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Sorry, didn't read properly. Yes you should still block those pages anyway though... internal search result pages will still cause you issues in one way or another, whether it's circular navigation or competing for keywords... I would block them anyway.

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Ignore Google PR... it means nothing anymore and isn't your real PR. They say regard it as "For entertainment purposes only" now days

In other words, Moz Rank is the only one you want to think about.

I suppose it's not really much difference from moving a website from one domain to another, it's just that it's a page instead of a whole site. I've done that before under instruction from clients. I cautioned against it due to the older domain having a bit of trust through age and the new domain being brand new, but thankfully for them their older domain didn't rank that well anyway so it wasn't too much of a loss. I guess it happens any time a company changes its name and therefore its domain for branding purposes. In that sense I suppose it all depends on just how strong the new domain is compared to the older one whether it's a good idea or not.

Well I actually don't use Raven anymore (though I would like to) because I was ending up with too many memberships and software subscriptions, etc... and I couldn't afford it. So the choice was clear and simple, SEOmoz membership wins hands down, every time!

The thing Raven does have though is the project management side of things, and the link management... the link management IS the best feature in my opinion... and at the same time, the only thing lacking from SEOmoz tools (it would need to be similar though to the Raven Tools one if they made it though as that was really well put together).

You get tonnes more from SEOmoz than you do Raven... this community for a start! lol

I learnt literally every last thing I know about this stuff from following SEOmoz's stuff. When it comes down to it, knowledge is more important than any tools, and knowledge is what you get from SEOmoz.

Some content (such as sidebars, menus, footers, etc...) will be discounted from being seen as dupe content from the block level analysis that's done by the search engines. So that stuff is fine, but if pages are too similar, without a decent amount of distinguishing content, then no that's bad. Make sure the title tags aren't the same in any case.

Well, the on-page isn't that heavy on ads and it certainly doesn't come across as that spammy... maybe a little but only to others who know what affiliate sites look like. You said it was new, so my bet would be the same as what other have been posting on here with new sites lately... that you had a honeymoon period where G put you up as a fresh new site (maybe to see if you get a lot of usage, links, bookmarks, etc...) then chucked you back to where it deems is right in terms of trust and authority. I could be wrong there but... that's my best guess.

Also, most of your incoming links look a little spammy (though relevant spammy at least). I'd get some more, from a more diverse set of places, with diverse anchor text.

Maybe

The update wasn't in January, it was end of February... so March may well have seen problems due to it.

Have you been link building to the practise sites? If not, don't bother with the 301's at all, just put the real site on to the practice domain that is ranking well (if you're okay with the domain name). Exact match domain isn't everything, and in some instances it can be seen as spammy. Exact match bonus is a lot less now than it was anyway.

The holy grail of all that is analytics: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/

From my understanding, it would depend entirely on the ratio of unique to duplicate content... but it's a common problem if you mean what I think you do. Affiliate sites for example, ones that use data given to them by manufacturers or suppliers they're affiliates for. Some use the same product descriptions without adding enough of their own unique stuff to break it up and separate their pages from the other affiliates using the same content.

The more unique, the better. Personally I would try to make each set of product information as distinctive from the others as possible anyway... it can do nothing except help

"The title tag itself is kind of spammy with 3 exclamation points"

Oh, didn't notice that... tabbed browser windows and laziness to look at source code lol.

I think you've misunderstood what Kerri was saying here. She's not saying that you're not talking about Google organic traffic, she's just trying to find out if it was only that which was affected in order to diagnose the problem. It makes good sense to trouble shoot via segmentation. Have you carried out the segmentation suggested?

I don't know the answer to the actual question but I do know that you should never have the title and h1 match... or have dupe meta descriptions but you already know that

It is a little different yes, but it's still something to be avoided as it follows the whole wrong concept of what SEO is.

Imagine this...

There are two people who make kids toys. One wears a white hat, and one wears a black hat.

The white hat guy hand makes lots of stuff but one of them is a beautiful dolls house out of wood, with furniture inside, lots of detail, loads of decorations, etc...

The black hat guy sits on a factory over a conveyor belt just churning out replica plastic, tacky junk.

The black hat guy will sell a few of his junk but soon enough it stops selling on the basis that it's cheap tat.

The white hat guys doll house, along with many other of his creations is picking up in pace... it's value has gone up instead of down. It's attracting attention from media outlets, having photo shoots, and will one day be considered an antique of high value due to it's individual and original craftsmanship. Because the dolls house is so amazing it's attracted attention to his other creations too, people are noticing and buying other things of his now.

The black hat guy is still trying to find his next product that will sell. He's tried a few different ones now but they all work out the same as the last, their low quality just doesn't get them anywhere. He may find another temporary fix but that won't last long and he'll just be searching again and wasting time over more that don't last soon enough.

So there you have it, my little analogy Which guy would you rather be?

Linkvana is not something the white hat guy would use.

A little tip for future reference too, try to avoid typing in all capital letters. I'm sure it was accidental but some people consider it as shouting in forums, etc... so it won't help with getting questions answered

If you're talking about the SEOmoz campaign app report, download all errors as CSV (there's a link to do so) and you'll see all the dupes in the spreadsheet

I would have thought G wouldn't be keen on that sort of thing anyway, just based on what's acceptable in Ads for Adwords, they don't like stuff like !!! there so they're bound to see it as spammy in a title too.

The site is hardly what you'd expect for a professional corporation or anything but I've seen far, far worse in terms of spam with good rankings lol... mind you, that was before Panda, maybe it's more stringent on that front now.

It's good to have internal links through-out the body copy (not too many though) as long as they point to relevant pages within the site... just not using the anchor text of the keyword for the page you're on... if that makes sense

Ah, tricky situation. Well, if no links have been built to any of the domains and one is ranking at no.1 for this particular keyword, then it would lead me to assume that it would be very easy to get to no.1 for it with the other domain once you have a few incoming links for it.

Therefore, it would seem most logical to build some links for the domain you want to use, and do like you said with the 301 until the proper site domain hits no.1

Careful EGOL, he doesn't like being slammed like that