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Ok, well in wordress you can access the HTML by going to Appearance>editor and you will see the options on the right hand side. However do you use any SEO plugins such as Yoast?

You appear to have aquired an aweful lot of links in a very short time. A look on Majestic SEO is telling me you have gained 28000 in the last 90 days, how have you been going about link building?

The canonical tag is a Meta tag in the head section of your page HTML, If you have access to this you just need to go in and remove that line of code. If you do not you will need to tell your webdeveloper which pages these appear on so that they can go in and remove them.

The following link is to Googles guidelines on the use of the canonical tag.

If you would like more specific guidance if you pop down an example URL myself or someone else will be able to take a look for you.

Hope this helps.

I am afraid i don’t know the detailed ins and outs of SEOMozs products, however we have some paginated pages on one of our sites. Our crawl reports are not showing errors for duplicate page titles and they are detailed in the notices section as canonical.

This implies to me that the crawl reports do ignore correctly formatted canonical tags. Perhaps you could download the error list and the list of discovered canonical tags and compare the two to confirm. Alternately try crawling the site with other tools, the one i would recommend is Screaming Frog as this will allow you to filter canonical tags in the reports, and do it for free.

If you have only recently noticed them then i guess they are fairly new and exploiting their honeymoon preiod with search engines. As Irving says I am sure they will be penalised soon.

We work with a brand that operates within the UK Payday Loan sector and we see spam sites being created on a daily and hourly basis. Using several illegal methods to get links they tend to gain top rankings for a few days / a week before Google gets on top of them.

If you want to try and raise these to Googles attention prior to this you could file a spam report through Webmaster tools.

Very interesting question, but no i do not believe they do. This article was released at the time, third paragraph down states:

"Furthermore, there will be absolutely no sharing of customer information (customer data, keywords, bid prices, click prices, click ratios, etc.) or marketing information."

Hope you find this of use.

Hi all,

We are currently rebuilding a site using responsive design, however i have just had a thought. On another site where we have a mobile site under a sub-directory we utilise mobile tracking codes as we found that this was far more accurate for recording visits.

On a responsive design site evidently all pages, desktop and mobile, will be under the same URL, yet the content will adjust to the screen size of the device. Should we also change the tracking code to be mobile code on the lower resolutions or would the same code be sufficient?

Hi,

Sonds like the issue you are describing is one of Pagination. There are several ways you can remedy this with Meta tags.

If all your pages are very similar and you only want one version of these pages to rank then you can use the Rel=Cannonical meta tag to signal to search engines that these pages are the same as your root page and to attribute all SEO benifit to this page.

So if you have www.mypage.co.uk/producta/page=2, /page=3, /page=4 etc you can place the following meta tag within the Head section of the Pages HTML

<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="www.mypage.co.uk/producta/"/>

Users however will still see the paginated version. More information on this tag can be found here and here.

An alternate would be to let Search engines know that pages are part of the same list by using the rel=next and rel=previous meta tags. These are slightly more complicated to put in place but signify that from /producta the 'rel=next' page is /producta/page=2. And on that page you would state the next page is /page=3 and 'rel=previous' is /producta/ etc. This only really works for lists though and if you have many sorting options can get messy, in which case i would use cannonical. Again more information on this meta tag can be found here.

Hope this helps you out.

Thank you both for your responses, it appears to validate my own thoughts. I will get onto our internal development team who have taken over control of the site to see if we can remedy this.

@ Boss & Arrighi thank you for the additional information on the Rel Author implementation. We spent a lot of time thinking about the merits of the two but in the end we decided to go for the brand reinforcement. However some of our other brands will be using Rel Author once their blogs are up and running.

Hi,We have had Rel=publisher implemented on our Blog for sometime, and in the Rich Snippets for our Brand name i can see data and some of our latest news articles do appear. I am not convinced the Meta tag has been implemented correctly however and would appreciate a second opinion.

The code we have is as follows:

<div class="<a class="attribute-value">g-plusone</a>" data-href="<a class="attribute-value">https://plus.google.com/116305698538579695036/posts?hl=en-GB</a>" rel="<a class="attribute-value">publisher</a>">div>

Looking around its recomended to add this as a link element, and the page we do link to is the comment section not the home page that would end after our company ID. Now i dont know HTML (Something i really need to remedy) but would this be an issue? The Rich snippet testing tool also does not recognise the code on the blog pages.

I forgot to include, keywords do not need to be exclusive to an individual page, they can be targeted on multiple pages, but having the specific landing page will likely be the most effective area on the site for concentrated on-page SEO tactics.

I would also agree with Baldea and David here, be careful not to Keyword stuff the Home page.

You can include your desired terms within elements of the page if they are relevant / to help the home page rank for those terms, but a product specific page is always going to give you the most scope to target all page elements effectively.

The Page title is only one element, SEOmoz's on page optimisation tool should be useful for you in working out how effectively you are targeting the phrase and what trade-offs are available to you.

We have found answers to this:

Nice Q&A article on SEOMoz . Also a whiteboard Friday on cross domain canonical tags, in fact there’s some research they sight by Tony Adams that reckons this is even faster and more effective than a traditional 301.

Hello,

We've had experience with canonical tags for various domains before, such as tidying up product categories etc...

However, can anyone point me to any guidelines about different domains using canonicalisation. For example:

If I had the following sites, all with identical content -

• exampledomain.com
• completelydifferentdomain.net
• anothertotallydifferentdomain.com

With canonical tags pointing to the first one (exampledomain.com), could this be harmful?

Is it better to 301 redirect the other sites?

Thanks

Hey everyone,

Our site was hit with an unnatural link penalty a few weeks ago, and it looks very much like a malicious link attack.

We've never participated in any link schemes or anything resembling black hat link building. In fact, we've barely even done any link building.

Reviewing our backlink profile, there are hundreds of links from just a few (very dodgy) domains that we have no control over, and we've have had no luck when contacting webmasters to get them removed.

More importantly, we've seen several domains which 301 redirect straight to our domain. We don't know who they are and they're not contactable. I believe that the redirect means they're passing link value from all of their terrible links to us?

How can we get the redirects removed, as at worst they're really harming us, and at best, they're adding no value.

Thanks

Thanks for your help both.

We have not heard anything from Webmaster tools no. We are investigating several lines and for one of them have just reviewed our link profile. we seem to have picked up alot of spammy links over the last month your correct. we are currently trying to asses the scale of this to see if we have been a victim of google bowling.

Ok, we have been looking more into this, and we now believe we have been given a -50 point penalty by Google, yet we still have no idea why in order to apply for a reinclusion request.

Would appreciate it if anyone with greater experience of SEO can see why this may be, again as far as we can see, we have not done anything against Googles guidelines.

We have come in this morning to find our site (paydayuk.co.uk) has suddenly disappeared from their SERPs, we have consistently been ranking in the top 5 for a wide range of search terms but now do not even appear for our brand name of Payday UK where we have been first for many months.

Our site is still indexed and we have made no changes for a while as any SEO work is waiting on completion of a CMS system. Looking in https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!categories/webmasters/crawling-indexing--ranking and there seem to be a lot of people having the same issues but as of yet no answers. I'd also like to add we don’t use black hat techniques so we really don’t understand why we have been penalised.

Can anyone help please?