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Great Keith,

I just want you to take what i said and go a lil broader.

ie. Google is not quickly indexing  or knowing about your content when you hit publish. which indicate:

• Low authority
• Crawlers is not used to / not trained to come to your website regularly to check for updates.
• Trust Issues

fixing these 3 bullets points will help your problems that you are facing

Sincerely,

All Problems you mentioned are opportunities that you can make you blog "better" but there is no "critical must fix" that is preventing google from indexing and rankings your website.

but what i see in the serps that you are syndicating your blog through blogger and wordpress and it seems that google is discovering the content on blogger and wordpress before your site(your site cache is on 21st the wordpress/blogger it shows may 20th).

what i will do is try to disable that syndication and try to submit your rss feed to google under sitemaps (http://www.ductvacnw.com/blog/latest.atom)

here is a piece of information collected by David Mihm That lets you understand that when submitting to a few other might "take" or aggregate the new info

Local Ecosystem: http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/seo-industry/local-search-ecosystem-2012

I would go definitely with B

**BUT **If you would like to go with A because based on your data (site search and other inteligence tools and business goals )

I would create 50 urls and use the rel canonical for the ranking candidate for each product.

Thank you Darin

Verify blog.gallerydirect.com in your Google Webmaster tools and go ahead submit the sitemaps.

Seems these listing are being syndicated to multiple outlets like examiner and others ....

and all of these listings are duplicates of each other.

What can you do for your client is to minimize the mix of duplication by adding a unique  content and useful for the user. (check zillow property pages they are doing an extremely good job with the data they are collecting)

Hello,

Did you check the "linked From" tab? click on each error and see which are the sites that are linked from

Then i m afraid that the answer to your question is yes. there is a risk of duplicate content between both sites

Hi Ben,

Its definitely a risk of duplicate content.

Potential fix:

the .co.uk is definitely a site that is targeting for the UK audience. and the shop.snowbusiness.com resides on a .com (obviously) so is the intent of that domain (other than b2b) is it to target the English speaking People in the world? if so i recommend, based on your current business plans and goals, to target this domain for the whole world. ie make all your currency in dollars, use href lang between the UK and the .com etc( you are providing signals to google that this website is my World website and this is only for my uk market)

Ps i see also duplication between your items and items listed on ebay. so make note of that.

Cheers

all link reported in the GWT is based on a crawl.( so there is either an external or internal link pointing to these.com/file.pdf)

So what i would do is fire up Screaming Frog or Xenu and do a full site crawl and check the reports. You might find some pages linking or using relative urls in the a href elements.

If you land into a situation where you have external links pointing to wrong URLS I would recommend either by contacting them or just 301 /file.pdf to /manuals/file.pdf

Hi Rob,

I do not recommend the second option (using htaccess)   it's a worse abuse of Apache than described above as it would have to do that for every file request (gif|html|js|css|etc)

So my solution for you is to httpd.conf and RewriteMap either by using prg: map or txt: map.

my recommendation will of course be prg: map where you can query your database

For your help http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/rewritemap.html

Cheers!

First you need to distinguish two things the SEOmoz Crawler and GoogleBot.

and there is algo in Googles algorithm that when ever they see rel prev next they will treat as a series and understands your pagination. SEOmoz Crawler dont do that.

adding page 2, 3 to the title will help you remove that warning in the dashboard.

I hate to assume but I am pretty sure there is certain problem with the canonical url.

need to see the real example to provide you with right answer.

you can test it out and remove the canonical for the not fully equivalent pages ... and unfortunately there is no other solution than a canonical to fix the pages that have a fully equivalent content.

just test it out and keep a close eye on it and please do update this thread

thank u

Hi Simon

I think the implementation you did on the site is confusing and wrong.

you consolidated ur au to the .com domain without specifying which folder or subdomainis the au section is.

previously because you have the .com.au in the domain Google understood that signal that this website is relevant to au visitors. but when you consolidated to the .com you need now to TELL or HINT to Google (through Google Webmaster Tools) where the whole domain that was targeting this country went.

and HREFLANG is not about Geotargeting but about the Language.

Google has actually updated their Google webmaster help section of the hreflang and remove the reference of rel canonical because people tend to get confused and implemented incorrectly.

so my question to you are these pages informational pages? are they fully equivalent to the others ? in aus and us ?

Yes it is a common canonicalization problem

To fix this issue you need to consolidate all the version to one URL by implementing a Rel Canonical or 301 Redirect

did you test it by 404ing the page and move content and internal linking to a new URL? or not feasible?

your best bet is to go and sit on a google hangout done by John Mueller where you can take your case and explain it to him .

here is the info

https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts

he will be posting about it on monday and fridays. its a public hangout fyi