, I did question this myself when I heard this.

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your feedback.

This is becoming more of an issue for me, as we have literraly hundreds of online retailers selling our products, however they do not have the resource in creating new content for these product pages and I certainly don't for hundreds of different websites.

If I could persuade these retailers to put canonical and point it to my product pages would this benefit my SERPs?

One thing I have did to increase PR on a blog post, is to do another blog post and point a link to the original blog post that I did.

Hi Exequiel,

I had be running with a .co.uk for years and we decided to introduce a .ie website both English Language, and I went for option 3, correctly geotargeting both websites correctly.

For the first few months the .ie website began to rank extremely well, now there seems to be some issues with the .co.uk website, some of the keywords I was ranking well for top5 for highly competitive keywords have vanished, this is not because of the Google Penguin update it's because Google has messed it up, so I have needed to go with TAG: rel="alternate" hreflang="x" on both websites, however it's still not solved the problem, I think I will need to go for canonical on the .ie website, meaning keywords ranking well in Google.ie will fall away.

Not sure if the above helps.

Hi there,

I run a successful e-commerce website, which the product pages are rich with content linking to other products etc, one of our retailers who sell our products I just noticed copied and pasted the content I have written for these product pages leaving in all the links, which it turn are linking back to my product pages, is this a good thing? or should I make that retailer put in canonical tags?

Thanks for any help

Sorry Peter, my previous reply looks strange, was using the iPad, not sure what happened, anyway, what I meant to say was:

So just to clarify, the homepage of the website would show:

And product page would be:

So just to clarify, the homepage of the website would show: And product page would be:

Just one more question

Example

If this is on a particular product page does it have to be :

Thanks Peter, you have been a great help so far.

I will make these changes and let you know how I get on.

Ah! fantastic.

Have you tried this before? Do you recommend putting this across the whole site?

Another thing I noticed is that when I paste in a first paragraph from a co.uk webpage into Google.co.uk it's the .ie webpage that appears, however on another webpage on the .co.uk website it's the .co.uk webpage that appears in Google.co.uk, hope that makes sense? what I would say is that the page in question that is not ranked, if I paste the URL into Google.co.uk it still appears.

Hi Peter,

The .ie website is not shown in the google.co.uk for the target keyphrase, however what I did in google.co.uk was I pasted the first paragraph of the page which was ranked on page 1 for that target keyphrase and it's the .ie website that appears, .co.uk website is not where to be seen.

I have been doing some link building, however nothing excessive, and on authority websites, industry specific, I just don't feel it could be this so the only thing left is that this webpage has been penalized for duplicate content even though the .co.uk page has been indexed before the .ie webpage.

The strange thing is, I am still ranking really well, top 5 for about 30 or so keywords, very competitive keywords at that, so why would Google just be penalizing that specific webpage in question and not others, arrrrrrggggghhhhh, this is really getting to me.

Do you recommend that I place this code on the .ie webpage:

Pointing to the .co.uk website?

Hi Donnie,

If I use a rel='canonical' on the .ie webpage, is this not telling Google that you do not want this page to rank?

I don't want to use a rel='canonical" as I want the .ie website to rank well for all keywords in Google.ie and at the moment this seems to be the case.

Yes, maybe the .pdf was always there.

All optimization tests have been done, this was all done before pages went live.

Changes were made first & foremost for the user, and from the results I gave you, this is clearly proven a success.

It was the main body of the text and structure that was changed, header tags etc all remained the same.

I checked Bing, and the URL in question is still on page 1 for the keyword.

Hi Donnie,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, it was ranked no.5 and now it's gone and replaced with the .pdf in pos.68 for that phrase.

I have re-written this page and pages related to this page. What I have seen in Analytics when I have made these changes, is that bounce rate has improved from 70% to 30%, Avg time on site has increase by 2 minutes and page views has also increased, so from the user experience it has worked as I imagined, with Google not.

I have checked Google webmaster tools, no messages.

Hi SEOmoz fans,

Hang on a minute, I sound like Rand, watching to many WBF's.

Ok let me start, I am currently doing all the marketing for a website which has both .co.uk & .ie due to legal reasons, the website and .co.uk & .ie have all the same content and even when I am writing new pages, which is on a regular basis I make sure both are being updated, anyway after all the research there should not be an issue with this (duplicate content) as Google recognizes that it's the same domain etc, however I was really ranking well for a specific keyword no.5 , very competitive now the page being ranked for that keyword is a .pdf in the site but is ranked no.68.

Now, I thought this is very strange as you can imagine, I never do any black hit linkbuilding or anything like that, that's a NO NO for me, anyway i put the URL which was ranking well in Google into the Google search box, and yes it appeared, so no sign the URL has been banned, however when I paste in the first few paragraphs of that page which was ranking well in Google.co.uk into the Google search box it's the .ie website which appears not the .co.uk

Can anyone help me out, advice etc

Kind Regards