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We had the same issue. We have a sitemap but Bing only seemed to pick up less than half of the URLs in it. We contacted our Bing customer service rep and he assured us that Bing was actually using the entire sitemap and the display in Bing Webmaster Tools was wrong. I think there actually may have been a glitch on the Bing side because soon after we started seeing many many more URLs in the Bing search index. We not only used Bing Webmaster tools, we also did a site search "site:www.sierratradingpost.com" and those numbers went up as well.

In short... you may want to contact Bing and ask them what is up. If you have a paid search program with them (via Yahoo) then ask your account rep to look into it.

If not already done, I'd also break out the "Adult" and "Senior" pages to be dog and cat specific... "adult dog wellness", "adult cat wellness"... etc.

I think 75% same content is okay.

The content should be relevant to the page however.

Ultimately you want your content to be relevant and unique as possible - don't try and make content "appear" unique... make it unique.

I did some research and found this is a "known" problem. I'd be sure you have all the patches up to date. I would even shoot Yoast and email to see if they have the problem fixed. I couldn't find any solution except for some hacks and folks manually changing them.

Hope this helps.

I personally don't think it is necessary. The worst that can happen is that a competitor knows you are checking them out. Any good company checks out the competition.

If you are trying to hide your origin, it would be better to search from your personal account as the company IP maybe more easily identified.

Again though... I wouldn't worry about it at all. You don't need to be stealthy.

Sorry I can't give you a direct answer. I would suggest running a test. Upload a new one to see if it overwrites old date. The maybe go on to a small group to see how that works. If everything looks good... upload away!

I don't think Google will treat a capitalized keyword any different for ranking and such. In this case I would really focus on what looks best to the customer.

Remember your first priority should be usability and small tricks usually don't work.

In this case you may want to shoot Google a note with some examples and see what they say. At the very least you'll have some documentation that it was something you were worried about.

If these are not in the robot text file I would just give Google a few days to crawl them. You can check manually if they are in the index by doing a search for the URL. You can also submit a sitemap with the URLs no longer being restricted, and again, give it a few days for Google to catch up.

In this case more important than the robot file are the robot meta commands on each page. If you have the pages tagged with:

<meta name="robots" content="index" />

You are telling Google and other search engines that the page is okay to add to their search results.

Landing pages.... or doorway pages are a no no. You should move away from them all together if you are trying to rank. Packing a page with keywords to get ranking on it can get you penalized and dropped from Google.

Instead make a site that include relevant content and include your relevant keywords in that content. Make your page titles and page descriptions relevant to the content on the page and the keywords included. Organize the site in a logical manner and use H1, H2, and H3 tags but not too heavily.

That's it in a nutshell! Hope it helps!

I don't think it would be too bad. A cleaner name would be better but having the new images show is important too. More important in my opinion.

I think the canonical idea is better than blocking the pages all together. Depending on how the site is laid out you may try and make the pages more specific to location being talked about. Maybe adding header tags with the location information as well as adding that info to the page title and meta-description. If it is not too time consuming, I'd try and make those pages more unique especially since you might be getting searches based on a location. Location specific pages may help in that regard.

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Maybe it just takes a bit to cycle through and update. I see the URL now when I search for "movers novi mi.

<cite>www.mynovi****movers.com</cite>

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If you search for this in Goggle: site:www.applicablejobs.com

You see 43 URLs and none of the bad ones.

Okay. Well in that case I cannot speak to why they are happening in the first place. To keep them out of the index you could have exclude the entire /jobs/ directory using the robots.txt. If the /jobs/ directory is needed then you'll have to track down the source of the URL generation. Sorry I can be of more help.

We use tildes pretty heavily on our new site. They seem to be okay with Google. However I did not want to use them because some foreign keyboards do not include the character... like Mexico.

So... do folks in Mexico type in our URLs by hand? Probably not common... but it is a potential problem. It is missing from other keyboards as well.

We use the tilde because we think it helps break up words we do not want to be seen as "together" in a string. All my product URLs have the product name, separated by dashes, then we use the tilde then comes the product number. We think it may help Google see the product title as a complete string and not include the product number. Not sure if it works or not.

The easiest way would be to add a disallow line to your robots.txt file.

From Google:

• To block access to all URLs that include a question mark (?) (more specifically, any URL that begins with your domain name, followed by any string, followed by a question mark, followed by any string):```
  User-agent: Googlebot
  Disallow: /*?

More info: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=156449

I agree, if you can see the content in the code and it is available to the customer... I think you will be okay. I think hidden content means content someone on the outside cannot see or access.

It is very important. We also have dynamic pages... a ton of them. However we found a solution by bringing other data already on the page into the description and title. Let's say that each page offers a different vacation package. You should see if the name of the package can be imported into the title and description. Since the data is already there... it can be done.

Come up with some strategy that works with the data you have. For example... with our product pages, we did something like: [product title] - save 35 - 70% at Sierra Trading Post.

Is your domain "www.applicablejobs.com"? If not, it sounds like you may have been hacked and someone added some code snippet to your website. I host some personal sites on Network Solutions and one day I found some strange code snippet on just about every page of the sites I run. After removing the code I had to upload every page again but only after changing all my passwords.

As for removing them? Google has a tool to remove them. However if this is not your domain - you may want to email Google and inform them of the malicious happenings.