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try going to to Bing and Google WMT and try to fetch the site and see if their spiders has any issues. Usually they will tell you want the problem is.

As a general rule , if the content is the same then it most likely is duplicate. Might be worth plugging the site url in to copyscape to see how similar they are.

Also You usually get a warning in GWT if Google sees your content as duplicate .

I agree with the statement about the 1st one too but what if it were a choice between these two ?

Fish oils may raise prostate cancer risks, study confirms

**vs **

Fish Oils may raise Prostate Cancer risks, Study Confirms

Hi Chris

I see what you did there and I am certainly against using it that way.

I was think more along the lines of

The answer Is easy enough--do an A/B Test on some of your pages and see what Result You Get.  I'd love to know Your Results.

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

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.

If you are sending Facebook and Twitter Trafic to these pages try and use Facebook OpenGraph and Twitter Cards

Hey Guys

I am wondering if any of you have done any study or testing on this ( or perhaps you might have come across one at some point in your career )

Personally I feel that while adding a description , it makes sense to Capitalize the Keywords and other words ( first letter only ) that I want to emphasise on ( perhaps stuff like Buy, High Quality, Best, etc ) . I want to pick your brains on this and see what you guys think about it. I have not tested the effects on CTR yet .. if someone else has then it will be a good resource for me to go through. ( and if no one else has done any relevant study I might do it at some stage ).

Regards

Saijo

thanks for confirming that

Thanks mate.

Personally I would 301 the tag page "Products Tagged 'Knicks'" to the "New York Knicks Shirts" collections page . The only issue I can think of is that , will the collections be updated over time to add all the new items that might be potentially tagged as Knicks ?

So perhaps it might be better to keep the tag page for Knicks as the go to page for " Knicks TShirts ". You can edit the tag template to add custom banners and descriptions and I would also change the h1 tag on the tag page to say something more relevant than just " PRODUCTS "

I am sure if you searched for " ~images -images" before Google decided to drop the ~ operator , pictures would have come up as an alternate keyword and so, they would have seen it as a close match for pictures and served your site for your query.

It was one of my fav tool for finding alternate keywords to optimise for , sadly that is gone now

As for on page vs off page both are important .. it not an "either or" condition you should do both to get good results , especially if the competition is strong.

The Title for that Page is

News & Events - July 2013 - Newman Senior High School - Newman Senior High School is located in the mining town of Newman 1200km North of Perth and is part of the Pilbara region. The school benefits from a diverse cultural student and staff population. This has promoted cultural acceptance of peoples from diverse backgrounds enriching the school community.

and for individual pages like : http://www.newmanshs.wa.edu.au/news-events/events/07-2013/4/ , http://www.newmanshs.wa.edu.au/news-events/events/07-2013/5/, etc are the same tile gets reused

Events - Newman Senior High School - Newman Senior High School is located in the mining town of Newman 1200km North of Perth and is part of the Pilbara region. The school benefits from a diverse cultural student and staff population. This has promoted cultural acceptance of peoples from diverse backgrounds enriching the school community.

Depending on the CMS you use there might be ways to generate a better title ( best to keep it between 60-69 characters ). You seem to be using something called BamCMS, and you might probably need to get them involved in finding a solution.

Best to ask a staff this , but I am pretty sure Moz does not take canonical into account while scanning for duplicate titles.

If you properly use Rel Prev Next ( http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html ) on paginated content you DONT have to worry about duplicate titles.

You page http://www.solidconcepts.com/industries/aerospace-parts-manufacturing/ says the canonical version is the https version of the page : https://www.solidconcepts.com/industries/aerospace-parts-manufacturing/, but the https version does a 301 to the non https version, so you are sending mixed signals to google.

You could try one of the following listed here https://code.google.com/p/sitemap-generators/wiki/SitemapGenerators

Yes its a good practice to mention your sitemap in robots.txt and dont forget to submit it ( at the very least ) via Google/Bing WebMasterTools

Here is the general advice .

301 all the old urls to the appropriate new urls ( that exists )

For the stuff that you think are not worth moving across ( events or time-sensitive information ) you could redirect all of those individual post that to the category page ( if you have one )

eg:

• old-site.com/event/event-1
• old-site.com/event/event-2
• old-site.com/event/event-3

gets 301 redirected to

new-site.com/event/

would that be a possible solution, if not let us know why and we can look at other alternatives

I know the feeling

Personally I would index comments but have a nofollow attribute to links within the comments. See what sort of tile and description the comments url generate ( you dont want duplicate titles and meta for those )

EDIT:

do you have some sample urls we can look at ?