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Never saw or experienced before.

maybe its a coincidence,

try to do a test, run PPC for 3 months then stop it for three months. and compare

please explain,

user can access http://www.domain.com/Product-Describer-Keyword.html and http://www.domain.com/product-describer-keyword.html ? if yes then you have a duplicate content issue, just to let you know that Google is smart to picking up the Url that is used by the CMS, but when you start getting links to the one not used by CMS then you have an issue .

I have input and pointers

• Data Feeds for your products( Google/ Bing)
• Advise product URLs and basically all urs are lower case ( long term)
• dnt 301 image urls, but make sure they have Alt tags
• I would advise social Integrations (facebook  Likes)

I see couple effects

• It might show to Bots different than users = Cloaking
• be careful what redirection you are using because your backlink profile to these pages will get affected
• and it also might affect PR flow to your site.

Ok Rafael

It has no PR, because the Toolbar PageRank only updates multiple times a year. but Internally (Google) already have an actual PageRank for these pages.

one other think that you have to make note that where is the link is located?

Footer? Sidebar?

What most probably will happen, is it will pass link juice and PR flow to your site, BUT the anchor text will be some devalued.

10x James

Nick Its located under My questions and you can filter out by "Questions I've Answered"

Dear Florakel,

Google clearly mentioned couple of times that PR will be distributed equally to all links.

so to go back to your math, PR will be divided by 100 (1000/100). I encourage to link out to authoritative sites, because it will also tells google to which neighberhood you belong to.

True, some links that you can't control/communicate to get removed (scrapers) but at least you try

I am against this to be honest.

• True these links coming from low quality sites (and they are low quality) but the links have "Age"
• I only go back and remove links, if they look too spammy, or page looks like a link farm.

I would certainely see drop in rankings if these old Links has been removed and not being replaced with good one's

There is alot of controversy how effective or if it still effective to submit your web site to directories.

Nevertheless, you can visit http://www.directorycritic.com/ and from there you can filter results to find web directories thats worth submitting and free too.

PS: try to find the most relevant directories to your niche first.

I think your talking about indented listings.

• Rand did a whiteboard friday about it (ref. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/draft-whiteboard-friday-getting-indented-listings)

If you are using a good pluging or add on to your private area, then No your private content will not be crawled by the Search engines, thus there is no SEO value to Optimize these page.

you can check your pages that is crawled by Google using the "site:"

for ex: Go to google.com and type is the search: site:www.website.com and check if your private area is indexed.

Dear Neil,

I wish you good luck @ your Conference, here's a couple of reference for Local Results

• David Mihm (http://www.davidmihm.com/local-search-ranking-factors.shtml)
• Danny Dover (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-basics-of-local-seo-whiteboard-friday)
• David Mihm and Rand Fishkin (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-local-search-inclusion-with-david-mihm)

Concerning Google Boost, I think it very valuable, here is more details about discussed by Mike @ blumenthals

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2010/10/25/google-boost-more-details/

Ok cre8tive1

-I think your CMS is structured with SEO in mind, the current URL structure help you not getting Duplicate content concerning your product pages.

if you wanted to have a product with a URL "bike/beach-cruisers/mens-red-hawaiian.html" then the Same Product will appear under "bike/mens/mens-red-hawaiian.html"

• Concerning Repetitive of the Keyword "Bike", In my opinion I dont think it will hurt your SERPS.

• Concerning Page Title i would suggest going with {Product Name} {Color} - XYZ

if the url is http://blog.website.com

then the Robots.txt should be accessable threw http://blog.website.com/robots.txt

I would suggest these steps

• Verify your blog the Google webmaster tools
• generate a robots .txt file with Google webmaster tools
• Upload it to the Subdomain.

There is another way if you are using Wordpress.

There is a All in One SEO plugin / Wordpress SEO by Yoast. threw the settings you can specify to add NOINDEX to all Category, tags, author and others. its faster and error free.

Hope this helps

http://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/help/video-xml-sitemaps/

Usually when you update a Google place Page it might take several weeks to be deleted permantely.and get update with one listing across the web

Do you have the new PDFs Linked from pages like the old ones?

Try to create a page listing all the new PDFs, and basically Google might take time to recrawl your site and add these new PDFs ( by the way the last copy saved in Google Cache is from Feb 11)

2 ways to correct canonicalization

• 301 Redirect

Access your.htaccess file and add this line:

redirect 301 /index.php http://www.website.com

• Rel Canonical

It depends which CMS you are using, you can add this to the "homepage" source code