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Analyze Page, within the SEOmoz tool bar, offers an HTML text character count. This isn't scalable in the way you describe though. I also checked a desktop crawling tool that I use, Screaming Frog, but it doesn't provide that feature. Sorry.

Thanks, Wayne, I never thought about link juice flowing to those pages, I'll have to check that out before making a decision. All the pages I want to remove are in the same directory, so would adding the text below to robots.txt remove all the pages in that directory from the index? User-agent: * Disallow: /directory/

thanks for your answer guys! Sean, I do whatever is neccesary to get the .edu.. at least anything that isn't against the google guidelines!

Thanks Svet!

You can test the robots.txt file in Google Webmaster tools. It's under "Crawler access" in the "Site Configuration" section. Input the robots.txt content and the directories you want to test and it will give you feedback on the status.

Ensure there are no re-writes active that may forward traffic from /fred/ to /fred-review/ and you should be good.

Thanks everyone!

I agree with the comments already presented. Many slow sites are that way because of how they are implemented. There are many free tools to help. Two tools that I use regularly when developing a site are YSlow and Firebug. Both are Firefox plug-ins that provide a great deal of information on the performance of a site.

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I'll definately nofollow the affiliate link right away. I'd not though about absolute position, that sounds like a great work around! Do you think thats the best way to do it?

Again, great resources, Daniel.  The first link provides some empirical evidence that ajax based links do get interpreted.  SEOmofo had a nice recommendation that should stop google from indexing your JS if need be.  He basically said put your JS in an external file that you disallow in robots.txt. From your second link The search appliance only executes scripts embedded inside a document. The search appliance does not support: DOM tracking to support calls, such as document.getElementById External scripts execution AJAX execution Not exactly sure what "AJAX execution" means.  However, if it means downloading JSON or JS and evaluating it that makes sense.  Perhaps not external JS gets executed by google? The third link discusses the "agreement" you can make with a crawler if you have an ajax based site using hash bang urls.  Not super relevant for me but good to know so thanks!

thanks everyone, very helpful indeed!

Thanks for the reply Frank. I thought there wern't any videos when I first looked, thanks for clearing that up I'll go and watch the videos now.

yeah, that was the question Thanks for your answer

Here's a quote by Tompt from one of my posts The last thing I read about nofollows essentially said that if you nofollow a link it doesn't boost the juice going to the rest of the page, the juice is still essentially "used". Here's theSEOmoz blog post about it. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google... It is from 2009 but one of the mozzers did link to it recenty when asked about nofollows so I would imagine it's still valid. -- Google invests millions into it's algorithm. If you're posting actual useful, relevant stuff which doesn't set off too many spam flags - It'll notice.

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