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Usually it takes a while for the PR update to propagate through.

if you add the meta noindex, follow tag , it will keep the page out of the SERP but allows pagerank to flow through them to other pages.

See this interview of Matt Cutts for more info : http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml

Just a FYI , Big G recommends responsive web design when it comes to mobile pages

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/recommendations-for-building-smartphone.html

so if you have an in house developer you might want to go down that road.

Try Camtasia Studio .. they also have a free tool tool ( looks like it's no longer free ) called Snagit or something like that that will create swf files with watermark.

I think you might just need to wait it out. But you can always help they by using " Fetch as Google " from Google Webmaster tools

Hi Nola504

301 redirect is certainly NOT your solution .. if you 301 redirect www.url.com/index.php?P_SOURCE=WBFQ to your homepage , that is the page visitors will be redirected to ( the ?P_SOURCE=WBFQ will be stripped off , I dont think that is what you want )

Rel canonical will tell Google , thay are all the same page with the same content and it will only show the main url that you nominate as the  Canonical url ( in most cases , I have read about some study which claims at times google might decide for itself which is the better page )

Moreinfo http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

its probably better to use meta robots tag to noindex,follow  the tag pages if they are already indexed.

These might be worth reading

• https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710?hl=en
• http://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt

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since you are using WordPress, the plugin  Lesley mentioned https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/ should help.

Hi  William

If the pages in question are

1. already indexed by Google then if you block them via the robots.txt , they will show up in search result but the meta description will say something along the lines of

A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more.

2) not indexed by Google for example on a new site , they don't follow it and the pages does not come up in search directly BUT if some external sites link to the pages then they can still come up in the SERP some time down the track.

Your best bet to keep the page out of the public SERP index is the meta robots tag : http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html

There lies the problem , best to manual add the admin folder and other folder you dont want spiders accessing in there

This should help : http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

Not a Moz staff but here is my 2 cents on the topic :

I don't think Google indexes those results in the SERP site:feeds.feedburner.com . As such I am inclined to believe they carry little to no weight from an SEO point of view.

Ideally you would want to show review stars on a stand alone review / testimonial page and not on all pages of the site.

You can use some of the tools here to personalize content on your landing page, that said Google will try and rank you for the content it sees when they crawl the site. You can try and see what they see using The Fetch as Google tool from Search Console.

Targeting Monkey

The results you see might no be realtime data . Got a link to it ?

If you made the change recently you might need to wait till Roger ( MozBot ) catches up to it.

Heavens No !!

That would be when your landing page targets those keywords so if you have,  ...com/green-screen-home.html as one of the internal page and target that keyword " Green Screen Home" that advice would apply.

IF you have optimized your homepage for " Green Screen " by other ways like having relavant unique content on there and getting editorial back links to that page , then you should be ok.Remember the advice given there are guidelines and don't always apply ( an excellent example is in your case )

You could also look at targeting the keywords on its own landing pages instead of trying to get you keywords with generic pages like About us and Pricing.

One big advice you should take away from that guide is " Make your pages for visitors and not Search Engines " . If you went to a website and went in to the pricing page would you

• want to read about " Green Screen Photography"
• would you be ok to see the pricing page look like com/green-screen-photography-pricing.html

I would assume NO, I go to pricing page I am happy to see the pricing packages on offer , perhaps a table outlining the difference between the various products on offer , etc

Hope this helps

Keri stole my answer .. Just Kidding

You might want to read up on these topics

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content

Yoast is pretty good but the last update seems to have stuffed up some sitemaps and stripping out the categories from url seems to create some issues as well. ( there could be an update soon that fixes those ) So just be careful of those thing when you have a 3rd party plugin to handle your onpage SEO .

you mobile site resides on  mobile.dudamobile.com/site/...... So if any one searches on a mobile site google will try and serve mobile optimised pages . Even if your desktop site ranks for your chosen keywords ( the mobile site might not , especially if they have no tile and meta description like you said )

Google will be focusing a lot more on that in the future : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/changes-in-rankings-of-smartphone_11.html

Hi

I can't imagine having a single page with all the job listing ( as you put it you have 1000s of job posts ) that offers any value to visitors.

You can use Rel Prev Next ( http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html ) to avoid duplicate issue with paginated Content. Assuming you have a valid xml sitemap that you have submitted on GWT, google should be able to crawl all the content you have linked to from there ( assuming there are no other technical issues like a block in robots.txt or a meta noindex on the page , etc ) .

If you can add the link here , some of us might be able to have a quick look at it.

EDIT :

Assuming you are talking about the Australian version of the site on your profile. The robots.txt states

User-agent: *
Allow: /

I dont think Allow is a valid statement. If you want the bots to access all section of the site I would suggest you change that to

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Another Issue . Your sitemap is passing all urls through the

There are a few things you could do. ( NOT that I recommend you do that )

1. Use a plugin that cuts of the title after roughly 69 characters ( http://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-a-post-title-to-x-characters/ )

2. You could eliminate the Brand Name in the Title .. if its automatically appended ( perhaps that is what causes the title to go over 70 characters )

BUT what I would recommend is export out the list of pages that has title over 70 characters  and write proper  titles for them, its the best option BUT as you can imagine its not going to an easy task. I guess NO Pain NO Gain resonates well here. I would do this for the important pages first and slowly work at them over time.

Since www.thedomain.com is the canonical version. I would link to http://www.thedomain.com from the other pages.