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Hutch42 - That was my thought as well, so I really appreciate you confirming my thoughts!

I was asked by our IT if switching to a tag management company that removes the pixels from our site and is replaced by a javascript would have a negative impact on SEO.

I have not been able to find anything that discusses this:

Does anyone have experience with this? Has it caused any issues?

Has it caused any issues?

How do crawlers see pixel data, and what do they do with it?

I know this is like beating a dead horse, but thought I would link to Search Metric's 2014 ranking factors study. What is missing in what they see as factors that increase rank is ALT tags on images.

You can see the infographic below, you can also download the 80+ page report which I would highly recommend

http://www.searchmetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/infographic-seo-ranking-factors-2014.jpg

~Cheers

Amen Amelia. I said the same, but not nearly as thorough as you did.

ALT tags are for accessibility, not SEO. Screen readers will look at those tags and read to those that have trouble with seeing the page what the image is.

As long as the ALT tags are accurate representations of what the image is, you should be okay. If you are attempting to stuff keywords into ALT tags and they do not accurately describe what the image is, then you may not receive any benefit and could potentially get some kind of penalty.

We have this problem today. We publish a post, it gets picked up by another site that typically outranks because it is a great blog/site and they outrank us for our own story. They always link back to our original post, but very rarely do they use canonical which would be the preferred method.

Theoretically, Google is supposed to know who the original source for the content is and rank accordingly, but I have seen and continue to see the other sites rank higher. However, I do see as time goes by we eventually start to outrank these sites for our posts.

As a bonus though they are backlinks to the blog.

So in the end, if you are borrowing or syndicating someone else's post, always link back to them as the source, this is best practice and as an example of who does this, news agencies. They will syndicate content from the original on their blog and link back to it.

As for the B post linking to the C post, I would think this could backfire as the content on B is duplicate to both C and A but doesn't give the proper credit to A. It may outrank but over time could be penalized for thin or duplicate content.

It sounds like your boss heard something around using EMD's or exact match domain and that it might help with ranking for those keywords. This was a practice that was used for some time, but in 2012 Google rolled out an EMD update that looks for sites that use EMD's and have poor quality content. http://searchengineland.com/library/google/emd-update

If the content on your main domain is solid, and it matches the new domain, it should be okay to do a 301 to the main (old). However, if the new domain name doesn't match the content of the page you will run the risk of not ranking for that domain.

I would set up query parameters in GWT to tell Google to crawl and index those pages. This would allow for those pages to be indexed and hopefully drive traffic along with the main category pages.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6080548?hl=en&rd=1

The underlying thing is that they are the few sites that are doing it, so in the absence of a better option, Google shows these sites instead. Think of ehow.com or ask.com, they don't provide a great experience to the user, but you will notice on those types of searches, there are not any better options out there.

When I say dynamic, I don't mean it as it is created on the fly. The URL has parameters that the server sees and knows to fetch the corresponding city from the server. I am not 100% positive, but from past experience I am willing to bet there is some kind of auto-fill tag like %CITY% that the server will plug in the city from the URL parameter. The rest of the copy never changes

Example: http://www.travelsite.com/flights-from-boston-to-new-york-bos-to-lga

Copy on page: blah blah blah Boston to New York blah blah blah. If you were to change either of the cities the copy would remain the same but the city would update.

Crawlers will crawl the page after it has loaded, so as long as the "dynamic" content is loaded prior to that the crawler doesn't know any different.

If my memory serves pages only need to be 5-10% different in copy to not be counted as duplicate content. So if your title, H1 and a few words in the sentence and some links are different that just about does it.

Now this doesn't make it a great user experience and as StreamMarket stated below, eventually Google will take notice of this and will move them down in ranking. Of course, this also means that other sites (Airlines) need to do a better job at creating pages like this but are user focused and not search engine focused.

The links between the pages should contain rel=prev and rel=next the also help let SE's know that the content is paginated.

If you are talking about the links you created in your profile, those are all "nofollow" so there won't be any value. To get one of them to be a "follow" link you have to earn a minimum of 200 MozPoints.

http://moz.com/community/mozpoints

Agree - but if you are concerned about any Google penalty from these links you can always disavow them.

These two URL's

http://simplycrowngreenbowls.wordpress.com/

http://simplycrowngreenbowls.com/

Should 301 Redirect to

http://simplycrowngreenbowls.co.uk

A couple of things come to mind:

Why don't you want the product pages to be in the index?

Why is there concern of a penalty?

As to your question:

• Are you signed into Google when you are searching? Google will show you these types of results in the SERP's, but they are not necessarily shown to customers. If you have Google desktop installed it will also show you documents on your machine in SERPs if they find them relevant to what you are looking for.

* Do the URL's have parameters? If so you can set those in GWT and inform Google what they should do when they encounter them as they crawl the site.

*Canonical the pages you don't want in the index if possible to the static pages.

Your best bet would be to login to the WP account and have it redirect to your new site. This would be the quickest way to let Google know that the WP site is the old site, plus if you had any links to it the juice would flow to the new one instead of going away.

Preferred Landing Page.

That shouldn't be an issue as long as you have the correct DNS in the settings.

Something I noticed, is this you as well? http://simplycrowngreenbowls.wordpress.com/

If it is, you might want to do a 301 redirect from that to your domain.

Are you parking the US version of the domain? I found http://simplycrowngreenbowls.com/ and it shows GoDaddy.com saying that the domain is parked for free courtesy of GoDaddy.

My guess, and I am by no imagination a server wizard, there is a disconnect with what you want to rank and what Google is finding. I would talk with 1and1 or GoDaddy to see if they can help you get everything to point to your PLP and go from there.

I am all over the place on this reply, but hopefully it helps get you in the right direction.

Without knowing the URL it's hard to troubleshoot if there are technical issues with the page/site.

If you don't want to post personal or business stuff here no worries.

Things to try:

• Screaming Frog - have it crawl your URL to find any issues

• Do a Google site search to see if they have any pages indexed

• Use semRush for those URL's and see if any keywords rank

• Is GoDaddy your host or just the registrar? If they are not your host, contact them. Make sure to provide the exact error from GWT to help troubleshoot

• Check robots.txt to ensure that isn't blocking.

Those are the few things top of head I would try

That is correct, if there was an issue it would say partial or something else and then you could click into it to see what Google sees.

Have you done a Fetch as Google for the page? If I notice a page not getting picked up I do a fetch and render. This will tell you if there is something blocking Google from viewing the page.