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the reality is slightly different to what i've said, basically the system causes the creation of cat-a/abc not being in cat-b in most cases but rather /featured/abc and /detail/abc or something like that ... we cant restructure the system as it runs on magento and basically that is how it does it. I have deindexed a few bits but i dont think the way it is set up is of great concern to be honest. the concerning bit is more that if moz cant detect that this isnt technically a dupe is it the same for other systems and therefore are others and myself hitting false negative responses for some reason?

if so how do we enable this - we've an average size site with a few hundred products but they appear in multiple categories, canonical url points to it's primary category (but a new page exists for each section... so for /cat-a/abc there will be another page cat-b/abc and again but the canonical points to cat-a always for that product) basically I see this kind of duplication error / notice as a false positive... help me

cache is in the little drop down to the right of the url in searches (usually).

Theres no way to force google to go and reindex the page in full, if its been 6 months and they are still definitely the cause of problems disavow them - whilst not the ideal solution at this point in time it can work. but i advise only doing it if it definitely that site or set of sites causing you issues. you may find google is ignoring those links now but the index just hasnt been updated. Also there is no telling how out of date sections of GWT are.

not that i know of, would be a cool feature though. So pop over to feature request section and let Moz know

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-Moz-Feature-Requests

There are two solutions, one which is canoncialisation pointing to the correct location, the other (which i prefer for this kind of thing) is to implement 301 redirects from the shorter url.

I think that is ideal because you are saying it's easier to tell people to go to that location, thats fine and great, but we want search to hit the real page - so therefore the second / landing page doesn't need to exist ... just redirect it and avoid confusion.

hope that makes sense

assuming you are talking about a custom url here, you need 200 moz points for the nofollow to be removed from your first cusom link - however i think you are saying its not even showing up... try putting in say google.com and see what happens. it is possible that something has gone amis in the melay of changing interfaces - send moz a tweet and ask for help if you are still stuck @moz

do the links still show in OSE and majestic?

GWT can take 6 months to show a drop of links in my experience, and sometimes longer - it basically will only show it once its revisited the site to makesure the page or link doesn't exist. This means if you are one of say a million links on the page it will take a long time to get reindexed because its huge and likely to be low value - but that link wont disappear until its been reindexed or disavow has been accepted for that page.

Have you spotted any dropping links at all?

As tom suggests, it won't be easy. I've a number of clients with this kind of multi-category set up (one is 5 layers deep!) and its really hard to get juice down to those levels consistently.

For example if you've a product 2 layers deep it seems to be twice as easy for it to gain traction as if it were 4 layers down. This isn't to say it can't be done, it can, but put simply it means you have to really push links at it externally and in social.

Also it sounds like you would benefit from splitting your sitemap by category to that you can focus some attention within sitemaps to these pages rather than have it be one of ten thousand entries.

Basically a 301 redirect is the best option, if you are literally moving a whole domain and the urls will stay the same (save for the domain name) you can use the below

 <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$
  RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule> 

Thats assuming you are running apache.

most obvious thing is that they tend to link to one another heavily. use open site explorer to check the major links going through and see if one domain points to the others you are thinking about and then check the others.

also check their code and see if they are doing anything funny, like cloaking information - another common blog entwork trick

I think what we are all trying to say is... as always with SEO ...

Quality Trumps Quantity

hang on Cody... things not to do "write something readable" .... i think you've mixed two lists into one!

in my experience, and i've a fair bit with WP, the majority of malware comes from plugins which get updated and become infected themselves. Wordfence certainly can help with this problem, but a regular securi scan will too.

My advice is deactivate and uninstall any plugins you don't really need or use - this will make the site faster and more secure.

Once the malware has gone you can do as you have and ask for relisting or wait it out, google will come back and check. Manual reviews will take a few days to come back I believe, though it depends on the nature of the malware - if its believed to be complex it will be manual if its just one file being "naughty" a robot may scan your site to take a look that it's gone and it could be up in 24-48 hours.

Tom's point is spot on.

Syndication is a great traffic driver, no doubt - but it also means that the content usually worth a little less. Also implementing the canonical tag can be away around this but it will mean that the "copy" of the content will never get a chance to rank, though it will still drive some traffic.

The answer is always original content across the board - if you must repost on your own website use the canonical to point to the other site - show the love.

off topic: i was once asked "if i add a picture of a cute cat to any post would it become unique content?" ... answers on a post card to "sill questions here"

this depends on the size and nature of your site. For instance if you've lots of posts about a topic within your site (say "social media" or "email marketing") it is best to have them as a category and your post title to follow. Otherwise you could have issues in that you end up needing to put "email-marketing" in each post url ... which isn't pretty to do manually

Whilst some of it is better than it was, the way it deals with pages is still flawed.

For example most pages are using the url format .au/#!chauffeur-hire-perth/c1ay9

#! is a "hashbang" it means it's being dealt / served through javascript and as such isn't readable via search engines - in addition to this all pages have a canonical of the homepage and so would never rank anyhow...

As much as it may not be what you want to hear, its never likely to rank well - i certainly don't forsee it ever ranking in the top 3... sorry

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Being transparent: I have never been one to support the likes of WIX or others of a similar nature. The templates they use are built to cover so many bases that it will never really please anyone completely. Also the way in particular WIX deals with pages is concerning in particular - others do it too i should add.

sorry to be the messenger of bad news.

most obvious thing is that they tend to link to one another heavily. use open site explorer to check the major links going through and see if one domain points to the others you are thinking about and then check the others.

also check their code and see if they are doing anything funny, like cloaking information - another common blog entwork trick

Personally I would say get rid of the bad links first, this is usually what Google clamps down on, a lot of internal links on your homepage isn't great, but isn't something I think Google would penalise for, rather they would just no rank you very highly in the first place.

Like I said, get rid of the links, see if that solves anything, if not, dig a bit deeper but priority would be the bad links.

only you can really test the position out, for different ads the conversion rate will change as for keywords i think.

You'd be best to check every 24 hours i would think rather than wait a few days - especially if you are paying more.

not necessarily, overall good rank factors would mean that semantically you end up in the same place - you maybe the best at your term but they are best at relating to that term (if that makes sense)