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Hi,

I think you have seen your cache date it is 23 aug, it is normal don't worry about it. My site also last cache on 24th aug. You can see your site in SERP it is indexed. If you have done any changes in URLs then you can resubmit your sitemap.

Hi,

This is normal that Google doesn't shows traffic data some times it was also happen with me i lost my search query and backlinks data but after sometimes Google shows all data. Have you receive unnatural link removal message from Google? Google changed it's policy now if it found more links from home page then it can be penalize your site. Google remove low quality links so it may be a reason. So don't be panic see your analytic traffic is it normal ?

Hi Deb... I have nice blogpost from seomoz blog for you written by Lindsey in which she has explained it very nicely about it.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/serious-robotstxt-misuse-high-impact-solutions

In this post check the example of digg.com. Digg.com has blocked "submit" in robots.txt but still Google has indexed URLs. Check screenshot in the Blog post. Hope this help.

Deb, even if you block those URLs in Robots.txt, Google will going to index those URLs because those URLs are interlink with website. The best way is to put canonical tag so that you will get inter linking benefits as well.

Fraser,

Till now they have not implemented Canonicalization in your website. After Canonicalization implementation also you will duplication errors in your webmaster account but it will not harm your ranking. Because Canonicalization helps Google in selecting the page from multiple version of similar page that has to displayed in SERP. In above example, First URL is the original URL but the second URL has some parameters in URLs so your preferred version of URL should be first one. After proper Canonicalization implementation you will only see URLs that you have submitted in your sitemap via Google Webmaster Tool.

And about two webmaster codes, I don't think we have setup two separate accounts, you can provide view or admin access from your webmaster account to them.

Hi Fraser,

Are you talking about towelsrus.co.uk ? I didn't find any canonical tag in any source page of your website. Are they sure about implementation ? or they will implement it in future. And one more interesting point, why there are two webmaster code in your website's source page. Below are those to webmaster codes:

<meta name="<a class="attribute-value">google-site-verification</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">BJ6cDrRRB2iS4fMx2zkZTouKTPTpECs2tw-3OAvIgh4</a>" />

<meta name="<a class="attribute-value">google-site-verification</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">SjaHRLJh00aeQY9xJ81lorL_07UXcCDFgDFgG8lBqCk</a>" />

Have you blocked querystring parameters in "URL parameters" in Google webmaster 

Tools ?

Duplication issue is showing because of below type of URLs:

http://www.towelsrus.co.uk/towels/baby-towels/prodlist_ct493.htm

http://www.towelsrus.co.uk/towels/baby-towels/prodlist_ct493.htm?dir=1&size=100

No canonical tag found on above URLs as well.

When I used to do that for my client charge monthly fix cost as well as commission. At that time( 1.5 year ago) I charge them 10% of Spent + commission( on sales or lead) .

Thanks for providing URLs,

Ganesh I have reviewed your website as well as your friends website using SEOMoz tool as well ahrefs.com website. Your website profile is far stronger than your friends, my advice is to wait for next page rank update. As far as current profile is concern, you will bit your friends website in terms of pagerank in next update. Best of Luck for next Pagerank Update.

Hi Nash,

I have checked your ranking. Currently  your home page is  on 40th position for "sell my car Houston" so my advice is to build some quality backlinks for inner page. Apart from it, I have check you are listed locally in Houston you have 3 Google reviews also, try to get more reviews from customers it will help you in ranking locally.

Hi Semil,

Actually its totally depends on industry ( website theme ) for which you are doing banner advertisement. Most of the people do banner advertisement for branding not for direct conversion. I think you should go with monthly basis fix cost because I don't think you will get that much conversion from banner advertisement. Is it possible for you to share client website ?

Note: You can use Buysellads.com for finding niche website for placing banner. They have organised all sites category wise with page rank and traffic.

Hi Ganesh,

Can you send me both URLs for analysis your blogs ranking?? Page rank is still very important factors in SEO because it is the majors your inbound links to your website. You can increase your Page Rank by increasing link juice and DoFollow backlinks. You can use SEOMoz tool for checking backlinks of your competitors and yours, quality links are very important for the increasing Page Rank.

Which tool you are using for majoring your friends website's backlinks and social profile (shares) ?

Hi,

301 redirect is best solution of your question because with 301 you can transfer your all traffic and bcaklinks to your preferred domain. You can check your domain in open site explorer and redirect domain which contain less backlinks. After redirecting you also set a preferred domain in webmaster tool for displaying your domain into SERP. Redesigning of website is really good because it gives Google fresh content of your site you can update content regularly.

Hi,

If you have multiple product pages of same products with different languages then you can set Rel canonical for the preventing duplicate title description error. It is best solution for multilingual websites.

Hi Arthur, I have checked your landing page I don't find any reviews on that page. You are displaying reviews from prigrabber.com. Is it happening because of that. I am not sure about that. But for the same keyword I have checked landing page of bhphotovideo.com, Google displaying the reviews in SERP, they have reviews on there landing page.

Dr Pete has written nice post on it :

Hope this help you out:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/which-page-is-canonical

Hi Gary,

One Suggestion: Canonical tag can't be used cross domain. I have checked "hot flushes" landing page and find canonical tag for co.uk site. Canonical tag can be used within the domain.

Hi,

I have open your site in my chrome and Firefox both browsers both shows same result, it open with this http://www.avogel.ie/health/menopause/hot-flushes/  if i searched your site 'hot flushes'  so don't worry about that.

Hi,

If you want ranking in  UK the you can use .co.uk domain and also set GEO target in Webmaster tool. It is good practice to increase visitors and ranking in UK.  Do link building which have UK as their Geo location. .ORG domain is also an authority domain but as per my view .co.uk is best selection.

Hi,

If you want to increase your domain authority and page authority then you have to increase links to your website if you have good amount of do follow links then it will help you more. Content is a king if you produce ethical and informative content then it is good for increasing page and domain authority but content should be link worthy.  Increase your social presence and promote your blogs and  root domain through social networking sites. Guest blogging is also very good for you. Build a penguin friendly links then you can surely increase DA and PA.  Read this link for more information:  http://www.quicksprout.com/2012/06/18/a-cheat-sheet-for-building-high-ranking-authority-without-cheating/

No harm in using meta keyword tag from Google's point of view. There are other search engines apart from Google who still consider meta tag signal in ranking. **Google is not only the traffic source.  **