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Okay, I am sorry to hear you cancelled your subscription.
I'll try to address everything one at a time.

The Moz tools are working correctly so far for me so I can't really help you with the issues that you have. As said before the Q&A is still not the place to talk about technical difficulties.

I think the reason that your thread was closed was because Joel answered your question on a couple of subjects and told you that you should contact je technical support because you were asking it in the wrong place (Q&A). It's a shame that after so many mailing with SEOmoz they haven't been able to solve your problems.

About the respect thing. I wasn't talking about use of different words but more the reference to Gordan Ramsey. Gordan Ramsey is not known for his polite way of saying things and this reference was not necessary in my opinion.

Thank you for the answer and video Christine!

Okay, that is a difficult question. They are two completely different sites in the eyes of search engines unless you do a redirect. At this moment their are probably a lot of links pointing to one of them and also a lot pointing at the other site.

This can also create nasty duplicate content issues.
Sorry. but i wouldn't know which one to choose for the most accurate one since they should be counted as a single website.

Hope i've helped you in some way.

This shouldn't hurt your SEO in any way.

I do like Andie's suggestion about SlideShare. You can even embed the slideshare on your own site so i don't see any reason why this wouldn't work.

Are you somehow linking to www.website.com/dogs/dog.html from the page itself? There could be something wrong with that link.
I made a small mistake not so long ago with a redirection plugin. I told it to go to domain.com. This plugin was looking at the base + what i told it to. So it went to: domain.com/domain.com. Perhaps you made a similar mistake.

Maybe you can send me the URL and i can take a look at it?

Hello khi5,

If you have "no index" on your site you should change it too "noindex"
Furthermore two weeks is a rather short time to wait between crawls. Low authority websites don't get crawled too often.

Perhaps page 2 has content that better matches the search query you are trying? Try it again from an incognito browser and see if it still ranks above page 1.

You don't necessarily have to remove the link. As long as you can verify that it directs to the right page.

But curious to see what caused the problem

This change won't give you a very good benefit over what you have now. URL changes are never a good idea unless you have a really good reason for it.

In your case the url structure looks good and i don't think you should alter it.

Which URL(s) is/are causing problems?

Think about how you want to see the information divided from a user perspective.
If the user wants to read about funeral plans and how everything works than the calculator perhaps does not belong on the page. If their is a pricing page, the calculator would fit right in.

Don't overthink the keyword optimization in a way that it harms the user experience on your website. When thinking about keyword optimization it's helpful to read these two awesome blogposts by Cyrus Shepard here on Moz about keyword optimization in themes/concepts instead of individual keywords.

• How to Rank
• Keywords to concepts

Links from your website: http://domain.com to a different website: http://otherdomain.com

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Personally i prefer to go for the longer url because of the breadcrumbs and the easier url navigation structure. A lot of people delete part of the url to get back to a previous step in the website architecture. Your 1st way allows that to be done fairly easily and the url explains exactly where someone is on the site.
When someone sees your url in the SERP's this would also indicate that they are finding a product in the proper category.

The problem with this is that if the webshop has a product in several categories. I build a female clothing webshop a while back and they had categories for top-wear, bottom-wear, specific clothing articles(blouses, jeans, shoes etc) and for each brand. This meant that a product would be in at least 3 different categories within the site.

For this reason i chose to set the canonical to: http://www.domain.com/product/ in this particular case.

If your webshop does not have this problem and will not get this problem in the future i would recommend the longer url's.

There should be a blue icon on the right top of your browser like in the image i included. This is the same blue icon as the favicon for Moz.com. (The blue squery with white M.
Click on here and you should see a window where you can click on a link which should say: 'Show Mozbar'.

Hope my answer was helpful.

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Redirecting the old URL with a 301 redirect will send the users to the new URL. All the link juice from links pointing towards the old URL will also be pointed towards your new URL.

Google will keep the old URL in the index for a while, but it will disappear from the search results in a matter of weeks.

One thing to not though, make sure that users searching for the old product end up on a page that is useful for them. If i'm looking for a blue bicycle and i get redirected to a red bicycle page than it might be a related product, but it's not what i'm searching for.

This harms the user experience and will give users a negative association to your brand.
For each product that you retire you should make a decision between

1. Redirecting the page to a different URL
2. Giving them a custom 404 page

By customizing a 404 page you can help users in a tremendous way if done right. Depending on the situation either of these two choices can be the best one.