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The fact that you feel like you "know" SEO like the back of your hand, etc.... is a big give-away to your problems, it results in complacency.

I did my final project at uni on SEO, have worked in-house for a large multinational corporation as an SEO, have worked now in an agency for three years doing nothing but SEO, subscribe to every blog that's any good, read every book that's any good, and have done every SEO course in existence that's worth doing, yet I know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in terms of what their is to know, and I know nothing in comparison to many of the people on these boards. Maybe Mr. BigJohnson, you should consider how much you actually know, rather than how much you think you know before apportioning blame for your own lack of knowledge.

Also, If SEO is dead then why are all of my agency's clients so happy with the results we get them, which increases their revenue... maybe look inwards for the answers to your problems instead of outwards!

Ah, I thought he was saying the dupe content does still exists but no more duplication is taking place after the fix. That's where I was going wrong then lol.

Do you want the smaller sites to still exist? If they don't matter at all then you could always take them offline though that's not recommended for obvious reasons (but it would get them out of the index fairly quick).

If they still need to exist then we're just back to the same thing, changing the content on them. If the problem has been fixed to stop further duplication then that's fine... you could limit the damage by having all of those smaller sites be dupes of each other but not of the main site by rewriting the smaller ones with one lot of content, or the main one. At least that way they will only be competing with each other and not the main site any more.

Or have I still got the wrong end of the stick?

^^ Why the thumbs down?? Who would give a thumbs down for that post?? Some odd people out there!

I just posted this same link in another similar thread and I think it will help here too: http://www.seobook.com/art-pitching-email

Well there is, but you want to only use it for reference as one of the biggest issues with it being successful is how personal it is (so never stick to a generic template). There's tonnes of tips out there, this URL should do the trick

http://www.seobook.com/art-pitching-email

Ah I see, so it's a CMS which pumps out content then?

But it pumps it to other sites?

That's not the actual product page itself, it's because it's a search result page.You should block those pages anyway as not only is there the parametre problem but they also have duplicate content of the product pages.

Both pieces won't be ignored, just one will. But you do need to do it, either that or rewrite the content on one so it's no longer duplicate.

Here's what you're looking for anyway http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

Alan is totally right, offering money for it is the wrong path to take, plus, as you'll need links more and more you'll forever be paying for them. Are the sites even that good that the links are of any value? If the page already links out to loads of people then that could make the link worth less.

Sure, pay for a link off of a site with huge credibility (as advertising), but not any old site with a links page.

Write something they'd like to link to and then tell them it exists.

Do something that involves them so they get something out of it, i.e. praise them in some way then let them know there's a page on the web praising them... they're likely to link to that so others can see as it gives them boasting rights

You could always just rewrite the content so it's not duplicate, that way you get to keep them cached and maybe focus on some different but still targeted long tail traffic... turn a negative into a positive. I accept thousands of pages is a lot of work, but there's a million and one online copywriters who are pretty good (and cheap) that you could assign projects to for it. Google copywriters for hire or freelance copywriters... could have it done in no time and not spend that much

In that case I just went and put a bit of much needed punctuation into the OP in case it's in the screenshot... when I read it back I nearly ran out of breath!

Looking forward to further forum evolution

It's all so practical too. I would bet that anyone who spent an hour or two each day in here just reading through the questions would make a great SEO after a year

Ahhh of course... that's pretty cool. And the video file/save names possibly do have too. That's a quality experiment, you should expand it and do a YouMoz post!

I love it, it's brilliant. You get to peruse through the questions to see real world examples of SEO issues, and help with things you do know the answers to, as well as learn loads from seeing others answers on things you don't know the answers to... I'm getting addicted to coming on here!

The instant-ness of it all makes it much better than any other SEO forum out there in my opinion.

Hmm, so you could be held to ransom for your own site?

I'm not saying for one minute that the company is bad or anything but the problem with this type of thing is never about how much they charge, it's about the level of service... if staff changes or they take on a bigger client, or any number of things that result in you getting low service, what are you ever going to do about it in that situation?

What if the site and CMS used is no good for SEO purposes, what if they don't allow changes and don't allow others to access the source code. What if things go wrong with hosting or anything else to do with the site?

I would just get the whole thing built in an open source CMS by someone and hosted somewhere you have full access to if I were you.

How interesting. Why do you think the underscores bring video results above, making the serps mismatch all the others?

They're all listed in the campaign. Just go to crawl issues, pick an error type and then download as CSV. It will give you every page (upto 10,000) crawled... then you can just find and replace "false" with nothing (so leave the replace with box empty) so you can see everything properly.

You're not having the CMS as the whole site?