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anytime Dana

No,

Disallow ?condition=

Disallow ?cat=

Disallow ?instructional_level=

Check the google cached date of the homepage and listing page.

the more frequent caching the more valuable

Yes you can block it thew robots.txt and also by Adding a rel="canonical" link in the page code itself will accomplish the task.

Disallow: /category/english-language-learners/*?

That is the Issue,

while submitting a Video Sitemap is should be like this

 <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1"><url> 
     <loc>http://www.example.com/videos/some_video_landing_page.html</loc>
     <video:video>
       <video:thumbnail_loc>http://www.example.com/thumbs/123.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc> 
       <video:title>Grilling steaks for summer</video:title>
       <video:description>Alkis shows you how to get perfectly done steaks every            
         time</video:description>
       <video:content_loc>http://www.example.com/video123.flv</video:content_loc>
       <video:player_loc allow_embed="yes" autoplay="ap=1">
         http://www.example.com/videoplayer.swf?video=123</video:player_loc>
       <video:duration>600</video:duration>
       <video:rating>4.2</video:rating> 
          
       
         
     </video:video> 
   </url></urlset> 

you are using the normal sitemap layout and not using the video sitemap version.

the most important information that is required to submit threw the sitemap is

*   url
*   title
*   description
*   Thumbnail of the video
*   location of the video where is hosted (ie /videos/video1.flv)

Can you please provide your video sitemap url.

Hi joseph,

first investigate who is redirecting root to /default... is it htaccess or script?

try to use

redirectmatch 301 /default.htm http://www.website.com

please follow up

I would add meta "noindex, follow" to author, categories , archives and date archives, tags.

and i think Wordpress SEO by Yoast is one of the best so far. and of course All in One SEO plugin

Monique,

1)Let me explain something about adding rel canonical

it doesnt mean that it will INDEX quicklearn.com . But what is going to happen is when you will serve googlebot the /default. you will tell him that the canonical version of this page is quicklearn.com. and it means all SEO value will be credited to quicklearn.com and you will not have duplicate content between them two.

Now concerning what Google Analytics will show you exactly whats the user is landing on. and IMO it will still show you the /default

2. i was checking your site and i cant seem to find the URL with default.aspx indexed?

and seems URL structure is working good

If ISAPI rewrites didn't do the trick, did you try using rel=canonical ?

Yes you should block these pages.

This is a quote from Matt Cutts concerning this issue

Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines

Disallow: /search

Hi Tom ,

• Front

1. Amount of Links (inaccurate)
2. rel=canonical
3. add RedirectMatch 301
4. ISAPI Rewrites

• Back

1. BingBot
2. Robots.txt Syntax (adding the wild card and example)
3. xml-sitemaps (note thats up to 500 pages only)

And Microformats?

Hi Mark,

Yes SEOmoz provide a directory of companies that provide SEO services , included a recommended list

www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies

Megan ,

Please check with your hosting company,

about this code to be included in htaccess

ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml

/404.shtml its your 404 page

Megan,

See here

http://markup.io/v/fyd9w4w9wmjr

Googlebot when It crawls this page, you remote server is telling Google Bot that its a Live page and this page Exists

The solution to the upper problem, might help you in fixing the actual problem.

If the Pages with the mystery folder Does not Exist .. your remote server should show google bot a 404 not found (http header).

Megan,

noticed something also for example this page http://www.burlingtonmortgage.biz/contact.htm . its showing a 404 error from title and content ... but the HTTP header is showing 200 ok. u need to fix that.

and would assume maybe thats why google started indexing weird URLs generating from your site... and if its true is a 404 page ..google is not picking it up because its showing its a Live page (200ok)

Which CMS are you using?

Dear hiphound,

1. Yes its correct the syntax used is whenever there is in the URL /shop/ will be permanently redirected to the correct URL.

2)Yes

3)Yes

4)No need to additional, current redirect is enough.

Lol,

Sure, so what i showed you now, that you are serving 2 URLs with the same content. this is will be a severe problem when people will link to you to shop/moss-control/ for example. and you are focusing your link building, internet linking to this shop/moss-control/index.html. a Duplicate content filter will be flagged and will loose ranking for both.

the steps needed now, are to 301 redirect your shop/moss-control/ to shop/moss-control/index.html

Todd,

your not, its my bad, need to input more into my answers.

so here is a screenshot of an http header response for shop/moss-control/

http://markup.io/v/fvjrfw5a3te5

and this is another screenshot of an http respons for shop/moss-control/index.html

http://markup.io/v/ggt61a170rfw

Both are showing a 200 response, means no redirect. please feel free to ask more