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maybe better with Yoast SEO - just my experience it tops most other plugins

author = person

publisher = person or place

• to your other question using the authoring "script" is an addon / seo and so would likely improve things in general but not doing it wont mean you get marked down (you just wont be marked up). The other thing to think about is linking to a persons profile ensure they list themselves within G+ as a contributor to your site (this helps activate the profile pics in search and lets google know you site is trustworthy, assuming that person is).

you wouldn't get penalised as such, it would just take a while for them all to be indexed - it maybe more advantageous to spread them over a few days - say 1000 per day such as to even give google a chance.

in GWT ensure you have removed the directory / subdomain from listings / index. (under optimisation > remove urls).

May take a week to kick in but if your 301s are working and robots is in place it will work.

In addition to these ensure you are using canonical tags pointing the the live location not dev.

Having multiple pages targeting the same keywords is not a problem, its quite common. For instance if you have a e-commerce website dealing in fashion clothing for ladies, lots of your pages will target "fashion clothing" or "womens clothing" - thats a little different though to what I think you mean of ... I just want to target "keywords" to two pages and not others - is that right?

If that's correct then as long as both pages naturally lean towards those keywords and phrases you are fine. As with any SEO work don't force the story, don't include the keyword 25 times just because you can - it's not natural.

Hope that helps

You won't have any issues with this. Most SEO's don't use the same account for webmasters and analytics as they do google+, docs or other things. Google can cope just fine with it.

As tom says you can now add users within g+ brand pages and GWT, this is a good way to say these are all connected - you've also been able to do this for a while with analytics.

just because it may or maynot help with search rankigns doesn't mean those links and comments won't drive traffic. if you add a valuable comment to the blog then people are likely to click through from that site to your own, its not just about rankings

I assume that your website curerntly in old.domain was formerly of www. my question is do the 301's you have in place point to old.domain or to the new page within www.domain ?

would be good to get .com/category/name if possible

obviously if you do that becareful about using canonical urls as things may appear in more than one cat

Just looking around your site, the code seems ok - to a large extent.

But you are missing a sitemap (handy to point to all urls) and a robots.txt file

Also just clicking around i don't see 400 pages? is there a subdomain or folder you aren't linking to from the main site?

unless you get a warning from google don't be too hasty about trying to remove them. they may hold little value but they probably aren't doing any harm.

Thats correct.

Ok my suggestion is to 301 your old.domain to your www.domain AND add the whole subdomain old.domain to robots.txt to ban indexing of that subdomain. Once the domain itself is gone from search results delete the files or back them up etc etc...

As for image search as long as you've pointed old urls to new ones you should be fine

either use rel=canonical, its use is just this purpose and saying this is the origin of content.

or if it's not an important page to you add it to robots.txt and remove it from search -

either way it will fix the issue... another could be to look at if you can fix those variables into friendly urls which you can then pull things from for your title for instance... but thats a bit more complex and usually not worth thinking about.

I wouldn't necessarily call it a penalty. It is just that Exact Match Domains have been "turned down" as Matt Cutts put it. It means that Google doesn't pay AS much attention to them as they previously did and yes it may cause ranking drops due to it.

When you talk about moving over to another domain you won't 'carry the penalty' but you might not see any ranking changes because changing domain won't give you back what the EMD used to give.

You might want to look at your backlink profile. I have had experience of people having EMDs but having a poor backlink profile and it has dropped them down the SERPs.

Just be aware though the EMD is NOT a penalty by any means, it just means a ranking signal has changed and you have been affected, so focus on your other ranking signals such as links, on page optimisation etc... and get that improved to improve your rankings.

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?

I think what EGOL means is that switching the domain to your hosting provider means you loose control of certain things within that domain which can be very important to seo. What could be a good compromise here is that you look at putting the shopping cart within a folder on the domain (not a subdomain as this would be a bad move), this means the work you've done on the domain would continue to effect the static info on there and the shop within the folder.

it may not be possible, it depends on your shopping cart provider - if it can't be done then move the domain across and ensure you have redirects in place from old domain links to new ones (eg your about pages redirect).

Hope that helps clear things up

if they are the same content, targetting the same area/country simple 301 one of the domains to the other. don't try to have two sites with the same content in that case.

if they have different content or targets (aka you are tweaking content for other target areas) then seperate is fine, but i suspect its my former suggestion

quite wrong I believe.

you could have a billion products but if they don't have a nice title and good content and the site is a bit garbage you won't rank.

Normal SEO applies

Hi Nico,

before i answer your question, its probably worth noting that if you manipulate your sitemap priorties too much they will be ignored - and should this "over optimisation" penalty occur you will be hit.

it also sounds like you are trying to manipulate "link juice" within the site, usually doing this is a bad idea - my advice is think of the user and not the search engine, even if it worked and you got visitors to your site if they can't find their way around you are in trouble.

your question

Rel canonical only effects duplicate content between your own pages and other sites - implement it if you want it wont have much effect. I think you've got rel=alternative mixed up, it is used to point to things like RSS feeds or copies for PDFs, not previous pages / content.

moving the info site to BC is ok in general.

The reason both EGOL and I recommend having them together and on your own server is that you can control everything (see EGOL's list) and you aren't second guessing the settings on another server which you have no control over. It also means that things like templates can be made much more flexible to meet your exact needs and not just a few of your requirements.

If you can't some how point BC to a folder on your site then moving everything to BC is ok - the other option of course is to set up  a new domain and let it exist in it's own right but you wouldn't get any benefit from that just as you wouldn't from a subdomain.