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When it comes to malware , if I have a site that uses iframe to show content off 3rd party sites which at times gets infected. Would you recommend 404 or 503 ing those pages with the iframe till the issue is resolved ? ( I am inclined to use 503 .. )

Then take the 404/503 off and ask for a reindex ( from GWT malware section )

OR

Ask for a reindex as soon as the 404/503 goes up. ( I do understand we are asking to index as non existing page , but the malware warning gets removed )

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PS : it makes sense for this business to showcase content using iframe on these special pages . I do understand these are not the best way to go about SEO.

Not quite , Rel Next and Prev are meta tags that goes in the head of those individual pages. With the correct implementation google can identify the content as a part of the series .

With duplicate page title issue you could also programatically add Page 2 / Page 3 ? etc towards the end of the title ( In my understanding ... if you implement Rel Prev Next ( correctly ) Google will not have an issue with Duplicate Title / Description on those Pages )

I dont have much experience with any of them , so cant personally recommend one over the other. That said I think wpmu plugin comes with support , so if you are already using that why not reach out to support and ask them whats the best way to resolve your issue ?

No don't noindex subpages, instead use Rel Prev and Rel Next ( http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html ) to deal with paginated content.

There are a few options on Wordpress

• http://wordpress.org/plugins/cm-answers/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/pubble-social-qa/

And some paid one on CodeCanyon or WPMU

• http://codecanyon.net/item/uwebic-qa/4017646
• http://codecanyon.net/item/sabaidiscuss-for-wordpress/3455723
• http://codecanyon.net/item/wpd-qa/2907671
• http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/qa-wordpress-questions-and-answers-plugin/

If they are both about the same topic then a sitewide link could help, if not you might want to consider adding a post that talks about your industry with a well place link.

You could try and exact match query search ( using " ) and try individually contacting all parties , if that does not sound like a feasible option you might want to consider using the link disavow tool

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

Since you have consolidated the content and pasted it altogether on a single page who not 301 the old pages to the new consolidated page which has got all the content from the old ones ?

If you can answer NO to all these then I would suggest doing a 301

• Can a user land on the old page and get any information he/she would not have received  from the new page?
• Can you think of any reason why the user would want to see the old page ( as opposed to the new one ) ?

User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile

Disallow: /m

would't that statement prevent Googlebot-Mobile from crawling the mobile pages ? Why would you want to do that ?

I seriously doubt the issue is with WP. perhaps a plugin might be conflicting with how the page is rendered. Make sure you have a database and file backup. You could FTP in and rename the plugins folder to _plugins ( this will disable all plugins )  and check if the issue persists. Rename the folder back to plugins once you finish testing it.

NOTE : with some plugins you will have to manually go in a enable and configure them after you do this.

I agree with David

1. By default WP outbound links are follow links - u can use plugins to change that behaviour

2. There is no point having rel=canonical on 404 pages , since the search engine spiders won't crawl them

I have had good experience with using http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ for my redirection issues , you can try that . If you are not familiar with wordpress get someone who knows their way around wordpress to give you a hand

Your permalinks looks really weird http://www.yourinstrument.com.au/blog/**index.php**/**2013/06**/gigging-musicians-guide-principals-professionalism/ with index.php in between the domain and the post title. I have seen that come up on IIS servers. You can read this for more info on how to avoid that http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks . It's also a good idea to get rid of the date from the url .

I would seriously consider hiring someone to have a look over how things are setup on the site.

When it comes to subdomain vs subfolder, SEO's usually prefer to go subfolder. But if it's easy and financially suitable to go that way I would say go for subfolder. In this day and age the SEO impact is minute ( if any )

Matt Cutts's view ( Oct 2012 ) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_MswMYk05tk

I would start by adding a higher priority for http://www.candygalaxy.com/bit-o-honey/ in your sitemap.

You use an H3 for the tile on http://www.candygalaxy.com/bit-o-honey/ , while http://www.candygalaxy.com/bit-o-honey-bulk/#.UcOrvj4smF4 and http://www.candygalaxy.com/brands/Bit%252dO%252dHoney.html has an H1. I would also change that

Set up authorship for your content. ( http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/authorship/index.html ) .

You can ask the 3rd part site to remove it ( which will most likely be a waste of time ), DMCA takedown notice , getting google to de-index the content ( https://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1114905&page=ts.cs ) , etc

I assume you are already nofollowing those links .

Is the referral links appearing in the trackback section ( or something similar ). What kind of CMS do you run , perhaps there is a way to blacklist certain domains . ( On wordpress http://akismet.com/ does a pretty good job on the comment and trackback front for me )

I run a blog and the sitemaps index the post,categories,tags and pages. Without seeing the actual site , I dont think I can offer much valuable advice , but generally speaking

With categories and tags I make sure to add a onpage description , this way they are not just a list of posts. I am also very careful when adding categories and tag , I dont want to have a lot of duplicate content around them ( I am still in the process of cleaning up the tags after I went a little wild with them )

Wouldn't it be better if you rel prev next paginated content : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

The page can have warning and errors , the meta tag of noindex : keeps it out of the search result index and nofollow: tells the bots not to follow the links on the page

It would be good to keep the existing url structure if you rank well.

Word of caution while using plugins : If you are using pages on wordpress .html extension at the end should be ok but if you are using the blog element and categorising and tagging content . It would be a good idea to check if the category pages and tag pages look ok. At times they might end in a / ( depending on how its setup ) and if you force to add .html at the end it might look odd

EG :

example.com/category/name/.html

example.com/tag/tagname/.html